Sabrina C. Agarwal, Department Chair
Professor | Archaeology, Biological Anthropology
OFFICE: 212 Archaeological Research Facility
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.
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.
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.
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.