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 The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago has a long and proud tradition of scholarly excellence and leadership in the discipline.This is, perhaps, an even more exciting time than usual because we have just made substantial additions of excellent young anthropologists to our faculty. We are intent on maintaining the traditional foci of the Department while developing emerging centers of theoretical interest in the discipline and beyond. Some of the areas that are currently enjoying particular attention by faculty and students in archaeology as well as linguistic and sociocultural anthropology include: semiotic approaches to culture, postcoloniality, human rights and indigenous rights, globalization, critiques of neoliberalism, the politics of gender and sexuality, the analysis of place and space, and the anthropological study of science. Each of these research areas is enhanced by the Department's longstanding commitment to training students in the history and foundations of social and cultural theory. The excellence of our graduate students has always been one of the most important aspects of our program, since so much is learned in free-ranging discussions with fellow students and in our small, hands-on research seminars and workshops.
Hussein Ali Agrama (PhD Johns Hopkins 2005; Assistant Professor) Anthropology of religion, Islam, law, colonial power; Middle East, Egypt. (On Leave 2008-09)
Office: Haskell 331; Phone: (773) 834-4496; E-mail: hagrama@uchicago.edu
Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (PhD Estadual de Campinas 1975; Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, traditional peoples' land and intellectual rights, indigenous history, ethnicity, slavery and emancipation; Brazil. (Only in Residence Winter 2009)
Office: Haskell 238; Phone: (773) 702-7001; E-mail: mcarneir@uchicago.edu
Jessica R. Cattelino (PhD NYU 2004; Assistant Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity, economy and value, American public culture, Indian gaming, gender, political participation, law; United States, Native North America. (On Leave 2008-2009; goes to UCLA Autumn 2009)
Office: Haskell 119; Phone: (773) 702-8551; E-mail: jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu
Julie Y. Chu (PhD, NYU, 2004; Assistant Professor) Sociocultural anthropology; globalization and transnational process, economy and value, gender and kinship, the body and ritual, practices of media and representation; China.
Office: Haskell 338; Phone: (773) 702-7708; E-mail: juliechu@uchicago.edu
Jean Comaroff (PhD London School of Economics 1974; Bernard E & Ellen C Sunny Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory) Sociocultural anthropology, history, colonialism and postcolonialism, ritual, medicine, the body, neoliberalism, crime, policing and public order; southern Africa. (Out of Residence Winter 2009)
Office: Haskell Mez 135; Phone: (773) 702-7787; E-mail: jcomaro@uchicago.edu
John L. Comaroff (PhD London School of Economics 1973; Harold H Swift Distinguished Service Professor; Research Professor, American Bar Foundation) Sociocultural anthropology, political and legal systems, historical anthropology, colonialism and postcoloniality, modernity and the politics of identity; Africa (Out of Residence Winter 2009)
Office: Haskell Mez 136; Phone: (773) 702-7768; E-mail: jcomarof@uchicago.edu
Shannon Lee Dawdy (PhD U Michigan 2003; Assistant Professor) Archaeology of colonial and post-colonial Americas, historical anthropology, race and ethnicity, urban archaeology, informal and maritime economies, gender and sexuality, tourism, disaster, politics of historic preservation, Creole societies, Native America, U.S. South, Caribbean.
Office : Haskell 202; Phone: (773) 834-0829; E-mail: sdawdy@uchicago.edu
Michael Dietler (PhD UC Berkeley 1990; Associate Professor; associate appointment in Classics) Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, colonialism and postcoloniality, political economy, consumption, ritual, material culture, memory, identity politics, Celticism, science studies, Europe, Africa.
Office: Haskell 131; Phone: (773) 702-7150; E-mail: mdietler@uchicago.edu
Judith B. Farquhar (PhD U Chicago 1986; Max Palevsky Professor) Medical anthropology, anthropology of everyday life, popular culture studies, post-structural and critical theory; China.
Office: Haskell 201; Phone: (773) 702-7735; E-mail: farquhar@uchicago.edu
Kesha D. Fikes (PhD UCLA 2000; Assistant Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, colonialism, postcoloniality; modernity, liberal democracies, contemporary relations of production, subject relationality and sociality, race, anti-racism, normativity and abnormality, the state, migration, immigration law, indentured labor, citizenship, subsistence, leisure consumption, unlicensed markets, waged women’s work, policing, lusofonia; Lusophone Africa, Portugal, the European Union.
