Sabrina C. Agarwal
Professor | Archaeology, Biological Anthropology
OFFICE: 212 Archaeological Research Facility
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
EMAIL: agarwal@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)
Special Interests
Bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, life course theory, bone biology, bone loss/osteoporosis, health and disease, inequality/structural violence, aging/growth/disability, paleopathology, bioethics.
Sewasew Haileselassie Assefa
Assistant Professor | Archaeology, Biological Anthropology
OFFICE: 211 Archaeological Research Facility
OFFICE HOURS: By appointment: email sewasew@berkeley.edu
EMAIL: sewasew@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Human-Environment Interaction, Bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, African History and Archaeology, Oral History, diet and health, Isotope Analysis, Archives, Community-based Archaeology
Charles L. Briggs, Department Chair
Professor | Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Folklore
Medical Anthropology Co-Director
OFFICE: 307 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
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)
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays 8:00AM - 11:00AM in 319 AAPB with sign up by Calendly:
EMAIL: cohen@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory.
Mariane C. Ferme
Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology
Curator of African Ethnology for Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Sociocultural House Head
OFFICE: 317 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)
OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays 10am-noon in person in AAPB 317, or by appointment via emailing mcf@berkeley.edu. No sign up necessary.
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)
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
EMAIL: dtfisher@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Social Cultural Anthropology; Sound; Music; Photography and Cinema; Fire; Ecologies of the Urban; Climate Change; Australia.
Daena Funahashi
Associate Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology
OFFICE: 205 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
EMAIL: funahashi@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Political Anthropology, Death & Silence, Economies of Stress, Perversions of Productivity, Enigma of Authority, Negativity, Problems of Legitimacy, Continental Philosophy
Junko Habu
Professor | Archaeology
Head Graduate Advisor for Archaeology
OFFICE: 208 Archaeological Research Facility
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
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
OFFICE HOURS: N/A
Special Interests
Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature.
Cori Hayden
Professor | Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology
OFFICE: 305 Anthropology and Art Practice Building
OFFICE HOURS:
FOR UNDERGRADS: Tuesdays from 1:00PM - 2:30PM.
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Thursdays 1:00PM - 2:40PM, in person in 305 AAPB (default) or zoom by special request.
Stable sign-up sheet: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/sxcoh
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: 313 Anthropology and Art Practice Building
OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays 9:00AM - 11:00AM
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
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
Sign-up for office hours at this link:
EMAIL: jholston@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Citizenship; democracy; political theory; cities and urban ethnography; software platforms for democratic assembly; Social Apps Lab; Brazil, the Americas.
Randeep Singh Hothi
Assistant Professor | Sociocultural Anthropology
OFFICE: AAPB 331
OFFICE HOURS: Fall Hours TBD
EMAIL: rhothi@berkeley.edu
Special Interests
Semiotics, Language, Religion, Aesthetics, Capital, Markets, Media, Technology, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Globalization, Diaspora, Sikh tradition and philosophy