Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History

Executive Committee: Kali Israel, Krisztina Fehervary, Eric Mueggler, Geoff Eley, Judith Irvine

Kelly M. Askew (Anthropology) Sociocultural anthropology, cultural politics, ethnomusicology, nationalism, media, performance, Swahili studies, East Africa.
kaskew@umich.edu

Ruth Behar (Anthropology) Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os.
rbehar@umich.edu

Charles Bright (History/Residential College) 20th century world history, history of punishment, history of Detroit.
cbright@umich.edu

John Carson (History) American intellectual and cultural history; history of Science and the human sciences; modern European intellectual history.
jscarson@umich.edu

Sueann Caulfield (History) Twentieth-century Brazilian social history, sexuality and the state.
scaul@umich.edu

David William Cohen (Anthropology and History) Anthropology and Pre-colonial and twentieth-century African history, eastern and southern Africa; historical anthropology; the production of history.
dwcohen@umich.edu

Joshua Cole (History) Modern France, Europe, social and cultural, gender, memory, violence, colonial, postolonial l
joshcole@umich.edu

Juan Cole (History): Middle East and South Asia: social, cultural and religious history; Islam.
jrcole@umich.edu

Fernando Coronil (Anthropology/History): Historical anthropology, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender; Latin America.
coronil@umich.edu

Christian de Pee (History): Text and writing, ritual, archaeology,and imperial power in China, eighth throught fourteenth centuries;
cdepee@umich.edu

Geoff Eley (History) Modern Germany and Britain, nationalism, popular culture, film and history, historiography, cultural studies.
ghe@umich.edu

Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Anthropology) Kinship, gender and reproductive health care, religion, political ecology, anthropology of science, Madagascar, Africa, United States, historical and contemporary Judaism and Christianity
gfharnik@umich.edu

Nancy Florida (Asian Languages and Culture): history, literature, and culture of island Southeast Asia
nflorida@umich.edu

Kevin Gaines (History/CAAS) African American, Postwar U.S. History, Transnational black radicalism, Jazz .
gaineskk@umich.edu

Dena Goodman (History/Women's Studies) Early Modern France, Enlightenment, Women and Gender
goodmand@umich.edu

Myron Gutman (History): Historical demography of Europe and America; early modern Europe; population and environment; environmental history
gutmann@umich.edu

Rebecca Hardin (Anthropology /School for Natural Resources and Environment): Environmental, political, and historical anthropology; Central African Republic
rdhardin@umich.edu

Janet Hart (Anthropology) Gender, narrative and oral history, comparative nationalisms, informal economy, social movements, Mediterranean Europe
jhart@umich.edu

Gabrielle Hecht (History) History of technology; France; Africa; colonialism and postcoloniality; labor; national identity.
hechtg@umich.edu

Joel Howell (History, Medical School, School of Public Health): U.S. & England late 19th & 20th century social consturction of health care
jhowell@umich.edu

Diane Hughes (History) Medieval and Renaissance history; cultural, social, and legal history.
dohughes@umich.edu

Matthew Hull (Anthropology): Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia. matthew.hull@umich.edu

Nancy Hunt (History & Obstetrics/Gynecology) Colonial studies; empire & medicine; politics of reproduction; historical ethnography and narrative form; gender; histories of objects; childbirth & gynecology; Africa, especially Congo-Zaire.
nrhunt@umich.edu

Marcia Inhorn (Anthropology/Public Health) Medical anthropology, gender and health, global health, science and technology studies, feminist theory and ethnography, ethnographic research methods and design, intersection of anthropology and epidemiology, Middle East.
minhorn@umich.edu

Judith T. Irvine (Anthropology) Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization.
jti@umich.edu

Kali Israel (History) Modern Britain; women's history, modern Europe, cultural studies.
kisrael@umich.edu

Miranda Johnson ((History) Settler colonialism; indigenous history of Australasia and North America; Colonial and post colonial history; the politics of writing history and questions of historical method.
mirandal@umich.edu

Paul C. Johnson (History/Afroamerican & African Studies) Religions of the African Diaspora: Candomblé, Garifuna, Vodou, Santería. Popular religions of Latin America. Brazil, Caribbean societies, religous encounters in the Americas. Theoretical perspectives in the study of religion, comparative and ethographic methods, religion and globalization.
paulcjoh@umich.edu

Webb Keane (Anthropology) Indonesia, language, discourse & semeiotics, material culture & exchange, religion & religions conversion, modernity, social & cultural theory.
wkeane@umich.edu

Stuart Kirsch (Anthropology) Ethnology. Political Ecology, indigneous political movements, ritual and religion, cultural property rights debates; Melanesia, Oceania.
skirsch@umich.edu



