Faculty A-J

Sabrina C. AgarwalDepartment Chair

Professor |  Archaeology, Biological Anthropology


OFFICE: 212 Archaeological Research Facility

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


Special Interests

Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, bone biology, bone loss/osteoporosis, health and disease, inequality/structural violence, aging/growth/disability, paleopathology, bioethics.



Charles L. Briggs

Professor  |  Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Folklore

Medical Anthropology Co-Director and Graduate Equity Advisor 


OFFICE: 307 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: clbriggs@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Social/cultural anthropology, especially as relating to linguistic and medical anthropology, narrative, media and mediatization, folklore and performance, racialization, and violence.


Lawrence Cohen

Professor  |  Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Medical Anthropology Co-Director; Head Graduate Advisor for Medical Anthropology


OFFICE: 319 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: cohen@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Terrence W. Deacon

Professor  |  Biological Anthropology


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

EMAIL: deacon@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Nicholas Dirks

Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 3224 Dwinelle Hall

EMAIL: ndirks@berkeley.edu



Mariane C. Ferme

Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology

Curator of African Ethnology for Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Sociocultural House Head


OFFICE: 321 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: mcf@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

West Africa and Sierra Leone; sociocultural theory and methods; history of anthropology; the political imagination; access to justice and transitional justice institutions; materiality; rural livelihoods.


Daniel Fisher

Associate Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology


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

EMAIL: dtfisher@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Social Cultural Anthropology; Media; Music and Sound; Photography and Cinema; Australia.


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Daena Funahashi

Assistant Professor  |  Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 205 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: funahashi@berkeley.edu


 Special Interests

Cultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Continental Philosophy; Sacrifice; Addiction; Ethnographic Writing; Scientific Authority; Political economy; Theories of Negativity; Southeast Asia (Thailand), Nordic welfare (Finland)



Junko Habu

Professor  |  Archaeology

Head Graduate Advisor for Archaeology


OFFICE: 208 Archaeological Research Facility

LAB: 314 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: habu@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers and small-scale societies; human-environmental dynamics; sedentism; landscape archaeology; sociopolitics of archaeology; climate change; local and global environmental issues; Japan, East Asia and the North Pacific Rim.


William F. Hanks

Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 315 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: wfhanks@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Christine Hastorf

Professor  |   Archaeology


OFFICE: 215 Archaeological Research Facility

LAB: 65 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: hastorf@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Cori Hayden

Professor | Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Head Graduate Advisor for Sociocultural Anthropology (Fall 2023)


OFFICE: 305 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: cphayden@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


Charles Hirschkind

 Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 207 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: chirschk@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

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


James Holston

Professor  |  Sociocultural Anthropology


OFFICE: 311 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)

EMAIL: jholston@berkeley.edu


Special Interests

Citizenship; democracy; political theory; cities and urban ethnography; software platforms for democratic assembly; Brazil, the Americas.



Rosemary Joyce

Professor  |   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.