Anthropology : People : Faculty

FULL-TIME PART-TIME & RESEARCH FACULTY
Note: Faculty may appear in more than one program

BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Eisenberg, Dan T. A.	(PhD Northwestern 2012; Asst Prof) Evolution, anthropological genetics, human biology, telomere biology, aging, parental effects, ADHD; Bolivian Amazon [email] [more info]
Goodreau, Steven M.	(PhD Pennsylvania State 2001; Assoc Prof) Human social networks, HIV, sexual identity and behavior, human/pathogen co-evolution, population genetics, infectious disease epidemiology [email] [more info]
Holman, Darryl	(PhD Pennsylvania State 1996; Assoc Prof) Anthropological demography, human reproductive ecology, paleodemography [email] [more info]
Kramer, Patricia	(PhD Washington 1998; Res Assoc Prof) Human and non-human primate fossils and locomotion; osteoarthritis and aging of the musculoskeletal system; biomechanics and energetics of locomotion [email] [more info]
Kushnick, Geoff	(PhD Washington 2006; Lecturer) Human behavioral ecology; demography, parenting, and health; human evolution, adaptation, and culture; mathematical and statistical modeling and analysis; peoples and cultures of SE Asia, particularly Indonesia [email] [more info]
Leonetti, Donna L.	(PhD Washington 1976; Prof) Biocultural anthropology, human behavioral ecology and anthropological demography; fertility, child mortality and growth; intergenerational effects; kinship; aging; social epidemiology; NE India, Asian Americans [email] [more info]
O'Connor, Kathleen	(PhD SUNY Albany 1995; Prof) Biodemography; human reproductive biology and ecology, human mortality patterns and correlates, paleodemography, men’s health [email] [more info]
Shell-Duncan, Bettina	(PhD Pennsylvania State 1994; Prof) Epidemiology, disease ecology, demography, maternal & child morbidity & mortality; East Africa [email] [more info]

SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Amrute, Sareeta B.	(PhD, U Chicago 2008, Asst Prof) Sociocultural anthropology and science and technology studies, Information Technology, history of the present, theories of circulation, race and gender; South Asia [email] [more info]
Anagnost, Ann S.	(PhD Michigan 1985; Prof) Ethnography of the state, ideology & popular culture, peasant society; China [email] [more info]
Barker, Holly M.	(PhD American University 2000; Lecturer) Public and applied anthropology, Cold War culture, collaborative anthropology, participatory methods, ethics, educational disparities, climate change, public polic; Oceania [email] [more info]
Bilaniuk, Laada	(PhD Michigan 1998; Assoc Prof) Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states [email] [more info]
Carney, Megan A.	(PhD UC Santa Barbara 2012; Lecturer) Transborder and diaspora studies; political economy/ecology of food, health and the body; critical race, class, and gender theory; citizenship and the state; violence and borderlands; food sovereignty; food security; U.S.; Latin America; Southern Europe [email] [more info]
Chapman, Rachel R.	(PhD UC Los Angeles 1998; Assoc Prof) Medical Anthropology, racial and ethnic disparities in health, urban and reproductive health, applied international health, and political economy; US, Mozambique [email] [more info]
Cirin, David	(PhD Washington 2012; Lecturer) Critical medical anthropologies; global health; medical humanitarianism and aid commodities; "health camps" and short-term medical volunteers; the social and political lives of medicine(s); development, NGOs, and neoliberalism; the politics of food aid, changing foodways, and hunger; Nepal, South Asia [email] [more info]
Harrell, Stevan	(Ph.D. Stanford 1974, Prof; Prof School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Asian Languages and Literature) Environmental anthropology, ecosystem resilience, demography, family, ethnicity, education, material culture; China and Taiwan [email] [more info]
Hoffman, Daniel	(PhD Duke 2004; Assoc Prof) Visual anthropology, violence and militarism, experimental ethnography; West Africa [email] [more info]
Johnson, Jessica	(PhD Washington 2010; Lecturer) Evangelical church movements; gender and feminist theory; sexuality and queer theory; visual and new media; economies of attention and affect theory; neoliberalism and militarism [email] [more info]
Kahn, Miriam	(PhD Bryn Mawr 1980; Prof) Anthropology of place, colonial and postcolonial politics, nuclear testing, tourism and travel, cultural representations; Oceania [email] [more info]
Lowe, Celia	(PhD Yale 1999; Assoc Prof) Anthropology of reason, biosecurity, post-colonial theory, science studies, nationalism, identity; Southeast Asia, Indonesia [email] [more info]
Peña, Devon	(PhD Texas-Austin 1983; Prof) Agroecology, bioregionalism, ethnoecology, social movements, labor process theory, workplace politics, international migration [email] [more info]
Perez, Michael Vicente	(PhD Michigan State 2011; Lecturer) Sociocultural anthropology and Near East Studies, ethnicity and nationalism, transnational migration and displacement (diaspora), refugees and human rights, Muslim politics, memory and violence [email] [more info]
Pfeiffer, James	(PhD UC Los Angeles 1997; Assoc Prof WOT) Medical anthropology, qualitative and mixed methods research, global health, primary health care, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, reproductive health, implementation science, operations research, Pentecostalism/religion and public health, Africa, Mozambique [email] [more info]
Rhodes, Lorna Amarasingham	(PhD Cornell 1973; Prof) Cultural anthropology, culture & psychiatry; medical anthropology, religion; South Asia, Sri Lanka, US [email] [more info]
Taylor, Janelle S.	(PhD Chicago 1999; Assoc Prof) Medicine and medical education, dementia, technology, commodification and consumer culture, reproduction, science studies; US [email] [more info]
Welland, Sasha	(PhD UC Santa Cruz 2006; Assoc Prof) Gender, feminist ethnography, anthropology of art, visual/expressive culture; China, East Asia, Asian America [email] [more info]
Yates-Doerr, Emily	(PhD NYU 2011; Lecturer) Global health, care practices, environment and agriculture, nutritional epigenetics, participation of Indigenous communities in health education, translational research, ethnography of science, theories of exchange, engaged anthropology; Latin America, Guatemala, The Netherlands [email] [more info]

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