People
| Name | Contact Information and Office Hours | Special Interests |
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Sabrina C. Agarwal Associate Professor Curriculum Committee Chair |
2251 College, Room 212 Office 2-4489, Lab 3-8393 agarwal@berkeley.edu Office hours: 10-11:30 Wednesdays, and by appointment |
Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology. |
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James N. Anderson Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber dood@berkeley.edu |
Social and economic organization and change, ecology/economy, population, medical anthropology, social development, Southeast Asia with emphasis on Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. |
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Gerald D. Berreman Professor Emeritus |
119 Kroeber berreman@sscl.berkeley.edu |
Social cultural anthropology, social inequality, interaction theory, research methods and ethics, urban society, small scale societies, India, Himalayas, Arctic. |
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Stanley H. Brandes Professor |
309 Kroeber 2-6945 brandes@berkeley.edu Office hours: Monday 2-3, Tuesday 4-5 |
Ritual and religion; food and drink; the anthropology of alcohol use; visual anthropology; and the cultural anthropology of Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (emphasis on Spain and Mexico). |
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Charles L. Briggs Professor Folklore Chair |
333 Kroeber 3-2012 clbriggs@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tuesday11:00-12:40, Thursday 1-2:30 |
Folklore, linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence. |
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Lawrence Cohen Professor Equity Officer |
319 Kroeber cohen@berkeley.edu Office hours: Thursday 11-12P - Anthro 114; all others 1-4P by appointment (sign up on door) |
Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory. |
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Elizabeth F. Colson Professor Emerita |
232 Kroeber colson@sscl.berkeley.edu |
Politics, religion, social organization, social change, migration, anthropological history and theory, ethnography of Africa and North America. |
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Margaret W. Conkey Professor Emerita |
2251 College, Room 207 meg@berkeley.edu |
Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe. |
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Terrence W. Deacon Professor Anthropology Department Chair |
329 Kroeber (213 Kroeber, Chair's Office) (510) 643-7241 deacon@berkeley.edu Office hours: Wed 10-11, Thu 3-4 |
Brain development and evolution, origins of language, bio-cultural evolution, emergence. |
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Phyllis C. Dolhinow Professor Emerita |
232 Kroeber dolhinow@comcast.net |
Physical anthropology, primate social behavior, ecology, development, human behavior and evolution. |
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Stephanie F. Etting Visiting Lecturer |
325 Kroeber etting@berkeley.edu Office hours: F 11-1P |
Primate behavior and evolution, biology of human behavior |
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Mariane C. Ferme Associate Professor |
321 Kroeber mcf@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tuesdays 9:30-11am and by appointment (signups on office door) |
West Africa and Sierra Leone; sociocultural theory and methods; history of anthropology; political and legal anthropology; material culture. |
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Marc A. Goodwin Visiting Lecturer |
325 Kroeber mgoodwin@berkeley.edu Office hours: Wednesday 2-4, Thursday 3:30-4:30 |
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Nelson H. Graburn Professor Emeritus |
307 Kroeber graburn@berkeley.edu |
Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan. |
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John A. Graham Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber jagraham001@gmail.com |
Mesoamerican culture history, particularly Maya and Olmec archaeology and art, Maya epigraphy, history of archaeology. |
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John J. Gumperz Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber gumperz@edstar.ucsb.edu |
Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S. |
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Junko Habu Professor Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Archaeology |
2251 College, Room 203 habu@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tuesday 5-6 (Rm 314 Kroeber), Wednesday 9:30-11(Rm 203, 2251 College) |
Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan, East Asian archaeology, ceramic analysis, historical archaeology in Japan, archaeology and society. |
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Eugene A. Hammel Professor Emeritus |
2232 Piedmont #204 gene@demog.berkeley.edu |
Social anthropology, statistical and formal analysis of social anthropological data, computer applications, peasant society and culture, demography; Europe. |
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William F. Hanks Professor |
315 Kroeber wfhanks@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2-3P, and by appointment |
Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature. |
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Christine Hastorf Professor |
2251 College, Room 215 hastorf@berkeley.edu Office hours: Wednesday 1-2PM, Thursday 2-4PM |
Food and agriculture, archaeology, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany; Andes. |
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Cori HAYDEN Associate Professor Medical Anthropology Advisor |
327 Kroeber 510-642-3392 cphayden@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tue & Thu 1:30-3PM |
Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies. |
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Charles Hirschkind Associate Professor Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Sociocultural Anthropology |
113 Kroeber chirschk@berkeley.edu Office hours: W 1-3P and by appointment |
Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East. |
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James Holston Professor Socio-Cultural House Head |
303 Kroeber jholston@berkeley.edu Office hours: 9:00-12P Monday, and by appointment at 303 Kroeber |
Cities and citizenship; political theory, democracy, and law; planning and architecture; urban ethnography; Brazil, the Americas. |
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Rosemary Joyce Professor |
2215 College, Room 204 rajoyce@berkeley.edu |
Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies; analysis of archaeological ceramics; Central America. |
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Patrick V. Kirch Professor |
