Department of Anthropology

Full-Time Faculty

Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb
Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences
781-736-2211 Brown 325
Office Hours: See below
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Gender, aging, self and person, medical anthropology, religion, migration and transnationalism, ethnographic writing; South Asia, United States

Office hours: In-person drop-in Wednesdays 1:30-3:30, Brown 325, or by appointment, in-person or virtual: https://brandeis.zoom.us/my/lamb.office.hours

Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
781-736-3222 Brown 204
Office Hours: T 12-2
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Visual culture, material culture, indigeneity, capitalism, aesthetics, fashion and design studies, ethnographic documentary, Peru, Andes, Latin America

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies
781-736-2221 Brown 209
Office Hours: T 2:15-3:45, W 3-4, & by appt. (See below)
Jonathan's Website
Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: Urban anthropology, mobility, sustainable transportation, applied anthropology, South Asia

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Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Professor of Anthropology
781-736-2218 Brown 220
Office Hours: MW 12:30-2:00 and by appt
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Economic anthropology, collections, social studies of finance, materiality and value, labor, corporations and business, anthropology of mining and minerals. Mexico, U.S., Colombia

Charles Golden
Charles Golden
Professor of Anthropology; Social Sciences Division Head
Interim Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
781-736-2217 Brown 206
Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: Archaeology of complex societies, modern contexts of archaeological research, Mesoamerica, the Maya

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Charlie Goudge
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
781-736-2228 Brown 226
Office Hours: On leave spring 2024
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Historical archaeology, the Caribbean and North America, industrialism and industrial societies, adaptation and resilience

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Dorothy Hodgson
Professor of Anthropology
781-736-3451 Irving Presidential Enclave, 101
Office Hours: On leave AY 23-24
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Dorothy L. Hodgson has worked in East Africa for more than 30 years, primarily among Maasai communities in Tanzania. Her research has examined such topics as gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing and the indigenous rights movement. 

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Brian A. Horton
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Office Hours: M 12-2 and by appt. (See below)
Brian's Website
Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: Queer anthropology; queer of color critique/queer theory; popular culture; Global South queer activism and social life; African diasporas in India; race; digital anthropology; virtual subjectivities; social media; South Asia

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Janet McIntosh
Janet McIntosh
Professor of Anthropology; Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-2215 Brown 207
Office Hours: TF 1:30-2:30 by appointment only
Academia Website
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, psychological anthropology, personhood, essentialism, colonialism and postcoloniality, identity, whiteness studies, military studies, nationalism; East Africa and United States

Pascal Menoret
Pascal Menoret
Renée and Lester Crown Professor of Modern Middle East Studies
781-736-5313 Lemberg Hall, 227

Expertise: Urban anthropology, infrastructure, religion, youth politics, Islamism, Arabian Peninsula Middle East

Ellen Schattschneider
Ellen Schattschneider
Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2219 Brown 202
Office Hours: T 2:30 - 4:00 and by appt
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Anthropology of religion, psychoanalytic theory, anthropology of the body, East Asia, Japan

Javier Urcid
Javier Urcid
Professor of Anthropology
Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies
781-736-2223 Brown 203
Office Hours: Th 5:00-6:30, and virtually by appt

Expertise: Archaeology, complex societies, writing systems, materiality, bioarchaeology, Mesoamerica