Research Scholars
| Faculty | Area of Expertise |
George N. AppellSenior 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.
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Mark AuslanderVisiting Research Scholar |
Sociocultural anthropology; museums and memory work, ritual and globalization, art and aesthetics; Africa and the African diaspora. |
Eileen Dryden |
Applied anthropology, evaluation anthropology, community-based participatory research and evaluation, environmental anthropology, conservation and sustainable development, Mexico and the United States. |
James HerronVisiting Research Scholar |
Linguistic anthropology. Pragmatics and social interaction. Political economy. Bureaucracy and the state. Latin America. Andes. Colombia. |
Justeen HydeVisiting Research Scholar |
Cultural constructions of risk, medicalization of social problems, adolescence, child welfare institutions, community-based participatory research and evaluation, politics of public health. |
Caitrin LynchVisiting Research Scholar |
Cultural anthropology, gender, labor, nationalism, and globalization; South Asia (specifically, postcolonial Sri Lanka) and the United States. |
James TruncerVisiting Research Scholar |
Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization, archaeology of North America, evolutionary theory, paleodemography, archaeometry, history of archaeology. |
Jak Yakar, PhD'68Visiting Research Scholar |
Pre-Classical Anatolian Archaeology and Civilization, prehistoric archaeology of the Near East, ethnoarchaeology; Turkey. |
Charles Ziegler, PhD'83Senior Visiting Research Scholar |
Industrial and applied anthropology. |