| Nadia
Abu El-Haj:
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| Assistant Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Duke,
1995 |
| Interests:
Social cultural anthropology, anthropology of science, colonialism, race; Middle East |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Lila
Abu-Lughod:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1984 |
| Interests:
Social anthropology, gender, popular culture and oral literature, self and emotion, Third World media, social transformation, politics of scholarship, Islam; Middle East |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Alexander
Alland Jr.:
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| Professor Emeritus,
Ph.D.,
Yale |
| Interests:
Anthropology and aesthetics, ethnography, racism in academia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| George
C.
Bond:
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| Professor (Teachers College),
Ph.D.,
London School of Economics |
| Interests:
Fundamental educational, political and economic relationships in rural African communities, race relations and the making of black social and intellectual elites, processes of domination and subjugation and responses to them |
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| Robert
Carneiro:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Michigan,
1957 |
| Interests:
Ethnology, Indians of Amazonia, cultural evolution, cultural ecology, political organization |
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| Partha
Chatterjee:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rochester,
1971 |
| Interests:
Nation and State, political theory, political economy, colonialism, religion, agararianism, globalization; South Asia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Myron
L.
Cohen:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1967 |
| Interests:
Social organization; political organization; complex societies; peasant societies; China; East society since the seventeenth century; Taiwan and northern, eastern, and western mainland China |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Elaine
Combs-Schilling:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley,
1981 |
| Interests:
Symbolic anthropology; political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; North Africa; Middle East |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Lambros
Comitas:
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| Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education (Teachers College),
Ph.D.,
Columbia University,
1962 |
| Interests:
Patterns of cooperation, community structure and epidemiology of ecologically diverse communities, multi-ethnic education, plural education, sociocultural analysis |
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| Marina
Cords:
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| Professor (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology),
Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley,
1984 |
| Interests:
Biological anthropology; primate social organization; behavioral ecology; behavior, behavioral ecology, ethology, ecology, socioecology, primatology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Zoe
Crossland:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
2001 |
| Interests:
Historical archaeology, forensic archaology, semeiotics; Madagascar Argentina |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Terence
D'Altroy:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
UCLA,
1981 |
| Interests:
Archaeology; complex politics and economics; Andean South America; quantitative analytic methods |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| E.
Valentine
Daniel:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1979 |
| Interests:
Semiotic anthropology, refugees, states of violence, critical theory; South Asia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nicholas
De Genova:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1999 |
| Interests:
Sociocultural anthropology and Latino studies; U.S.-Mexico migration and transnational social process, racialization, labor and class formation, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship and immigration law, and the politics of ethnographic research practice |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nicholas
B.
Dirks:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago |
| Interests:
Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnology, peasant society, the state, critical theory; South Asia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Severin
M.
Fowles:
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| Assistant Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
1998 |
| Interests:
Archelogical Theory, religion and ritual, theocracy, landscape, village societiesoral history, archaeology and ethnography of American Southwest |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Steven
Gregory:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
New School,
1986 |
| Interests:
Race and gender studies, urban ethnography, environmental justice, cultural race theory, African-American political activism , political economy and globalization |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Charles
C.
Harrington:
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| Professor (Teachers College);Professor of Anthropology Psychology and Education,
Ph.D.,
Harvard |
| Interests:
Psychological anthropology; resiliency, resistance, and agency in "at risk" populations; racial, ethnic and gender stratification in American society; problems of development and change in business, industry and organizations |
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| Ralph
L.
Holloway:
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| Professor (Anthropology),
Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley,
1964 |
| Interests:
Physical anthropology; evolution of brain and behavior; paleoanthropology;comparative primate psychology and aggression, ethology, evolutionary biology, paleoneurology, hominid paleontology, neural biological variability, sexual dimorphism, and allometry |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marilyn
Ivy:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1988 |
| Interests:
Critical theory, history, anthropology of modernity, literature and textuality; Japan |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Robin
D.G.
Kelley:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of California (Los Angeles),
1987 |
| Interests:
Black radical movements in US, African Diaspora, black intellectuals, music, visual culture, contemporary urban studies, poverty studies and ethnography, colonialism/imperialism, organized labor, constructions of race, Surrealism, Marxism, nationalism; African (notably South Africa) |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Laurel
Kendall:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia University |
| Interests:
Popular religion, gender, consumption, medicine, and local understandings of "tradition" and "modernity" |
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| Paul
Kockelman:
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| Assistant Professor, Barnard,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
2002 |
| Interests:
Linguistic anthropology, personhood and developmental disorders; Guatemala and Urban U.S. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Brian
Larkin:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
New York University,
1998 |
| Interests:
Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Claudio
Lomnitz:
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| Professor of Anthropology and Director of Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race,
Ph.D.,
Stanford University,
1987 |
| Interests:
Anthropology and history of Latin America, historical anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of corruption and death, historicity and crisis in contemporary societies, cultural, geography, intellectuals, ethnography of the state, public culture; Mexico, Latin America |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Mahmood
Mamdani:
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| Herbert Lehman Professor of Government (Anthropology, International and Public Affairs),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1974 |
| Interests:
Political identity, justice and reconciliation in Rwanda and South Africa, Africa, African studies, state reform and social movements |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ellen
Marakowitz:
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| Lecturer in Discipline,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1993 |
| Interests:
Gender, nationalism, social welfare systems; northern Europe, Finland, medical anthropology |
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| Don
J.
Melnick:
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| Professor (Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology),
Ph.D.,
Yale |
| Interests:
Genetic structures of primates, dynamics of genetic change, molecular phylogenies and date cladogenic events; Population genetics, molecular evolution and conservation |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Brinkley
Messick:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Princeton,
1978 |
| Interests:
Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Hlonipha
Mokoena:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cape Town,
2005 |
| Interests:
Zulu intellectual history, colonialism, missionaries, public spheres; South Africa |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Rosalind
Morris:
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| Professor (Anthropology),
Ph.D.,
Chigaco,
1994 |
| Interests:
Visuality and performance, modernity, gender/sexuality; Thailand;the history of modernity in Thailand; the theorization of ritual and performance, and of their relationships to the discourses of cultural order; the transformation of vision and visuality through technologies of mass reproduction, and especially film |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Moni
Nag:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale |
| Interests:
Demography, cross-cultural studies, ethnology; South Asia |
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| Neni
Panourgia:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Indiana,
1992 |
| Interests:
Sociocultural anthropology, critique of science, neoclassical architecture, cancer, death, myths, anthropology and classics; Europe, Greece |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| John
Pemberton:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1989 |
| Interests:
Colonial/postcolonial studies, historiography, politics, discourse, ritual practice, translation; Java, Indonesia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Elizabeth
A.
Povinelli:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale University,
1991 |
| Interests:
Language, culture and power, subjectivity and sexuality, critical theory, liberalism and multiculturalism, indigenous and human rights; Austrailia, US |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Barbara
Price:
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| Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia |
| Interests:
Ecological anthropology, cultural evolution, anthropological theory; Latin America |
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| Nan
A.
Rothschild:
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| Ann Whitney Olin Professor (Barnard Emerita),
Ph.D.,
NYU,
1975 |
| Interests:
Urban archaeology; historical archaeology; museology; archaeological methods; social organization; sex roles; native North America; US |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Enid
Schildkrout:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge,
1969 |
| Interests:
Social anthropology, ethnology, museology; Africa |
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| David
Scott:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
New School,
1989 |
| Interests:
Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Karen
Seeley:
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| Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1997 |
| Interests:
Psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, cultural psychotherapy, comparative human development, psychoanalysis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Lesley
A.
Sharp:
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| Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley,
1990 |
| Interests:
Medical anthropology; religion, work and economic development, gender, ethnographic arts, theory and methods; Africa and Indian Ocean |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Sandhya
Shukla:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1997 |
| Interests:
Immigration, race and ethnicity, the Indian diaspora in the US and UK, US cultural studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
Taussig:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
London School or Economics,
1974 |
| Interests:
Theory, colonialism, shamanism, terror, folk healing, mimesis, magicalities of the state, secrecy, Latin America |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Margaret
Vail:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
NYU,
2004 |
| Interests:
Film studies, film making, documentaries, curation, tourism |
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| Carole
S.
Vance:
|
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| Associate Research Scientist,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1979 |
| Interests:
Sexuality, gender, medical anthropology, human rights, public policy, American culture |
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| Herve
Varenne:
|
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| Professor of Education (Teachers College),
Ph.D.,
University of Chicago |
| Interests:
Ethnomethodology, ideology, issues of family interaction in relation to schooling |
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| Paige
West:
|
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| Assistant Professor (Anthropology, Barnard College),
PhD,
Rutgers University,
2000 |
| Interests:
Cultural and environmental anthropology, relationship between conservation and development and the imagination and the environment, social and environmental consequences of conservation and the production of nature and culture; Linkages between environmental conservation and international development, and environmental ethics;Anthropology, political ecology, Melanesi |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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