All Faculty

Assistant Professor
(510) 642-4489
agarwal@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 212

Special interests: Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology.

James Anderson

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
dood@berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Social and economic organization and change, ecology/economy, population, medical anthropology, social development, Southeast Asia with emphasis on Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Burton Benedict

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
burtonbenedict1@comcast.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Social structure, plural societies, economic anthropology, expositions, history and anthropology, museums; Mauritius, Seychelles.

Gerald Berreman

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
berreman@sscl.berkeley.edu
119 Kroeber

Special interests: Social cultural anthropology, social inequality, interaction theory, research methods and ethics, urban society, small scale societies, India, Himalayas, Arctic.

Stanley Brandes

Professor
(510) 642-3391
brandes@berkeley.edu
309 Kroeber

Special interests: 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).

Charles Briggs

Professor
(510) 643-2012
clbriggs@berkeley.edu
333 Kroeber

Special interests: Linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence.

Lawrence Cohen

Associate Professor
(510) 642-2248
cohen@berkeley.edu
319 Kroeber

Special interests: Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory.

Elizabeth Colson

Professor Emerita
(510) 642-3392
gwembe@berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Politics, religion, social organization, social change, migration, anthropological history and theory, ethnography of Africa and North America.

Margaret Conkey

Professor
(510) 642-6914
meg@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 207

Special interests: Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe.

Terrence Deacon

Professor
(510) 642-8711
deacon@sscl.berkeley.edu
329 Kroeber

Special interests: Biological anthropology, neuroanatomy, human communication, behavioral evolution.

George DeVos

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
devos@berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Culture and personality, mental health, ethnic problems, minority issues, social deviancy, research methods in psychological anthropology, culture and society of Japan, European ethnicity.

Phyllis Dolhinow

Professor Emerita
(510) 642-3392
dolhinow@comcast.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Physical anthropology, primate social behavior, ecology, development, human behavior and evolution.

Mariane Ferme

Associate Professor
(510) 642-2958
mcf@berkeley.edu
321 Kroeber

Special interests: West Africa; socio-cultural/practice/feminist theories, interpretive and historical anthropology; gender, religion (transnational African Muslim communities).

Nelson Graburn

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-2120
graburn@berkeley.edu
307 Kroeber

Special interests: Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan.

John A. Graham

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
chanelalbany@webtv.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Mesoamerican culture history, particularly Maya and Olmec archaeology and art, Maya epigraphy, history of archaeology.

John Gumperz

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
gumperz@education.ucsb.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S.

Junko Habu

Associate Professor
(510) 643-2645
habu@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 203

Special interests: Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan, East Asian archaeology, ceramic analysis, historical archaeology in Japan, archaeology and society.

Eugene Hammel

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
gene@demog.berkeley.edu
2232 Piedmont #204

Special interests: Social anthropology, statistical and formal analysis of social anthropological data, computer applications, peasant society and culture, demography; Europe.

William F. Hanks

Professor
(510) 643-2651
wfhanks@berkeley.edu
315 Kroeber

Special interests: Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature.

Christine Hastorf

Professor
(510) 643-1112
hastorf@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 215

Special interests: Food and agriculture, archaeology, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany; Andes.

Cori Hayden

Associate Professor
(510) 642-3391
cphayden@berkeley.edu
327 Kroeber

Special interests: Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies.

Charles Hirschkind

Associate Professor
(510) 642-2864
chirschk@berkeley.edu
339 Kroeber

Special interests: Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East.

James Holston

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Yale University, 1986
(510) 643-1688
jholston@berkeley.edu
303 Kroeber

Special interests: Cities and citizenship; political theory, democracy, and law; planning and architecture; urban ethnography; Brazil, the Americas.

Rosemary Joyce

Professor
(510) 643-0975
rajoyce@berkeley.edu
2215 College, Room 204

Special interests: Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies; analysis of archaeological ceramics; Central America.

Patrick Kirch

Professor
(510) 643-8346
kirch@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 213

Special interests: 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.

Kent G. Lightfoot

Professor
(510) 642-1309
kgl53@sbcglobal.net

Special interests: Coastal archaeology, California, Southwestern and Northeastern archaeology and ethnography, theoretical issues of coastalhunter-gatherers.

Xin Liu

Professor
(510) 642-0705
xinliu@berkeley.edu
301 Kroeber

Special interests: Social cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and culture, China/East Asia.

Saba Mahmood

Associate Professor
(510) 642-3565
smahmood@berkeley.edu
323 Kroeber

Special interests: Anthropology of subject formation, liberalism, and secular modernity; feminist and poststructuralist theory; religion and politics; Islam, the Middle East , and South Asia.

Donald Moore

Associate Professor
(510) 642-8357
dsmoore@berkeley.edu
331 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa

Laura Nader

Professor
(510) 642-1218
313 Kroeber

Special interests: Social anthropology, comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, controlling processes, comparative family organizations, the anthropology of professional mind-sets, ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America, and contempora

Aihwa Ong

Professor
(510) 642-1182
aihwaong@berkeley.edu
317 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural anthropology, modernity, transnationalism, citizenship, global cities, migration. Southeast Asia, China, contemporary U.S.

Stefania Pandolfo

Associate Professor
(510) 642-9229
pandolfo@berkeley.edu
303 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb

Herbert Phillips

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
hpp@berkeley.edu
232Kroeber

Special interests: Psychological anthropology, art and literature as ethnography, elites; mainland Southeast Asia with emphasis on Thailand and Indonesia.

Jack M. Potter

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
zengbu@comcast.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Social anthropology, classical social theory, peasants, change, ethnographic film; China, Thailand, U.S.

Paul Rabinow

Professor
(510) 642-2634
rabinow@berkeley.edu
311 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural anthropology, social thought, modernity, biotechnology, global genomics; France.

Vincent Sarich

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
sarich@sscl.berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Human variation, comparative biochemistry and molecular evolution, mammalian systematics, primate evolution, evolution of human behavior.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Professor
(510) 642-8431
nsh@berkeley.edu
305 Kroeber

Special interests: Critical Medical Anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, childhood and the family, Ireland, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa.

Steven Shackley

Professor
(510) 642-2533
shackley@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 210

Special interests: Geoarchaeology, North American Southwest, lithic technology and analytical chemistry in archaeology, hunter-gatherers.

William Simmons

Professor Emeritus

Special interests: Anthropology of religion, ethnohistory, folklore, North American Indians (particularly of California and New England), American pluralism.

Ruth Tringham

Professor
(510) 642-2422
tringham@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 109

Special interests: Archaeology, European (especially Central and Eastern), Mediterranean, and Anatolian Prehistory, Early Agriculturalists (Neolithic--Bronze Age), Prehistoric Architecture, Household Archaeology, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, Multimedia (Hypermedia) Au

Laurie Wilkie

Professor
(510) 643-0677
lawilkie@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 208

Special interests: Historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations; North America, Caribbean.

Alexei Yurchak

Associate Professor
(510) 642-6219
yurchak@berkeley.edu
337 Kroeber

Special interests: Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism.