Anthropology Department

Faculty

Faculty

Betsey Brada (Chair)

Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Medical anthropology, anthropology of global health and humanitarianism, science studies and expertise, anthropology of the body, pedagogy and ritual, HIV/AIDS, Africa.

Tarik Nejat Dinç

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Environmental justice, science and technology studies, critical agrarian studies, risk and uncertainty, mining and extractivism, toxicity, climate change, more than human anthropology, Turkey, Mediterranean, Middle East

Charlene E. Makley

Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology
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Development, globalization, anthropology of capitalism, exchange and value, sex/gender/sexuality and intersectionality, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and ritual, feminist theory, linguistic anthropology, media studies, China, Tibet, East Asia.

Yoli Ngandali

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Black and Indigenous archaeology, museum studies, digital curation, conservation science, materiality, remote sensing, multi-spectral imaging, Pacific Northwest, Central Africa.

Paul A. Silverstein

Professor of Anthropology
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Race and ethnicity, colonialism and postcoloniality, migration, urbanity, social class, sport, practice theory, historical anthropology, France, North Africa, Middle East.

Anand Vaidya

Associate Professor of Anthropology
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On sabbatical 2024-25.

Environmental politics, law, social movements, land and property, political economy, collective action, caste, indigeneity, India, South Asia.

Faculty Alumnus/Alumna

Robert Brightman

Ruth C. Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies
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Social/cultural theory, semiotics and structuralism, sociolinguistics, environmental anthropology, hunter-gatherer societies, functional syntax and language typology, Native North America.