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 | Douglas D. Anderson
Anthropology, Department of
Archaeology, ethnography, hunter-gatherer ecology, environmental management in taditional societies, ethnonationalism, North America, Circum Arctic, Southeast Asia. |  | Wanni Anderson
Anthropology, Department of
Professor Anderson has research interests in comparative human development; folklore; self and identity; new ethnic group formation; refugees; diaspora and displacement; multiraciality; new Asian Americans; Asian ethnonationalism; Southeast Asia; Arctic; and Asian America. |  | Marcy Brink-Danan
Judaic Studies, Program in
Anthropology, Department of
A cultural anthropologist, Brink-Danan studies the role of language and symbol in the maintenance of social groups. With regional specialization in Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, she recently conducted ethnographic research among Jews in Turkey. Brink-Danan's current work looks at how cosmopolitan subjects relate to local politics; as such, she is interested in comparing knowledge production across time and space. |  | Paja Faudree
Anthropology, Department of
|  | Lina Fruzzetti
Anthropology, Department of
Social anthropology, kinship, politics, study of ritual and the construction of gender, development and political studies, race and ethnic relations, Islamic societies and notions of identity, ethnographic film; feminist movement in Africa and Asia, study of ritual and kinship, construction of gender and identity, nationalism and post-colonial identity (India and Africa). |  | Matthew Gutmann
Anthropology, Department of
International Affairs, Department of
Matthew Gutmann studies democracy and social change; poverty, inequality, and development; health and gender; ethnicity and race; and militarization in the Americas. |  | Sherine Hamdy
Anthropology, Department of
|  | Marida Hollos
Anthropology, Department of
Professor Hollos studies the population of developing countries, especially fertility, infertility, and the status of women. She is especially interested in how motherhood and the concept of children are configured in different regions. |  | Stephen D. Houston
Anthropology, Department of
Research interests: archaeology; kingship and court systems; body concepts in antiquity; writing systems; epigraphy and decipherment; architecture and urbanism; Classic Maya; South America; Europe. |  | David Kertzer
Administration
Anthropology, Department of
Professor David Kertzer's research ranges widely, including: Italian politics and history, anthropological demography, social organization, politics and symbols, political economy and family systems, age structuring, European historical demography and the history of Catholic Church-Jewish relations. |  | Shepard Krech III
Anthropology, Department of
I conduct research on the intersections of (1) anthropology and history, and (2) humans and the natural world; on material culture and the development of museums; currently, on time in indigenous cultures, as well as the relationships between birds and native people – all informed by ethnography in and a general geographical focus on native North America. |  | Jessaca Leinaweaver
Anthropology, Department of
Jessaca Leinaweaver's research on families, children, and belonging began with a project on "the circulation of children," or informal ways that young people are relocated into new households and families, in Peru. She has also developed studies considering aging among the parents of transnational migrants in Ayacucho; child agency and systems of caregiving in Yauyos; and international adoption and migration of Peruvians to Spain. | | | Philip Leis
Anthropology, Department of
Professor Leis studies sociocultural anthropology, social and political organization, interethnic relations, enculturation and cultural change. Regionally, his work focuses on Africa. Ongoing project topics include: West and Southern African ethnology, pluralism; associations life cycle, economic development; cross-cultural study of adolescence. |  | Catherine Lutz
Anthropology, Department of
|  | Patrica E. Rubertone
Anthropology, Department of
I combine archaeology, history, and anthropology to study colonialism, landscapes, and cultural diversity and difference. My archaeological and historical studies in New England focus on colonial encounters between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, with an emphasis on tracing the lives and experiences of Native Americans in postcolonial contexts. I am currently doing research on Native American monuments that explores the relationship between commemoration and ideas about colonialist erasure, attempting to build connections between place-making, community histories and memories, and archaeology. |  | William Simmons
Anthropology, Department of
William Simmons studies social/cultural anthropology, religion, myth, and ritual – focusing on West Africa and Native America. He is also interested in American cultural pluralism and the transformations of contemporary American research universities. |  | Daniel Jordan Smith
Anthropology, Department of
Professor Smith conducts research in medical anthropology, anthropological demography, and political anthropology in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria. His research in medical and demographic anthropology includes work on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and behavior, adolescent sexuality, marriage, kinship, and rural-urban migration. His work on political culture in Nigeria includes studies of patron-clientism, Pentecostal Christianity, vigilantism, and corruption. | | | Patricia Symonds
Anthropology, Department of
Medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, gender and society, ethnicity, refugee issues, development, culture change, political economy; Southeast Asia. | | | Nicholas W. Townsend
Anthropology, Department of
Professor Townsend studies social reproduction; families and social structure; men's lives in political-economic context; spatially dispersed social groups; the United States and Southern Africa. |  | Kay Warren
Anthropology, Department of
Kay Warren's research as a cultural anthropologist involves multi-sited ethnographic studies of foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence, social movements and political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies. She also works on documentary film and media issues.
Warren's research has taken her to Guatemala, Peru, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. |
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