faculty

Current Faculty

Talal Asad (PhD Oxford 1968; Dist Prof) Religion and secularism, Islamic traditions, political theories; Middle East (tasad@gc.cuny.edu)

H. Arthur Bankoff (PhD Harvard 1974; Prof) European archaeology, Old World prehistory, physical anthropology, archaeological field and laboratory methods; Near East, Europe (abankoff@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Edward Bendix (PhD Columbia 1965; Prof) Linguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics/pragmatics, languages in contact, creole languages; Africa and Caribbean, South Asia (ebendix@gc.cuny.edu)

Michael Blim (PhD Temple U 1987; Prof) Political economy, globalization, inequality; Southern Europe (mblim@gc.cuny.edu)

Avram Bornstein (PhD Columbia 1998; Assoc Prof) Violence, policing, work, borders; Israel-Palestine (abornstein@jjay.cuny.edu)

Jacqueline N Brown (PhD Stanford, 1995; Asst Prof) Diasporic subjectivities, race, space and place, transnationalism and local, Black identities; Britain, US (jnbrown@hunter.cuny.edu)

Uradyn Bulag (PhD Cambridge 1993; Prof) Political anthropology, historical anthropology, nationalism and ethnicity, nomadology, Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism, economic development; Inner Asian frontiers of Mongolia and China (On leave Fall 2004 and Spring 2005) (ubulag@hunter.cuny.edu)

Bruce Byland (PhD Penn State 1980; Prof) Archaeology, ethnohistory, Mixtec codices, complex societies; Mesoamerica, Eastern North America (bruce.byland@lehman.cuny.edu)

John Collins (PhD U Michigan, 2003; Asst Prof) Nationalism, historical anthropology, semiotics, political economy, racial theory, economic anthropology; Latin America, Brazil, Andes, Cuba (john.collins@qc.cuny.edu)

Vincent Crapanzano (PhD Columbia 1970; Dist Prof, Anthropology and Comparative Literature) Symbolic and interpretive anthropology, ethno-psychology, anthropology and literature, theories of interpretation, anthropology of law, religion; North Africa, South Africa, US (vcrapanzano@earthlink.net)

Gerald W Creed (PhD CUNY 1992; Prof) Agrarian political economy, rural identity, family and community, ritual; Eastern Europe (gcreed@hunter.cuny.edu)

Kate Crehan (PhD U Manchester 1986; Prof) Gramsci, political economy, gender, development, public anthropology, aesthetics; Southern Africa (Crehan@mail.csi.cuny.edu)

Warren DeBoer (PhD UCB 1972; Prof) Ethnoarchaeology; South America (warren_deboer@qc.edu)

Eric Delson (PhD Columbia 1973, Prof) Paleoanthropology, primate paleontology, morphology, systematics and evolution; Old World (eric.delson@lehman.cuny.edu)

Kirk Dombrowski (PhD CUNY 1998; Assoc Prof) Culture politics, historical anthropology, research methods; Circum-North Pacific, Japan, Native N Amer (kdombrow@jjay.cuny.edu)

Marc Edelman (PhD Columbia 1985; Prof) Economic and political anthropology, historical anthropology; Latin America (medelman@hunter.cuny.edu)

Louis Flam (PhD U Penn 1981; Assoc Prof) Archaeology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology; South Asia (louis.flam@lehman.cuny.edu)

Murphy Halliburton (PhD CUNY, 2000; Asst Prof) Medical anthropology, anthropology of science, cross-cultural psychiatry, ayurvedic medicine, intellectual property; South Asia (Murphy.Halliburton@qc.cuny.edu)

Elizabeth Harmon (PhD Arizona State, 2005; Asst Prof) Paleoanthropology, comparative anatomy and morphology, Plio-Pleistocene Hominins (eharmon@hunter.cuny.edu)

David Harvey (PhD Cambridge 1962; Dist Prof) Urbanization, environment, political economy, geography and social theory; Advanced capitalist countries (dharvey@gc.cuny.edu)

Gregory A Johnson (PhD U Michigan 1972; Prof) Archaeology, complex societies, quantitative analysis; Near East (gjohnson@hunter.cuny.edu)

Louise D Lennihan (PhD Columbia 1983; Assoc Prof) Cultural anthropology, political economy of agrarian societies, development, historical anthropology; Africa (llennihan@aol.com)

Mandana Limbert (PhD U Michigan 2002; Asst Prof) Modernity, religion, gender, historical anthropology; Middle East & Indian Ocean (mlimbert@qc.cuny.edu)

Miki Makihara (PhD Yale 1999; Asst Prof) Linguistic anthropology, political economy of language, ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis; Polynesia, the Pacific (miki.makihara@qc.cuny.edu)

