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Brandeis University
Department of Anthropology
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
781-736-2210
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro.html
Mark Auslander
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Director, M.A. Program in Cultural Production, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Ritual, politics, agrarian change, historical consciousness, African American ritual and narrative performance; Southern and Central Africa, United States. Publications include: "First Word: Assemblies: Paradoxes of Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art." African Arts, 2005. "Saying Something Now: Documentary Work and the Voices of the Dead.." Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2005. (mausland@brandeis.edu)
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. Economic anthropology. Political anthropology. Mexico. Publications include: "Geologies of Power: Value Transformations and Mexican Mineral Specimens." American Ethnologist 32(3), 2005. Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. (ferry@brandeis.edu)
Ricardo Godoy
Professor, Sustainable International Development Program. Ph.D. (Anthropology) Columbia University. Mining, agricultural research, intersections of markets, human welfare, and conservation. Usage of price and trade theory and experimental research design to develop and test hypotheses about how markets affect quality of life in rural economies. Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia, and Indonesia. Current research includes: methods to enhance the reliability of panel data; the role of forests as a safety net among forest dwellers of Suriname; the effect of new farm technologies on health among lowland Amerindians in Bolivia. Publications include: Indians, Markets, and Rainforests: Theory, Methods, Analysis. New York: Columbia University, 2001.
Charles Golden
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Archaeology of complex societies. Modern contexts of archaeological research. Mesoamerica. The Maya. Publications include: "Where Does Memory Reside, and Why Isn't it History?: A Review of Social Memory and History, Archaeologies of Memory, and States of Memory." American Anthropologist 70(2), 2005. Introduction to Piedras Negras Archaeology. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, 2004. On leave 2007-2008. (cgolden@brandeis.edu)
David E. Jacobson
Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. University of Rochester. Social anthropology. Urban anthropology. Families and households. Computer-mediated communication; United States, Africa. Publications include: "Stepfamilies in Cultural Context: Problems in Middle-Class U.S. Stepfamilies." Etnofoor, XVI(1), 2003. "On Theorizing Presence." Journal of Virtual Environments 6(1), 2002. (jacobson@brandeis.edu)
Cornelia Ann Kammerer
Lecturer in Anthropology and The Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Cultural anthropology. Medical anthropology, gender and sexuality. AIDS. Southeast Asia. United States. Publications include: Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective co-edited with Nicola Tannenbaum. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, no.45, 1996; Founders’ Cults in Southeast Asia : Ancestors, Polity, and Identity co-edited with Nicola Tannenbaum. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, no.52, 2003.(kammerer@brandeis.edu)
Sarah Lamb
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Sociocultural Theory. Gender. Anthropology of Aging. Medical Anthropology. Self and Person. Migration and Transnationalism. South Asia. United States. Publications include: "The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali India." In Dirt, Undress and Difference, edited by Adeline Masquelier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Everyday Life in South Asia, co-edited with Diane Mines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. (lamb@brandeis.edu)
Sophia Malamud
Assistant Professor of Languages and Linguistics, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Linguistics. Formal semantics. Discourse functions of syntax. Game-theoretic approaches to language. Mathematical properties of linguistic formalisms. Publications include: Forthcoming, "(Non)-Maximality and Distributivity: a Decision Theory Approach. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 16 (SALT 16). In press, "(In)definiteness-driven Typology of Arbitrary Items." In Passives and Impersonals in European Languages, edited by S. Manninen, K. Hietaam, E. Keiser and V. Vihman. John Benjamins Press. (smalamud@brandeis.edu)
Janet McIntosh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. University of Michigan. Linguistic anthropology, cognitive and psychological anthropology, religion; East Africa. Publications include: “‘Going Bush’: Black Magic, White Ambivalence, and the Boundaries of Belief in Post-Colonial
Richard Parmentier
Professor of Anthropology, Chair of International and Global Studies Program, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Semiotic anthropology, historical anthropology, kinship, communications and media, myth and ritual; Oceania, contemporary United States, Middle Ages. Publications include: "Palau." Entry for The
Carol "Kelley" Ready
Associate Director of Academics, Sustainable International Development Program. Ph.D. (Anthropology) City University of New York Graduate Center. Gender, human rights, social movements, development, kinship, reproductive and sexual health. El Salvador, Latin America. Publications include: “La Ciguanaba y el espíritu de las relaciones de género en El Salvador” in Mujeres, Género e Historia: América Central Durante los Siglos XVIII, XIX, y XX, edited by Eugenia Rodríguez Sáenz. Plumstock Mesoamerican Press and UNIFEM, 2002. (kready@brandeis.edu)
Ellen Schattschneider
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Anthropology of religion, psychoanalytic theory, anthropology of the body; East Asia, Japan. Publications include: Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain. Duke University Press, 2003. (eschatt@brandeis.edu)
Leigh Swigart
Director of Programs in International Justice and Society, Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of Washington, Seattle. Linguistic anthropology, African urban speech varieties, new immigration in the USA, refugee studies. Publications include: Exhibition, "Extended Lives: the African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia," The Balch Institute, Philadelphia; "Cultural Creolization and Language Use in Post-Colonial Africa: the Case of Senegal." Africa 64(2), 1994. (swigart@brandeis.edu)
