Department of Anthropology

Visiting Faculty

Margarite Blignaut
Margarite Blignaut
Lecturer in Anthropology

Expertise: Semiotics & linguistic pragmatics, the anthropology of knowledge, anthropology of the body, the politics of recognition, nationalisms and belonging, race and social justice, heritage regimes, geneticization, historical memory and commemoration, mobility and belonging, Roma mobilization, Turkey, EU enlargement

Nina Toft Djanegara
Lecturer in Anthropology
Maya Dworsky
Maya Dworsky
Lecturer in Anthropology

Expertise: Israel Palestine and the modern Middle East, neo-orientalism and the racialization of childhood, neoliberal militarism, anthropology and science fiction, online ethnography, digital anthropology, state violence and biopolitics, anthropology of the body, assemblages of otherhood

Sanaullah Khan
Sanaullah Khan
Lecturer in Anthropology

Expertise: Psychiatric anthropology, kinship, culture and psychology, spirits, spirituality, healing systems, medicine and law, militarization and illness, incarceration and state brutality, public health systems, global health, archival research, ethnography and comparative research, critical epidemiology, addiction and recovery, poverty and chronic illness, social classifications, migration, displacement and illness, Colonial India, Pakistan, United States

Ariel Ludwig
Ariel Ludwig
Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Machine Learning, Law and Racial Justice
Lecturer in Anthropology, Computer Science, and the Legal Studies Program

Expertise: Mass incarceration, carceral epistemologies, artificial intelligence, health studies, surveillance studies, feminist science studies, abolitionist science studies, philosophy and anthropology of technology, ethnography, creative making and doing

Keridwen Luis
Keridwen Luis
Lecturer in Anthropology and in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
781-736-4884 Rabb Graduate Center, Rabb 107

Expertise: Culture theory, women's studies, gender studies, gender theory, nonheternormative sexualities, fandom and fan identity, medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, intentional communities, consciously created culture, folklore and magical practice, personhood, agency, and identity

Ian Roy
Ian Roy
Director for Research Technology and Innovation
Founding Head of the Brandeis MakerLab
781-736-4608 Farber Library, 2

Expertise: Digital fabrication, rapid prototyping, research technologies, design thinking, makerspaces, hackathons, early stage startup ideation, social enterprise, 3D scanning, drones

Ben Schaefer
Ben Schaefer
Lecturer in Anthropology

Expertise: Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, palaeopathology, Andean archaeology and ethnohistory, archaeological hormones, stable isotopes, genomics/epigenetics, mortuary and funerary archaeology, death and dying, ritual violence, warfare, sacrifice, queer theory, social hauntings, archive, feminist science, anthropology of the body, identity, gender/sex

Emily Williamson Ibrahim
Emily Williamson Ibrahim
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2229

Expertise: Urban anthropology, West Africa, material worlds, strangerhood, geography, art and design, storytelling, socio-linguistics, Islam, morality and ethics, play and imagination, personhood, emotions, existentialism, phenomenology