Faculty in the Anthropology Department
| Anthropologists in Other Departments, Schools
or Institutes | Emeritus Faculty | Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty in the Anthropology
Department
Douglas D Anderson
(Ph.D. U Pennsylvania 1967; Professor)
Archaeology, ethnography, hunter-gatherer ecology, early agricultural
developments, environmental management in traditional societies,
ethnonationalism; North America, Arctic, North Asia, Southeast
Asia.
Douglas_Anderson@brown.edu
Wanni W Anderson
(Ph.D. U Pennsylvania 1973; Adjunct Professor)
Displacement and diaspora, refugees, new ethnic group formation, Asian nationalism and ethnonationalism, multiraciality, autoethnography, folklore; Southeast Asia, Asian America, Arctic.
Wanni_Anderson@brown.edu
Marcy Brink-Danan
(Ph.D., Stanford, 2005; Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Linguistic and cultural anthropology and social history of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, semiotics, nationalism, migration/diaspora; Balkans, Middle East, North Africa. Marcy_Brink-Danan@brown.edu
Paja Faudree
(Ph.D University of Pennsylvania, 2006; Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Linguistic anthropology, indigenous social movements, language and politics, ethnicity and nationalism, literacy, minority literatures, music and singing, ethnohistory, Americas ( Mexico , Ecuador )
Paja_Faudree@brown.edu
Lina M Fruzzetti
(Ph.D. U Minnesota 1975; Professor)
Social anthropology, kinship, politics, study of ritual and the
construction of gender, development and political studies, race
and ethnic relations, Islamic societies and notions of identity,
ethnographic film; Feminist movement in Africa and Asia, study
of ritual and kinship, construction of gender and identity, nationalism
and post-colonial identity (India and Africa).
Lina_Fruzzetti@brown.edu
Richard A Gould
(Ph.D. U California-Berkeley 1965; Professor)
Archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, ecological anthropology, underwater
archaeology; Australia and Pacific, Fennoscandia.
Richard_Gould@brown.edu
Matthew C Gutmann
(Ph.D. U California-Berkeley 1995; MPH U California-Berkeley 1997;
Associate Professor)
Change, gender, ethnicity/race/nationalism, medical, critical
theory, ethics, ethnography; Americas (Latin America, US).
Matthew_Gutmann@brown.edu
Sherine F. Hamdy
(PhD, New York University, 2006; Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2008)
Medical anthropology, science studies, global biotechnologies, gender difference and reproduction; Modern Middle East.
Sherine_Hamdy@brown.edu
Marida C Hollos
(Ph.D. U California-Berkeley 1970; MPH Harvard U 1981; Professor)
Psychological anthropology, demographic anthropology, life-span
development, anthropology of education, psychology of gender,
women in development, ethnographic methods, Eastern and Western
Europe, Africa.
Marida_Hollos@brown.edu
Stephen D. Houston
(M. Phil, Yale University 1983; Ph.D Yale University 1987, Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology)
Research interests: archaeology; kingship and court systems; body
concepts in antiquity; writing systems; epigraphy and decipherment;
architecture and urbanism; Classic Maya; South America; Europe.
Stephen_Houston@brown.edu
David I Kertzer
(Ph.D. Brandeis U 1974; Provost, Dupee University Professor)
Social organization, demographic, politics and symbolism, religion,
historical; Europe.
David_Kertzer@brown.edu
Shepard Krech III
(Ph.D. Harvard U 1974; Professor)
Social anthropology, ethnohistory, material culture, museum studies;
North America.
Shepard_Krech_III@brown.edu
Philip E Leis
(Ph.D. Northwestern U 1962; Professor)
Sociocultural anthropology, social and political organization, identity,
interethnic relations, enculturation and cultural change, Associateiations;
Africa.
Philip_Leis@brown.edu
Catherine A Lutz
(PhD Harvard University 1980; Professor)
Gender
and race, critical theory, militarization, mass media, sociology
of psychological and academic discourse, emotions; US, Pacific.
Catherine_Lutz@brown.edu
Stephen T McGarvey
(Ph.D. Pennsylvania S 1980; MPH Yale U 1984; Director, Int'l Health Institute; Professor of Community Health and Anthropology, School of Medicine)
Biological anthropology, social change, epidemiology, cardiovascular disease, parasitism; Samoa, Philippines, China.
Stephen_McGarvey@brown.edu
Patrica E Rubertone
(Ph.D. State University of New York-Binghamton 1979; Associate Professor)
Archaeology, historical and complex societies, colonialism, ethnohistory,
place and landscape, material culture, archaeological theory;
North America (especially New England), North Africa.
