Visiting Faculty


Faculty Area of Expertise

Casey Golomski

Lecturer

golomski@brandeis.edu

 Sociocultural anthropology. Ritualization, cultural aspects of death and dying, self-other relations, personhood, life course, gender, material culture; Swaziland, South Africa.

Ieva Jusionyte

Lecturer

ieva@brandeis.edu

 Political, economic and media anthropology. Ethnographic study of the state, power, experiences and representations of violence, the legal and the illegal, border communities, journalism and media production; Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay.

Melanie Kingsley

Lecturer

kingsley@brandeis.edu

 Archaeology. The use of archeology in the creation of nation-states, sociopolitical and economic organization, community formation, style, production and consumption, trade networks and exchange, state collapse, issues of ownership of cultural material, particularly cultural patrimony; Postclassic Maya, Guatemala.

Megan McCullough

Visiting Assistant Professor

mmccull@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.

Noah Tamarkin

Lecturer

tamarkin@brandeis.edu

 Sociocultural anthropology. Race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, diaspora, globalization and transnationalism, indigeneity, cultural citizenship and belonging, identity politics, feminist theory, cultural theory, historiography, ethnographic methodologies; South Africa.