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New and Recent Faculty Hires at The Graduate Center and CUNY Anthropology Departments Central Line Graduate Center Appointments Professor Katherine Verdery ( Ph.D. Stanford University)
joins the faculty in fall 2005. Distinguished Professor David Harvey (PhD Cambridge)
joined the central line faculty at The Graduate Center in
Spring 2001. Without question the world's leading senior
theorist in the field of urban studies, David Harvey's work
has been the single most important, influential and imaginative
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography
Neil Smith joined the faculty in January 2000. An expert
in geography and urban anthropology, he earned his BS from
the University of St. Andrews and his PhD from Johns Hopkins
where he studied with David Harvey. New and Recent Appointments to The Graduate Center Anthropology Doctoral Faculty from other CUNY Colleges Dr. Roberto Delgado (PhD Duke, 2003) joined the
Hunter College Department of Anthropology in Fall 2003.
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is a bioarchaeologist with an interest in early complex societies.
She has studied skeletal collections from Peru, Russia, and
China. Most recently, her research was focused on the impact
of population growth and dietary changes on community health
in northern China during the Neolithic. She has developed
statistical models that allow recognition of social, ethnic,
or occupational heterogeneity in a population based on skeletal
markers of stress and activity. Using this methodology, she
is studying social/ethnic stratification in the Early Intermediate
period on the Central Peruvian coast. Her findings indicate
that health markers do not follow the grouping suggested by
the funerary offerings. Instead, they correspond well to the
type of cranial deformation, a possible ethnicity marker established
during early childhood.
Dr. Timothy Pugh, Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Steiper (PhD Harvard) joined the faculty
in physical anthropology at Hunter College in Fall 2003.
Dr. Alfred Rosenberger (PhD CUNY, 1979) joined the Department of Anthropology at Brooklyn College in Fall 2003. A physical anthropologist, he is a specialist on the evolution and systematics of New World monkeys. Dr. Arthur Bankoff is the Chair of Brooklyn College's Department of Anthropology, Director of the Brooklyn College Archaeological Research Center, and an Archaeology Advisor to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University.
Dr. Thomas Plummer is a physical anthropologist from Queens College. Dr. Plummer's research focuses on reconstructing the behavior and ecology of extinct members of the Hominadae. Dr. Vincent Stefan, physical anthropologist, is from Lehman College. Professor Stefan is a specialist in human osteology and a practicing forensic anthropologist. He is an adviser to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office.
New and Recent Tenure-track Assistant and Associate Professors Hired at other CUNY Colleges Dr. Victoria Sanford (PhD Stanford, 2000)
joined the Lehman College anthropology
Dr. Jacqueline Nassy Brown (PhD Stanford) joined
the Hunter College Department of Anthropology in Fall 2002.
Dr. John Collins (PhD U of Michigan, 2003) joined the cultural anthropology faculty at Queens College in Fall 2003. His research interests include Brazil and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Andean Peru and Ecuador, nationalism and transnationalism, globalization and political economy, racial theory, social movements, urban anthropology, cultural and intellectual property, economic anthropology, anthropology and history, ethnography of the state, gender, cultural heritage, and Protestantism in Latin America. Dr. Kenneth Guest (PhD CUNY, 2001) joined the cultural anthropology faculty at Baruch College as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2003. His dissertation was "Walking on Water: Fuzhounese Immigrant Religious Communities in New York's Chinatown." Dr. Murphy Halliburton (PhD CUNY, 2000) has been an assistant professor in the Queens College Department of Anthropology since Fall 2000. He specializes in medical anthropology and the history and culture of South Asia, and has conducted fieldwork on ayurvedic psychiatry, biomedical psychiatry and religious healing systems in South India. His other current and future research interests include anthropology of science and issues of pharmaceutical manufacturing in the global economy.Dr. Yvonne Lassalle (PhD CUNY, 1997) joined the Hunter College Department of Anthropology in Fall 2002. Her research interests include undocumented immigrants in Southern Spain with an emphasis on youth who migrate without parents. She has taught such subjects as social inequality; the Mediterranean; migration, Diaspora, and transnationalism; popular culture in a global perspective; research methods; colonialism and postcoloniality; memory. Dr. Anru Lee (PhD CUNY, 1999) joined the Anthropology Department faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Fall 2003. A cultural anthropologist,
