Regular Faculty

Guillermo Algaze (Ph.D. Chicago 1986), Professor.

Near Eastern, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian archaeology, early civilizations, complex societies; Turkey.

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Geoffrey E. Braswell (Ph.D. Tulane 1996), Associate Professor.

Settlement pattern studies, geoarchaeology, lithic production and technology, archaeometry, mathematical methods; the emergence of complex society and economic systems, alternative models of social and political systems; Maya, Mesoamerica.

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Suzanne A. Brenner (Ph.D. Cornell 1991), Associate Professor.

Sociocultural anthropology, gender, family, and social transformation, anthropology of modernity, contemporary religious movements, women and Islam; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the
United States.

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Thomas J. Csordas (Ph.D. Duke 1980), Professor.

Psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative religion, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture; contemporary U.S. and Native North America.

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Paul S. Goldstein (Ph.D. Chicago 1989), Associate Professor.

Anthropological archaeology, complex societies, Latin America, Andean South America.

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John B. Haviland (Ph.D. Harvard 1971), Professor.

Social life of language, Tzotzil Mayan, Australian languages; Mexico, Australia.

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Janis H. Jenkins (Ph.D. UCLA 1984), Professor.

Psychological and Medical Anthropology, culture theory and subjectivity, emotion, gender, violence and malevolence, mental health, psychopharmacology, Mexican and Central American migrants, U.S. Southwest Hispanos and native populations.

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Thomas E. Levy (Ph.D. Sheffield 1981), Professor.

Anthropological archaeology, Levantine archaeology, complex societies ; Middle East, Israel, Jordan.

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Keith E. McNeal (Ph.D. Emory 2004), Assistant Professor.

Comparative religion, psychological anthropology, psychoanalysis, ritual and performance studies, person-centered ethnography, Caribbean.

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James J. Moore (Ph.D. Harvard 1985), Associate Professor.

Behavioral ecology, primates and cetaceans, savanna chimpanzees and human evolution; Africa, India.

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Esra Özyürek (Ph.D. Michigan 2002), Associate Professor.

Secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, public and private, alternative modernities, social and cultural memory, language ideology, gender, economic and natural crisis; Turkey, Middle East.

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Steven Parish (Ph.D. UCSD 1987), Associate Professor.

Psychological anthropology, social and psychological theory, moral and political consciousness, religion, Hinduism, urbanism, hierarchy and inequality; Nepal, India, the US.

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David E. Pedersen (Ph.D. Michigan 2004) Assistant Professor.

Historical anthropology, modernity, capitalism, transnational migrant life; Latin America, USA, El Salvador, California.

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Nancy Postero (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2001), Associate Professor.

Political economy, multiculturalism, citizenship, identity, indigenous politics, development, non-governmental organizations, Bolivia, Latin America.

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Joel Robbins (Ph.D. Virginia 1998), Professor & Department Chair.

Social and cultural anthropology, anthropological theory, religion, symbolism, social structure, cultural conceptions of the environment, Western ideology, globalization and cultural change; Melanesia.

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Margaret Schoeninger (Ph.D. Michigan 1980), Professor.

Biological anthropology, diet reconstruction, evolution of human diet, bone chemistry, human nutritional ecology.

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Katerina Semendeferi (Ph.D. Iowa 1994), Associate Professor.

Comparative primate neuroanatomy, evolution of primate intelligence and cognition.

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Shirley C. Strum (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1976), Professor.

Biological anthropology, primate socioecology, cognitive ethology, evolutionary theory, conservation; Africa. [On leave every Fall and Winter.]

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Kathryn A. Woolard (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1983), Professor.

Linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, political discourse; Catalonia, Spain, U.S.

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