People
| Name | Contact Information and Office Hours | Special Interests |
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Sabrina C. Agarwal Associate Professor Curriculum Committee Chair |
Office 212 College, Lab 195 Kroeber Office 2-4489, Lab 3-8393 agarwal@berkeley.edu |
Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology. |
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James N. Anderson Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber dood@berkeley.edu |
Social and economic organization and change, ecology/economy, population, medical anthropology, social development, Southeast Asia with emphasis on Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. |
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Stanley H. Brandes Professor |
309 Kroeber 2-6945 brandes@berkeley.edu |
Ritual and religion; food and drink; the anthropology of alcohol use; visual anthropology; and the cultural anthropology of Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (emphasis on Spain and Mexico). |
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Charles L. Briggs Professor Folklore Chair |
333 Kroeber 3-2012 clbriggs@berkeley.edu |
Folklore, linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence. |
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Lawrence Cohen Professor Graduate Advisor for Medical Anthropology |
319 Kroeber cohen@berkeley.edu |
Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory. |
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Elizabeth F. Colson Professor Emerita |
232 Kroeber colson@sscl.berkeley.edu |
Politics, religion, social organization, social change, migration, anthropological history and theory, ethnography of Africa and North America. |
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Margaret W. Conkey Professor Emerita |
2251 College, Room 207 meg@berkeley.edu |
Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe. |
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Terrence W. Deacon Professor |
329 Kroeber, Lab 332 Kroeber deacon@berkeley.edu |
Brain development and evolution, origins of language, bio-cultural evolution, emergence. |
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Nicholas Dirks Chancellor |
chancellor@berkeley.edu | |
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Phyllis C. Dolhinow Professor Emerita |
232 Kroeber dolhinow@comcast.net |
Physical anthropology, primate social behavior, ecology, development, human behavior and evolution. |
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Mariane C. Ferme Associate Professor |
321 Kroeber 2-2958 mcf@berkeley.edu Office hours: On Sabbatical 2014-15 |
West Africa and Sierra Leone; sociocultural theory and methods; history of anthropology; the political imagination; access to justice and transitional justice institutions; materiality. |
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Daniel Fisher Assistant Professor |
323 Kroeber dtfisher@berkeley.edu |
Social Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology of Media; Aboriginal Australia; Music and Sound; Art and Expressive Practice; Ethnographic Film and Video; Citizenship and the State; Bureaucracy |
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Nelson H. Graburn Professor Emeritus |
307 Kroeber graburn@berkeley.edu |
Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan. |
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John A. Graham Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber jagraham001@gmail.com |
Mesoamerican culture history, particularly Maya and Olmec archaeology and art, Maya epigraphy, history of archaeology. |
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Junko Habu Professor |
2251 College, Room 203; Lab 312 and 314 Kroeber Office: 3-2645, Lab: 3-2837 habu@berkeley.edu Office hours: On Leave Spring 2015 |
Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan, East Asian archaeology, ceramic analysis, historical archaeology in Japan, archaeology and society. |
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Eugene A. Hammel Professor Emeritus |
2232 Piedmont #204 gene@demog.berkeley.edu |
Social anthropology, statistical and formal analysis of social anthropological data, computer applications, peasant society and culture, demography; Europe. |
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William F. Hanks Professor |
315 Kroeber wfhanks@berkeley.edu |
Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature. |
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Christine Hastorf Professor |
2251 College, Room 215; Lab 65 Kroeber Office 2-5457, Lab: 4-4498 hastorf@berkeley.edu |
Food and agriculture, archaeology, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany; Andes. |
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Cori Hayden Department Chair and Associate Professor |
327 Kroeber cphayden@berkeley.edu Office hours: Monday, 4-6 pm |
Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies. |
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Charles Hirschkind Associate Professor Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Social Anthropology, Socio-Cultural House Head |
113 Kroeber chirschk@berkeley.edu |
Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East. |
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Seth Holmes Assistant Professor (Medical Anthropology & Public Health) |
sethmholmes@berkeley.edu | Medical anthropology, transnational im/migration, race and racism, gender and queer studies, the naturalization and normalization of social and health inequalities, symbolic violence, Latin America, the United States. |
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James Holston Professor |
303 Kroeber 3-1688 jholston@berkeley.edu |
Cities and citizenship; political theory, democracy, and law; planning and architecture; urban ethnography; Brazil, the Americas. |
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Rosemary Joyce Professor Graduate Faculty Advisor, Archaeology |
2251 College, Room 207; Lab Room 209, 211C rajoyce@berkeley.edu |
Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies; analysis of archaeological ceramics; Central America. |
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Patrick V. Kirch Professor Emeritus |
2251 College, Room 206; Lab in Room 14 3-8346 kirch@berkeley.edu |
Prehistory and ethnography of Oceania, ethnoarchaeology and settlement archaeology, prehistoric agricultural systems, cultural ecology and paleoenvironmentalism, ethnobotany and ethnoscience, development of complex societies in Oceania. |
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Kent Lightfoot Professor Archaeology House Head |
2251 College, Room 213; Lab, 55 Kroeber 2-1309 klightfoot@berkeley.edu Office hours: On Leave Spring 2015 |
Coastal archaeology, California, Southwestern and Northeastern archaeology and ethnography, theoretical issues of coastalhunter-gatherers. |
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Xin Liu Professor |
301 Kroeber 2-0705 xinliu@berkeley.edu |
Social cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and culture, China/East Asia. |
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Lisa Maher Assistant Professor |
2251 College Room 204; Lab in 1 Kroeber maher@berkeley.edu |
Prehistoric Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods, hunter-gatherers, archaeological method and theory, lithic analysis, emergence of social complexity, origins of agriculture, Pleistocene/Holocene, mortuary archaeology, Near Eastern, North African and Arabian Prehistory, Public Archaeology. |
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Saba Mahmood Associate Professor Graduate Faculty Advisor |
117 Kroeber Hall smahmood@berkeley.edu |
Religion, secularism, law and politics, ethics, gender and sexuality, Islam, the Middle East, Europe. |
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Donald S. Moore Associate Professor |
331 Kroeber 2-8357 dsmoore@berkeley.edu |
Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa |
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Laura Nader Professor |
313 Kroeber 2-1218 unpublished@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tue/Wed 12:30-2 |
Cultural anthropology, comparative methods, law, dispute resolution, controlling processes, kinships, professional mind-sets, Middle East, Mexico, and U.S. |
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Aihwa Ong Professor |
317 Kroeber aihwaong@berkeley.edu |
Cultural anthropology, modernity, transnationalism, citizenship, global cities, migration. Southeast Asia, China, contemporary U.S. |
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Stefania Pandolfo Associate Professor Medical Anthropology Director |
201 Kroeber 2-9229 pandolfo@berkeley.edu |
Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb |
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Herbert P. Phillips Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber hpp@berkeley.edu |
Psychological anthropology, art and literature as ethnography, elites; mainland Southeast Asia with emphasis on Thailand and Indonesia. |
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Jack M. Potter Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber zengbu@comcast.net |
Social anthropology, classical social theory, peasants, change, ethnographic film; China, Thailand, U.S. |
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Paul M. Rabinow Professor |
311 Kroeber 2-2634 rabinow@berkeley.edu |
Cultural anthropology, social thought, modernity, biotechnology, global genomics; France. |
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes Professor |
305 Kroeber 2-8431 nsh@berkeley.edu |
Critical Medical Anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, childhood and the family, Ireland, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa. |
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Steven Shackley Professor Emeritus |
2251 College, Room 210 shackley@berkeley.edu |
Geoarchaeology, North American Southwest, lithic technology and analytical chemistry in archaeology, hunter-gatherers. |
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William S. Simmons Professor Emeritus |
william_simmons@ls.berkeley.edu | Anthropology of religion, ethnohistory, folklore, North American Indians (particularly of California and New England), American pluralism. |
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Jun Sunseri Assistant Professor Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Archaeology |
2251 College, Rm. 214; Lab 197 Kroeber Office: 664-4888, Lab: 2-4105 jsunseri@berkeley.edu |
Colonialism, Foodways, Landscapes, Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Southwest US and Northern South Africa |
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Ruth E. Tringham Professor Emerita |
2251 College, Room 209 tringham@berkeley.edu Office hours: email me |
Archaeology, European (especially Central and Eastern), Mediterranean, and Anatolian Prehistory, Early Agriculturalists, Architecture, Household Archaeology, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, New Media |
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Laurie Wilkie Professor |
2251 College, Room 208; Lab 55 Kroeber 3-0677 lawilkie@berkeley.edu |
Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean |
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Alexei Yurchak Associate Professor |
119 Kroeber yurchak@berkeley.edu |
Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism. |
Visiting Scholars
| Na Gong (Postdoc) | |||
| Christopher Ames (Postdoc) | |||
| Katharine Young | |||
| Zhongguang Niu | |||
| Heidi Kaspar (Postdoc) | |||
| Josephine McDonald |