Department of Anthropology

Core Faculty

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Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb
Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences
Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology
Brown 325
Pronouns: she/her/hers

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

Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
781-736-3222 Brown 204
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Visual culture, material culture, indigeneity, capitalism, aesthetics, fashion and design studies, ethnographic documentary, Peru, Andes, Latin America

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies (Term ending June 30, 2025)
781-736-2221 Brown 209
Jonathan's Website
Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: Urban anthropology, mobility, sustainable transportation, applied anthropology, South Asia

Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies (Term starting July 1, 2025)
781-736-2218 Brown 220
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Economic anthropology, collections, social studies of finance, materiality and value, labor, corporations and business, anthropology of mining and minerals. Mexico, U.S., Colombia

Charles Golden
Charles Golden
Professor of Anthropology; Social Sciences Division Head
Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs
781-736-2217 Brown 206
Pronouns: he/him/his

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

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Charlie Goudge
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
781-736-2228 Brown 226
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: Historical archaeology, the Caribbean and North America, industrialism and industrial societies, adaptation and resilience

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brian horton
Brian A. Horton
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Undergraduate Advising Head
Brian's Website
Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: Queer anthropology; queer of color critique/queer theory; popular culture; Global South queer activism and social life; African diasporas in India; race; digital anthropology; virtual subjectivities; social media; South Asia

Janet McIntosh
Janet McIntosh
Professor of Anthropology
781-736-2215 Brown 207
Academia Website
Pronouns: she/her/hers

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

Yesmar Oyarzun
Yesmar Oyarzun
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: Biomedicine; race/racism; human difference; United States

Javier Urcid
Javier Urcid
Professor of Anthropology
Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies
781-736-2223 Brown 203

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