her research focuses on the Asian Pacific region and issues
of capitalism, modernity, gender and sexuality, and urban
anthropology. She is the author of In the Name of Harmony
and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic
Restructuring (SUNY Press 2004) and is co-editor of Women
in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in
a Changing Society (ME Sharpe, 2003). Her current project
investigates rapid transit systems as related to issues of
technology, governance, and citizenship. Her most recent fieldwork
looks at the newly built Mass Rapid Transit systems in Taiwan
in the context of the country's struggle for cultural and
national identity.Dr. Mandana Limbert (PhD U Michigan, 2002) joined the Queens College Department of Anthropology in Fall 2002. Her specializations include the peoples and cultures of the Middle East, the anthropology of religion, and memory and culture. Her current project traces connections between Oman and East Africa, focusing on changes in marriage practices and notions of race in Oman and among Omanis in Zanzibar. Recent publications include "The Senses of Water in an Omani Town," in Social Text (Fall 2001) and a forthcoming article on Religious Knowledge, Gener and Education in Oman, in an Oxford University Press book edited by Paul Dresch and James Piscatori. Dr. Jonathan Shannon received his PhD in 2001 from The Graduate Center and was hired in Fall 2001 as an Assistant Professor at Hunter College. His
dissertation, awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Award by the Middle
East Studies Association for best dissertation in the social
sciences for 2001, examines contradictions and debates about
modernity in contemporary Syria through an ethnographic analysis
of music performance and aesthetics in the city of Aleppo.
His research addresses concerns in ethnomusicology, aesthetics,
postcolonial studies, emotion and sentiment, religion, and
the body and the senses. At Hunter, Dr. Shannon teaches Introduction
to Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropological Theory,
Ethnography of the Middle East, and the Anthropology of Music
and the Arts.Dr. Russell Leigh Sharman (PhD Oxford, 1999) joined
the faculty in anthropology at Brooklyn College in Fall
2002. He has taught at several colleges in and around New
York, including Brooklyn College, since 1999. His research
interests include the cultural politics of race and ethnicity
and 
the fields of development, legal reform and criminology. He
has conducted fieldwork in Slovakia funded by the Fulgright
IIIE Program, the International Research and Exchanges Board
and the National Science Foundation Anthropology Division
and in Kazakhstan by the National Science Foundation Law and
Social Science Program. From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Snajdr co-directed
a U.S. State Department INL Domestic Violence Training Program
for Law Enforcement in Kazakhstan. His publications have appeared
in the journals Problems of Post-Communism, Crime
and Justice International, and the edited volume Intellectuals
and Politics in Central Europe (CEU Press 2001).Dr. Alisse Waterston (PhD CUNY, 1990) joined the faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice as Associate Professor of Anthropology in Fall 2003. 
Her areas of specialty are urban poverty and policy issues
in the U.S. related to destitution, homelessness and substance
abuse, health, welfare and criminal justice; socio-cultural,
political-economic and psychological aspects of displacement,
diaspora and structural violence; inequality and its consequences;
the production and consumption of traditional and new media.
She is the author of Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women
in a Manhattan Residence, and Street Addicts in the Political
Economy (Temple University Press). Her service to anthropology
includes five years as Section Editor for Anthropology News,
co-Editor of North American Dialogue, a three-year term on
the Long-Range Planning Committee of the AAA, and membership
in the AAA Portal Implementation Working Group.
New and Recent Additions to the Affiliate/Associate Faculty, PhD Program in Anthropology Professor Andrew Dugmore, an archaeologist from the Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Professor Kevin Edwards, an archaeologist from the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Professor F. James Rohlf, a biometrician, from the Program of Ecology and Evolution in the Biological Sciences Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Professor Ian A. Simpson, an archaeologist from the Department of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Scotland. Dr. Orri Vésteinsson, an archaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland. Professor Peter M. Whiteley, Curator, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dr. Whiteley is a cultural anthropologist. [top]
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She
comes to The Graduate Center from the University of Michigan,
where she was Eric R. Wolf Collegiate Professor of Anthropology.
