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  • Faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology explore analytic, social, and political issues through ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and theoretical reflection. They lead cutting-edge research and develop projects both individually and in collaboration with other graduate programs and centers at 鶹ýɫƬ.

    Recent Faculty Books

    Abou Farman,Associate Professor of Anthropology
    University of Minnesota Press, 2020


    Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History
    Oxford University Press, 2022


    Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History (co-editor)
    Fordham University Press, 2020


    Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History
    Duke University Press, 2016


    Antina von Schnitzler, Associate Professor of International Affairs
    Princeton, 2017


    Barbara Adams,Assistant Professor of Art, Design and Social Justice (co-editor with Susan Yelavitch)
    Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

    Benjamin Lee, Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy (co-editor with Randy Martin)
    University of Chicago Press, 2016

    Christina Moon,Associate Professor of Fashion Studies
    Routledge, 2020

    "" in Environmental Humanities
    Columba González-Duarte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    Duke University Press, 2024

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    Dana Burton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (co-author with Valerie Olson)
    Berggruen Institute, 2024


    Hugh Raffles,Professor of Anthropology
    Pantheon Books, 2020


    Jaskiran Dhillon
    ,Associate Professor of Global Studies
    University of Toronto Press, 2017


    Jonathan Bach, Professor of Global Studies
    Columbia University Press, 2017

    ""in Cognition
    Lawrence Hirschfeld,Professor of Anthropology and Psychology (CSD) (co-authorwith H. Sheikh)
    Elsevier BV, 2019


    Nicolas Langlitz, Professor of Anthropology
    Princeton University Press, 2020

    Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology
    Penguin Random House, 2020

    Rachel Heiman, Associate Professor of Anthropology
    University of California Press, 2015

    Sareeta Amrute,Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management
    Duke University Press, 2016


    Ujju Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning
    University of Minnesota Press, 2024

    Recent Dissertation Titles

    2024

    Vaida Norvilaite
    Dissertation: The Afterlife of Positivism: Intellectual Ethnography of Auguste Comte’s Church of Humanity in Brazil

    William Scarlett
    Dissertation:Being There and Not There: Making Presence in Virtual Reality and Forest Therapy

    2023

    Chellie Bowman
    Dissertation:Towards an Anthropology of Birds: How the Knowledge Practices of Amateur Birders & Bird Scientists Amplify and Access Nonhuman Life

    Lee Brando
    Dissertation:Rehabilitating Medicine: Chronic Pain, Opioid Prescribing, and Telementoring Technologies in the Pacific Northwest

    Sarah Elizabeth Chant
    Dissertation:Feeling It Out: Imaginative and Affective Strategies of Queer and Trans Life in Alabama

    Liliana Gil Russo De Sousa
    Dissertation: Beyond Make-do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil

    Chang-Chen Shen
    Dissertation:Dwelling Politically: Political Ontology and the Everyday Life of Chinese Undocumented Migrants in the US

    2022

    Katheryn Marie Detwiler
    Dissertation:Science Fell in Love with the Chilean Sky: Data as a Speculative Resource in the Atacama Desert

    Chi Chung Lau
    Dissertation:Digitized China: Technology, State, Everyday Life

    Felipe Vieira Meres
    Dissertation:Art/facts Rerendered

    2021

    Chi Chung Lau
    Dissertation:Digitized China: Technology, State, Everyday Life

    2020

    Tamara Alvarez
    Dissertation: The Eighth Continent: An Ethnography of 21st Century Euro-American Plans to Settle the Moon

    Frederick Charles Howard III
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    2019

    Katyayani Dalmia
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    Randi L. Irwin
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    Charles Alan McDonald
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    Viana Muller
    Dissertation: Gender Structures and Stratification in Prehistoric Northwest and Central-West Europe: 1500 BCE-800 CE

    Alexios Tsigkas
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    2018

    Tyler James Boersen
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    Jason Duane Euren
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    Brie Marina Gettleson
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    Frederick CHoward III
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    Rhea Bonita Rahman
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    Emily Sekine
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    Marisa E. Solomon
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    Ana María Ulloa Garzón
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    2017

    MonicaFagioli
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    Christina Kim
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    JulienneObadia
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    Emily Sogn
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    Grzegorz StanislawSokol
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    Carol Wang
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