Full-Time Faculty

Ulla D. Berg

Information: Associate Professor, Latino & Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, SAS; Specialization: Migration, Transnationalism, regimes of (im)mobility, immigrant detention and deportation, media and performance, race and affect, visual anthropology, ethnographic filmmaking, Latin America, Andes, U.S. Latinxs populations and communities.; Degree: Ph.D, New York University, 2007; uberg@lcs.rutgers.edu

Information: Undergraduate Director | Associate Professor, Anthropology, SAS; Specialization: Microarchaeology, Site Formation Processes, Phytoliths, FTIR, Diagenesis, Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition, Neanderthals, Anatomically Modern Humans, Activity Areas, Urban Centres, Levantine Bronze and Iron Age; Europe, the Levant.; Degree: Ph.D. Universitat Rovira i Vigili, Tarragona, Spain, 2009; dan.cabanes@rutgers.edu

Information: Professor, SAS; Specialization: Physical anthropology, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolutionary theory, morphology.; Degree: PhD, U Chicago, 1976; cachel@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Distinguished Professor, SAS; Specialization: Human behavioral ecology, human evolutionary ecology; Africa, Caribbean; Degree: PhD, Northwestern U, 1989; leecronk@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Associate Professor; Specialization: Disability, bio-cultural anthropology, evolutionary behavioral sciences, human biology, evolutionary medicine, demography, mixed methods, China, Vanuatu; Degree: Ph.D. University of Washington, 2010; sc3008@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Assistant Teaching Professor, SAS | Archaeology Minor Director; Specialization: Bioarchaeology, Isotope geochemistry, Strontium isotope analysis, Behavioural ecology, Phenotypic plasticity, Diet.; Degree: doctoral Leiden, PhD Bristol; hd189@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Anthropology Department Chair | Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology; Specialization: History of science and medicine, war, statecraft, humanitarianism, biopolitics, infrastructure, mobility, health, the body; Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon; Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University 2008; omar.dewachi@rutgers.edu

Information: Distinguished Professor | Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health and Professor Anthropology, SAS; Specialization: Microbiome development and impacts of modern practices; Degree: Ph.D. U Aberdeen, Scotland, 1990; mg.dominguez-bello@rutgers.edu

Information: Professor Geology and Anthropology, SAS; Specialization: Geological context of fossil and archaeological sites, paleoenvironments and paleoecology, microstratigraphy, geochronology; Africa; Degree: PhD, U Utah, 1988; feibel@eps.rutgers.edu

Information: Associate Professor, SAS; Specialization: Social and Cultural Anthropology, violence, ritual, memory, identification, nationalism, social theory, psychoanalysis; Degree: Ph.D, Cornell, 2006; parvis@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Graduate Director | Associate Professor, SAS; Specialization: Media anthropology, visual anthropology, photography, ethnographic and documentary film, historical anthropology, cultures of knowledge production especially news and journalism, anthropology of the imagination, politics in everyday life, migration and the construction of citizenship. Turkish and Ottoman Studies, American Studies, migration studies.; Degree: PhD in Anthropology with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, 2007; z.gursel@rutgers.edu

Information: Professor, SAS; Specialization: Environmental anthropology, race, whiteness, landscape, conservation, oil, climate change, energy, wind, the Caribbean; Southern Africa.; Degree: Ph.D, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999, Professor, SAS, Anthropology Dept.; dahughes@rutgers.edu

Information: Professor, SAS; Specialization: diversity of social and mating strategies in animals (human and nonhuman); cohesive social bonds between adult males and females; chacma baboons in Okavango Delta, Botswana and olive baboons in Laikipia, Kenya.; Degree: Ph.D. University of California, Davis 1992; palombit@rutgers.edu

Information: ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR, SAS; Specialization: Anthropology of art and aesthetics, economic anthropology, exchange, globalization, indigeneity, language and culture, media, religion and ritual, social movements, tourism, video production, visual anthropology; Latin America, the Andes; Degree: PhD, U New York University, 2013; pkr28@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Distinguished Professor, SAS; Specialization: Prehistory, historical archeology, human ecology, hunter-gatherers; Australia, Africa; Degree: PhD, Australian National U, 1968; cschrire@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Information: Director of Student Opportunities | Associate Professor; Specialization: hominin evolution, paleoecology, dental microwear, dietary reconstruction, Eurasian hominids: Turkey, Hungary, and China; Degree: Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin, 2004; robertsc@rutgers.edu

Information: Assistant Professor, SAS; Specialization: Race and racialization; critical theory, political economy; human capital, work, and labor; education and reform; design thinking; United States; New Orleans; cities and space; African Americans; whiteness; neoliberalism and privatization; expertise, technocracy, and experimentation; social engineering and capacity building; ideology and identity; infrastructure; Degree: PhD, U Chicago, 2017; christien.tompkins@rutgers.edu

Information: Professor, SAS; Specialization: Primate feeding ecology, functional morphology, digestive efficiency, protein balance, and energetics, the evolution of cooperation and coalition formation; Costa Rica, Central America; Central Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia.; Degree: PhD Stony Brook University, NY 2004; erin.vogel@rutgers.edu