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Powdermaker Hall 314 65-30 Kissena Blvd Flushing, NY, 11367 |
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Phone: (718) 997-5510 Fax: (718) 997-2885 |
Anthropology Faculty
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Alexander Bauer (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2006)
Archaeology, material culture, cultural heritage law and policy,
Middle East, Eurasia.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 313A; Phone: (718) 997-5517; E-mail: Alexander.Bauer@qc.cuny.edu |
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Kevin Birth (Ph.D. UCSD 1993) Social anthropology, psychological anthropology,
time, festivals, ethnicity, Caribbean. Office: Powdermaker Hall 313C; Phone: (718) 997-5518; E-mail: |
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John Collins (Ph.D. Michigan 2003)
Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology,
cultural heritage and development, Latin America, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315G; Phone: (718) 997-5524; E-mail: | |
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Warren DeBoer (Ph.D. UCB 1972) Archaeology,
ethnoarchaeology, South America, North America.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312D; Phone: (718) 997-2894; E-mail: | |
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Omri Elisha (Ph.D. NYU 2005), Anthropology of Religion
Cultural anthropology, evangelicalism/christianity,
urban anthropology,
North American Ethnography,
cultural activism/social movements.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315H; Phone: (718) 997-5525; E-mail: Omri.Elisha@qc.cuny.edu |
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Murphy Halliburton
(Ph. D. CUNY 2000) Medical anthropology, South Asian culture and history, cross-cultural psychiatry,
anthropology of science.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315I; Phone: (718) 997-5528; E-mail: |
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Mandana Limbert
(Ph.D. Michigan 2002) Cultural anthropology, Middle East – Oman, Arab societies, anthropology of memory,
historical anthropology, religion, modernity, colonialism.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315F; Phone: (718) 997-5526; E-mail: |
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Miki Makihara
(Ph.D. Yale 1999) Linguistic anthropology, language and identity, language contact,
linguistic ideology, Pacific societies.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315L; Phone: (718) 997-5513; E-mail: |
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James A Moore
(Ph.D. UMass/Amherst 1981) Archaeology, quantitative methods, historical archaeology, European prehistory, forager/farmer interactions.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 313B; Phone: (718) 997-2891; E-mail: |
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Ekaterina Pechenkina (Chair)
(Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia 2002) Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology,
disease in prehistory, bone pathology, Neolithic China, Prehistoric Peru.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312A; Phone: (718) 997-5529; E-mail: |
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Thomas Plummer
(Ph.D. Yale 1991) Biological anthropology, Hominid behavior and paleoecology, Hominid paleontology, human osteology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314, 315M; Phone: (718) 997-5511 & (718) 997-5514; E-mail: |
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Timothy Pugh
(Ph.D. Southern Illinois U - Carbondale 2001) Archaeology, Mesoamerica, complex society, Maya, ethnohistory,
social identity.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312B; Phone: (718) 997-2896; E-mail: |
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Sara Stinson
(Ph. D. U Michigan 1978) Biological anthropology,
human growth and development,
human adaptation, nutritional anthropology, South America.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312C Phone: (718) 997-2893; E-mail: |
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Karen Strassler
(Ph. D. Michigan 2003) 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: Powdermaker Hall 315H; Phone: (718) 997-2859; E-mail: |
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Larissa Swedell
(Ph.D. Columbia University 2000) Biological anthropology, primatology, primate ecology and behavior, reproductive strategies,
Hamadryas baboons.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315E; Phone: (718) 997-2897 E-mail: | |
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Justin Bracken (graduate student, CUNY),
Archaeology, Mesoamerica, the Maya, GIS, and Spatial Analysis. Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892 E-mail: justin.bracken@gmail.com |
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Shahrina Chowdhury (Graduate Student, CUNY)
Biological Anthropology, primatology, baboon behavior. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892; E-mail: shahrinac@yahoo.com |
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Jenna Wallace Coplin (graduate student, CUNY),
Archaeology, Northeast, mid 19thC, Public Anthropology, Semiotics Powdermaker Hall 314F; Phone: (718) 997-2890 E-mail: JCoplin@gc.cuny.edu |
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Emily Curtin (graduate student, CUNY; MA University College London 2005),
Cultural anthropology, political economy, ethnicity and nationalism, Russia and Eastern Europe, archaeology Powdermaker Hall 314I; Phone: (718) 997-5512 E-mail: emily.curtin@qc.cuny.edu |
Tomomi J. Emoto (Ph. D. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) Cultural Anthropology, Performance, Borders, Modernity, Memory, Tourism, Shamanism, Power, Postcolonialism, Nationalism and Ethnicity, Japan, East Asia Office: Powdermaker Hall 314F: Phone 718-997-5525; E-mail: emototomomi@gmail.com |
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Christine Folch (Ph. D. 2012, CUNY),
Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, Africa.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314B; Phone: (718) 997-2928 E-mail: Christine.folch@gc.cuny.edu |
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Frances Forrest (graduate student, CUNY),
Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, Africa.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2889; E-mail: Forrestelf516@hotmail.com |
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Julian Gantt (Graduate Student, CUNY)
Cultural Anthropology, political economy, Islam, socialism, the Caucasus Office: Powdermaker 314I; Phone: (718) 997-5512; Email: jgantt@qc.cuny.edu |
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Saygun Gökariksel (Ph.d. Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center) Historical and legal anthropology, temporality, life history, visual culture, the modern state, socialism, neoliberalism, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Email: gokariksel@yahoo.com |
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Albert Gonzalez (Ph.d. Candidate, Southern Methodist University) Anthropological Archaeology, History, Geographic Information Systems, Nineteenth-Century Southwest, Native North America, Comparative Borderlands, Political Ecology, Material-Culture Studies, Latina/o Studies Email: ag3113@columbia.edu |
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Marjorie Gorsline (graduate student, CUNY), archaeology, North America, historic archaeology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2889; E-mail: mgorsline@gc.cuny.edu |
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Caley Johnson (graduate student, CUNY),
Biological anthropology, primate nutritional ecology,
forest baboon ecology (Papio anubis),
conservation biology,
primate-plant coevolution. Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892 E-mail: caleyajohnson@gmail.com |
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Madhuri Karak
(Graduate Student, CUNY; MSc. Anthropology and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Cultural Anthropology, Environment, Identity and Social Movements, South-east Asia Office: Powdermaker Hall 314D; Phone: (718) 997-5523; E-mail: mkarak@gc.cuny.edu |
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Nazia Kazi (graduate student, CUNY; MA Columbia University), cultural anthropology, race, multiculturalism, transnational feminism, class.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892; E-mail: nazkazi82@yahoo.com |
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Aaron Kendall
(PhD Candidate, CUNY), Archaeology, North Atlantic Archaeology.
