Full-Time Faculty

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Acting Graduate Director July 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022 | 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

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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.

dahughes@rutgers.edu

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Palombit, Ryne A.

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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

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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

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Assistant Teaching Professor, SAS

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Graduate Director on leave July 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022 | 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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