Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Ryne Palombit, Ruth Adams Building, Douglass Campus (732-932-5214)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Laura M. Ahearn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, agency, gender, literacy, love letters; Nepal, South Asia

Ousseina Alidou, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
Sociolinguistics, gender, agency, cultural politics, literacy; Niger, West Africa

Myron J. Aronoff, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., Manchester
Political anthropology, complex societies; Israel, Middle East

Ulla Dalum Berg, Assistant Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Cultural anthropology; anthropology of media; visual anthropology; ethnographic films; migration and diaspora; Peru; United States; multisited research

Robert J. Blumenschine, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Old-world prehistory, zooarchaeology, hominid ecology, and social organization; Africa

Susan M. Cachel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Physical anthropology, primate evolution, morphology

Chi-hua Chiu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., Wayne State
Evolutionary genetics of human and nonhuman primates; molecular evolution of Hox genes

Sheila C. Cosminsky, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology,
FAS-C; Ph.D., Brandeis
Cultural and medical anthropology, ethnic relations; Mesoamerica, Africa

Lee Cronk, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Human behavioral ecology and human evolutionary ecology; Africa and Caribbean

Craig S. Feibel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Geological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Utah
Environment and ecology in human evolution; rift valley sedimentation

Robin Fox, University Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., London
Kinship and marriage, evolution of behavior; North America, Northwestern Europe

Daniel M. Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona
Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, violence, democracy; Latin America, the Andes

Peter J. Guarnaccia, Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, Hispanics in the United States, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology and epidemiology; Mexico

John W.K. Harris, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Paleoanthropology, old-world prehistory, lithic analysis, method and theory; Africa

Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern Globalization, cultural politics, economic neoliberalism, political ecology, development, land tenure, agrarian change, political activism; Africa

Dorothy L. Hodgson, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Gender, ethnicity, development, history, cultural politics, indigenous rights, social movements; East Africa, West Africa

David McDermott Hughes, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley)
Frontiers, colonialism, environment and development, nature; Southern Africa

Walton R. Johnson, Professor of Africana Studies, SAS; Ph.D., London
Cultural anthropology, race relations, religion; Southern Africa

Rocio Magaña, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Politics of migration and territoriality

Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
The body, global consumer culture, tourism, engaged cultural criticism, gender and difference, psychological anthropology, cultural representation; United States

Bonnie J. McCay, Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology and Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Ecological and economic anthropology; fisheries, common property; North Atlantic, Mexico

Michael Moffatt, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Religion; diasporic Hinduism; ethnographic practice; South Asia; caste

George E.B. Morren Jr., Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Human ecology, evolutionary theory, environment; Oceania, United States

Ryne Palombit, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Evolution and ecology of primate social behavior, male-female relationships, infanticide, monogamy, sexual selection, vocal communication; savanna baboons and gibbons

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Cultural/social anthropology; nationalism, ethnic, and class identities; racialization processes; Latinos in the United States

Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Cultural politics, ethnicity, gender, diaspora, transnationality, media, sexuality; China, United States

Carmel Schrire, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Australian National
Prehistory, historical archaeology, human ecology, hunter-gatherers; Australia, Southern Africa

Warren Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Australian National
Social theory, history of anthropology, kinship, religion, ethnographic study of human nature; aboriginal Australia

Dieter Steklis, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Primatology; mountain gorilla conservation, biology of behavior; central East Africa

Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., London
Political structures, sex roles, ethology, kibbutzim; Israel

Robert Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Principles underlying social evolution, evolutionary genetics

Andrew P. Vayda, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Human ecology, methodology and explanation, ecological and evolutionary theory; Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Myra Bluebond-Langner, Professor of Anthropology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Illinois
Childhood studies; childhood, health and illness/thanatology

Anne-Marie Cantwell, Professor of Anthropology, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
North American archaeology, prehistoric trade and ideology; complex societies

R. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Anthropology, FAS-N, Ph.D., Columbia
War, policing, contemporary "ethnic conflict," state-tribe interaction, historical ecology; lowland South America, Puerto Rico

Alex Hinton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Emory
Violence, genocide, globalization, emotion, and identity; Cambodia; Southeast Asia

Karen Gainer Sirota, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Cross-cultural aspects of health and mental health; development disabilities; life course