Jeff Maskovsky (PhD Temple 2000; Assoc Prof) globalization, difference & inequality, social movements, urban political economy; US (Jmaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu)

Patricia D Mathews-Salazar (PhD Yale 1997; Asst Prof) Anthropology and human rights, women and Indian resurgence, cultural heritage, tourism and globalization; Latin America, Andean region (pmathews@bmcc.cuny.edu)

Thomas H McGovern (PhD Columbia 1979; Prof) Climatic impacts, zooarchaeology, paleoeconomy, human dimensions of global change; North Atlantic, Eastern Arctic (nabo@voicenet.com)

James A Moore (PhD U Mass 1981; Assoc Prof) European prehistory, historical arch, gatherer-hunter studies; Eastern North America, Ireland (James.Moore@qc.cuny.edu)

Leith P Mullings (PhD Chicago 1975; Dist Prof) Globalization, urbanism, medical anthropology, gender, race, ethnicity, contemporary theory; United States, Africa (lmullings@gc.cuny.edu)

William J Parry (PhD U Michigan 1983; Prof) Archaeology, craft specialization, lithic technology; Mesoamerica, American Southwest (wparry@hunter.cuny.edu)

Ekaterina Pechenkina (PhD Missouri 2002; Asst Prof) Paleopathology, paleodietary reconstruction, health & demography, Andean prehistory; Northern China (ekaterina_pechenkina@qc.edu)

Sophia Perdikaris (PhD CUNY 1998; Prof) Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Environmental Studies, Viking Age; North Atlantic (sophiap@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Glenn Petersen (PhD Columbia 1977; Prof) Political economy, social theory, international affairs; Oceania (Glenn_Petersen@baruch.cuny.edu)

Thomas W Plummer (PhD Yale 1992; Assoc Prof) Pliocene and Pleistocene hominid paleoecology and behavior, hominid paleontology, human osteology, paleolith arch, zooarch, prim behav ecol; East Africa (thomas_plummer@qc.edu)

Timothy W Pugh (PhD SIUC 2001; Asst Prof) Maya, archaeology, ethnohistory, ritual, architecture, social complexity, cultural contact; Central Amer (twpugh@qc.cuny.edu)

Donald Robotham (PhD U Chicago 1987; Prof) Postcolonialism, multiple modernities, work; the Caribbean and West Africa (drobotham@gc.cuny.edu)

Alfred L Rosenberger (PhD CUNY 1979; Assoc Prof) Primate evolution, New World monkeys; New World, South and Central America (alfredr@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Jonathan Shannon (PhD CUNY 2001; Assoc Prof, Anthropology & Music) Aesthetics, ethnomusicology, modernity, food; Middle East, Mediterranean (jonathan.shannon@hunter.cuny.edu)

Neil Smith (PhD Johns Hopkins 1982; Dist Prof, Anthropology & Geography) Political economy, urban social theory, space, nature-culture, history and theory of geography; North America (nsmith@gc.cuny.edu)

Arthur K Spears (PhD UCSD 1977; Prof) Sociolinguistics, Pidgin and Creole languages, language and ideology, African-American English, Haitian; Carribean, Latin America (arspears@earthlink.net)

Vincent H Stefan (PhD U New Mexico 2000; Assoc Prof) Physical anthropology, forensic anthropology, human evolution, human osteology, paleoanthropology, quantitative methods, Polynesian / Easter Island skeletal biology; Oceania (vincent.stefan@lehman.cuny.edu)

Michael E Steiper (PhD Harvard 2003; Asst Prof) Genetics, DNA, phylogenetics, population genetics, primates, hominoids, malaria, molecular clocks (msteiper@hunter.cuny.edu)

Sara Stinson (PhD U Michigan 1978; Prof) Biological anthropology, human growth and development, human adaptation, nutritional anthropology; South America (sara_stinson@qc.edu)

Ida Susser (PhD Columbia 1981; Prof) Medical anthropology; contemporary United States studies, urban political economy, gender; Southern Africa, US (isusser@hunter.cuny.edu)

Larissa Swedell (PhD Columbia Univ 2000; Assoc Prof) Primate behavior and ecology, hamadryas baboons; East Africa (LSwedell@qc.cuny.edu)

Katherine Verdery (PhD Stanford U, 1977; Dist Prof) Socialism & postsocialist transformation, property, agrarian political economy; Eastern Europe (kverdery@gc.cuny.edu)

Diana di Zerega Wall (PhD NYU 1987; Prof) Historic and urban archaeology, ethnohistory, archaeology of gender; American culture; North America (Dwall@ccny.cuny.edu)


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