Department Chair

Anthony Graesch, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College Archaeologist

Anthony Graesch

Associate Professor of Anthropology, College Archaeologist

Archaeology of the contemporary • Household Archaeology • Discard & Discarding • Experimental archaeology • Materiality • Indigenous and Settler Societies in North America


Faculty

Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology

Catherine Benoit

Professor of Anthropology

Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories, Union of Comoros, Mayotte • Necropolitics, borders, (im)mobilities, maritime cemeteries • Garden and Landscape studies


Rachel Black, Food Pathway Coordinator, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Rachel Black

Food Pathway Coordinator, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Food studies • Anthropology of the senses • Anthropology of Food • Gender and work


Jeffrey Cole, Professor of Anthropology

Jeffrey Cole

Professor of Anthropology

North America and Europe • Food and Agriculture • Migration • Race and Ethnicity • Labor Markets


Christopher B. Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program

Christopher B.  Steiner

Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program

History of Photography • African Art • Offbeat Museums and Visionary Art • Stereotypes in Art and Visual Culture • Art Market and Collecting • Kitsch and "Bad" Art


Sufia Uddin, Professor of Anthropology and Religion

Sufia Uddin

Professor of Anthropology and Religion

Environment and religion • Global Islam • Race and ethnicity in South Asia • South Asian studies • South Asian American studies



Staff

Nancy Lewandowski

Academic Department Assistant

Associated Faculty

Petko Ivanov, Associate Teaching Professor of Slavic Studies, Chair of the Slavic Studies Department

Petko Ivanov

Associate Teaching Professor of Slavic Studies, Chair of the Slavic Studies Department

Cultural history of the Slavs • History of Slavistics • Linguistic anthropology • Second language acquisition • Nationalism • Ethnography of religion • Polish and Balkan studies


Manuel Lizarralde, Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

Manuel Lizarralde

Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology


Ayako Takamori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ayako  Takamori

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japan • Asian America • Anthropology • Transnational Migration • Comparative Race and Ethnicity • Gender and Sexuality • Media and Visual Cultures


James Dale Wilson, Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

James Dale Wilson

Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

Ethnomusicology • Jazz Composition • Guangdong ritual and ritual music • Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism


June Macklin

Rosemary Park Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

 

In Memoriam

John Burton

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Harold D. Juli

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology