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| RESEARCH FACULTY | |
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Alexander Bauer Associate Professor Research Interests: archaeology, material culture, cultural heritage law and policy, Middle East, Eurasia Office: 313A Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5517 e-mail: alexander.bauer@qc.cuny.edu |
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Kevin Birth Professor Research Interests: social anthropology, psychological anthropology, time, festivals, ethnicity, Caribbean Office: 313C Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5518 e-mail: kevin.birth@qc.cuny.edu |
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John
Collins Professor Research Interests: cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, cultural heritage and development, Latin America, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state Office: 315G Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5524 e-mail: john.collins@qc.cuny.edu |
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Omri
Elisha Associate Professor Research Interests: cultural anthropology, Evangelical Christianity, anthropology of religion, North America, ritual performance, spirituality & secularism Office: 315L Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5525 e-mail: omri.elisha@qc.cuny.edu |
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Murphy Halliburton Professor Research Interests: medical anthropology, South Asian culture and history, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology of science Office: 315I Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5528 e-mail: murphy.halliburton@qc.cuny.edu |
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Mandana
Limbert Professor Research Interests: cultural anthropology, Middle East: Oman, Arab societies, anthropology of memory, historical anthropology, religion, modernity, colonialism Office: 315F Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5526 e-mail: mandana.limbert@qc.cuny.edu |
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Felicia
Madimenos Associate Professor Research Interests: biological anthropology, health and market integration, life history theory, skeletal health, reproductive ecology, Amazonian populations Office: 312C Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5637 e-mail: fmadimenos@qc.cuny.edu |
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Miki Makihara Professor Research Interests: linguistic anthropology, language and identity, language contact, linguistic ideology, Pacific societies Office: 312D Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5513 e-mail: miki.makihara@qc.cuny.edu |
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Robert Nyamushosho Assistant Professor Research Interests: 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 Office: 312A Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5529 e-mail: robert.nyamushosho@qc.cuny.edu |
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Kate Pechenkina Professor Research Interests: biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, disease in prehistory, bone pathology, Neolithic China, prehistoric Peru Office: 335 Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5210 e-mail: kate.pechenkina@qc.cuny.edu |
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Thomas
Plummer Professor Research Interests: biological anthropology, hominin behavior and paleoecology, hominin paleontology, human osteology Office: 315M Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5511 e-mail: thomas.plummer@qc.cuny.edu |
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Timothy Pugh Professor Research Interests: archaeology, Mesoamerica, complex society, Maya, ethnohistory, social identity Office: 312B Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-2896 e-mail: twpugh@qc.cuny.edu |
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Juan Luis Rodriguez Associate Professor Research Interests: linguistic anthropology, semiotics, politics, discourse, Latin America, Venezuela, Indigenous peoples Office: 313B Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-2928 e-mail: juan.rodriguezaponte@qc.cuny.edu |
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Karen Strassler Professor Research Interests: 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 Office: 315P Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-2859 e-mail: karen.strassler@qc.cuny.edu |
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Larissa Swedell Professor and Chair Research Interests: biological anthropology, primatology, primate ecology and behavior, reproductive strategies, Hamadryas baboons Office: 315E Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-2897 e-mail: LSwedell@qc.cuny.edu |
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Megan Rhodes Victor Assistant Professor Research Interests: historical archaeology, commensality, archaeology of alcohol within drinking spaces, archaeology of frontier spaces Office: 313D Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5510 e-mail: Megan.Victor@qc.cuny.edu |
| TEACHING FACULTY | |
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Tomomi Emoto Adjunct Assistant Professor Research Interests: cultural anthropology, East Asia, Japan, border, borderland, identity politics, performance, ritual, ethnohistory, violence and gender Office: 314F Powdermaker Hall e-mail: tomomi.emoto@qc.cuny.edu |
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Francis Feeley Substitute Lecturer Research Interests: zooarchaeology, Medieval commercial fishing, North Atlantic archaeology Office: 314D Powdermaker Hall e-mail: ffeeley@qc.cuny.edu |
| Raquel Lamela Lopez Substitute Lecturer Research Interests: biological anthropology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-2892 e-mail: raquel.lamelalopez@qc.cuny.edu |
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| Wendy Leynse Adjunct Assistant Professor Research Interests: cultural anthropology, child socialization, education, school lunch, food habits, French culture & society Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: wendy.leynse@qc.cuny.edu |
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Diane Riskedahl Lecturer Research Interests: linguistic anthropology, media and politics, protest rhetoric, semiotic landscapes, language ideologies, interactional linguistics, the Middle East and Arab diaspora Office: 315H Powdermaker Hall e-mail: driskedahl@gc.cuny.edu |
