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Department of Anthropology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.; Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.; Museum Anthropology: Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Terence N. D'Altroy, Ph.D.
962 Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.7347


Director of Graduate Studies: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Ph.D.
Milbank 411G
Tel: 212-854-4316


M.A. Adviser: Ellen Marakowitz, Ph.D.
468 Schermerhorn Ext.
Tel: 212-854-8268


Dissertation Sponsors

Nadia Abu El-Haj:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Duke, 1995
Interests: Social cultural anthropology, anthropology of science, colonialism, race; Middle East
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lila Abu-Lughod:
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
Alexander Alland Jr. (Part-time faculty):
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Yale, 1963
Interests: Evolutionary theory, art and society, symbolic anthropology, French anthropology; Africa, western Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Partha Chatterjee:
Professor, Ph.D., Rochester, 1971
Interests: Nation and state, political theory, political economy, colonialism, religion, agrarianism, globalization; South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Myron L. Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Culture and society
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elaine Combs-Schilling:
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
Zoë Crossland:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 2001
Interests: Historical archaeology, forensic archaeology, semeiotics; Madagascar Argentina
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Terence N. D'Altroy:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 1981
Interests: Ancient empires of the Andes, Peru
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
E. Valentine Daniel:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1979
Interests: Semiotic anthropology, refugees, states of violence, critical theory; South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas De Genova:
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
Nicholas De Genova:
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
Nicholas B. Dirks:
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
Severin M. Fowles:
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
Steven Gregory:
Professor, Ph.D., New School, 1986
Interests: Urban studies, environmental justice, cultural race theory, African-American political activism, cultural studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ralph L. Holloway:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1964
Interests: Physical anthropology; evolution of brain and behavior; paleoanthropology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marilyn Ivy:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Kockelman:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Chicago, 2002
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, personhood and developmental disorders; Guatemala and urban U.S.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brian Larkin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York University, 1998
Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brian Larkin:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., New York, 1998
Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Claudio Lomnitz:
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
Mahmood Mamdani:
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
Brinkley Messick:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Hlonipha Mokoena:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cape Town, 2005
Interests: Zulu intellectual history, colonialism, missionaries, public spheres; South Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rosalind Morris:
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
Neni Panourgiá:
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
John Pemberton:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1989
Interests: Modern Indonesian cultural anthropology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth A. Povinelli:
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
Nan A. Rothschild:
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
David Scott:
Professor, Ph.D., New School, 1989
Interests: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karen Seeley:
Lecturer, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1997
Interests: Psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, cultural psychotherapy, comparative human development, psychoanalysis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lesley A. Sharp:
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
Michael T. Taussig:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1974
Interests: Indigenous peoples of the Andean region, Columbia and Peru
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paige West:
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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