Prior to that she spent twenty years teaching at Johns Hopkins
University. She has conducted multiple field projects in
Romania, investigating such themes as ethnic relations,
nationalism, the transformation of socialist systems, and
the changes in agricultural property relations. She is the
author of The Vanishing Hectare; The Political Lives of
Dead Bodies; What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?; National
Ideology Under Socialism; and Transylvanian Villagers. The
recipient of numerous grants, including two from the National
Science Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is currently
at the Russell Sage Foundation, co-authoring a study on
the collectivization of agriculture in 1950s Romania. Professor
Verdery is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, is president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, serves on the executive board
of the Social Science Research Council, and is a past member
of the American Anthropological Association's board of directors.
contribution
to the development of human geography since the Second World
War. His reflections on the importance of space and place
(and latterly "nature") have attracted considerable critical
interest across the whole field of the humanities and the
social sciences. For those interested in global capital
and the cultural, intellectual, and political repercussions
of its changing flows, Harvey's books and articles have
been path--breaking and have set the agendas of numerous
disciplines, among them anthropology, sociology, urban studies,
planning and political economy. Whether in such books as
The Limits to Capital; Social Justice and the City; The
Condition of Postmodernity; Justice, Nature and the Geography
of Difference, or his many other publications, Harvey has
exerted enormous interdisciplinary influence. All of this,
along with his concern for issues of fairness and social
justice, his reputation as a superb lecturer, teacher and
advisor, and his work to make connections beyond the academy
cause us to celebrate this outstanding appointment.
Professor
Donald Robotham has worked extensively in the English-speaking
Caribbean as well as among the gold-miners of Ghana in West
Africa. His interests are in the issues of development in
both the Caribbean and Ghana; in particular, the difficulties
which developing countries face during a period of advanced
capitalist globalization. Issues of race, ethnicity, class,
alternative modernities, immigration and how to overcome
divisions and unite people are his preoccupations. He is
particularly critical of the concepts of Postcolonialism
and Postmodernism which he argues have allowed the field
of anthropology to evade the difficult theoretical and practical
alternatives which developing countries actually face in
reality and helped to marginalize anthropology from public
policy and debate. His work is also highly critical of what
he perceives to be critiques of globalization and development
from a romantic localist perspective. Strongly influenced
by Hegelianism, his work argues that the contradictions
of globalization cannot be overcome by a 'return' to a mythical
communalism. One the contrary, one has to seek for theories
which attempt to supersede the actually existing forms of
globalization with forms which unite peoples internationally
on an equal footing. Currently, Professor Robotham is working
on how the issues of crime and violence among young people
in urban Jamaica have arisen and are understood in the particularly
severe context of global economic/political constraints
and rapid cultural change. Professor Robotham was educated
at the University of the West Indies and obtained his PhD
from the University of Chicago in 1987. He joined The Graduate
Center faculty in Spring 1999.
Dr. Smith held positions at Columbia and Rutgers University
where he was chair of the Geography Department from 1991-1994
and was a senior fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis
of Contemporary Culture. He is author or editor of many
books, including The Geographical Pivot of History: Isaiah
Bowman and the Geography of the American Century (forthcoming);
New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
(Routledge, 1996); and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital,
and the Production of Space (Blackwell, 1984; second edition
1990; translated into Portuguese, 1988). Dr. Smith established
and directs The Center for the Study of Place, Culture and
Politics. He is the recipient of an $890,000 Ford Foundation
grant ("Rethinking Area Studies") to the Center for 2001-2004.
His primary interests lie in understanding the evolutionary
basis of human social behavior. His recent research has
focused on great ape behavioral ecology with an emphasis
on social organization and mating systems. Specifically,
his dissertation examined the signal content and function
of adult male long calls in wild populations of Bornean
and Sumatran orangutans and the implications for social
structure and reproductive strategies, including female
mate choice and sexual coercion by non-preferred males.
He has worked in Southeast Asia since 1996 and now also
teaches a primate behavior and ecology field course in Costa
Rica.
Dr.
Jeff Maskovsky (PhD Temple, 2000) joined the Urban Studies
department at Queens College in Fall 2002. He is a cultural
anthropologist whose areas of of specialization include
U.S. urban poverty, the anthropology of social movements,
and globalization and inequality. He is co-editor of the
New Poverty Studies: the Ethnography of Power, Politics
and Impoverished People in the United States (NYU Press)
and is currently at work on a book on poverty and politics
in post-industrial Philadelphia. His most recent publications
also include "The Anthropology of Welfare 'Reform': New
Perspectives on U.S. Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era" (with
Sandra Morgen) in Annual Review of Anthropology 32:315-338
2003.
