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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Anthropology 070  

Anthropology 070

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, developmental discourse, childbirth; Nepal, South Asia, Israel

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 (UK)
Political anthropology, complex societies, collective identities; 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 filmmaking, ritual and performance, migration studies, transnationalism and globalization; 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

Yarimar Bonilla, Assistant Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Political and historical anthropology; Caribbean; France

Susan M. Cachel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Physical anthropology; human and nonhuman primate evolution; evolutionary theory; morphology

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

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

Craig S. Feibel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Geological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Utah
Geological context of fossil and archaeological sites, paleoenvironments and paleoecology, microstratigraphy, geochronology; Africa

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

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell Sociocultural anthropology, violence and conflict, (trans)nationalism, religion and ritual, sacrifice and renunciation, symbolic anthropology, psychoanalysis, religious and ethnic  identification, social theory; Gujarat, South Asia, United States, Europe

Daniel M. Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona
Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, violence and crime, democracy, human rights, globalization, cultural performance, indigenous peoples and the state; Latin America, the Andes

Peter J. Guarnaccia, Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Medical anthropology, Latinos in the United states, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology and epidemiology, cultural competence; Puerto Rico, Mexico

John W.K. Harris, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Paleoanthropology, Old World prehistory, human origins, lithic analysis, archaeological method and theory; Africa

Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern Globalization, cultural politics, democracy, economic neoliberalism, social movements, political and economic anthropology, land tenure, political ecology; Africa, United States

Dorothy L. Hodgson, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Cultural anthropology, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, missionization, indigenous rights, pastoralism, transnationalism, social movements, methods; Africa

David M. Hughes, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley)
Environmental anthropology, race, whiteness, landscape, conservation; Southern Africa, Trinidad and Tobago

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

Rocio Magaņa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Political anthropology, borders, migration, territoriality, politics of security and policing, humanitarianism, sociopolitical landscapes, human and civil rights; United States-Mexico border.

Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Body/embodiment, consumer culture, politics and aesthetics, phenomenologies of capitalism, cultural politics, critical ethnography and ethnographic writing, cultural representation, gender/race/difference and global inequalities, culture and desire, history and theory of anthropology; 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 America, Caribbean, Africa

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

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Urban anthropology, Latino studies, race, citizenship, space and built environment, youth, anthropology of emotions; United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil

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

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

Robert S. Scott, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Paleoecology; hominid evolution; dental microwear and dietary reconstruction; Eurasian hominids; Turkey, Hungary, China

Warren Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Australian National
Kinship, pseudo-procreative theory, history of anthropology, ethnographic study of human nature; primitivism; aboriginal Australia, lowland South America

Lionel Tiger, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., London
Political structures, sociosexual roles, ethology, human nature, biology of human behavior, human aggression, social uses of food, industrial society, the kibbutz

Robert Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Social evolution, evolutionary genetics of selfish elements, deception and self-deception, symmetry in human beings; Jamaica

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

Erin Vogel, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Stony Brook
Food acquisition and diet selection in nonhuman primates

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Myra Bluebond-Langner, Professor of Anthropology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Illinois
Medical anthropology, childhood socialization, psychological anthropology

Anne-Marie Cantwell, Professor of Anthropology, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Archaeology of eastern North America, prehistoric trade, development of complex societies, anthropology of death

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, 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)
Psychocultural, medical and linguistic anthropology, social and cultural dimensions of health and mental health, human life course, personhood and subjectivity, language socialization, discourse and narrative; United States

Genese Sodikoff, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, FAS-N, Ph.D., Michigan
International development, environmental protection; Africa
 
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