| Chair | David Guss, Professor | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology University of California at Los Angeles |
617-627-2509 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 103 Spring 07 Office Hours: M 1:30-3:30 or by appt |
Interests: Urban and aesthetic anthropology; theory; cultural performance;
myth and ritual; popular culture; Latin America Lost Theatres of Somerville |
Stephen Bailey, Associate Professor | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology University of Michigan |
617-627-2462 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 202 Spring 07 Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 |
Interests: Biological and nutritional anthropology; growth and body composition; methodology; Latin America, China, Southwest US |
Amahl Bishara, Associate Professor |
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| Ph.D., Anthropology New York University |
617-627-4265 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 206 no email yet Spring 07 Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 |
Interests: media, human rights, the state, the Middle East, journalism, democracy, the politics of place, knowledge production, expressivity |
| Rosalind Shaw, Associate Professor |
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| Ph.D., Social Anthropology University of London (SOAS) |
617-627-2465 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 203 On leave |
Interests: Transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence; local and transnational practices of redress and social repair; child and youth combatants; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; ritual and religion; West Africa; Sierra Leone. |
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology Cornell University |
617-627-2463 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 201 Spring 07 Office Hours: Wed 1:30-2:30, 107 Eaton |
Interests: Comparative Latino Studies; racial and ethnic identity; popular music; globalization; transnationalism; Latino community studies
Greater Boston Latino Studies Consortium Rock in Latin/o America |
Sarah Pinto, Assistant Professor | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology Princeton University |
617-627-5842 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 204 On leave |
Interests: Medical anthropology; gender; reproduction; social and feminist theory; caste; political subjectivity; India, US |
Jennifer Burtner Rangel, Lecturer | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology University of Texas at Austin |
617-627-2463 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 201 Spring 07 Office Hours: M 7-8 Mark Lab, W 11-1, W 7-8 Mark Lab |
Interests: Migration and resettlement, tourism and development, NGOs and the state, conflict and post-conflict, Brazil, Central America, and US Latino experiences |
Lauren Sullivan, Lecturer | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology University of Texas at Austin |
617-627- 2465 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 203 Spring 07 Office Hours: W 5-6 |
Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya Archaeology; the rise & fall of complex societies; prehistory of the American Southwest; Paleoindians of North America; human evolution; Cultural Anthropology; ceramic analysis |
Angela Jenks, Lecturer |
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| 617-627-2465 126 Curtis Street, Rm. 203 Spring 07 Office Hours:Thu 4:15-5:30 |
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Lynn Wiles, Department Administrator | ||
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617-627-3563 126 Curtis Street |
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Paige Johnson, Department Secretary |
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617-627-6528 126 Curtis Street |
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Anthropologists in other departments and Tufts schools | ||
Astier Almedom, Professor of Practice Department of Biology | ||
| Professor of Practice, Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health, the Fletcher School D.Phil., Biological Anthropology Oxford University |
phone: 617-627-3249 fax: 617-627-3805 |
Interests: Biological and medical anthropology; psychosocial well-being in settings of complex emergency; forced migration; environmental health; health promotion program planning |
Peter Probst, Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History | ||
| D.Phil.Habil., University of Bayreuth D.Phil., Free University, Berlin |
Interests: Art of West and Southern Africa; African and diasporic visual culture; public art and national culture; memory and monuments; and the Anthropology of Art | |
Marc Sommers, Associate Research Professor Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | ||
| Ph.D., Anthropology Boston University |
Interests: Peace education, conflict negotiation, human rights, and security issues in war and post-war contexts; the role of popular culture in child-based warfare; youth perspectives and trajectories during and following wars; intersections between youth, religion, and urbanization in post-war settings | |
Dr. Laura Walters, Head of Reference and Collections Tisch Library | ||
| PhD, Anthropology Brandeis University |
Interests: Political anthropology, peasantry, Europe | |
Affiliates | ||
Calvin Gidney, Associate Professor Department of Child Development | ||
Shruti Kapila, Assistant Professor Department of History | ||
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Moyamba, Sierra Leone, June 2003
David Guss and Kate Wheeler dancing in the Gran Poder, La Paz, Bolivia
Pico sound system in Cartagena, Colombia
School children at their village's Republic Day event, Lucknow, North India
Yaloche Lid, Programme for Belize Archaeology Project