Faculty

  • Elizabeth Falconi

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology

    B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

    Linguistic anthropologist, specializing in anthropology of Mexico and the U.S., migration and transborder communities, citizenship, indigeneity, language and social inequality, narrative, language ideologies, language planning, language shift and revitalization.

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  • Anastasia Karakasidou

    Professor of Anthropology

    B.A., College of Wooster; M.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

    Social anthropologist doing research,  writing and teaching on the topics of health, illness and cancer.

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  • Philip L. Kohl

    Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies; Professor of Anthropology

    B.A., Columbia University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Research on prehistory of Eurasia, current political use of remote past; anthropology as the study of cultural and biological evolution.

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  • Deborah Matzner

    Deborah C. Matzner

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

    Cultural anthropologist of media and South Asia specializing in the ethnography of media production and visual culture in India.

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    Adam Van Arsdale

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    B.A., B.S., Emory University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

    Engaged in questions on the evolution of biological variation and its connections to culture through the fossil record.

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