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

Dan Cabanes

Information: 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

Susan M. Cachel

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

Lee Cronk

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

Hylke de Jong

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

Omar Dewachi

Information: 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

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Information: 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

Craig S. Feibel

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

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

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

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Information: 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

David M. Hughes

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

Ryne Palombit

Information: Chair, Department of Anthropology | 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

Bridget Purcell

Information: 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

Pilar Rau

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

Kathleen Riley

Information: 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

Louisa Schein

Information: 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

Carmel Schrire

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

Becky L. Schulthies

Information: 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

Robert S. Scott

Information: 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

Christien Philmarc Tompkins

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

Erin R. Vogel

Information: 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

Department of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

Full-Time Faculty

Ulla D. Berg

Dan Cabanes

Susan M. Cachel

Lee Cronk

Hylke de Jong

Omar Dewachi

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Craig S. Feibel

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

David M. Hughes

Ryne Palombit

Bridget Purcell

Pilar Rau

Kathleen Riley

Louisa Schein

Carmel Schrire

Becky L. Schulthies

Robert S. Scott

Christien Philmarc Tompkins

Erin R. Vogel

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