Department of Anthropology

Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity, material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean World, foodways in late antiquity

Expertise: Gender, culture and sustainable development, conservation, gender and social differentiation, globalization, gender and livelihoods

Expertise: Ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern/Arab music, music and language (linguistic anthropology), Iraqi Maqām, analysis of rhythm and timbre, economic ethnomusicology

Expertise: Economic anthropology, agriculture, health, Latin America

Expertise: Equity and inclusion in archaeology, archaeological knowledge production, intersectional feminism, disability studies, historical archaeology

Expertise: Emrah Karakuş holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Arizona. His interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of cultural anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, and security studies, with a focus on the modern Middle East. His dissertation, "Queer Debt: Affective Politics of Security and Intimacy in Kurdish Turkey," analyzes the effects of emergent security regimes on the intimate lives and livelihoods of queer and transgender Kurds.

Expertise: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Maritime Archaeology; Trade in Late Antiquity; Ceramic Analysis of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods; Digital Humanities; Archaeological Ethics and Theory; Roman Army

Expertise: history and cultural contexts of the arts in discrete regions of the world, particularly in relation to violence, migration, conflict transformation, and gender concerns

Expertise: Mediterranean landscape archaeology; Greek sacred space; mountain sanctuaries; ecotourism; religious tourism; memory; Digital Humanities

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, African languages and international justice, the international judiciary, African urban speech varieties, US immigration and refugee resettlement from Africa