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Anthropology Faculty Listing
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Professor Thomas E. Fricke, Chair
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Ruth Behar (Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology), Cultural Criticism, Ethnographic Writing, Life Stories, Feminist Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, Religion; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, U.S. Latinos
Amal Fadlalla (Afroamerican and African Studies / Women's Studies), Global perspectives on gender, health, and reproduction; and gender, diaspora, and transnationalism
Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Kathleen Gough Collegiate Professor of Anthropology), Kinship, Gender, and Reproductive Health Care; Religion; Phenomenology; Political Ecology; Anthropology of Development; Madagascar, Africa, United States; Historical and Contemporary Judaism and Christianity
Kent Flannery (James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology), Archaeology, Cultural Ecology: Near East, Middle America
Thomas E. Fricke (Sociocultural Anthropology), cultural demography, culture and agriculture, kinship, work, morality, field methods, documentary writing; Nepal, South Asia, US.
Philip Gingerich (Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology), Primate Paleontology and Evolution
Judith Irvine (Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology), Linguistic Anthropology, Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization, Africa
Webb Keane (Sociocultural Anthropology), Social and Cultural Theory, Semiotics, Ritual and Religion, Exchange, Material Culture, History and Historical Consciousness; Language and Discourse, Indonesia, Oceania
Laura Lein (Dean and Collegiate Professor, School of Social Work; Professor, Anthropology). Poverty and poverty programs in the United States, homeless and dislocated populations, child care, health care, and non-governmental organizations
Laura MacLatchy (Biological Anthropology), Postcranial functional morphology, primate locomotion, vertebrate paleontology, Miocene hominoids, bone biomechanics; Uganda, Ecuador
Bruce Mannheim (Linguistic Anthropology), the politics of language use, social theory, poetics and narrative, historical ethnography; Andean South America
Joyce Marcus (Robert R. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution), Latin American ethnohistory and archaeology, ancient writing systems, early complex societies; Mexico, Central America, South America
John Mitani (James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology), primate behavioral ecology, Chimpanzees
Erik Mueggler (Sociocultural Anthropology), Religion, Ritual, Memory, Ideology, State Power, Gender; China
John O'Shea, Prehistoric Economics, Archaeology, Method and Theory: Old World, North America, Great Lakes
Maxwell Owusu, Ethnography and History, Social Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial States, Comparative Legal and Political Systems, Democratization and Socioeconomic Development and Underdevelopment; Africa, Caribbean
Elisha Renne (Anthropology / Afroamerican and African Studies), (Sociocultural Anthropology), demographic/medical anthropology, material culture; Nigeria, West Africa
Andrew Shryock (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Anthropology, Modernity, historical ethnography, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, identity politics, (trans)-nationalism; Middle East and Middle Eastern communities in North America
Carla Sinopoli, Archaeology, 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
Beverly Strassmann (Biological Anthropology), Human evolutionary ecology, life history, theory, culture, endocrinology, reproduction, genetics of kinship; Dogon, West Africa
Robert Whallon, Archaeology, Ecology and evolution of hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods, prehistory; Europe, Middle East
Melvin D. Williams, Macroanthropology, Religion, African-Americans, Contemporary American Society, Global Village
Milford Wolpoff, Paleoanthropology, multiregional evolution, human paleontology, biomechanics, genetic modeling; Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
Henry Wright, Archaeology, origins of the state, political and economic operation of developed chiefdoms and archaic states; Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, Eastern USA
Associate Professors
Kelly Askew (Anthropology / Afroamerican and African Studies), (Sociocultural Anthropology), cultural politics, ethnomusicology, nationalism, media, performance, Swahili studies, East Africa
Matthew Hull (Sociocultural Anthropology), Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia
Stuart Kirsch (Sociocultural Anthropology), Ritual, indigenous movements, mining ethnography, NGOs, political ecology, cultural property; Melanesia, Oceania
Alaina Lemon (Sociocultural Anthropology), Sociocultural, performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology; Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-socialist states
Michael McGovern (Sociocultural Anthropology), political anthropology, West and East Africa, postcolonial states within the arc of longer historical trajectories
Barbra Meek (Linguistic Anthropology), Child language socialization and acquisition, endangered and/or dormant language issues, linguistic theory and Athabaskan linguistics; North America
Damani J. Partridge (Anthropology/Afroamerican and African Studies), (Sociocultural 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
Gayle Rubin (Anthropology and Women's Studies), (Sociocultural Anthropology), Sexualities and genders, sexual populations, cities, sexological theory, durable inequalities, gay/lesbian ethnography, history of racial taxonomies; urban North America
