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Laura M. Ahearn
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Michigan, 1994; Assoc Prof, SAS) Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, gender, development discourse, ethnicity, practice theory, agency, social change, marriage, kinship, love letters, childbirth; Nepal, South Asia
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Robert J. Blumenschine
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1985; Prof, SAS, Dir, Ctr for Human Evol Studies) Old World prehistory, zooarcheology, hominid ecology and social organization; Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Susan M. Cachel
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Chicago, 1976; Assoc Prof, Undergrad Dir, SAS) Physical anthropology, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolutionary theory, morphology This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Chi-hua Chiu
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Wayne SU, 1997; Asst Prof, SAS) Molecular evolutionary genetics of human and non-human primates, evolution of the primate body plan, development patterning genes, genes associated with cognitive disorders in humans; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Lee Cronk
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Northwestern U, 1989; Prof, Grad Dir, SAS) Human behavioral ecology, human evolutionary ecology; Africa, Caribbean This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Craig S. Feibel
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Utah, 1988; Assoc Prof, SAS) Geological context of fossil and archaeological sites, paleoenvironments and paleoecology, microstratigraphy, geochronology; Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Robin Fox
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image (PhD, U London, 1965; Univ Prof) Kinship and marriage, evolution of behavior, social theory; N Amer, northwestern Europe This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(Ph.D, Cornell, 2006; Assistant Professor, SAS) ethnicity, religion, violence, sacrifice, ritual, media, Hindu nationalism Gibraltar, US, India This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
Daniel Goldstein
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Arizona, 1997; Assoc Prof, SAS) Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, democracy, violoence and crime, human rights, globalization, cultural performance, indigenous peoples and the state; Latin America, the Andes This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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John W.K. Harris
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1978; Prof, SAS) Old World prehistory, human origins, lithic analysis, archeological method and theory; Africa  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Angelique Haugerud
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Northwestern U, 1984; Assoc Prof, SAS) Globalization, cultural politics, democracy, ethnicity, politics of development, neoliberalism, social movements, political and economic anthropology, agrarian change, land tenure, research methods, Africa, U.S. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Dorothy L. Hodgson
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Michigan, 1995; Prof, SAS) Cultural anthropology, historical anthropology, cultural politics, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, missionization, indigenous rights, pastoralism, transnationalism, social movements, research methodologies; Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Fran Mascia-Lees
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, SUNY-Albany, 1983; Chair and Prof, SAS) The body, consumer culture, cultural politics, colonial/ postcolonial studies, gender, globalization, theory, psychological anthropology, anthropology and literature, cultural representation and ethnographic writing; United States.
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Ryne A. Palombit
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U California-Davis, 1992; Assoc Prof, SAS) Evolution and ecology of primate social behavior, male-female relationships, monogamy, infanticide, gibbons, baboons This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


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Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Columbia, 1997; Assoc Prof; Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS) Urban anthropology, Latino Studies, race, citizenship, nationalism, space and built environment, youth; US, Puerto Rico, Brazil, anthropology of emotions This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Louisa Schein
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1993; Assoc Prof; Women's and Gender Studies, SAS) Cultural politics, ethnicity, nationalism and transnationalism, diaspora, gender and sexuality, representation, media, postcoloniality, postsocialism; China, Asian American, US This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Carmel Schrire
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Australian National U, 1968; Prof, SAS) Prehistory, historical archeology, human ecology, hunter-gatherers; Australia, Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Robert S. Scott
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
ImagePh.D, University of Texas at Austin, 2004; Assistant Professor, SAS), hominin evolution, paleocology, dental microwear, dietary reconstruction, Eurasian hominids: Turkey, Hungary, and China
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Lionel Tiger
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U London, 1962; Charles Darwin Prof of Anth, SAS) Political structures, sociosexual roles, ethology, human nature, biology of human behavior, the kibbutz, human aggression, social uses of food, industrial society This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


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Robert L. Trivers
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Harvard U, 1965; Prof, SAS) Social evolution, evolutionary genetics of selfish elements, the study of symmetry in human beings, especially Jamaican; Jamaica This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Helen Fisher
Research Faculty
Image(PhD , U Colorado, 1975; Res Professor) Human sexuality, gender differences, mate choice, romantic love, evolution of the brain This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Ousseina Alidou
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Indiana U; Assistant Professor of Africana Studies) Linguistics, comparative cultural studies, literacy, women's studies; Francophone Afro-Islamic Africa
 
Myra Bluebond-Langer
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD U Illinois, 1975; Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers-Camden) Medical anthropology, childhood socialization, psychological anthropology (Associate Member)
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Ann-Marie Cantwell
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD New York University, 1977; Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark) Archaeology of eastern North America, North American Indians, prehistoric trade, development of complex societies, anthropology of death (Associate Member)
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Sheila C. Cosminsky
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Brandeis, 1972; Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers-Camden) Cultural and medical anthropology, ethnic relations, nutritional anthropology; Mesoamerica, Africa
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R. Brian Ferguson
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Columbia, 1988; Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark) War, policing, contemporary "ethnic conflict", state-tribe interaction, historical ecology; lowland South America, Puerto Rico (Associate Member)
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Peter J. Guarnaccia
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD U Connecticut, 1984; Post-doctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School, 1984-86; Chair and Professor of Human Ecology, Cook College; Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research) Medical anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology and epidemiology, cultural competence. Latinos in the US, Puerto Rico, Mexico
 
Alex Hinton
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Emory; Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark) Violence, genocide, globalization, emotion, identity; Cambodia, Southeast Asia (Associate Member)
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David McDermott Hughes
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor of Human Ecology, Cook College) Frontiers, colonialism, environment and development; Southern Africa
 
Walton Johnson
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
PhD U London, 1971; Associate Professor of African Studies) Cultural anthropology, race relations, religion; Southern Africa
 
Bonnie J. McCay
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Columbia, 1976; Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Ecology; Department of Human Ecology) Ecological and economic anthropology, fisheries and wildlife, common property; North America, Caribbean, Africa
 
Karen Gainer Sirota
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD UCLA, 2006; Assistant Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work) Psychocultural, medical, and linguistic anthropology, social and cultural dimensions of health and mental health, comparative human development across the life course, personhood and subjectivity, gender, language socialization, discourse and narrative; Contemporary US  (Associate Member)
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Genese Sodikoff
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Michigan, 2005; Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark) International development, environmental protection; Africa (Associate Member)

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Chun-fang Yu
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Columbia, 1973; Professor Emerita, Department of Religion) Culture and religion, gender, popular culture, Buddhism; China (Associate Member)
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Warren Shapiro
Emeritus Faculty
Image(PhD, Australian National U, 1969; Prof, SAS) Kinship, pseudo-procreative theory, the ethnographic study of human nature, history of anthropology, primitivism; Aboriginal Australia, lowland S America This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Myron Aronoff
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD U Manchester 1969; PhD Pol Sci UCLA 1976; Professor of Political Science) Political anthropology, anthropology of complex societies, collective identities; Israel, Middle East
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Horst Dieter Steklis
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD UC Berkeley, 1974; Professor of Anthropology; Scientific Director, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund) Primatology, mountain gorilla conservation, biology of behavior; Central and East Africa
 
Heather Strange
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD, New York, 1971; Prof Emeritus, SAS) Cultural anthropology, culture and aging, gender issues; SE Asia
 
Andrew P. Vayda
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD Columbia, 1956; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ecology) Human ecology, tropical rain forest adaptations, methodology and explanation, ecological and evolutionary theory; Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia
 
Krista Hegburg
Visiting Intructors

(ABD, Columbia University, Assistant Instructor, SAS) race, liberalism, post-socialism, political violence, genocide, trauma, reconciliation, Holocaust Studies, the Czech Republic, Eastern Europe
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Robert O'Brien
Visiting Intructors
Image (ABD, Temple U; Assistant Instructor, SAS) Structural violence; medical anthropology; gender, the body and sexuality; urban anthropology; development, globalization and imperialism; race; political economy; social theory. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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