Professors
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Stephen Acabado
Assistant Professor
Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples; Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia
Subfield: Archaeology
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Salih Can Aciksoz
Assistant Professor
War and political violence; gender and masculinity; embodiment and disability; affect and trauma; humanitarianism; nationalism; authoritarianism; reproductive technologies; Turkey; the Middle East
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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H. Samy Alim
Professor and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences
Language, power, and identities; language and race, racism and (trans)racialization (raciolinguistics); the language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally; Muslim youth cultures; language, culture, and education; culturally sustaining pedagogies; Black Language; U.S., Spain, South Africa.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Hannah Appel
Assistant Professor
The anthropology of capitalism; U.S. oil and gas firms; the private sector in Africa; the economic imagination
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Andrew Apter
Professor
West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria), African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), history of anthropology, social theory
Subfield: African History and World History
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H. Clark Barrett
Professor
Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology, cognitive development, hunter-gatherer ecology; South America
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Abigail Bigham
Associate Professor
Human population genetics; molecular evolution; evidence of natural selection in the human genome; HIV, genotype-phenotype associations; convergent evolution; high altitude adaptation
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Aomar Boum
Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Ethnic and religious minorities; Islam; anthropology of religion, history, youth, and festival; Holocaust; sociology of Morocco; historiography; Morocco; North Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Philippe Bourgois
Professor-in-Residence
Social inequality, violence, substance abuse, incarceration, homelessness, mental illness, ethnic segregation/conflict, HIV, urban anthropology, US inner-city, Central America and the Caribbean To download publications, please go to: philippebourgois.net/articles.html
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P. Jeffrey Brantingham
Professor
Paleoanthropology, simulation modeling, carnivore ecology, hunter-gatherers, stone technology, evolutionary theory; China; Mongolia; Tibet
Subfield: Archaeology
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Elizabeth Bromley
Associate Professor-in-Residence
Patient-centeredness, recovery, and shared decision-making in clinic settings; research ethics; mental health stigma; physician wellness
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Erica Cartmill
Assistant Professor
Evolution of language; gesture; primate communication; human language development; parent-child interaction; language and thought; comparative cognition; great apes
Subfield: Biological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology
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Jessica Cattelino
Associate Professor
Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, economy and value, gender, environment, American public culture, Indian gaming; United States, Native North America
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Jason De León
Professor
Violence; materiality; Latino migration; forensic science; archaeology of the contemporary; photoethnography
Subfield: Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Erin Debenport
Associate Professor
Technologies of language circulation; secrecy; indigeneity; semiotics; critical language documentation; language ideologies; Kiowa-Tanoan languages.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Alessandro Duranti
Distinguished Professor
Linguistic anthropology, ethnopragmatics, phenomenological and anthropological theories of intentionality and human agency, political discourse, literacy activities, improvisation in language and music; jazz aesthetics; history of US anthropology; Samoa, U.S., Italy
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Daniel M.T. Fessler
Professor
Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology; emotions, cooperation, aggression, social control, risk taking, ingestive and reproductive behaviors, morality, cultural evolution; Indonesia
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Alan Page Fiske
Professor
Psychological anthropology, social theory, social relationships, social/moral emotions, methodology; Africa
Subfield: Psychological and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Molly Fox
Assistant Professor
Biological anthropology; female reproductive life-history; evolutionary medicine; depression; dementia; longevity; endocrinology; fetal programming; metabolism; acculturation; Hispanic Americans; minority health disparities
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Linda Garro
Professor
Health care decision making; health and illness in everyday life contexts; cultural models; narrative and illness; remembering
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Akhil Gupta
Professor
Ethnography of information technology, the state and development, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, space and place, history of anthropology, applied anthropology; India and South Asia
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Laurie Kain Hart
Professor
Civil war, violence, segregation, borders; urban anthropology; space, architecture, art, material and visual culture; medical and psychoanalytic anthropology; ethnicity and religion; kinship, gender and social theory; Greece, circum-Mediterranean area, inner-city US
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Douglas W. Hollan
Professor
Ethnopsychology and psychoanalysis; psychiatric and medical anthropology; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania.
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Christopher Kelty
Associate Professor
Science and technology studies, specifically internet culture and history; intellectual property; the public sphere; free and open source software; public domains; commons; authorship and ownership; the history and philosophy of science and technology in the US, Europe and India
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Paul V. Kroskrity
Professor
Language and culture; language contact, identity, and ideologies; anthropology and verbal art; ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Richard Lesure
Professor, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Endowed Chair in Mesoamerican Archaeology
Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica
Subfield: Archaeology
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Nancy E. Levine
Professor
Family and marriage; multi-species anthropology; pastoralism, sedenterization, and resettlement; political economy, development, and social change, gender; Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Li Min
Associate Professor
Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics
Subfield: Archaeology
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Jessica Lynch-Alfaro
Associate Professor
Evolution of diversity in socially learned behaviors, mating strategies and social structuring in Neotropical primates; capuchin monkeys
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Joseph Manson
Professor
Primate social behavior; human ethology and evolutionary psychology; personality; psychopathy; life history
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Norma Mendoza-Denton
Professor
Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Kyeyoung Park 박계영
Associate Professor
Inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender); identity; migration/diaspora; transnational and global processes; critical and multicultural theory; Korean/Asian American Community; Korean/Asian Diaspora; Koreans/Asians in Latin America
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Susan Perry
Professor
Primate social relationships, primate social cognition, communication; capuchins, macaques
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Jemima Pierre
Associate Professor
Race/racial formation; race and political economy; cultural politics of decolonization in Africa; history and theory of anthropology; African diaspora studies and theory
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Brooke Scelza
Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
Human behavioral ecology, life history theory, reproductive ecology, maternal and child health; Australia, Namibia.
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Gregson Schachner
Associate Professor
North American archaeology, population movement, origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies, settlement systems and analysis, ceramic analysis, social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest
Subfield: Archaeology
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Susan Slyomovics
Distinguished Professor
Gender; human rights; folklore and material culture; visual anthropology; Middle East and North Africa
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Monica L. Smith
Professor, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies
Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
Subfield: Archaeology
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Shannon Speed
Associate Professor
Legal anthropology; indigenous rights; human rights; indigenous migration; gender; neoliberalism, race and ethnicity; sovereignty/autonomy; activist research methodologies
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Mariko Tamanoi 玉野井 麻利子
Professor
Sociocultural anthropology, historical anthropology, political economy, gender studies; colonialism and nationalism; Japan and East Asia; Mexico and Spain (Catalonia)
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Russell Thornton
Distinguished Professor
American Indian historical demography, American Indian revitalization movements, American Indian winter counts, contemporary American Indian issues
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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C. Jason Throop
Professor & Department Chair
Psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, sensorial anthropology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain, emotion/mood, morality, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia)
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Brian Wood
Assistant Professor
Hunter-gatherers; human behavioral ecology; evolutionary demography; foraging theory; movement ecology; social organization
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Yunxiang Yan 阎云翔
Professor
Social change and development, family and kinship, cultural globalization, morality, the individual and individualization
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Professors
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Carole Browner
Research Professor
Gender, reproduction, healthocial impact of decoding the human genome, reproductive politics; Latin America, urban U.S.
