Martha Wilfahrt Dept of Political Science African politics, political economy of development, redistributive politics
Mariane C. Ferme Dept of Anthropology material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies
Daena Funahashi Dept of Anthropology political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia
Tianna Paschel Dept of African American Studies Dept of Sociology racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America
Cihan Tugal Dept of Sociology political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
Ricarda Hammer Dept of Sociology anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory
Anna Stilz Dept of Political Science history of political thought, nationalism, collective agency, migration, environmental and climate justice
James Holston Dept of Anthropology citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas
Charles Hirschkind Dept of Anthropology Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe
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, politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
James Q. Davies Dept of Music 19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism
Lawrence Cohen Dept of Anthropology Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, critical gerontology, feminist and queer theory, Science and Technology studies
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 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
Sarah E. Vaughn Dept of Anthropology anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America
Christine Hastorf Dept of Anthropology anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture
Ikaika Ramones Dept of Ethnic Studies indigenous studies, political economy, critical theory, political theory, media studies, social movements
Denise Herd School of Public Health public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture
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
Darlène Dubuisson Dept of African American Studies Apocalyptic anthropology, Black feminist theory, Black intellectual history, Caribbean Studies, Haitian diaspora, immigration and migration, transnationalism and diaspora, speculation, inequality and crisis, crises and futures, visual culture
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
Marianne Constable Dept of Rhetoric law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society
Beatriz Manz Dept of Ethnic Studies Dept of Geography Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Stephen Collier Dept of City & Regional Planning urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States