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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

she/her/hers

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

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon (in-person)

Laurel Carpenter

Senior Department Coordinator

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

Faculty

Janet McIntosh

Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology

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781-736-2215 janetmc@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 226

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, psychological anthropology, personhood, essentialism, colonialism and postcoloniality, identity, whiteness studies, military studies, nationalism; East Africa and United States

Ellen Schattschneider

Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Undergraduate Advising Head

she/her/hers

781-736-2219 eschatt@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 202

Expertise: Anthropology of religion, psychoanalytic theory, anthropology of the body, East Asia, Japan

Javier Urcid

Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies

Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies

781-736-2223 urcid@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 203

Expertise: Archaeology, complex societies, writing systems, materiality, bioarchaeology, Mesoamerica