Department of Anthropology

Visiting Faculty

Margarite Blignaut
Margarite Blignaut
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2229 Brown 326
Office Hours: MW 11-12, and virtually by appt

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

Sanaullah Khan
Sanaullah Khan
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2214 Brown 219
Office Hours: T 2-4

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

Natalie Susmann
Natalie Susmann
Head of Brandeis Digital Scholarship Lab
781-736-4796

Expertise: Mediterranean landscape archaeology; Greek sacred space; mountain sanctuaries; ecotourism; religious tourism; memory; digital humanities