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RESEARCH FACULTY                       TEACHING FACULTY              ADJUNCT FACULTY                    PROFESSOR EMERITI                  IN MEMORIAM                AFFILIATED SCHOLARS
RESEARCH FACULTY
Bauer 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

Birth 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

Collins 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

Elisha 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

Halliburton 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


Limbert 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

Madimenos
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
Makihara 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

Nyamushosho 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

Pechenkina
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


Plummer 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

Pugh 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


Rodriguez 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

Strassler 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

Swedell 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

Rhodes Victor
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

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TEACHING FACULTY  
Tomomi Emoto 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
Feeley  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


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

Riskedahl
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

Shibata 
 

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
Shinn
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

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ADJUNCT FACULTY
Amann   Alexis Amann
    Adjunct Instructor
   Research Interests: biological anthropology, primatology, behavioral endocrinology, captive animal management
  
Office: 314 Powdermaker Hall
   e-mail: aamann@gradcenter.cuny.edu


 
Ariza Garcia   Andrea Ariza García
    Adjunct 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 Evans   Katarina Evans
    Adjunct 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 Gorgone  Louis Gorgone
  Adjunct 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

Pagano  Anthony Pagano
   Adjunct 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 Ramachandran  Nandini Ramachandran
  Adjunct 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 Sedatri  Yzza Sedatri
  Adjunct Instructor
 
Research Interests: migration, borders, mobility, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, materiality, racialization
  e-mail: ysedatri@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Welna  Nicholas Welna
  Adjunct 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

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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

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IN MEMORIAM
Warren DeBoer (1945-2020)
Research Interests: archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, South America, North America

Obituary on American Anthropological Association website
Warren Deboer Memorial Fund

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


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

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