Department of Anthropology Teaching Faculty

• Thomas Barfield (Ph.D., Harvard University) Professor and Chair -- Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia.

• Anthony Barrand (Ph.D., Cornell University) Associate Professor and University Professor -- Folklore, Anglo-American folk songs and dance, psychology of perception.


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• Fredrik Barth (Ph.D., Cambridge University) Professor -- Anthropology of knowledge, ethnicity, religion, Islamic societies. Asia, Pakistan, Bali.
  
  
• Benjamin Campbell (Ph.D., Harvard University) Assistant Professor -- Human biology, demography, reproductive ecology, Africa.

• Terrence (Terry) Deacon (Ph.D., Harvard University) Associate Professor -- Biological anthropology, neuro-anatomy, human communication, behavioral evolution.

• Shahla Haeri (Ph.D., UCLA) Assistant Professor -- Social/Cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion. Iran, Middle East.

• Robert Hefner (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Professor and Associate Director in the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture -- Cultural theory, religion and modernity, political theory, political economy, democracy, Islam, Southeast Asia.

• Frank Korom (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology—Folklore, Religion, Ritual and Performance.

• Charles Lindholm (Ph.D., Columbia University) Professor and University Professor -- Social anthropology and social studies, symbolic anthropology, structure of emotion. Islamic societies.

• Laura MacLatchy (Ph.D. Harvard University) Assistant Professor -- Paleoanthropology, functional morphology, hominoid evolution, vertebrate paleontology, behavioral reconstruction. Africa.

• Robert E. Murowchick (Ph.D., Harvard University) Research Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology--Archaeology of China and Southeast Asia; history of archaeology; archaeological remote sensing; bronze metallurgy.

• Augustus Richard Norton (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Professor -- International Relations, politics and economy, civil society and democracy. Middle East.

• James Pritchett (Ph.D., Harvard University) Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, African Studies Center -- Social anthropology, African cultures, economic development, social change. Central Africa.

• Parker Shipton (Ph.D., Cambridge University) Associate Professor -- Social anthropology, economic and symbolic anthropology, kinship, history of theory, development; East and West Africa.

• Robert Weller (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Professor and Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture -- Religion and ritual, linguistic anthropology, peasants, anthropological theory. China.

• Jenny White (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) Associate Professor -- Sociocultural anthropology, gender, migration, the urban poor, Islam and civil society. Turkey, Middle East.

• Merry White (Ph.D., Harvard University) Professor -- Current population issues in Japan, the social construction of adolescence in Japan and the U.S., group membership and marginality in Japan, education, family policy and reform, social control, and deviance. Japan.

• Peter Wood (Ph.D., University of Rochester) Associate Professor and Associate Provost -- Anthropology and religion, art, aesthetics, social anthropology, Catholicism. North America.

• Fereydoun Safizedeh (Ph.D., Harvard) Lecturer--Social/cultural anthropology, ethnic identity and nationalism, agrarian economy and peasant politics, social change and development, migration and transnational studies, ethnographic film and visual anthropology. Middle East, Central Asia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey
  
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• Barbara Worley (Ph.D., Columbia University) Lecturer--Social performance, ritual, gift exchange, contested identities, gender, linguistics, pastoral nomads, Twaregs, Africa, Islamic societies.
  
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• Sutti Ortiz (Ph.D., London University) Associate Professor Emerita -- Economic anthropology and development, agrarian reform, socio-political organization of peasant societies, social anthropology. Latin America.
• Allen Hoben (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) Professor Emeritus -- Ethnicity and national integration, land tenure and land reform, rural development and decision making in donor agencies, environmental policy and natural resource management. Africa.

Janet O'Neil
Department Administrator, CAS Anthropology.

Kathy Kwasnica
Administrative Secretary, CAS Anthropology

Associated Faculty

Bette Denich (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) -Research Fellow in the symbolic politics of ethnic schism in the former Yugoslavia.

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