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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.
Megan McCullough Visiting Research Scholar mmcullough@brandeis.edu	Medical anthropology. Cross-cultural understandings of the body, anthropological approaches to reproduction, indigenous people and health disparities, urban indigenous people, gender, kinship and social networks, exchange, and personhood.
Ellen Messer Visiting Research Scholar messere@brandeis.edu	Biocultural and policy-engaged anthropology. Study of food, security, religion, and human rights with special ethnographic emphasis on Latin America.
Charles Ziegler, PhD'83 Senior Visiting Research Scholar	Industrial and applied anthropology. Click to view his Curriculum Vitae.