Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
Emily Gottreich Dept of History Dept of International and Area Studies Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic urban studies, Jewish history, Morocco, North Africa, Sephardic Studies
Nancy Scheper-Hughes Dept of Anthropology Critical medical anthropology, violence, genocide, inequality, marginality, childhood, family, psychiatry, deinstitutionalization, medical ethics, fieldwork ethics, globalization medicine, social/ political illness, disease, AIDS, Ireland, Brazil, cuba
Alexei Yurchak Dept of Anthropology social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society