Faculty K-Z

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Assistant Professor | Biological Anthropology

OFFICE: 303 Anthropology and Art Practice Building

OFFICE HOURS: By appointment

EMAIL: awkim@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Special Interests

Intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology

Nicholas Laluk

Assistant Professor | Archaeology

LAB: 55 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: nlaluk@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Decolonization and Indigenization, Indigenous Methodologies, Tribal sovereignty-driven research

Xin Liu

Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology

OFFICE: 301 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: W 12-2 pm

EMAIL: xinliu@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

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

Lisa Maher

Associate Professor | Archaeology

OFFICE: 204 Archaeological Research Facility (ARF)

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ARF 204

Or by appointment.

LAB: 1 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: maher@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Prehistoric Archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean & Africa, Human-Environment Interactions, Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Site Formation Processes, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Human Origins and Evolution, Archaeological Sciences, Lithic Technology and Analysis, Archaeological Approaches to Technology, Mortuary Archaeology, Burial Practices in Prehistory, Public Archaeology, Transitions to Food Production, Archaeological Theory and Method, Emergence of Social Complexity.

Karen Nakamura

Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology

Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies; GSI Advisor

OFFICE: 117 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: https://calendly.com/knakamura/office-hours

EMAIL: knak@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Cultural anthropology; Disability Studies; LGBT movements; minority social movements and identity politics; visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan.

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor | Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Head Graduate Advisor for Sociocultural Anthropology

OFFICE: 201 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: Monday 2 to 4 pm

By appointment via online sign up sheet. Students will need to email Professor Pandolfo to get the link to sign up.

EMAIL: pandolfo@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

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

Aarti Sethi

Assistant Researcher 2020 - 2021

Assistant Professor 2021 - | Sociocultural Anthropology

OFFICE : 333 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30pm - 5:00pm & Wednesdays 4:00pm - 5:00pm

EMAIL : aartisethi@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Agrarian Anthropology; Rural Life; Feminist Anthropology; Political Economy; Comparative Religion; South Asia; Debt and Capitalism; Cinema and Media Culture; Ecstatic Experience, Embodiment and Aesthetics; Theories of Mind, Language and Subjectivity; Caste, Structural Violence and Socio-Economic Inequality.

Carolyn Smith

Assistant Professsor | Sociocultural Anthropology

OFFICE: 209 Archaeological Research Facility

OFFICE HOURS: Wednesday 11 am to 12 pm, Thursday 1 pm to 2 pm, or by appointment.

EMAIL: casmith@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

California; Indigenous art and embodied art practice; environment, climate change, and ecocultural restoration; Indigenous methodologies; museum anthropology; decolonizing and Indigenizing museums.

Jun Sunseri

Associate Professor | Archaeology

OFFICE: 214 Archaeological Research Facility

LAB: 197 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS:

EMAIL: jsunseri@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Colonialism, Foodways, Landscapes, Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Southwest US and Northern South Africa.

Sarah E. Vaughn

Associate Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology

OFFICE: 335 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: Fridays 1:00-2:30PM via Zoom/or Scheduled by Appointment (Students are responsible for providing a ZOOM link)

EMAIL: sev83@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Cultural Anthropology; (Post)colonial Science Studies; Environment; Expertise; Climate Change; Vulnerability; Critical Theories of Race and Racialization; Theories of Liberalism; Caribbean/Latin America.

William White

Assistant Professor | Archaeology

Undergraduate Faculty Advisor

OFFICE: 210 Archaeological Research Facility

OFFICE HOURS: Mondays & Wednesdays: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm AAPB 55

LAB: 55 Anthropology and Art Practice Building

EMAIL: wawhite@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Historical Archaeology.

Laurie A. Wilkie

Professor | Archaeology

OFFICE: 206 Archaeological Research Facility

OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 AM - 10:59 AM

LAB: 11 Archaeological Research Facility

EMAIL: lawilkie@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean.

Charlotte Williams

Assistant Professor | Archaeology

EMAIL: charwilliams@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Cultural Heritage, History of Archaeology, Archaeological Labor, Museums and Collections, American Imperialism, Colonialism, Territory and Landscape, Cultural Property Law, Ownership, Dispossession, Material Culture, Memory, Archives, Central and South America.

Alexei Yurchak

Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology

Core Faculty Member at the Dept. of Dance, Theater and Performance Studies

OFFICE: 119 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

OFFICE HOURS: Email to set an appointment.

EMAIL: yurchak@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

Communism and post-communism, Political Anthropology, Linguistic anthropology, Media and Mediation, Utopias, History, Cold War, Discourse, Subject, Ideology, Sovereignty, Russia, Soviet and post-Soviet world, Irony, Performance and performativity.