2251 College, Room 206 kirch@berkeley.edu Office hours: Tuesday 1:30-3:20P; Thursday 9:30-11A (in 3026 VLSB), |
Prehistory and ethnography of Oceania, ethnoarchaeology and settlement archaeology, prehistoric agricultural systems, cultural ecology and paleoenvironmentalism, ethnobotany and ethnoscience, development of complex societies in Oceania. |
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Kent LIGHTFOOT Professor Archaeology House Head |
2251 College, Room 213 klightfoot@berkeley.edu Office hours: 1:30-2:30P Monday, 2-4P Wednesday |
Coastal archaeology, California, Southwestern and Northeastern archaeology and ethnography, theoretical issues of coastalhunter-gatherers. |
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Xin Liu Professor |
301 Kroeber xinliu@berkeley.edu Office hours: 2-5pm Wed |
Social cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and culture, China/East Asia. |
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Lisa Maher Assistant Professor |
2251 College Building (ARF), Room 211 maher@berkeley.edu Office hours: TBA |
Prehistoric Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods, hunter-gatherers, archaeological method and theory, lithic analysis, emergence of social complexity, origins of agriculture, Pleistocene/Holocene, mortuary archaeology, Near Eastern, North African and Arabian Prehistory, Public Archaeology. |
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Saba Mahmood Associate Professor Graduate Faculty Advisor, Sociocultural Anthropology |
117 Kroeber smahmood@berkeley.edu Office hours: Thursday 1-3 |
Anthropology of subject formation, liberalism, and secular modernity; feminist and post-structuralist theory; religion and politics; Islam and the Middle East. |
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Doris Maldonado Visiting Lecturer |
dmaldonado@gmail.com | |
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Clara Mantini-Briggs Visiting Lecturer |
273 Evans Hall cmantini-briggs@berkeley.edu |
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Donald S. Moore Associate Professor |
331 Kroeber dsmoore@socrates.berkeley.edu Office hours: Pls. see sign-up sheet on door of office (331 Kroeber) |
Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa |
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Laura Nader Professor |
313 Kroeber unpublished@berkeley.edu Office hours: Wednesday 10:30-12 |
Cultural anthropology, comparative methods, law, dispute resolution, controlling processes, kinships, professional mind-sets, Middle East, Mexico, and U.S. |
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Aihwa Ong Professor |
317 Kroeber aihwaong@berkeley.edu Office hours: 2-3P Monday in 151 BARROWS |
Cultural anthropology, modernity, transnationalism, citizenship, global cities, migration. Southeast Asia, China, contemporary U.S. |
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Mio Katayama Owens Visiting Lecturer |
miokat@berkeley.edu | |
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Stefania Pandolfo Associate Professor Medical Anthropology Chair |
201 Kroeber pandolfo@berkeley.edu Office hours: By Appointment |
Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb |
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Herbert P. Phillips Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber hpp@berkeley.edu |
Psychological anthropology, art and literature as ethnography, elites; mainland Southeast Asia with emphasis on Thailand and Indonesia. |
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Jack M. Potter Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber zengbu@comcast.net |
Social anthropology, classical social theory, peasants, change, ethnographic film; China, Thailand, U.S. |
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Paul M. Rabinow Professor |
311 Kroeber 2-2634 rabinow@berkeley.edu Office hours: Wednesday 10-12 |
Cultural anthropology, social thought, modernity, biotechnology, global genomics; France. |
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Arpita Roy Lecturer |
119 Kroeber arpita@berkeley.edu |
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Vincent M. Sarich Professor Emeritus |
232 Kroeber sarich@sscl.berkeley.edu |
Human variation, comparative biochemistry and molecular evolution, mammalian systematics, primate evolution, evolution of human behavior. |
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes Professor |
305 Kroeber nsh@berkeley.edu Office hours: 12-3pm Mon |
Critical Medical Anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, childhood and the family, Ireland, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa. |
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Steven Shackley Professor Emeritus |
2251 College, Room 210 shackley@berkeley.edu Office hours: Thursday 10-12P (in Rm. 210, ARF) |
Geoarchaeology, North American Southwest, lithic technology and analytical chemistry in archaeology, hunter-gatherers. |
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William S. Simmons Professor Emeritus |
william_simmons@ls.berkeley.edu | Anthropology of religion, ethnohistory, folklore, North American Indians (particularly of California and New England), American pluralism. |
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Jun Sunseri Assistant Professor |
2251 College, Rm. 214 jsunseri@berkeley.edu Office hours: Monday 12-2PM and by appointment |
Colonialism, Foodways, Landscapes, Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Southwest US and Northern South Africa |
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Ruth E. TRINGHAM Professor Emerita |
2251 College, Room 209 tringham@berkeley.edu Office hours: email me |
Archaeology, European (especially Central and Eastern), Mediterranean, and Anatolian Prehistory, Early Agriculturalists, Architecture, Household Archaeology, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, New Media |
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Laurie Wilkie Professor Graduate Faculty Advisor, Archaeology |
2251 College, Room 208 lawilkie@berkeley.edu Office hours: Monday 10-11A (in Rm. 207, ARF) |
Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean |
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Alexei Yurchak Associate Professor |
119 Kroeber yurchak@berkeley.edu Office hours: Monday 12 - 2PM |
Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism. |
Visiting Scholars
| Rasa Balockaite | |||
| Rafael Gomez Briones | |||
| Halil Cakan | |||
| Aaron Cicourel | |||
| Nadia Fadil | |||
| Yehuda Goodman | |||
| Alvaro Malaina-Martin | |||
| Robert Manlove | |||
| Josephine McDonald | |||
| Helene Mialet | |||
| Laura Molina Mijares | |||
| Valentina Napolitano | |||
| Christian Suhr Nielsen | |||
| Cinzia Perlingieri | |||
| Luisa Rodriguez | |||
| Liliana Sousa | |||
| Elena Toffalori | |||
| Evangelia Vardaki | |||
| Hajime Yamauchi |