Anthropologists in Other Departments


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    Arjun Appadurai
    Research/Interest: Dr. Appadurai is a prominent contemporary social-cultural anthropologist, having formerly served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School in NYC. He has held various professorial chairs and visiting appointments at some of top institutions in the United States and Europe. In addition, he has served on several scholarly and advisory bodies in the United States, Latin America, Europe and India.
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    Roderick B. Campbell
    Research/Interest: archaeology, ancient socio-political organization, social violence, Shang, China
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    Lily H Chumley
    Research/Interest: Linguistic and semiotic anthropology with research focusing on formations of media and material culture, political and commodity aesthetics in China and Taiwan.
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    Allen  Feldman
    Research/Interest: Political Anthropology of the Senses and the Body, Anthropology of Violence, Media Archeology, Performance Studies, Culture of the State, Medical Anthropology.
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    Deborah Kapchan
    Research/Interest: Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East.
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    Ritty Lukose
    Research/Interest: Teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender, globalization, and colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic modernities as they impact South Asia.
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    Maureen Mahon
    Research/Interest: contemporary African American culture, the production of identity, the construction and performance of race and gender in music, and the relationship between race, class, generation, and culture
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    Robin Nagle
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    Deborah  Padgett
    Research/Interest: Mental health needs and service use of the aged, ethnic groups, the homeless and children/adolescents.
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    Daniel T. Potts
    Research/Interest: Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Mesopotamia, Arabian Peninsula.
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    Anne M. Rademacher
    Research/Interest: Environmental anthropology; modern ecology and statemaking; sustainable design in urban settings; urban ecology
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    Michael Ralph
    Research/Interest: Citizenship, Sovereignty, Risk, Liability, Urban Youth Culture, Diaspora, Postcolonialism
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    David Samuels
    Research/Interest: ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology; music and semiotics; Native American music and poetics
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    Caitlin Zaloom
    Research/Interest: culture and economy; cities and globalization; financial markets; technology and cities; science and technology studies; social theory.