Patricia_Rubertone@brown.edu
William Simmons
(Ph.D. Harvard U 1967; Professor and Chair)
Social/cultural anthropology, ethnohistory; Native North America.
William_Simmons@brown.edu
Daniel J Smith
(Ph.D. Emory U 1999; MPH Johns Hopkins University 1984; Associate
Professor)
Medical anthropology, international health, anthropological demography,
migration, development; Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria.
Daniel_J_Smith@brown.edu
Patricia V Symonds
(Ph.D. Brown 1991; Adjunct Associate Professor)
Medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, gender and society, ethnicity,
refugee issues, development, culture change, political economy;
Southeast Asia.
Patricia_Symonds@brown.edu
Nicholas W Townsend
(Ph.D. U California-Berkeley 1992; Associate Professor)
Population processes, social organization, social reproduction,
gender, kinship, life course; southern Africa, United States.
Nicholas_Townsend@brown.edu
Kay Warren
(Ph.D. Princeton University 1974; Tillinghast Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology)
Cultural anthropology,
political minorities and their public intellectuals, violence/terrorism
and peace processes, ethnic nationalism and indigenous rights,
documentary film and realist representation; Latin America and
its foreign aid donors, especially Japan.
Kay_Warren@brown.edu
Anthropologists in
Other Departments, Schools or Institutes
Liza Bakewell
(Ph.D., Brown University, 1991; Assistant Professor (Research); Director Mesolore
Project; Center for Latin American Studies)
Multimedia, visual communication, image acts, contemporary Latin
American art; Mexico. Elizabeth_Bakewell@brown.edu
Keith Brown
(Ph.D. Chicago 1995; Associate Professor (Research): International
Relations, Watson Institute for International Studies)
Social anthropology, identity, politics; Balkans.
Keith_Brown@brown.edu
Carol Delaney
(MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 1976; PhD. University of Chicago, 1984; Professor Emerita, Stanford University, 2005; Visiting Professor, Religious Studies, Brown 2006 -) Cultural Anthropology, Abrahamic Religions, Fundamentalism, Gender, Turkey, Columbus.
Carol_Delaney@brown.edu
Shirley Brice Heath
(Ph.D. Columbia University, 1970; Professor at Large)
Cultural Anthropology, linguistics, comparative education.
Shirley_Brice_Heath@brown.edu
Philip Lieberman
(Ph.D. MIT 1966; Professor, Linguistic and Cognitive Science)
Origins and evolution of language, primate communication, human
evolution, physiological and acoustic phonetics, neural losses
of language, communication of affect and emotion.
Philip_Lieberman@brown.edu
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
(Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 2005; Assistant Professor, Africana Studies)
Cultural and activist anthropology, critical race theory, African diaspora studies, gender-based social movements, black women's activism, urban politics ; Latin America, Caribbean, Brazil.
Keisha-Khan_Perry@brown.edu
Renée Rose Shield
(Ph.D. Brown 1984; Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health)
Cultural and medical anthropology, ethnography of nursing homes,
health care reform, ethical decision-making in long term care,
work and retirement, rites of passage and reciprocity in nursing
homes, end-of-life care, electronic records in medical settings;
North America
Renee_Shield@brown.edu
Kevin P Smith
(MA Michigan; Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Haffenreffer
Museum)
Archaeology of arctic, subarctic, and temperate woodland regions
in North America and the North Atlantic, museum studies.
Kevin_P_Smith@brown.edu
Sherine F. Hamdy
(Ph.D, New York University, 2006; Post-Doc, 2006-2008)
Medical anthropology, science studies, global biotechnologies, gender difference and reproduction; Modern Middle East.
Sherine_Hamdy@brown.edu
Thomas G. Garrison
(Ph.D, Harvard University, 2007; Postdoctoral Research Associate)
Mesoamerican Archaeology, GIS and Remote Sensing in Archaeology, settlement patterns, paleoenvironment, Maya politics, field methods.
Emeritus Faculty
Dwight B. Heath
(Ph.D. Yale U 1959; Professor Emeritus)
Ethnology, cultural stability and change, ethnohistory, social
organization, peasants, alcohol studies, applied, cross-cultural;
Latin America, Spain.
Robert Jay
(Ph.D. Harvard U 1957; Professor Emeritus)
Community and personal relationships, agricultural development
in the Third World, phenomenological anthropology; Southeast Asia.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky
(Ph.D. U Doctoral d'Etat Paris I-Sorbonne 1982; Professor; Director, Petra, Jordan Great Temple excavations)
Archaeology, field methods, Middle East prehistoric, agricultural and urban development, Nabataeans.
Martha_Joukowsky@brown.edu
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