Assistant Professors
Robin Beck (Anthropological Archaeology), Social organization of complex societies, social change, colonialism, archaeology and ethnohistory of eastern North America, Andes
Abigail Bigham (Biological Anthropology), human population genetics
Jacinta C. Beehner (Anthropology and Psychology), (Biological anthropology), behavioral endocrinology, evolution of social behavior, behavioral aggression, reproductive ecology, baboons (Papio spp.) and geladas (Theropithecus)
Jason De León (Sociocultural Anthropology), Economic Anthropology, Undocumented Migration, Material Culture, Political Economy of Human Smuggling, Ethnicity, Ethnoarchaeology, Borderlands, U.S./Mexico Border, Mesoamerica
Krisztina Fehérváry, (Sociocultural Anthropology), Consumer and material culture, political economy, middle-class culture, built environment, domestic space, body, transformations, film and popular culture, Hungary, postsocialist states
Michael Lempert (Linguistic Anthropology), interaction, semiotics, social theory, stance and affect, religion; Tibet, South Asia
Elizabeth F.S. Roberts (Anthropology, Residential College), (Sociocultural Anthropology/Medical Anthropology), Critical study of medicine, science and biotechnology, modernity, exchange, kinship, race, religion, Latin America, Ecuador
Lecturers
Thomas Chivens (Sociocultural Anthropology), Faculty Associate with the Center for Emerging Democracies; Postsocialism and Europeanization; Anthropology of the State; Violence, Gender, and Security; Human Rights, Policing and Policy Circulation; Awareness Politics; Poland, European Union, North America
David Frye (Lecturer, Anthropology; Student Advisor; International Institute; Education Officer, LACS), Ethnography and history of Mexico, the colonial construction of Indianness, religious movements in Mexico, Latin American societies and cultures; Latin America
Holly Peters-Golden (Lyle C. Roll Scholar for Humane Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine), (Sociocultural Anthropology), Medical anthropology, cancer, physician-patient interaction, explanatory models of illness, social construction of disease, medical education, illness narrative, North America
Lisa C. Young (Lecturer, Department of Anthropology; Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology), Archaeology, agricultural societies, American Southwest, settlement and subsistence, technology
Adjunct Assistant Professors
Nadine Naber (Assistant Professor, American Culture and Women's Studies), Arab American Studies; Feminist Transnational and Diaspora Studies, Feminist Post-colonial Studies, Women of Color Feminist Theory
Mark Padilla (Assistant Professor, School of Public Health), Applied medical anthropology, Latin America and the Caribbean, globalization/transnationalism, Latino health issues, gender and ethnic disparities in health, international sex work and HIV/AIDS, tourism and development studies, political economy of health
William Sanders (Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Paleontology), Hominoid evolution and paleobiology, Proboscidean evolution and systematics, Evolution of Old World Cenozoic mammals, Taphonomy and paleoecology, Mammalian functional morphology
Professors Emeriti
C. Loring Brace, Human Evolution, "Race," Dentition, History of Biological Anthropology
Robbins Burling, Linguistics, Ethnology, Southeast Asia
David William Cohen (Lemuel A. Jackson Collegiate Professor of African History and Anthropology), Pre-colonial and 20th-Century Africa - eastern and southeastern
Richard I. Ford (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Cultural Ecology and Evolution, Ethnobotany, Archaeology, American Indians
A. Roberto Frisancho (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), (Biological Anthropology), Adaptive Responses to Environmental Extremes: Growth, Nutrition, Physiology; Latin America
Ernst Goldschmidt
Peter Gosling, Rural Development, Migration and Resettlement: Southeast Asia; Chinese Economy and Ethnicity
Janet Hart (Sociocultural Anthropology), oral history and narrative theory and methods; anthropology of Europe; urban ethnography; postcolonialism and diaspora in Paris, France; gender and nationalism; comparative social movements and cultures of activism; political prisons and prisoners
Sarah C. Humphreys, Kinship, Law, Religion; Ancient Greece
Raymond Kelly, Sociocultural Anthropology, Social Inequality, Social Organization, Witchcraft, Warfare, Melanesia
Conrad P. Kottak (General and Cultural Anthropology), Brazil, Madagascar, U.S.
William Lockwood, Ethnology, Ethnicity, Peasants; Field Methods and Ethnographic Films: Europe, Contemporary U.S.
Jeffrey R. Parsons, Archaeology, Mesoamerican and Andean Prehistory
Thomas Trautmann (Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities, Marshall Sahlins Professor of History and Anthropology), Kinship, History of Anthropology, India
Jennifer Robertson (Sociocultural Anthropology), Ethnography, art and visual culture, colonialism/imperialism, historical anthropology, mass/popular culture, performance and theatre, sex/gender/sexuality, urban anthropology, eugenics and bioethics, humanoid robots and cyberculture; Japan, Israel, Asia
John Speth (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Anthropology), Archaeology, hunters and gatherers, cultural ecology, diet and subsistence, Paleolithic and PaleoIndian studies; North America
Norman Yoffee, Assyriology, Mesopotamian culture, languages, history; Near Eastern archaeology; late prehistoric and early historic periods; comparative early civilizations; legal anthropology