Subfield: Medical Anthropology
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Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Distinguished Research Professor
Ethnography of communication; embodied human interaction; conversation analysis; language and gender; family interaction; workplace ethnography; children's social organization
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Sondra Hale
Research Professsor
Gender; political economy; social movements; postcolonial and cultural studies; nationalism and colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; Islam/Islamism; Middle East and Africa (mainly Sudan and Eritrea)
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Elinor Ochs
Distinguished Research Professor
Discourse structures, grammar in context, language and affect, spoken and written language. Language acquisition and language socialization (development/transmission of sociocultural knowledge through language, socialization of cognitive skills through language). Cross-cultural communication. Madagascar, Samoa, U.S., Italy
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Sherry B. Ortner
Distinguished Research Professor
Critical cultural and social theory, including feminist theory; late capitalism in the US and globally; contemporary American culture in the wider world; theory and ethnography of media; Hollywood and the indie film scene
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
Adjunct Professors
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Tamar Kremer-Sadlik
Associate Adjunct Professor
Language and identity; language socialization; parenting and family life; Institutional ideologies and everyday practices; morality; food and health; U.S., Italy, France
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Robert Lemelson
Adjunct Professor
Transcultural psychiatry, ethnographic film, Indonesia (Bali, Java), mental illness, traditional healing, trauma and social violence, neuroanthropology
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Thomas Wake
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Archaeological and zooarchaeological research along the eastern Pacific Rim; food and ethnicity; development of social complexity; Caribbean Panama; neotropical archaeology; historical archaeology; natural history; human paleoecology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; comparative osteology
Subfield: Archaeology
Professors Emeritus
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Jeanne E. Arnold
Professor Emerita
Archaeological theory, complex hunter-gatherers, craft specialization, political evolution, exchange systems, modern material culture, ethnoarchaeology, prehistory and early contact; California and British Columbia
Subfield: Archaeology
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Nicholas Blurton-Jones
Professor Emeritus
Human ethology and ecology; evolutionary theory and cross-cultural patterns of mother-infant interaction
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Robert Boyd
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Mathematical models of cultural evolution, evolutionary theory
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Karen Brodkin
Professor Emerita
Social movements, gender, work and kinship, political economy, theory, migration, race and contemporary North American cultures.
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Christopher Donnan
Professor Emeritus
South American archaeology, iconography, ancient technology
Subfield: Archaeology
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Allen Johnson
Professor Emeritus
Cultural and political ecology, research design, psychological anthropology; native South America, Latin American communities
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Gail Kennedy
Professor Emerita
Human evolution, bioarchaeology, evolutionary theory, anthropological forensics, paleopathology; Africa.
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Lewis Langness
Professor Emeritus
Psychological and cultural anthropology, history of anthropology; Melanesia.
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Professor Emerita
Urban anthropology, sociolinguistics, Afro-American culture; Caribbean
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Michael Moerman
Professor Emeritus
Social interaction, conversational analysis, visual anthropology, ethnographic theory; Southeast Asia.
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Philip Newman
Professor Emeritus
Culture theory, comparative religion, aesthetic systems; Oceania.
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Wendell Oswalt
Professor Emeritus
Ethnology, technology; North America, Alaska.
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Merrick Posnansky
Professor Emeritus
The archaeology of state formation and urban growth in Ghana and Togo; archaeology of the African Diaspora; cultural conservation and archaeological education in tropical Africa; postage stamps and national cultural policy
Subfield: Archaeology
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Dwight Read
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Mathematical anthropology, structural logic of kinship terminologies, theory of social organization, cultural evolution, archaeological classification
Subfield: Archaeology, Biological and Sociocultural Anthropology
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James Sackett
Professor Emeritus
Paleolithic archaeology of France, history and theory of archaeology
Subfield: Archaeology
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Joan Silk
Distinguished Professor Emerita
Biological anthropology, primate behavior, evolutionary biology.
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Charles Stanish
Professor Emeritus
Andean anthropology, settlement archaeology, and the evolution of social complexity
Subfield: Archaeology
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Thomas S. Weisner
Professor Emeritus in Residence
Culture, human development and the family; children & families at risk; integration of qualitative & quantitative methods; evidence-informed policy; Africa, United States
Subfield: Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Johannes Wilbert
Professor Emeritus
Ethnology, cognitive anthropology; South America
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology