Associate Professor
Research Interests: War, Militarization, security, biotechnology.
Areas of Concentration: Europe, United States
Professor and Co-Director of the Gender+ Justice Initiative
Research Interests: migration, borders, labor, trafficking, sex work, and policing
Areas of Concentration: United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Climate Change, water politics, digital infrastructures, environmental justice, social movements, oases.
Areas of Concentration: The Sahara, Algeria, the Middle East and North Africa.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Anthropology of media, anthropology of the state, law, and politics; social media, journalism, activism
Areas of Concentration: South Asia, India
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Urban anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Symbolic Anthropology, Anthropology of Human Rights
Areas of Concentration: Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, USA
Teaching Professor
Research Interests: medical anthropology, disability studies, language pedagogy, Turkish culture, nationalism and folklore, youth culture
Areas of Concentration: Turkey, Central Asia, Turkish Communities in Europe
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Racial capitalism; racism; prisons & policing; labor; land; reproduction; propaganda; white masculinity; common sense.
Areas of Concentration: United States
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Environmental anthropology, anthropology of the state, anthropology of war, insurgent technologies, land rights, deforestation and land grabbing.
Areas of Concentration: Latin America , Andes-Amazon
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Finance, credibility — how people, institutions, and governments work to define the limits of what is and isn’t credible.
Areas of Concentration: Africa; Togo, the broader West African region.
Chemical Heroes: A Book Talk with Andrew Bickford
February 11th, 2022
Pharmacological Superspreaders in the US Military Join us in welcoming Professor Andrew Bickford for a conversation on his book Chemical Heroes –Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the…
Join us for “Solidarity in the Sand: Labor, Capitalist Development, and Contestation in Mexico’s Maya Riviera” on March 18th
February 8th, 2022
Over the last several decades, Mexico has witnessed a significant decline in labor union activity as the result of the country’s integration into the global economy. Yet, in the commercial tourism…
