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Visiting Research Scholars

Faculty	Area of Expertise
George N. Appell Senior Visiting Research Scholar	Socialanthropology; Insular Southeast Asia, in particular Borneo ethnography; cognaticsocial organization; emergent nature of social systems; property relations andland tenure; social change and the processes of bio-social adaptation;indigenous oral literature; the ethics of anthropological inquiry; human rightsand development; epistemological issues in social anthropological inquiry;female roles and rights.
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.
Laurie LaPorte Visiting Research Scholar llaporte@brandeis.edu	Globalization, identity and ethnicity, practice theory, migration, field methods, children and youth, gender studies, love, gossip, Cape Verde, African diaspora, Atlantic Islands.
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 Visting Research Scholar mccullough_megan@wheaton.edu mmccull@brandeis.edu	Cross-cultural understandings of the body; medical anthropology, with an emphasis on anthropological approaches to reproduction; indigenous people and health disparities; urban indigenous people; gender, kinship and social networks; exchange, and personhood.
Charles Ziegler, PhD'83 Senior Visiting Research Scholar	Industrial and applied anthropology.