People

Faculty & Staff

Core Faculty

Amahl Bishara, Chair; Associate Professor Media; human rights; the state; the Middle East; journalism; democracy; the politics of place; knowledge production; expressivity

Alex Blanchette, Associate Professor Labor, political ecology, green capitalism; biotechnology, animals; de-industrialization; food politics, industrial agriculture; United States

Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor Medical anthropology; science and technology; environment; ethnicity and indigeneity; nationalism; post-socialism. Geographical focus: Russia; North Asia

Lara Durgavich, Lecturer Biological anthropology; primate life history and reproduction; reproductive physiology; evolutionary medicine; science communication

Sharon Kivenko, Lecturer Performance and embodiment; migration; resistance; labor; ritual. Geographical focus: West Africa, United States

Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer, Lecturer Cultural anthropology; transnational migration; diaspora; race and ethnicity; gender; applied anthropology. Geographical focus: Japan, Brazil

Sarah Luna, The Kathryn A. McCarthy, J45, AG46, Assistant Professor in Women's Studies Sex work; migration; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; borders; Mexico; United States

Zarin Machanda, Usen Family Career Development Assistant Professor — *On leave, Fall 2020 Biological anthropology; primatology; chimpanzee behavioral ecology; primate life history and development; the evolution of social relationships; the ecology of male-female relationships

Harsha Menon, Lecturer Buddhist studies; film and media studies; gender and sexuality; multimodal anthropology; post-coloniality; social practice; transnational feminisms

Sarah Pinto, Professor — *On leave, AY 2020-2021 Medical anthropology; gender; mental health; reproduction; cultures of biomedicine; kinship; global feminism; history of the body. Geographical focus: India

Nick Seaver, Assistant Professor Computing and algorithms; sound and music; knowledge and attention; taste and classification; media technologies; science and technology studies

Cathy Stanton, Senior Lecturer Tourism; museums; myth and ritual; cultural performance; culture-led redevelopment; mobilities; farm history/heritage

Lauren A. Sullivan, Lecturer Mesoamerican Archaeology; Mayan archaeology; the rise & fall of complex societies; prehistory of the American Southwest; Paleoindians of North America; human evolution; cultural anthropology; ceramic analysis

Faculty Emeritus

Stephen Bailey, Associate Professor Emeritus Biological and nutritional anthropology; growth and body composition; methodology; Latin America, China, Southwest US

David Guss, Professor Emeritus Urban and aesthetic anthropology; placemaking; theory; cultural performance; myth and ritual; popular culture; Latin America

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Professor Emerita, Anthropology and American Studies Comparative Latino Studies; racial and ethnic identity; popular music; globalization; transnationalism; Latino community studies

Rosalind Shaw, Associate Professor of Anthropology Emerita Violence, memory, and futurity; the anthropology of post-conflict; children and youth; transitional justice; West Africa; Sierra Leone

Staff

Lynn Wiles, Department Administrator 310 Eaton Hall  |  Office: 617.627.3563

Jamie Gorman, Staff Assistant 302 Eaton Hall  |  Office: 617.627.6528