Meet Bárbara Arroyo

Bringing together decades of Mesoamerican archaeological research, Arroyo’s scholarship examines early sedentary communities, ceramic production, and the emergence of social complexity. 

Arroyo will be in residence at the University of Chicago during the autumn quarter of 2026 as a Tinker Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Meet Roger Canals

A specialist in visual anthropology, Canals has extensively studied the role of images and visualities in Afro-American religions, namely in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Spain.

Canals will be in residence at the University of Chicago during the autumn quarter of 2026 as a Lichtstern Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology.

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Getting to Know Anthropology’s 2026-2027 Teaching Fellows

Nikki Grigg is an anthropological archaeologist who studies citizenship, race, and diaspora in the nineteenth-century United States. 

Jiyea Hong is a scholar of media, the environment, and ethnic politics in contemporary China and Taiwan. 

Ashima Mittal is a sociocultural anthropologist of capitalism, nature, and ideologies of economic growth in contemporary India.

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