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Lawrence Cohen Lawrence Cohen
Dept of Anthropology
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory
Aarti Sethi Aarti Sethi
Dept of Anthropology
agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Charles L Briggs Charles L Briggs
Dept of Anthropology
social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology
Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras Rosemary A. Joyce
Dept of Anthropology
Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism
Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo
Dept of Anthropology
cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness
Cori Hayden Cori Hayden
Dept of Anthropology
Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies
William F. Hanks William F. Hanks
Dept of Anthropology
social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
Xin Liu Xin Liu
Dept of Anthropology
history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Patrice Douglass Patrice D. Douglass
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
James Holston James Holston
Dept of Anthropology
citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas
headshot of Carolyn Smith Carolyn Smith
Dept of Anthropology
sociocultural anthropology, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research
Charles Hirschkind Charles Hirschkind
Dept of Anthropology
Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe
Niklaus Largier sitting in office Niklaus Largier
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of German
theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature
Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting. Kathryn Abrams
School of Law
law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law
Headshot (J. Habu) Junko Habu
Dept of Anthropology
Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers
Picture of Professsor Bacchetta Paola Bacchetta
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
Karen Nakamura Karen Nakamura
Dept of Anthropology
disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Andrew Wooyoung Kim Andrew Wooyoung Kim
Dept of Anthropology
intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology
A head shot of me smiling in the English Department lecture room in Wheeler Hall. Elizabeth Abel
Dept of English
feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender
Elora Shehabuddin Elora Shehabuddin
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Photo of Olivia Bailey Olivia Bailey
Dept of Philosophy
moral psychology, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, history of philosophy
Christine Hastorf Christine Hastorf
Dept of Anthropology
anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture
Headshot Vaughn Sarah E. Vaughn
Dept of Anthropology
anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America
Nicholas Dirks Nicholas Dirks
Dept of Anthropology
Dept of History
History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Youjin Chung Youjin Chung
Dept of Energy & Resources Group
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research
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