Emeritus Faculty

Terence S. Turner

(PhD Harvard U 1965; Professor Emeritus; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell) Social anthropology, political economy, symbolic forms, social organization; South America.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

(PhD, Johns Hopkins 1985) Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, works on the relation between historicity and power; the epistemology of the human sciences; global flows; and the historical evolution of Caribbean populations, their economic and cultural emergence from the slavery situation, their uneven integration into the world economy, and their relation to capital and to the state. (On leave 2004-05)

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.

Raymond T. Smith

(PhD Cambridge 1954; Professor Emeritus) Social/cultural anthropology, ideology, kinship, urban studies; Caribbean, West Africa, US.

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Marshall Sahlins

(PhD Columbia 1954, D. Honoris Causa Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1985; Paris X-Nanterre 1999; U Michigan 2001; St. Andrews 2003; Minas Gerais 2006; Sorbonne (Rene Descartes), 2011; London School of Economics, 2011; Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus) Ethnology; Oceania.

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.

Nancy D. Munn

(PhD Australian National U 1961; Professor Emerita) Sociocultural anthropology, space and time, symbolism, exchange; New Guinea, Australia.

McKim Marriott

(PhD U Chicago 1955; Professor Emeritus) Cultural anthropology, ethnosociology and ethnopsychology, formal methods, simulations; South Asia, Japan.

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.

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Leslie G. Freeman

(PhD U Chicago 1964; Professor Emeritus) Pleistocene prehistory, methodology in archaeology; Europe.

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).

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

(PhD, University of Campinas 1975) Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, has dealt with indigenous Amazonian cultures, the re-emigration of freed slaves to West Africa in the nineteenth century and the history of Brazilian legislation and policy towards indigenous peoples from the 16th century to the present, focusing on ethnicity, history and myth. She has been much involved with indigenous rights in Brazil; she is presently conducting a multi-disciplinary pilot project in the Amazon on the sustainability of extractive reserves and on Amazonian ethnoscience.