People
Faculty & Staff
Sarah Pinto,
Chair; Professor
Medical anthropology, gender, mental health,
reproduction, cultures of biomedicine, kinship, global
feminism, history of the body. Geographical focus on India |
Amahl Bishara,
Associate Professor
Media, human rights, the state, the Middle East, journalism, democracy, the politics of place, knowledge production, expressivity |
Alex Blanchette, Assistant Professor
Ecology, labor, green capitalism; biotechnology, animals; modernity, alienation, determination; food politics; industrial agriculture, United States |
Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor
– (On leave, Spring 2019)
Medical anthropology, science and technology,
environment, ethnicity and indigeneity, nationalism,
post-socialism. Geographic focus: Russia; North Asia. |
Lara Durgavich, Lecturer
Biological anthropology; captive apes reproductive hormones and mating behavior |
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, Assistant Professor – (On leave,
Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
Biological anthropology, primatology, chimpanzee behavioral ecology, primate life history and development,
the evolution of social relationships, the ecology of male-female relationships |
Nick Seaver,
Assistant Professor
Computing and algorithms; sound and music; knowledge and
attention; taste and classification; media technologies;
science and technology studies |
Rosalind Shaw,
Associate Professor – (On leave, Fall 2018 and
Spring 2019)
Violence, memory, and futurity; the anthropology of post-conflict; children and youth; transitional justice; West Africa; Sierra Leone |
Emilio Spadola, Visiting Associate Professor
Anthropology of North Africa and the Muslim World; Security and governmentally; Religion and modernity; Media and communication 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; Maya Archaeology; the rise & fall of complex societies;
prehistory of the American Southwest; Paleoindians of North America; human evolution;
Cultural Anthropology; ceramic analysis |
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 Emeritus
Comparative Latino Studies; racial and ethnic identity; popular music; globalization; transnationalism;
Latino community studies |
Lynn Wiles, Department Administrator
310 Eaton Hall | Office: 617.627.3563 |
Jamie Gorman, Staff Assistant
302 Eaton Hall | Office: 617.627.6528 |
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