Emeriti Faculty A-M

Stanley H. Brandes

Professor Emeritus  |  Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 309  Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall) 

EMAIL: brandes@berkeley.edu


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).

Margaret W. Conkey

Professor Emerita |  Archaeology


OFFICE: 109 Archaeological Research Facility

EMAIL: meg@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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

Terry Deacon

Terrence W. Deacon

Professor Emeritus  |  Biological Anthropology


OFFICE: 329 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

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


Special Interests

Brain development and evolution, origins of language, bio-cultural evolution, emergence.


Nicholas Dirks(link is external)

Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 3224 Dwinelle Hall

EMAIL: ndirks@berkeley.edu



Phyllis Dolhinow

Professor Emerita |  



Special Interests

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


Nelson H. Graburn

Professor Emeritus |  Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 309 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: graburn@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Ethnic arts, tourism, heritage, museums; multiculturalism, Inuit, Circumpolar peoples, China, Japan.

John A. Graham

Professor Emeritus |  Archaeology


EMAIL: jagraham001@gmail.com


Special Interests

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


Eugene A. Hammel

Professor Emeritus |  Sociocultural Anthropology


EMAIL: gene@demog.berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Rosemary Joyce

Rosemary Joyce

Professor Emeritus| Archaeology


OFFICE: 207 Archaeological Research Facility

EMAIL: rajoyce@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Materiality and the archaeology of inequality; gender, sex, and sexuality; cultural heritage policy; Central America and Mexico.


Patrick V. Kirch

Chancellor's Professor Emeritus |  Archaeology


The Department of Anthropology at UH Mānoa

EMAIL: kirch@hawaii.edu


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.



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Kent Lightfoot

Professor Emeritus |   Archaeology

OFFICE: 213 Archaeological Research Facility

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

EMAIL: klightfoot@berkeley.edu

Special Interests

North American Archaeology with specialization in California, coastal hunter-gatherers, colonialism.



Donald S. Moore

Professor Emeritus | Sociocultural Anthropology 


EMAIL: dsmoore@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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