Research Scholars


Faculty Area of Expertise

 George N. Appell

Senior Visiting Research Scholar

Social anthropology; Insular Southeast Asia, in particular Borneo ethnography; emergent nature of social systems; property relations and land tenure; social change and the processes of bio-social adaptation;indigenous oral literature; the ethics of anthropological inquiry; human rights and development; epistemological issues in social anthropological inquiry;female roles and rights. 

Mark Auslander

Visiting Research Scholar

auslanderm@cwu.edu

Sociocultural anthropology; museums and memory work, ritual and globalization, art and aesthetics; Africa and the African diaspora.

Eileen Dryden

Visiting Research Scholar

edryden@challiance.org

Applied anthropology, evaluation anthropology, community-based participatory research and evaluation, environmental anthropology, conservation and sustainable development, Mexico and the United States.

James Herron

Visiting Research Scholar

jherron@fas.harvard.edu

Linguistic anthropology. Pragmatics and social interaction. Political economy. Bureaucracy and the state. Latin America. Andes. Colombia.

Justeen Hyde

Visiting Research Scholar

jhyde@challiance.org

Cultural constructions of risk, medicalization of social problems, adolescence, child welfare institutions, community-based participatory research and evaluation, politics of public health.

Caitrin Lynch

Visiting Research Scholar

caitrin.lynch@olin.edu

Cultural anthropology, gender, labor, nationalism, and globalization; South Asia (specifically, postcolonial Sri Lanka) and the United States.

James Truncer

Visiting Research Scholar

jtruncer@stanford.edu

Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization, archaeology of North America, evolutionary theory, paleodemography, archaeometry, history of archaeology.

Jak Yakar, PhD'68

Visiting Research Scholar

yakar@post.tau.ac.il

Pre-Classical Anatolian Archaeology and Civilization, prehistoric archaeology of the Near East, ethnoarchaeology; Turkey.

Charles Ziegler, PhD'83

Senior Visiting Research Scholar

Industrial and applied anthropology.