Core Faculty

Janet McIntosh

Department Chair; Professor of Anthropology

781-736-2215 janetmc@brandeis.edu Brown 207

Office Hours: Fall 2024: M, Th 1:00-2:00 pm, and by appointment.

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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

Patricia Alvarez Astacio

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

781-736-3222 palvarez@brandeis.edu Brown 204

Office Hours: Spring 2025: T 12:00 - 2:00 PM or by appointment (in-person or Zoom)

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

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies

781-736-2221 janjaria@brandeis.edu Brown 209

Office Hours: Spring 2025 Office Hours: M 2:30-4:30 PM

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

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Elizabeth Emma Ferry

Professor of Anthropology

781-736-2218 ferry@brandeis.edu Brown 220

Office Hours: on leave AY 24-25

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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

Professor of Anthropology; Social Sciences Division Head

Interim Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

781-736-2217 cgolden@brandeis.edu Brown 206

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wed 4 - 5pm In-Person, and by appointment in-person or by zoom

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

Charlie Goudge

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

781-736-2228 cgoudge@brandeis.edu Brown 226

Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesday 11:30-1pm & Friday 1pm-2:30. By appointment in person

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

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Brian A. Horton

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Undergraduate Advising Head

bhorton@brandeis.edu Brown 205

Office Hours: Spring 2025: W 1:00 - 3:00 PM

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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

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Sarah Lamb

Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences

lamb@brandeis.edu Brown 325

Office Hours: on leave AY 24-25

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