Viking Age,
Medieval economies and trade,
Materiality. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314; Phone: (718) 997-28; E-mail: ackendall@gmail.com |
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Martha Lincoln (Ph. D. candidate, CUNY), Cultural anthropology,
medical anthropology, contemporary issues in public health, social movements.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892 E-mail: lincoln.anthro@gmail.com |
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Allison Manfra McGovern
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314I; Phone: (718) 997-5512
E-mail: Allison.Manfra@qc.cuny.edu |
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Susan Meswick
(Ph.D. U Connecticut 1982), Cultural anthropology,
medical anthropology,
applied anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314D; Phone: (718) 997-5532; E-mail: susan.meswick@qc.cuny.edu |
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Kathleen Riley
(Ph.D. 2001 CUNY Graduate Center), Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language socialization, multilingualism, language ideology, language and identity, French Polynesia, la francophonie Office: Powdermaker Hall 314F; Phone: (718) 997-5515; E-mail: Kathleen.Riley@qc.cuny.edu |
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Igor Rodríguez Calderón
(doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center; MA in Latin American Studies from The University of California at Berkeley) Igor's research deals with the production of history, heritage and nationalism, and sociolinguistics in Colombia. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314B; Phone: (718) 997-2928; E-mail: IRodriguez@gc.cuny.edu |
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Valentina Pagliai
Linguistic Anthropology Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2889; E-mail: v.pagliai@yahoo.com |
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Jennifer Parkinson (Hodgson) (Graduate Student, CUNY)
Biological Anthropology, Human evolution. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314J; Phone: (718) 997-2854; E-mail: parkinson@nycep.org |
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Doreen Schmitt (Ph D candidate, CUNY), Linguistic anthropology,
sociolinguistics,
language and law,
forensic linguistics. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314J; Phone: (718) 997-5520; E-mail: |
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Miranda Suri (Ph D 2005, University of Pennsylvania) Mesoamerican archaeologist focusing on studies of identity, space, and gender in NW Honduras. Office: Powdermaker Hall 314i; Phone: (718) 997-5512; E-mail: mirandasuri@gmail.com |
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Marcela Tovar
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314B;
Phone: (718) 997-2928 E-mail: mtovar1967@yahoo.com Book: “Castoriadis, Foucault and Autonomy: New Approaches to Subjectivity, Society and Social Change”, Continuum Press, London-NY (Forthcoming March, 2012) Articles “Nations within Nations: Transnationalism and Indigenous Citizenship in Latin America” in Transnational Latin Americanisms: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Power (T) here. Columbia University (Forthcoming, fall 2012) “Gender, Ethnicity and Climate Change in Colombia” in Gender and Climate Change: an introduction. Ed. Irene Dankelman, London: Earthscan, 2011 “Ageing in Valparaíso: Perceiving the Values of Urban Space”. Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 25/1, Spring 2011 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Marcela Tovar Restrepo also lectures at the New School for Social Research (N.Y.). She conducts research on ethnicity, gender and development in Latin America and has taught in Colombia and Chile. She has served as international consultant mainstreaming cultural and gender rights into policy-making processes at different UN instances like the Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD) - DESA, UNDEF, IPU and the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Marcela serves as a member of Advisory Council for the Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding (QC) and board member of Women’s Environmental and Development Organization (NY). |
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Anahí Viladrich is a medical anthropologist and sociologist originally from Argentina.
In the US, she received a PhD with Distinction in 2003 and an MPhil in Sociomedical Sciences (Medical Anthropology) from Columbia University in 2000,
and an MA (in Sociology) with honors from the New School University in 1999. Viladrich has published extensively on gender and reproductive health in Argentina and Latin America, and on diverse topics pertaining immigration, culture and health in the US and abroad. Before joining Queens College 2010, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY where she directed the Immigration and Health Initiative (2004-2010). Viladrich is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Queens College, and at the Doctoral Program in Public Health, The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has been recently appointed to direct the first Center on Immigration Studies at Queens College. Office: Powdermaker Hall, Room 233A Telephone Number: 718-997-2784 E-mail: anahi.viladrich@qc.cuny.edu |
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