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Brown Social Sciences Center The Department of Anthropology is located in the Brown Social Science Center (Room 228). Get directions to our offices and the Brandeis campus.

Department of Anthropology
MS 006
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453

Phone: 781-736-2210
Fax: 781-736-2232

Staff

Laura Woolf

Academic Administrator

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781-736-2210 lwoolf@brandeis.edu Brown 228

Laurel Carpenter

Senior Department Coordinator

781-736-2216 lcarpent@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 229

Faculty

Charles Golden

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Anthropology

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781-736-2217 cgolden@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 226

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm; Via Zoom Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 pm

Expertise: Archaeology of complex societies, modern contexts of archaeological research, Mesoamerica, the Maya

Sarah Lamb

Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences; Undergraduate Advising Head

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781-736-2211 lamb@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 208

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 3:35-4:30 pm or Via Zoom by appointment

Expertise: Gender, aging, self and person, medical anthropology, religion, migration and transnationalism, ethnographic writing; South Asia, United States

Anita Hannig

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies

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781-736-2214 hannig@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 209

Office Hours: Via Zoom Tuesdays 5:00-7:00 pm and by appointment

Expertise: Medical and cultural anthropology, anthropology of death and dying, anthropology of religion, anthropology of gender, anthropology of the body, medical aid-in-dying, end-of-life care, Ethiopia, United States