| Doreen Schmitt Adjunct Instructor Research Interests: linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and law, forensic linguistics Office: 314J Powdermaker Hall e-mail: doreen.schmitt@qc.cuny.edu |
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Chihiro Shibata Adjunct Instructor Recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty in the School of Social Sciences Research Interests: biological anthropology, primatology, callitrichids, cooperative breeding systems, South America, Suriname Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: chihiro.shibata@qc.cuny.edu |
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Ryan Shinn Department Laboratory Manager Research Interests: biological anthropology, osteology of human and non-human organisms, archaeology, bioarchaeology, experimental archaeology, study of arms and armour Office: 315N Powdermaker Hall e-mail: ryan.shinn@qc.cuny.edu |
| ADJUNCT FACULTY |
 Alexis AmannAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: biological anthropology, primatology, behavioral endocrinology, captive animal management Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: aamann@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
 Andrea Ariza GarcíaAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: gender studies, critical race theory, cultural and linguistic anthropology, historical materialism, decolonial studies, archival theory and art history Office: 314-G Powdermaker Hall e-mail: aariza@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
| Nadia Augustyniak Adjunct Instructor Research Interests: cultural anthropology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: naugustyniak@gmail.com |
 Katarina EvansAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: biological anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, sociality, nutritional ecology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: katarina.evans@qc.cuny.edu |
| Scott Ferrara Graduate Teaching Fellow Research Interests: community archaeology, paleoethnobotany, colonialism, Northeast United States e-mail: sferrara1@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
 Louis GorgoneAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: biological anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, spatial ecology, vocalizations Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: lgorgone@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
| Megan Henriquez Graduate Teaching Fellow Research Interests: biological anthropology, primate behavioral ecology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: mhenriquez1@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
 Anthony PaganoAdjunct Assistant Professor Research Interests: 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 Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: Anthony.Pagano@yahoo.com |
| Richard Payne Adjunct Instructor Research Interests: cultural anthropology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall Phone: (718) 997-5561 e-mail: richard.c.payne14@gmail.com |
 Nandini RamachandranAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: legal anthropologist working on indigeneity in postcolonial India, history of anthropology, feminist theory, political philosophy, speculative fiction e-mail: nramachandran@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
| Nikhil Ramachandran Graduate Teaching Fellow Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: nramachandran1@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
 Yzza SedatriAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: migration, borders, mobility, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, materiality, racialization e-mail: ysedatri@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
 Nicholas WelnaAdjunct Instructor Research Interests: economic anthropology, political anthropology, United States, cities, corporations, race, history e-mail: nwelna@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
| Evan Wilson Graduate Teaching Fellow Research Interests: biological anthropology Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall e-mail: revevanpwilson@gmail.com |
| PROFESSOR EMERITI |
| James
A Moore Research Interests: archaeology, quantitative methods, historical archaeology, European prehistory, forager/ farmer interactions |
| Amal Rassam Research Interests: Muslim society, gender and culture, ethnicity, anthropology of religion, Middle East, North Africa |
| Roger Sanjek Research Interests: urban anthropology, race and ethnicity, ethnographic writing and practice, history of anthropology, U.S., Ghana |
| Sara Stinson Research Interests: biological anthropology, human growth and development, human adaptation, nutritional anthropology, South America |
| Ronald Waterbury Research Interests: economic anthropology, modernization and development, peasant society, Mesoamerica |
| IN MEMORIAM | |
| Warren DeBoer (1945-2020) Research Interests: archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, South America, North America Obituary on American Anthropological Association website Warren Deboer Memorial Fund |
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| Edgar A. Gregersen (1940-2021) Research Interests: linguistics, cultural anthropology, sexology, Egyptology, Africa | |
| Edward C. Hansen (1937-2020) Research Interests: general ethnology, present society and culture, politics of underdevelopment, Latin America, Mediterranean |
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| Sydel F. Silverman (1933-2019) Research Interests: cultural anthropology, complex societies, history of anthropology, Italy, ethnography of anthropologists |
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| AFFILIATED ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS |
| Mary P. Bushnell Greiner (PhD. U Virginia, 1998; Associate Professor, Elementary & Early Childhood Education) Research Interests: Anthropology and education, critical anthropology, gender, aesthetics, North America |
| Jeff Maskovsky (Ph.D. Temple University, 2000; Professor, Urban Studies) Research Interests: globalization, difference and inequality, social movements, urban political economy, anthropology of the United States, North America |
| Anahi Viladrich (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003; Professor, Sociology) Research Interests: Latinos in the U.S., gender, globalization, health disparities, mixed-methods research |
