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)