Javier Urcid
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Ph.D. Yale University. Archaeology of complex societies, origins and social dimensions of literacy, writing systems and decipherment, bioarchaeology, human osteology, Mesoamerica. Publications include: In press, "The Annals from Tenampulco (codex Saville)." Revised entry for Handbook of Middle American Indians, edited by Michel Oudijk and María Castañeda. Austin: Texas University Press. In press, Valued possessions: Materiality and Aesthetics in Western and
Clark U niversity
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/
Kiran Asher
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change. Ph.D. University of Florida. Environmental studies, conservation, Latin American politics, and women’s studies. Latin America, Colombia, India, China, United States. Former professional work with the World Bank (biodiversity consultation) and Colombian NGOs (gender consultation). Publications include: "Texts in Context: Afro-Colombian Women's Activism in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia." Feminist Review 78:1-18, 2004. "Possibilities & Limits of Microfinance as a Development Strategy: A Conversation," co-authored with Veena Sampathkumar. Critical Half: (Annual Journal of Women for Women International) 2(1):8-13, 2004. (kasher@clarku.edu)
Parminder Bhachu
Professor of Sociology, Ph.D. School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Urban anthropology, financial globalization, nationalism, gender. Current research deals with the cultural and commercial economies generated through the politics of fashion, subversive style, and diaspora images innovated through women's entrepreneurship in global markets. Publications include: Forthcoming, It's Hip to Be Asian: Diaspora Cultural Producers. Berg Publications. Dangerous Designs: Fashion, Style and Images in Global Markets. New York: Routledge, 2003. (pbhachu@clarku.edu)
William Fisher
Professor of International Development, IDCE Director, Ph.D. Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, ethnic associations, competition for natural resources, non-governmental associations, and the role of participation and community-based institutions in development planning and action.
Ellen Foley
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change, Ph.D. Michigan State University. Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology, West Africa, Senegal, gender and household health, reproductive care and fertility and healthcare reform. Presentations include: "Undocumented immigrants and HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia," African Studies Annual Meeting, 2004. "A (Wolof) Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? Gender, Power, and Negotiating Household Health in Rural and Urban Senegal," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2003. (efoley@clarku.edu)
Jude Fernando
Assistant Professor of International Development,
Liza Grandia
Assistant Professor. Political ecology, peasants and agrarian change, conservation and development, indigenous knowledge,
Heidi Larson
Research Associate Professor. Risk analysis, risk communications, public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and child health and vaccines, particularly focusing on the socio-cultural and political determinants of health, including the role of religion and belief systems. (helarson@clarku.edu)
Ken MacLean
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ethnographic studies of violence, governance and governmentality, (late and post-) socialism, legal regimes, anthropology and history, science and technology studies. Publications include: In press, “Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn.” In Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodification in a Neoliberal Age, edited by Nancy Peluso and Joe Nevins. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. “Manifest Socialism: The Labor of Representation in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1956-1959)." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2(1): 27-79, 2007. (kmaclean@clarku.edu)
Dianne E. Rocheleau
Professor of
Northeastern University
575 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-4274
http://www.socant.neu.edu/index.php
Heather Hindman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Globalization, Science, Technology and Society (STS), History of Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality and Domesticity, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Social Theory, South Asia. Publications include: 2007 "Learning Fear and Crafting Expectations: Expatriate Women in Kathmandu and the Demands of Family Support" in Beyond the 'Incorporated Wife': Gender and Social Reproduction Among Mobile Professionals eds. Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter. Routledge. 2007 "Outsourcing Difference: How International Organizations Manufacture Expatriates" in Deciphering the Global: Scales, Spaces and Subjects editor Saskia Sassen. Routledge. 2007 "The Cultural Bizarre/Bazaar: Art and the Accidental Elitism of expatriates in Kathmandu, Nepal." Journal of Popular Culture. 2003 "The Everyday Life of American Development in Nepal." Studies in Nepali Society and History 7(1): 99-136. (h.hindman@neu.edu)
Alan Klein
Assistant Professor of Sociology-Anthropology, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo. Sport, Globalization, Political-Economy. Publications include: "Growing the Game: Globalization and Major League Baseball", Yale University Press, 2006. "Sport, Culture, and Politics: Essays by Alan Klein", Routledge, 2006. "Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos", Princeton University Press, 1997. "Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction", State University of New York Press, 1993. "Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream", Yale University Press, 1991. (a.klein@neu.edu)
Olin College of Engineering
Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492-1200
781-292-2300
http://faculty.olin.edu/~clynch/
Caitrin Lynch
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Cultural dimensions of offshore manufacturing, consumer research and design implications, social behavior in global contexts, gender, labor, nationalism and globalization. South Asia, postcolonial
T ufts University
Department of Anthropology
115 Eaton Hall
617-627-3561
http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/index1.html
Stephen M. Bailey
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition.