Faculty
	Kali Israel - Director Executive Committee: Kali Israel, Krisztina Fehervary, Eric Mueggler, Geoff Eley, Judith Irvine Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History Faculty Kelly M. Askew (Anthropology) Sociocultural anthropology, cultural politics, ethnomusicology, nationalism, media, performance, Swahili studies, East Africa. kaskew@umich.edu Ruth Behar (Anthropology) Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os. rbehar@umich.edu Charles Bright (History/Residential College) 20th century world history, history of punishment, history of Detroit. cbright@umich.edu John Carson (History) American intellectual and cultural history; history of Science and the human sciences; modern European intellectual history. jscarson@umich.edu Sueann Caulfield (History) Twentieth-century Brazilian social history, sexuality and the state. scaul@umich.edu David William Cohen (Anthropology and History) Anthropology and Pre-colonial and twentieth-century African history, eastern and southern Africa; historical anthropology; the production of history. dwcohen@umich.edu Joshua Cole (History) Modern France, Europe, social and cultural, gender, memory, violence, colonial, postolonial l joshcole@umich.edu Juan Cole (History): Middle East and South Asia: social, cultural and religious history; Islam. jrcole@umich.edu Fernando Coronil (Anthropology/History): Historical anthropology, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender; Latin America. coronil@umich.edu Christian de Pee (History): Text and writing, ritual, archaeology,and imperial power in China, eighth throught fourteenth centuries; cdepee@umich.edu Geoff Eley (History) Modern Germany and Britain, nationalism, popular culture, film and history, historiography, cultural studies. ghe@umich.edu Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Anthropology) Kinship, gender and reproductive health care, religion, political ecology, anthropology of science, Madagascar, Africa, United States, historical and contemporary Judaism and Christianity gfharnik@umich.edu Nancy Florida (Asian Languages and Culture): history, literature, and culture of island Southeast Asia nflorida@umich.edu Kevin Gaines (History/CAAS) African American, Postwar U.S. History, Transnational black radicalism, Jazz . gaineskk@umich.edu Dena Goodman (History/Women's Studies) Early Modern France, Enlightenment, Women and Gender goodmand@umich.edu Myron Gutman (History): Historical demography of Europe and America; early modern Europe; population and environment; environmental history gutmann@umich.edu Rebecca Hardin (Anthropology /School for Natural Resources and Environment): Environmental, political, and historical anthropology; Central African Republic rdhardin@umich.edu Janet Hart (Anthropology) Gender, narrative and oral history, comparative nationalisms, informal economy, social movements, Mediterranean Europe jhart@umich.edu Gabrielle Hecht (History) History of technology; France; Africa; colonialism and postcoloniality; labor; national identity. hechtg@umich.edu Joel Howell (History, Medical School, School of Public Health): U.S. & England late 19th & 20th century social consturction of health care jhowell@umich.edu Diane Hughes (History) Medieval and Renaissance history; cultural, social, and legal history. dohughes@umich.edu Matthew Hull (Anthropology): Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia. matthew.hull@umich.edu Nancy Hunt (History & Obstetrics/Gynecology) Colonial studies; empire & medicine; politics of reproduction; historical ethnography and narrative form; gender; histories of objects; childbirth & gynecology; Africa, especially Congo-Zaire. nrhunt@umich.edu Marcia Inhorn (Anthropology/Public Health) Medical anthropology, gender and health, global health, science and technology studies, feminist theory and ethnography, ethnographic research methods and design, intersection of anthropology and epidemiology, Middle East. minhorn@umich.edu Judith T. Irvine (Anthropology) Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization. jti@umich.edu Kali Israel (History) Modern Britain; women's history, modern Europe, cultural studies. kisrael@umich.edu Miranda Johnson ((History) Settler colonialism; indigenous history of Australasia and North America; Colonial and post colonial history; the politics of writing history and questions of historical method. mirandal@umich.edu Paul C. Johnson (History/Afroamerican & African Studies) Religions of the African Diaspora: Candomblé, Garifuna, Vodou, Santería. Popular religions of Latin America. Brazil, Caribbean societies, religous encounters in the Americas. Theoretical perspectives in the study of religion, comparative and ethographic methods, religion and globalization. paulcjoh@umich.edu Webb Keane (Anthropology) Indonesia, language, discourse & semeiotics, material culture & exchange, religion & religions conversion, modernity, social & cultural theory. wkeane@umich.edu Stuart Kirsch (Anthropology) Ethnology. Political Ecology, indigneous political movements, ritual and religion, cultural property rights debates; Melanesia, Oceania. skirsch@umich.edu Conrad Kottak (Anthropology) Brazil, Madagascar,& East Africa; social change, globalization, development, precolonial history of East Africa & Madagascar. ckottak@umich.edu Alaina Lemon (Anthropology) Performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology. Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-Socialist states. amlemon@umich.edu Bruce Mannheim (Anthropology) Linguistic anthropology, historical ethnography, narrative, rhetoric, poetics, Native South America, especially Andes; colonial Andean religion. mannheim@umich.edu Joyce Marcus (Anthropology) Ethnohistory, ancient writing systems, early complex societies; Mexico, Central America, South America. joymar@umich.edu Farina Mir (History) Colonial and postcolonial South Asia; linguistic, cultural, and religious nationalisms; Islam in South Asia; cultural history of the British Empire; history of literature and print. fmir@umich.edu Regina Morantz-Sanchez (History) US women's history; social history of medicine; history of the family, American Jewish history. reginann@umich.edu Ian Moyer (History / IPGRH) Ancient Greek history, especially of the Hellenistic period; Late Period, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt; non-Greeks and Hellenism; ethnicity and culture in the ancient world; historiography and ethnography; religion and magic. ianmoyer@umich.edu Rudolf Mrazek (History): Southeast Asia, modern Indonesia protests, modernization & tradition rdlf@umich.edu Erik Mueggler (Anthropology) Socialist and post-socialist China, ethnic and religious minorities in China; religion; history of botany and botanical exploration mueggler@umich.edu Rachel Neis (History / Judaic Studies) Jewish History (particularly late antique), Palestinian and Babylonian Rabbinic Culture, Religion and Mysticism, Law in the Ancient World, Vision and Visuality. rneis@umich.edu Douglas Northrop (History) Modern Central Asia; social/cultural northrop@umich.edu Julia Paley (Anthropology/Social Work) Sociocultural anthropology,political anthropology, democracy, urban studies, ethnographic methodology; Latin America jpaley@umich.edu Damani Partridge (Anthropology) Cultural Anthropology, race and displacement, citizenship and non-citizens, technologies of exclusion, gender and sexuality, critical visual anthropology, German studies, European studies, anthropology of the state, post-socialism jpar@umich.edu Martin Pernick (History) Cultural/social history of disease, healers, bodies, Anglophone cultures, post-1700 mpernik@umich.edu Holly Peters-Golden (Anthropology/Afroamerican and African Studies): Ethnology, medical anthropology, cancer, physician-patient interaction, explanatory models of illness, social construction of disease, medical education, illness narrative, North America hollypet@umich.edu Leslie Pincus (History) Modern Japanese history, ethnicity and nationality; philosophies and histories of aesthetics, intellectual history, history and public memory lpincus@umich.edu Brian Porter (History) East European; 19th & 20th century Poland; history of Catholicism; modern European intellectual history baporter@umich.edu Helmut Puff (History) Medieval and early modern history of Europe; gender history; history of sexuality puffh@umich.edu Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology) Japan, Asia, Israel; 17th century to present day Japan, sex/gender/sexuality, social movements, politics of nostalgia, colonial cultures, ethnic diversity, popular theatre, mass/popular cultures, bioethics and eugenics, humanoid robots and posthumanism Website jennyrob@umich.edu, jrocketson@aol.com William G. Rosenberg (History) Russia, Soviet Union, labor, revolutions. wgr@umich.edu Gayle Rubin (Anthropology) Ethnology, Sexualities and genders, sexual populations, cities, sexological theory, durable inequalities, gay/lesbian ethnography, racial taxonomies, urban North America. grubin@umich.edu Damon Salesa (History/American Culture) The British Empire. New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Racial & colonial discourses, especially race ‘mixedness’. Indigenous histories (especially of the Pacific), the politics of history making and history writing. Comparative imperialisms and colonialisms. History of sport. Colonial medicine. salesa@umich.edu Andrew Shryock (Anthropology) Modernity, historical ethnography, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, identity politics, (trans) nationalism; Middle East and Middle Eastern communities in North America. ashryock@umich.edu Carla Sinopoli (Anthropology) Archaeology; Curator, Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Complex societies craft specialization, ceramics. Political economy of early states and empires; archaeology and history; material culture -- use, technology, and social meaning, ethnoarchaeology, gender; South Asia. sinopoli@umich.edu Julie Skurski (Anthropology/History) Ethnology, historical anthropology, nationalism, gender, social movements, popular culture; Latin America, Caribbean. skurski@umich.edu Ronald Suny (History) Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia; nationalism; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics; South Caucasus; Russian/Soviet historiography. rgsuny@umich.edu Miriam Ticktin (Anthropology/Women's Studies) Cultural anthropology; anthropology of medicine and ethics; human rights, law and social justice; transnational feminisms and feminist theory; and immigration, refugees and citizenship in France/Europe. mticktin@umich.edu Thomas Trautmann (Anthropology and History) India, kinship, history of anthropology ttraut@umich.edu Rudolph (Butch) Ware (History) Africa, West Africa Islam, sufism, slavery, African-American/African Diaspora, race rudyware@umich.edu Henry Wright (Anthropology): Origins of the state, political and economic operation of developed chiefdoms and archaic states, Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, Eastern U.S. A. hwright@umich.edu@umich.edu Norman Yoffee (Anthropology) Assyriology, Mesopotamian culture, languages, history; Near Eastern archaeology: late prehistoric and early historic periods ; Comparative early civilizations; Legal anthropology. nyoffee@umich.edu