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Research is carried out by a community of scholars composed of faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars and postdoctoral scholars. They work in every corner of the world, and their research spans the entire breadth of anthropology, from medical and biological anthropology to folklore and linguistic research. (Click on faculty member's name for a full description of their research interests.) Sabrina Agarwal, Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2001 212, 2251 College 510.642.4489 agarwal@berkeley.edu Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology.
Stanley H. Brandes, Professor Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1971 309 Kroeber 510.642.6945 brandes@berkeley.edu Ritual and religion; food and drink; the anthropology of alcohol use; visual anthropology; and the cultural anthropology of Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (emphasis on Spain and Mexico).

Charles L. Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in Folklore
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1981
333 Kroeber
510.643.2012
clbriggs@berkeley.edu

Lawrence Cohen, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1992
319 Kroeber
510.642.2248
cohen@berkeley.edu

Social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory.

Margaret W. Conkey, Class of 1960 Professor of Anthropology
Director, Archaeological Research Facility
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978
207, 2251 College
510.642.6914
meg@berkeley.edu

Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe.

Terrence Deacon, Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1984
329 Kroeber
510.642.8711
deacon@berkeley.edu

Biological anthropology, neuroanatomy, human communication, behavioral evolution.

Mariane C. Ferme, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1992
321 Kroeber
510.642.2958
mcf@berkeley.edu

West Africa; socio-cultural/practice/feminist theories, interpretive and historical anthropology; gender, religion (transnational African Muslim communities).

Nelson H.H. Graburn, Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago,1963
307 Kroeber
510.642.2120
graburn@berkeley.edu

Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan.

Junko Habu, Associate Professor
Ph.D. McGill Unversity, 1996
203, 2251 College
510.643.2645
habu@berkeley.edu

Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan, East Asian archaeology, ceramic analysis, historical archaeology in Japan, archaeology and society.

William F. Hanks, Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1983
315 Kroeber Hall
510.643.2651
wfhanks@berkeley.edu

Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature.

Christine Hastorf, Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1983
215, 2251 College
510.642.5457
hastorf@berkeley.edu

Food and agriculture, archaeology, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany; Andes.

Cori Hayden, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000
327 Kroeber
Ph TBD
cphayden@berkeley.edu

Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies.

Charles Hirschkind, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1999
339 Kroeber
510.642.2864
chirsch@berkeley.edu

Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East.

James Holston, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Yale University, 1986
303 Kroeber
510.643.1688
jholston@berkeley.edu

Cities and citizenship; political theory, democracy, and law; planning and architecture; urban ethnography; Brazil, the Americas.

Rosemary A. Joyce, Professor
Department Chair
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana, 1985
204, 2251 College
510.643.0975
Office of the Chair: 213 Kroeber, 643-7241
rajoyce@berkeley.edu

Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies; analysis of archaeological ceramics; Central America.

Patrick V. Kirch, Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. Yale University, 1975
206, 2251 College
510.643.8346
kirch@berkeley.edu

Prehistory and ethnography of Oceania, ethnoarchaeology and settlement archaeology, prehistoric agricultural systems, cultural ecology and paleoenvironmentalism, ethnobotany and ethnoscience, development of complex societies in Oceania. See also Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory.

Kent G. Lightfoot, Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1981
213, 2251 College
510.642.1309
PAHMA-director@berkeley.edu

Coastal archaeology, California, Southwestern and Northeastern archaeology and ethnography, theoretical issues of coastalhunter-gatherers.

Liu, Xin, Associate Professor
Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies
Ph.D. SOAS, University of London, 1995
301 Kroeber
510.642.0705
xinliu@berkeley.edu

Social cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and culture, China/East Asia.

Saba Mahmood, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998
323 Kroeber
510.642.3565
smahmood@berkeley.edu

Anthropology of subject formation, liberalism, and secular modernity; feminist and poststructuralist theory; religion and politics; Islam, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Donald S. Moore, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1995
331 Kroeber
510.642.8357
dsmoore@berkeley.edu

Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa

Laura Nader, Professor
Ph.D. Radcliffe/Harvard University, 1961
313 Kroeber
510.642.1218

Social anthropology, comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, controlling processes, comparative family organizations, the anthropology of professional mind-sets, ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America, and contemporary U.S.

Aihwa Ong, Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1982
317 Kroeber
510.642.8077
aihwaong@berkeley.edu

Cultural anthropology, modernity, transnationalism, citizenship, global cities, migration.
Southeast Asia, China, contemporary U.S.

Stefania Pandolfo, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1991
303 Kroeber
510.642.9229
pandolfo@berkeley.edu

Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb.

Paul Rabinow, Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970
311 Kroeber
510.642.2634
rabinow@berkeley.edu

Cultural anthropology, social thought, modernity, biotechnology, global genomics; France.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1976
305 Kroeber
510.642.8431
nsh@berkeley.edu

Critical Medical Anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, childhood and the family, Ireland, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa. See also Organs Watch.

M. Steven Shackley, Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1990
210 College
510.642.2533
shackley@berkeley.edu

Geoarchaeology, North American Southwest, lithic technology and analytical chemistry in archaeology, hunter-gatherers.

Ruth E. Tringham, Professor
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1966
209, 2251 College
510.642.2242
tringham@berkeley.edu

Archaeology, European (especially Central and Eastern), Mediterranean, and Anatolian Prehistory, Early Agriculturalists (Neolithic--Bronze Age), Prehistoric Architecture, Household Archaeology, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, Multimedia (Hypermedia) Authoring in Archaeology, Experimental Research in Archaeology. See also MACTiA.

Laurie Wilkie, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
208, 2251 College
510.643.0677
lawilkie@berkeley.edu

Historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations; North America, Caribbean.

Alexei Yurchak, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Duke University, 1997
337 Kroeber
510.642.6219
yurchak@berkeley.edu

Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism.

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