Faculty
PEOPLE BY NAME
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Darryl Li
Law; war; empire and colonialism; race; mobility; migration; carcerality; universalism; region-formation; sovereignty; violence; security; humanitarianism; human rights; Middle East, South Asia, Balkans.
Joseph P. Masco
Science studies; critical theory; mass media; ecology; US, North America.
William T. S. Mazzarella
Politics and publicity; crowds and publics; critical theory; affect and aesthetics; psychoanalysis; ritual and performance; the occult shadow of the modern; India.
Teresa Montoya
Sociocultural anthropology; Native and Indigenous studies; sovereignty and jurisdiction; settler colonialism; environment; water governance; Navajo Nation; Indigenous media.
Constantine V. Nakassis
Linguistic anthropology; semiotics; film theory; mass media; trademark law, brands, and counterfeiting; youth culture; India.
Sarah Newman
Archaeology and ethnohistory; waste, refuse, and reuse; zooarchaeology; human-animal relationships; landscape archaeology; human-environment interactions; Mesoamerica.
Natacha Nsabimana
Socio-cultural anthropology; law and subjectivity; postcolonial critique; violence and temporality; African history and politics. (On leave for the 2023-2024 academic year.)
Stephan Palmié
Sociocultural anthropology; Afro-Caribbean religions; forms of historical consciousness; constructions of race and ethnicity; embodiment and personhood; food and cuisine; science and rationality; Cuba.
François G. Richard
Historical anthropology/archaeology; capitalism & political economy; politics; space & landscapes; materiality; temporality; rural communities; race; Frenchness; social theory; colonialism and postcolonialism; West Africa and Atlantic World; Mexico; France.
Kamala Russell
Interaction; spatiality and co-presence; ethics; Islam; the speaking body; family life; 'the Gulf'/al-Khalij; infrastructure; Modern South Arabian (Semitic) languages; language shift; semiotics.
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Biotechnology; capitalism; comparative ethnography; genomics; globalization; nation-state; political economy; post-colonialism; science and technology studies; subjectivity; India.
Kathryn Takabvirwa
Policing; governance; migration; mobility; post-coloniality; the state in Africa; the politics of representation; conceptions of xenophobia; Southern Africa, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa.