| Nadia
Abu El-Haj:
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| Associate 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. (Part-time faculty):
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| Professor Emeritus,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1963 |
| Interests:
Evolutionary theory, art and society, symbolic anthropology, French anthropology; Africa, western Europe |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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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, agrarianism, globalization; South Asia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Myron
L.
Cohen:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1967 |
| Interests:
Culture and society |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Elaine
Combs-Schilling:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1981 |
| Interests:
Symbolic anthropology, political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; sexual politics; North Africa; Middle East |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Zoë
Crossland:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
2001 |
| Interests:
Historical archaeology, forensic archaeology, semeiotics; Madagascar Argentina |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Terence
N.
D'Altroy:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles),
1981 |
| Interests:
Ancient empires of the Andes, Peru |
| 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 processes, 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
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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| Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1981 |
| Interests:
Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, philosophy of history, colonialism; British Empire, South Asia |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Severin
M.
Fowles:
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| Assistant Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
1998 |
| Interests:
Archaelogical theory, religion and ritual, theocracy, landscape, village societies oral history, archaeology and ethnography of American Southwest |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Steven
Gregory:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
New School,
1986 |
| Interests:
Urban studies, environmental justice, cultural race theory, African-American political activism, cultural studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ralph
L.
Holloway:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1964 |
| Interests:
Physical anthropology; evolution of brain and behavior; paleoanthropology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marilyn
Ivy:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1988 |
| Interests:
Modern Japanese anthropology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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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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| Brian
Larkin:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
New York,
1998 |
| Interests:
Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Claudio
Lomnitz:
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| Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race,
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
1987 |
| Interests:
Historical sociology of politics and culture in Mexico, Mexico |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Mahmood
Mamdani:
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| Herbert Lehman Professor of Government (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1974 |
| Interests:
Reproduction of political identities, institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called "African Studies" |
| 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,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1994 |
| Interests:
Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction techniques on visuality |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Neni
Panourgiá:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Indiana,
1992 |
| Interests:
Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, history of anthropology, anthropology of medicine, death, myths, anthropology and classics, concentration camps, the European Left; Europe, Greece |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| John
Pemberton:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1989 |
| Interests:
Modern Indonesian cultural anthropology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Elizabeth
A.
Povinelli:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1991 |
| Interests:
Language, culture and power, subjectivity and sexuality, critical theory, liberalism and multiculturalism, indigenous and human rights; Australia, U.S. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nan
A.
Rothschild:
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| Ann Whitney Olin Professor Emerita (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
New York,
1975 |
| Interests:
Urban and historic archaeology, colonial encounters, archaeology and social organization, museum anthropology; North America, U.S. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| David
Scott:
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| 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.,
California (Berkeley),
1990 |
| Interests:
Medical anthropology, symbolics of the body, biotechnologies, trans-cultural psychiatry, religion, anthropology of work, migration, gender and youth, theory of methods, Africa, Indian Ocean, U.S. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
T.
Taussig:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
London,
1974 |
| Interests:
Indigenous peoples of the Andean region, Columbia and Peru |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Paige
West:
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| Associate Professor (Barnard),
PhD,
Rutgers,
2000 |
| Interests:
Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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