Dr.
Patricia D. Mathews-Salazar (Yale) has been an assistant
professor in the Social Science Department at the Borough
of Manhattan Community College since 2000. Her dissertation
looked at recent expressions of Indian resurgence in the
in the highlands of Tucuman, northwest Argentina. Her interests
include ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship, law, immigration
and transnationalism, and anthropology and human rights.
in
the Queens College Department of Anthropology is an archaeologist
specializing in Mesoamerica. His research explores ethnogenesis
among the Late Postclassic to Colonial period (ca. AD 1250-1750)
Maya of Peten, Guatemala. He has conducted research in Guatemala,
Belize, Honduras, Guam, and the Southeastern United States.
Other interests include ritual, identity, architecture,
complex societies, and research methods. He earned his PhD
from Southern Illinois University in 2001.
He is interested in genetic adaptations of humans and other
primates. His dissertation research focused on testing for
adaptive evolution at the globin genes of orangutans. This
project had implications for understanding malaria's role
in both ape and human evolution. His future research plans
include examining genes involved in skeletal adaptations
of humans and other primates, as well as continuing work
on genes that confer resistance to malaria. His other interests
include biogeography, phylogeny, and human genetic diversity.
Visit the website for his new laboratory, the Anthropological
Genetics Lab, at Hunter: 
Dr.
Sophia Perdikaris, 
Dr.
Larissa Swedell, from Queens College, is a physical
anthropologist specializing in the ecology and behavior
of a population of wild hamadryas baboons inhabiting the
lowlands of the northern Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Her fields
of interest include primate ecology, primate social behavior,
primate reproductive strategies, baboon socioecology, the
evolution of baboon social organization, hamadryas baboons,
Ethiopia, and Africa.
faculty
in Fall 2004; during 2004-05 she was on leave with Fulbright
and other support in Guatemala and Colombia. Her research
focuses on collective memory, community reconstruction,
human rights and international humanitarian law during internal
armed conflicts and in post-conflict countries in Latin
America and Africa. She has conducted extensive field research
with Maya communities in Guatemala, with Afro-Colombian
and indigenous peace communities in Colombia, and with Colombian
refugees in Ecuador. She is the author of Buried Secrets:
Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan
2003), Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala (FyG
Editores 2003) and co-author of the Guatemalan Forensic
Anthropology Foundation's report to the Commission for Historical
Clarification (the Guatemalan truth commission). She has
just completed La Masacre de Panzós: Etnicidad,
tierra y violencia en Guatemala (FyG Editores) and
Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy and Activism,
co-edited with Asale Angel-Ajani (Rutgers University Press).
She is currently writing Morality and Survival: Child
Soldiers and Displacement in Guatemala and Colombia.
Christa
Salamandra (Ph. D. Oxford, 2001) joined the anthropology
faculty at Lehman College in Fall 2004. Her work focuses
on expressive, visual and urban culture in the Arab Middle
East. Her research among elite groups in Syria, focusing
on debates surrounding the preservation, restoration and
representation of the Old City of Damascus, forms the basis
of her book, A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction
in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press, 2004). Her
current fieldwork among Syrian cultural producers examines
the recent expansion of the pan-Arab satellite television
industry in a context of economic liberalization and regionalization.
Her interests include racial formation; national and diasporic
identities; gender, space, and place; transnationalism;
Britain. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research
with Black residents of Liverpool, England. Her essays concerning
the politics of race, gender, Diaspora, and locality in
Liverpool have appeared in Cultural Anthropology and American
Ethnologist. She is currently completing a book entitled
Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race and Identity
in the Port City of Liverpool, England
the anthropology of art and aesthetics. His dissertation
examines aesthetic practice among the African Diaspora in
Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. The research demonstrates how
aesthetics and art production intersect ethnic and gender
identification through expressive forms such as painting,
music, dance and literature. He also examines the creation
of ethnic boundaries and alliances in an historical context,
and the impact of internal and external migration on perceptions
of race, class and nationalism. While continuing to work
in Costa Rica, he also lives and works in East Harlem, New
York, researching how art and cultural institutions mediate
ethnic conflict.