Office: Haskell 324; Phone: (773) 702-7736; E-mail: fikes@uchicago.edu
Raymond D. Fogelson (PhD U Pennsylvania 1962; Professor; joint appointment with Comparative Human Development) Social anthropology, psychological anthropology, primitivism, religion, tourism, museums; Native North America.
Office: Haskell 227; Phone: (773) 702-7726; E-mail: rfogelso@uchicago.edu
Susan Gal (PhD UC Berkeley 1976; Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor ; joint appointment with Linguistics) Linguistic anthropology, politics of communication, sociolinguistics, social theory, gender, ethnicity; European studies, postsocialism.
Office: Haskell 237; Phone: (773) 702-2551; E-mail: s-gal@uchicago.edu
John D. Kelly (PhD U Chicago 1988; Professor and Deptartment Chair) Social theory, capitalism, nation and decolonization, anthropology of knowledge, semiotic technologies; Fiji, India.
Office: Haskell 206 / Haskell 112; Phone: (773) 702-4333 / 702-7742; E-mail: johnkelly@uchicago.edu
Karin D. Knorr Cetina (PhD U Vienna 1971; George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor; joint appt with Sociology) Globalization, cultural studies, economic sociology and anthropology, knowledge, science and information; Europe. (On Leave 2008-09)
Office: Social Science 424; Phone: (773) 834-3312; E-mail: knorr@uchicago.edu
Alan L. Kolata (PhD Harvard 1978; Neukom Family Distinguished Service Professor) Archaeology and ethnohistory, preindustrial urbanism, development of agricultural systems, human environment interactions, anthropology of development; Andes, Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia.
Office : Haskell 135; Phone: (773) 702-7729; E-mail: a-kolata@uchicago.edu
Joseph P. Masco (PhD UC San Diego 1999; Associate Professor ) Science studies, anthropology of security, social theory, race and nation, expressive culture; US, North America.
Office: Haskell Mez 134; Phone: (773) 834-7807; E-mail: jmasco@uchicago.edu
William T.S. Mazzarella (PhD UC Berkeley 2000; Associate Professor) Cultural politics of globalization, mass media, public culture and publicity, critical theory, affect and aesthetics, post-coloniality; South Asia.
Office: Haskell 327; Phone: (773) 834-4873; E-mail: mazzarel@uchicago.edu
Kathleen D. Morrison (PhD UC Berkeley 1992; Professor; Director of the Center for International Studies) Archaeological method and theory, historical anthropology, agricultural organization and change, colonialism and imperialism, landscape history, regional analysis, intensification, archaeobotanical analysis, stable isotopes, anthropology of food; South Asia, Western North America.
Office: Haskell 314 / Pick 103; Phone: 702-7704 / 702-3013 / 834-1249 (Lab); E-mail: morrison@uchicago.edu
Stephan D. Palmié (D.Phil U Munich 1989, Habilitation U Munich 1999; Associate Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, Cuba, Afro-Caribbean religions, historical anthropology, constructions of race and ethnicity, food and cuisine.
Office: Haskell 212; Phone: (773) 834-1576; E-mail: palmie@uchicago.edu
François G. Richard (PhD Syracuse 2007; Assistant Professor) Archaeology, study of the African historical experience (emphasis on West Africa), landscapes, complexity and political economy, historical anthropology, anthropology of memory, Marxist and social theory, material culture analysis, survey methodology, politics of archaeology and archaeological activism/education; West Africa, Senegal. Office: Haskell 318; Phone: (773) 702-7714; E-mail: fgrichard@uchicago.edu
Danilyn Rutherford (PhD Cornell 1997; Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies 2007-2008) Sociocultural anthropology, cultural studies, colonial and postcolonial societies, history and historical consciousness, nationalism, technology, globalization, kinship, millenniallism, Christian conversion; Southeast Asia, Oceania, Melanesia, Indonesia. (On Leave 2008-09)
Office: Haskell 211; Phone: (773) 834-1508; E-mail: drutherf@uchicago.edu
Robin Ann Shoaps (PhD UC Santa Barbara 2004; Assistant Professor) Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages and cultures, personhood and subjectivity, moral discourse, Christianities in the US and Latin America; Mexico, Guatemala.
Office: Haskell 301; Phone: (773) 702-7724; E-mail: shoaps@uchicago.edu
Michael Silverstein (PhD Harvard 1972; Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor; joint appointment with Linguistics, Psychology & Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities) Language, semiotics of communication, culture and cognition; North America , Australia.
