Department of Anthropology

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Brown Social Sciences CenterThe 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

Laurel Carpenter
Laurel Carpenter
Senior Academic Administrator
781-736-2210 Brown 228
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Barbara Strauss
Barbara Strauss
Senior Department Coordinator
781-736-2216 Brown 327
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Faculty

Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb
Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences
781-736-2211 Brown 325
Office Hours: See below
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Expertise: Gender, aging, self and person, medical anthropology, religion, migration and transnationalism, ethnographic writing; South Asia, United States

Office hours: In-person drop-in Wednesdays 1:30-3:30, Brown 325, or by appointment, in-person or virtual: https://brandeis.zoom.us/my/lamb.office.hours

Janet McIntosh
Janet McIntosh
Professor of Anthropology; Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-2215 Brown 207
Office Hours: TF 1:30-2:30 by appointment only
Academia Website
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Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, psychological anthropology, personhood, essentialism, colonialism and postcoloniality, identity, whiteness studies, military studies, nationalism; East Africa and United States

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies
781-736-2221 Brown 209
Office Hours: T 2:15-3:45, W 3-4, & by appt. (See below)
Jonathan's Website
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Expertise: Urban anthropology, mobility, sustainable transportation, applied anthropology, South Asia

Schedule an appointment for office hours.