David Guss
Professor of Anthropology,
Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Sarah Pinto
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. Princeton University. Medical Anthropology; gender; reproduction; health-care; body; caste; India. Publications include: "Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and the Politics of Depressing Speech", Social Text, forthcoming, Spring 2006. "Development Without Institutions: Ersatz Medicine and the Politics of Everyday Life in Rural
Rosalind Shaw
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair, Ph.D.
Cathy Stanton
Lecturer in Anthropology and Heritage Studies,
Wellesley College
Department of Anthropology
Pendleton East, Room 331
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02481
(781) 283-2138 Telephone
(781) 283-3664 Fax
http://www.wellesley.edu/Anthropology/intro.html
Sea-Ling Cheng
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Ph.D. (Anthropology) Oxford Univeristy. Sexuality, prostitution, migration, feminism, trafficking, food culture, and human rights. South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Publications include: “Interrogating the Absence of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea.” Health and Human Rights 7(2), 2004; “Changing Lives, Changing Selves: ‘Trafficked’ Filipina Entertainers in Korea” Anthropology in Action 9(1), 2002. (scheng2@wellesley.edu)
Julie Y. Chu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. New York University. Transnational migration, economy and value, gender and kinship, religion and ritual, and practices of media and representation. Current research includes material culture, visual anthropology and ethnographic film production, science and technology studies, and bureaucracy and state governmentality. Publications include: Forthcoming, Cosmologies of Credit: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination. Duke University Press. Forthcoming, “Equation Fixations: On the Sum and the Whole of Dollars in Foreign Exchange.” In Encounters With Money, edited by Allison Truitt and Stefan Senders. Oxford: Berg Publications. (jchu1@wellesley.edu)
Anastasia Karakasidou
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. Columbia University. Themes of nationhood and identity, religion and ideology, gender and social stratification, narrative and history, and anthropological theory. Current research includes: chemical pollution, the vulnerable human body and cancer as a disease of modernity. Publications include: Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. University of Chicago Press, 1997. (akarakas@wellesley.edu)
Phil Kohl
Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. Harvard University. Specializations in physical anthropology, archaeology and on the peoples and cultures of Eurasia and the Middle East. Research interests include: how the remote past is utilized for contemporary political purposes; the historical development of archaeology and its role in the formation of nation-states and the construction of national identities. Publications include: Central Asia: Paleolithic Beginnings to the Iron Age. Paris, 1984. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology, co-edited with Clare Fawcett. Cambridge University Press, 1995. (pkohl@wellesley.edu)
Wheaton College
Department of Anthropology
26 East Main Street
Norton, Massachusetts
02766-2322
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Acad/Anthropology/
Donna O. Kerner
Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair. Ph.D. City University of New York. Research interests include: development, gender, food studies, cultural transformations of the body, social memory, sub-Saharan Africa, South Pacific. Teaching specialties include: courses on Africa (African Cultures in Transition and Women in Africa), electives on food (Feast or Famine) and political power (Power and Leadership), and gender (Gender and Social Organization). Publications include: Review of Gender Family and Work in Tanzania,edited by Creighton and Omari. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 16(3), 2002. "Chaptering the Narrative: The Material of Memory in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania," in The Labrynth of Memory: Ethnographic Journeys, edited by M.C. Teski and J.C. Climo. Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 1995. The Political Economy of African Famine, co-edited with R.E. Downs and S.P. Reyna. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, 1991. (dkerner@wheatoncollege.edu)
Bruce Owens
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. Columbia University. Research interests include: politics of ritual, sacrifice, religion and the state; hermeneutic contestation; social and cultural theory; monumentality, identity, and material culture; Nepal, Himalaya, South Asia. Teaching specialties include: Anthropology of Art, South Asia, Theory in Anthropology, Religion, Psychological Anthropology, Human Evolution, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of the Himalaya. Publications include: "Monumentality, Identity, and the State: Local Practice, World Heritage, and Heterotopia at Swayambhu, Nepal," Anthropological Quarterly, 75(2), 2002. "Envisioning Identity: Deity, Person, and Practice in the Kathmandu Valley," American Ethnologist, 27(3), 2000. (bowens@wheatoncollege.edu)
M Gabriela Torres
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Ph.D. York University. Research interests: the anthropology of violence and the state with research experience in the study of gender, memory and migration. Publications include: Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala's Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports. In Menjivar, Cecilia and Rodriguez, Nestor. (Eds.) When States Kill. Austin: University of Texas Press (2005). (p.143-169) and Constructing the Threat of Insurgency: Inherent Inequalities in the Development of the Guatemalan Counterinsurgent State. In Special Issue: Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U. S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions. Journal of Poverty, 8(4) (2004). (torres_mgabriela@wheatonma.edu)