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Laura M. Ahearn
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Michigan, 1994; Assoc Prof, Acting Dept. Chair, SAS) Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, gender, development discourse, ethnicity, practice theory, agency, social change, marriage, kinship, love letters, childbirth; Nepal, South Asia, Israel.  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Ulla D. Berg
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image (Ph.D, New York University, 2007; Assistant Professor, Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, SAS)  Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, media, ritual and performance, visual anthropology, Peru, Latin America, Latino Studies
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Robert J. Blumenschine
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1985; Prof, Undergrad Prog Dir, Dir Ctr for Human Evol Studies, SAS) 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, 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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Lee Cronk
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, Northwestern U, 1989; Prof, 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 Geology and Anthropology, 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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Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(Ph.D, Cornell, 2006; Assistant Professor, SAS) Social and Cultural Anthropology, violence and conflict, media, religion and ritual, sacrifice and renunciation, symbolic anthropology, psychoanalysis, religious and ethnic identification, nationalism, social theory  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Daniel Goldstein
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Arizona, 1997; Assoc Prof, Dir. Latin Am. Studies, SAS) Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, democracy, violence 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, economic neoliberalism, satirical political activism, political and economic anthropology, democracy, politics of development, land tenure, political ecology, research methods; Africa, US This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Dorothy L. Hodgson on sabbatical 2010-2011
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, U Michigan, 1995; Prof, Chair, SAS) Feminist anthropology, political and legal anthropology, historical anthropology, cultural politics, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, development, missionization, indigenous rights, pastoralism, transnationalism, social movements, ethics and politics of research; Africa
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David M. Hughes
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(Ph.D, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999, Assistant Prof, SAS, Undergraduate Director Anthropology Dept.)  Environmental anthropology, race, whiteness, landscape, conservation; Southern Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Rocío Magaña
Department Undergrad & Grad Faculty
Image(PhD, University of Chicago, 2008; Assistant Professor, SAS) Political anthropology, borders, migration, territoriality, the politics of security and policing, humanitarianism, sociopolitical landscapes; human and civil rights; North America, United States-Mexico Border, the Sonoran Desert  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; Prof, SAS) Body/embodiment, consumer culture, politics and aesthetics, phenomenologies of capitalism, cultural politics, critical ethnography and ethnographic writing, cultural representation, gender/race/diffference and global inequalities, culture and desire; history and theory of anthropology; US
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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; Africa  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, youth; US, Puerto Rico, Brazil, anthropology of emotions. Author of National Performances: Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago (Univ of Chicago Press, 2003); co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (Routledge, 2003). Forthcoming book:  Street Therapists:  Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark 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; Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS) Cultural politics, ethnicity, critical race studies, nationalism and transnationalism, diaspora, sexuality and gender, masculinity and violence, representation, media studies and activism, documentary production, postcoloniality, postsocialism; China, US, Asian Americans, Southeast Asia, Hmong; 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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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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Robin Fox
Research 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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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, comparative mortuary studies, hunter-gatherers, culture contact, development of cultural, complexity, fourth-world peoples, cultural property; North America  (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; Prof, Human Ecology, SEBS; Investigator, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research) Medical anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology and epidemiology, Hispanics in the US, culture change and migration; Puerto Rico, Mexico 
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Alex Hinton
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Emory 1977; Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark) Sociocultural and psychological anthropology, genocide and political violence; culture and mind; globalization and modernity, anthropological and critical theory; Cambodia, Southeast Asia (Associate Member) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Walton Johnson
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
PhD U London, 1971; Associate Professor of African Studies, SAS) Cultural anthropology, race relations, religion; Southern Africa This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
Bonnie J. McCay
Non-Departmental Grad Faculty members
(PhD Columbia, 1976; Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Ecology, SEBS) Ecological and economic anthropology, human ecology, environmental science and policy, fisheries and wildlife, common property; US and Canada, Caribbean, Mexico  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
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) Environmental anthro, political ecology, agrarian studies; conservation and development; extinction ; Madagascar, Africa  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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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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Myron Aronoff
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD U Manchester 1969; PhD Pol Sci UCLA 1976; Prof Emeritus, SAS) Political anthropology, politics and culture, anthropology of complex societies, collective identities; Israel and Middle East  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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George E.B. Morren, Jr.
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD, Columbia U, 1974; Emeritus Prof, SEBS) Human ecology, environmental problems and hazards, traditional ecological knowledge, tropical forests, remote sensing and GIS; Oceania, contemporary US  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
Warren Shapiro
Emeritus Faculty
Image(PhD, Australian National U, 1969; Prof Emeritus, 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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Horst Dieter Steklis
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD UC Berkeley, 1974; Prof Emeritus; Scientific Director, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund) Primatology, mountain gorilla behavior and conservation, biological mechanisms of primate social behavior; Central and E Africa  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
Heather Strange
Emeritus Faculty
(PhD, New York, 1971; Prof Emeritus, SAS) Cultural anthropology, culture and aging, gender issues; SE Asia
 
Lionel Tiger
Emeritus 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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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
 
Helen Fisher
Visiting Instructors and Research Associates
Image(PhD , U Colorado, 1975; Visiting Research Associate) 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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