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Ulla D. Berg

Ulla D. Berg

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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

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Dan Cabanes

Dan Cabanes

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Assistant 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

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Susan M. Cachel

Susan M. Cachel

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

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Lee Cronk

Lee Cronk

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

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Hylke de Jong

Hylke de Jong

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Teaching Instructor
Specialization: Bioarchaeology, Isotope geochemistry, Strontium isotope analysis, Behavioural ecology, Phenotypic plasticity, Diet.
Degree: doctoral Leiden, PhD Bristol
hd189@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Omar Dewachi

Omar Dewachi

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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

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Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

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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

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Craig S. Feibel

Craig S. Feibel

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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

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Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

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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

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Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

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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

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David M. Hughes

David M. Hughes

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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.
dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu

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Ryne A. Palombit

Ryne A. Palombit

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Department Chair | Professor, SAS
Specialization: Evolution and ecology of primate social behavior, male-female relationships, monogamy, infanticide, gibbons, baboons; Africa
Degree: PhD, U California-Davis, 1992
palombit@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Bridget Purcell

Bridget Purcell

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TEACHING INSTRUCTOR
Specialization: Political anthropology, critical urban theory, religious change, political phenomenology, Turkey, Syria, Middle East
Degree: Ph.D., Princeton 2014
bmp134@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Pilar Rau

Pilar Rau

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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

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Kathleen Riley

Kathleen Riley

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Teaching Instructor
Specialization: Linguistic anthropology, language socialization, language ideologies, multilingualism, food and language, gender and sexuality, Marquesas, French Polynesia, France, la francophonie.
Degree: PhD, The City University of New York 2001
kcr58@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Louisa Schein

Louisa Schein

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Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS
Specialization: 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
Degree: PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1993
schein@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Carmel Schrire

Carmel Schrire

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

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Becky L. Schulthies

Becky L. Schulthies

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Associate Professor, SAS
Specialization: linguistic anthropology; human-plant semiotic ideologies; Arabic graphic sensibilities; national/transnational Arab media ideologies; language ideologies and identities in Morocco; education and literacies; social media discourse; history of Arabic semiotic ideologies
Degree: Ph.D. University of Arizona
bls125@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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Robert S. Scott

Robert S. Scott

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

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Christien Philmarc Tompkins

Christien Philmarc Tompkins

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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

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Erin R. Vogel

Erin R. Vogel

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Graduate Director | Associate 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, 2004
erin.vogel@rutgers.edu

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