Full-Time Faculty
Expertise: Gender, aging, self and person, medical anthropology, religion, migration and transnationalism, ethnographic writing; South Asia, United States
Office hours:
W 1-3 (Drop-in, in-person)
Or schedule a virtual appointment: https://calendly.com/sarah-lamb
Expertise: Visual culture, material culture, indigeneity, capitalism, aesthetics, fashion and design studies, ethnographic documentary, Peru, Andes, Latin America
Expertise: Urban anthropology, mobility, sustainable transportation, applied anthropology, South Asia
Additional office hours posted weekly on this calendar.
Personal website: https://jonathanshapiroanjaria.com/
Expertise: Economic anthropology, collections, social studies of finance, materiality and value, labor, corporations and business, anthropology of mining and minerals. Mexico, U.S., Colombia
Office hours schedule - choose in person or virtual (if virtual, a Zoom link will be sent to you automatically)
Expertise: Archaeology of complex societies, modern contexts of archaeological research, Mesoamerica, the Maya
Expertise: Historical Archaeology, the Caribbean and North America, industrialism and industrial societies, adaptation and resilience.
Dorothy L. Hodgson is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Hodgson has worked in East Africa for more than 30 years, primarily among Maasai communities in Tanzania. Her research has examined such topics as gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing and the indigenous rights movement. Due to her role as Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor Hodgson does not teach courses or serve as a primary advisor.
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.
Office hours calendar.
Personal website: https://www.
Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, psychological anthropology, personhood, essentialism, colonialism and postcoloniality, identity, whiteness studies, military studies, nationalism; East Africa and United States
Academia website: https://brandeis.academia.edu/JanetMcIntosh
Office hours are in person, or virtual for rare exceptions.
Expertise: Urban anthropology, infrastructure, religion, youth politics, Islamism, Arabian Peninsula Middle East
Expertise: Anthropology of religion, psychoanalytic theory, anthropology of the body, East Asia, Japan
Expertise: Political ecology, Africa, conservation, development, wildlife tourism and trophy hunting, forestry, mining, agriculture, gender, race, nationality
Expertise: Archaeology, complex societies, writing systems, materiality, bioarchaeology, Mesoamerica
Office hours are in person, or via Zoom with at least 24 hours advance notice.
