Department of Anthropology

Visiting Faculty

Margarite Blignaut
Margarite Blignaut
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2229 Brown 326
Office Hours: T 2:30-4:30

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

Toft Djanegara
Nina Toft Djanegara
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2234 Brown 208
Office Hours: M 4:00-5:30 or virtually by appt (schedule below)

Expertise: Anthropology of science and technology, histories of race and racialization, critical border studies, surveillance studies, material semiotics, anthropology of the body, identification practices, social identity

To schedule virtual office hours: https://calendly.com/ninadewi/officehours

Sanaullah Khan
Sanaullah Khan
Lecturer in Anthropology
781-736-2214 Brown 219
Office Hours: F 3-5

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
781-736-3021 Brown 323a
Office Hours: On leave fall 2023

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
Office Hours: See below.

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

Office hours can be booked via Calendly: https://calendar.app.google/XHxmGN9QtTBGtRgY6

Natalie Susmann
Natalie Susmann
Digital Literacy Instruction Librarian
781-736-4796

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