Office: Haskell 313; Phone: (773) 702-7713; E-mail: m-silverstein@uchicago.edu
Adam T. Smith (PhD U Arizona 1996; Associate Professor) Archaeology, Bronze Age/Iron Age, complex societies, politics, space and landscape, aesthetics; Transcaucasia, southwest Asia, Eurasia.
Office: Haskell 205; Phone: (773) 834-4495; E-mail: atsmith@uchicago.edu
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (PhD Johns Hopkins 1985; Professor) Social theory, historical anthropology, political economy; Caribbean, Afro-Americas. (On leave 2008-2009)
Office: Haskell 207 Phone: (773) 834-3218
Russell H. Tuttle (PhD UC Berkeley 1965; Professor) Physical anthropology; primatology, hominoid evolution, human anatomy, paleoanthropology, history of physical anthropology; Africa.
Office: Haskell 134 / Haskell 027; Phone: (773) 702-7719; E-mail: rhtuttle@uchicago.edu
Senior Lecturers and Instructors
Mark T. Lycett (PhD University of New Mexico 1995; Director, Environmental Studies Program in the College, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology) Archaeology, method and theory, analytical methods, ethnohistory, colonialism, demography, landscape studies; Western North America, South Asia
Office: Haskell 302; Phone: (773) 702-6040; E-mail: mlycett@uchicago.edu
Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist (PhD, Kobe University, 2004; Postdoctoral Instructor/Research Associate, Analysis of Human-Environment Interactions Project) Political ecology, cultural geography, natural resource management (forest); Southeast Asia, Laos/Thailand
Office: Haskell 223; Phone: (773) 834-4810; E-mail: yayoi@uchicago.edu
Emeritus Faculty
James W. Fernandez (PhD Northwestern 1962, D Honoris Causa Amherst 1993; Professor Emeritus; jt appt with History of Culture) Cultural anthropology, narrative and narrative ethnography, trop theory, culture change; Africa, Europe, Western Mediterranean, Atlantic Fringe (Celtic World).
Office: Haskell 312; Phone: (773) 702-7003; E-mail: jwf1@uchicago.edu
Leslie G. Freeman (PhD U Chicago 1964; Professor Emeritus) Pleistocene prehistory, methodology in archaeology; Europe.
Paul Friedrich (PhD Yale 1957; Professor Emeritus active; joint appointment with Social Thought) Linguistic and cultural anthropology, world poetry, literature and politics; nineteenth century Russia, Tarascan Mexico, Homeric Greece.
Office: Foster 501; Phone: (773) 702-7004
McKim Marriott (PhD U Chicago 1955; Professor Emeritus) Cultural anthropology, ethnosociology and ethnopsychology, formal methods, simulations; South Asia, Japan.
Office: Haskell 224; Phone: (773) 702-7766; E-mail: mmarriot@uchicago.edu
Nancy D. Munn (PhD Australian National U 1961; Professor Emerita) Sociocultural anthropology, space and time, symbolism, exchange; New Guinea, Australia.
Office: Haskell 216; Phone: (773) 702-7738; E-mail: ndmunn@uchicago.edu
Ralph W. Nicholas (PhD U Chicago 1962; William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus; President, American Institute of Indian Studies) Cultural, social and psychological anthropology, religion, kinship; South Asia, Bengal.
E-mail: r-nicholas@uchicago.edu
Marshall Sahlins (PhD Columbia 1954, D. Honoris Causa Paris X-Nanterre 1999, U Michigan 2001, St. Andrews 2003, Minas Gerais 2006; Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus) Ethnology; Oceania.
Office: Haskell 125; Phone: (773) 702-7703; E-mail: m-sahlins@uchicago.edu
Raymond T. Smith (PhD Cambridge 1954; Professor Emeritus) Social/cultural anthropology, ideology, kinship, urban studies; Caribbean, West Africa, US.
George W. Stocking, Jr. (PhD U Pennsylvania 1960; Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus; joint appointment w/ Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) History of anthropology and historical anthropology; United States, Britain.
E-mail: g-stocking@uchicago.edu
Terence S. Turner (PhD Harvard U 1965; Professor Emeritus; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell) Social anthropology, political economy, symbolic forms, social organization; South America.
E-mail: tst3@cornell.edu
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