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The Department of Anthropology is located in the Brown Social Science Center (Room 228). Get directions to our offices and the Brandeis campus. (We are temporarily located on the second floor of Kutz Hall.)
Department of Anthropology
MS 006
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453
Phone: 781-736-2210
Fax: 781-736-2232
Staff
Barbara Strauss
Senior Department Coordinator
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Faculty
Sarah Lamb
Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences
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Office Hours: M, W 3:30-4:30 in person or by appt via Zoom (calendar below)
Expertise: Gender, aging, self and person, medical anthropology, religion, migration and transnationalism, ethnographic writing; South Asia, United States
Office hours calendar.
Ellen Schattschneider
Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Undergraduate Advising Head
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Office Hours: W 2-3:30 via Zoom; in person by appt
Expertise: Anthropology of religion, psychoanalytic theory, anthropology of the body, East Asia, Japan
Javier Urcid
Professor of Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies
Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies
Office Hours: Th 5-6:30 and by appt, in person or via Zoom
Expertise: Archaeology, complex societies, writing systems, materiality, bioarchaeology, Mesoamerica