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Research Faculty
Alexander Bauer
Associate Professor
Archaeology, Material Culture, Cultural Heritage Law and Policy, Middle East, Eurasia
313A Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5517
Kevin Birth
Professor
Social Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Time, Festivals, Ethnicity, Caribbean
313C Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5518
John Collins
Professor
Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Cultural Heritage and Development, Latin America, Historical Anthropology, Nationalism and the State
315G Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5524
Omri Elisha
Associate Professor
Cultural Anthropology, Evangelical Christianity, Anthropology of Religion, North America, Ritual Performance, Spirituality & Secularism
315L Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5525
Murphy Halliburton
Professor
Medical Anthropology, South Asian Culture and History, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Anthropology of Science
315I Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5528
murphy.halliburton@qc.cuny.edu
Mandana Limbert
Professor
Cultural Anthropology, Middle East: Oman, Arab Societies, Anthropology of Memory, Historical Anthropology, Religion, Modernity, Colonialism
315F Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5526
Felicia Madimenos
Associate Professor
Biological anthropology, Health and Market Integration, Life History Theory, Skeletal Health, Reproductive Ecology, Amazonian populations
312C Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5637
Miki Makihara
Professor
Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Identity, Language Contact, Linguistic Ideology, Pacific Societies
312D Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5513
Robert Nyamushosho
Assistant Professor
Early State Formation and Urbanism, Anthropology of Technology, Precolonial-Saharan Africa, Trans-Atlantic and Indian Ocean-Based Circulatory Systems, Entanglements between Landscapes and Past Societies, Heritage Interpretation and Representation, Decoloniality and Politics of Knowledge Production
312A Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5529
robert.nyamushosho@qc.cuny.edu
Kate Pechenkina
Professor
Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Disease in Prehistory, Bone Pathology, Neolithic China, Prehistoric Peru
335 Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5510
Thomas Plummer
Professor
Biological Anthropology, Hominin Behavior and Paleoecology, Hominin Paleontology, Human Osteology
315M Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5511
Timothy Pugh
Professor
Archaeology, Mesoamerica, Complex Society, Maya, Ethnohistory, Social Identity
312B Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-2896
Juan Luis Rodriguez
Associate Professor
Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Politics, Discourse, Latin America, Venezuela, Indigenous Peoples
313B Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-2928
juan.rodriguezaponte@qc.cuny.edu
Karen Strassler
Professor
Cultural Anthropology, Visual and Material Culture, Photography and New Media Technologies, History and Memory, Post-Colonial Literature, Film and Art, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asian Diasporas
315P Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-2859
Larissa Swedell
Professor and Department Chair
Biological Anthropology, Primatology, Primate Ecology and Behavior, Reproductive Strategies, Hamadryas Baboons
315E Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-2897
Megan Rhodes Victor
Assistant Professor
Historical Archaeology, Commensality, Archaeology of Alcohol within Drinking Spaces, Archaeology of Frontier Spaces
313D Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5510
Teaching Faculty
Tomomi Emoto
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Cultural Anthropology, East Asia, Japan, Border, Borderland, Identity Politics, Performance, Ritual, Ethnohistory, Violence and Gender
314F Powdermaker Hall
Francis Feeley
Substitute Lecturer
Zooarchaeology, Medieval Commercial Fishing, North Atlantic Archaeology
314D Powdermaker Hall
Raquel Lamela Lopez
Adjunct Instructor
Biological Anthropology
314 Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-2892
raquel.lamelalopez@qc.cuny.edu
Wendy Leynse
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Cultural anthropology, Child Socialization, education, School Lunch, Food Habits, French Culture & Society
314 Powdermaker Hall
Diane Riskedahl
Lecturer
Linguistic Anthropology, Media and Politics, Protest Rhetoric, Semiotic landscapes, Language Ideologies, Interactional Linguistics, the Middle East and Arab Diaspora
315H Powdermaker Hall
Chihiro Shibata
Adjunct Instructor
Recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty in the School of Social Sciences
Biological Anthropology, Primatology, Callitrichids, Cooperative Breeding Systems, South America, Suriname
314 Powdermaker Hall
Ryan Shinn
Department Laboratory Manager
Biological Anthropology, Osteology of Human and Non-Human Organisms, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Study of Arms and Armour
315N Powdermaker Hall
Adjunct Faculty
Alexis Amann
Adjunct Instructor
Biological Anthropology, Primatology, Behavioral Endocrinology, Captive Animal Management
314 Powdermaker Hall
Andrea Ariza García
Adjunct Instructor
Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Historical Materialism, Decolonial Studies, Archival Theory and Art History
314G Powdermaker Hall
Tricia Basdeo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Archaeology
314I Powdermaker Hall
Calvin Edward
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
314I Powdermaker Hall
Katarina Evans
Adjunct Instructor
Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavioral Ecology, Sociality, Nutritional Ecology
314 Powdermaker Hall
Scott Ferrara
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Community Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Colonialism, Northeast United States
Louis Gorgone
Adjunct Instructor
Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavioral Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Vocalizations
314 Powdermaker Hall
Yutong Han
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
314I Powdermaker Hall
Simone Kaplan-Senchak
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
314I Powdermaker Hall
skaplansenchak@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Anuja Mukherjee
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
314I Powdermaker Hall
amukherjee@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Anthony Pagano
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Evolution and Postnatal Development of the Human Upper Respiratory Tract, Middle Ear Disease (Otitis Media), Reconstructing the Soft Tissue Anatomy of the Nasopharynx and Skull Base of Neanderthals and other Pleistocene Homo
314 Powdermaker Hall
Richard Payne
Adjunct Instructor
Cultural Anthropology
314 Powdermaker Hall
(718) 997-5561
Moa Zachariah
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
314 Powdermaker Hall
mzachariah@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Professor Emeriti
James A. Moore
Archaeology, Quantitative Methods, Historical Archaeology, European Prehistory, Forager/ Farmer Interactions
Amal Rassam
Muslim Society, Gender and Culture, Ethnicity, Anthropology of Religion, Middle East, North Africa
Roger Sanjek
Urban Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnographic Writing and Practice, History of Anthropology, U.S., Ghana
Sara Stinson
Biological Anthropology, Human Growth and Development, Human Adaptation, Nutritional Anthropology, South America
Ronald Waterbury
Economic Anthropology, Modernization and Development, Peasant Society, Mesoamerica
In Memoriam
Warren DeBoer (1945-2020)
Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, South America, North America
Obituary on American Anthropological Association
Edgar Gregersen (1940-2021)
Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Sexology, Egyptology, Africa
Edward C. Hansen (1937-2020)
General Ethnology, Present Society and Culture, Politics of Underdevelopment, Latin America, Mediterranean
Sydel F. Silverman (1933-2019)
Cultural Anthropology, Complex Societies, History of Anthropology, Italy, Ethnography of Anthropologists
Affiliated Anthropologists in other Departments
Mary P. Bushnell Greiner
Jeff Maskovsky
Professor, Chair of Ph.D. Program in Anthropology (CUNY Grad Center)
Globalization, Difference and Inequality, Social Movements, Urban Political Economy, Anthropology of the United States, North America
Anahi Viladrich
Latinos in the U.S., Gender, Globalization, Health Disparities, Mixed-Methods Research