Cultural Anthropology Faculty: Research Interests

Chair

1. Orin Starn, Cultural theory, Indigenous politics and identity, Politics of representation and nationalism, transnationalism and globalization, history of anthropology, activist anthropology, the Andes, sports and society, Latin America, Native North America

Professor

1. Anne Allison, mass culture, Japan - contemporary Japan and Japan in global, hope/hopelessness, temporality/future, youth culture, sexuality/desire, transnationalise
2. Lee D. Baker, History of Anthropology, race, racism, democracy, politics of culture, US, Australia
3. J. Lorand Matory, Cultural anthropology of Africa and the African diaspora; African-inspired religions; transnationalism and the dynamism of ethnic identities; Black Ethnic Diversity in the US; the Culture of Higher Education
4. Diane M Nelson, Cultural anthropology, ethnic national identities, critical theory, gender, popular culture, power and subject formation, science and technology studies, Mesoamerica
5. William M O'Barr, Anthropology and law (current project: book in porogress on the history of theory in legal anthropology), advertising and society (current project: continued development of my online book about advertising and society at www.adtextonline.org and field research in the advertising traditions of England, Russia, and other countries)
6. Charles D Piot, I do research on contemporary culture and politics, as well ...
7. Irene M Silverblatt, Politics of culture, state making, colonization, ethnohistory, gender, South America

Associate Professor

1. Ralph A Litzinger, Globalization, Environmentalism, Migration, Education, Humanitarianism
2. Louise Meintjes, South African Music and Anthropology
3. Rebecca L. Stein, Popular Culture; Digital Culture; Postcoloniality
4. Ajantha Subramanian, Ph.D. 2000

Assistant Professor

1. Anne-Maria B Makhulu, Africa, Political Economy, Space, Cities, Finance
2. Laurie McIntosh, anthropology of Europe, citizenship, migration, gender, race, ethics, nationalism, governance and policy, diaspora, film and visual studies, 'far-right/extremist' movements
3. Harris Solomon, Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Consumerism, Urban Anthropology, Global Health, Chronic Disease, India, Mumbai, South Asia , Food

Lecturer

1. Ingrid Byerly, Ph.D. 1996
2. Robin Kirk, Kirk is the author of three books, including More Terrible ...

Associated Faculty

1. Edna Andrews, Russian Language & Culture, Language & Memory, Semiotics, and Textual Analysis
2. Bayo Holsey, Politics of Memory, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Ghana, African Diaspora
3. Walter D Mignolo, Global Coloniality, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modern/Colonial World ...
4. William M. Reddy, My teaching responsibilities include European history, French history from the ...
5. Julie Tetel Andresen, Linguistics
6. Ara Wilson, sex and gender in globalization; transnational feminist theory and networks; ethnography and research design; Bangkok, urban Southeast Asia, and transnational zones

Visiting Faculty

1. Richard L Collier, Ph.D. 2004
2. Tomas A. Matza, Russia, postsocialism, neoliberalism, subjectivity

Professor Emeriti

1. Katherine P. Ewing, Religious movements, Islam, migration, masculinity, Pakistan, Turkey, Europe
2. Ernestine P. Friedl, Ernestine Friedl, Ph.D. Columbia 1950, is a James B. Duke ...
3. Naomi Quinn, culture, cognition, discourse analysis, West Africa, US