Faculty

Hussein Ali Agrama

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Associate Faculty, Divinity School

Office Hours:

Mondays 1-3 pm.

husseinaliagrama.youcanbook.me

Office: Haskell 238

Phone: (773) 834-4496

hagrama@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Anthropology of religion, science and technology; secularism and secularity; UFOs and non-human awareness; esotericism; Islam and Judaism; law; colonial power and history; Middle East and Europe; Egypt, France.

E. Summerson Carr

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Faculty Affiliate of Comparative Human Development and Gender Studies

Office Hours: By appointment

Office: Haskell 125 and SSA BE-5A

Phone: (773) 834-5877

esc@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Knowledge production and dissemination; scale; complex institutions; professional culture and practice; training and apprenticeship; therapeutic interventions and institutions; animal-human interaction; addiction and its treatment; American Pragmatism; United States.

Julie Y. Chu

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Associated Faculty, Divinity School

Office: Haskell 207

Phone: (773) 702-7708

juliechu@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Sociocultural anthropology; globalization and transnational processes; mobility and migration; economy and value; ritual life; material culture; media and technology; state regulatory regimes; China.

Shannon Lee Dawdy

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College

Office: Haskell 202

Phone: (773) 702-7701

sdawdy@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Transdisciplinary anthropology; archaeology of the contemporary; historical anthropology; cities; colonialism and capitalism; informal economies; sex; death; disaster; temporality; utopia; filmmaking; the Americas.

Michael Dietler

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Associated Faculty, Department of Classics; Affiliate, Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World

Office Hours: On Zoom, Mondays 1-3 pm or by appointment

Office: Haskell 131

Phone: (773) 702-7150

mdietler@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology; colonialism and postcolonial studies; material culture theory; alcohol and foodways; architecture and urban landscapes; economic anthropology; migration and diasporas; heritage, memory, and identity politics; Celticism; science studies; ethnomusicology; Europe, Africa.

Michael Fisch

Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College

Interests:

Technology/nature/culture; cybernetic ontologies; infrastructure and design; Japan anthropology; biomimicry; experimental ecologies; urban theory.

Susan Gal

Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College; Director of the Center for the Study of Communication and Society

Office Hours: By appointment

Office: Haskell 237

Phone: (773) 702-2551

s-gal@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Linguistic anthropology; politics of communication; sociolinguistics; social theory; gender; ethnicity; European studies; postsocialism.

Ryan Cecil Jobson

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office: Haskell 216

Phone: (773) 834-2507

rjobson@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Energy; oil and gas; infrastructure; sovereignty; race; capital; historical anthropology; epistemology; Caribbean; the Americas.

John D. Kelly

Christian W. Mackauer Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College

Office: Haskell 206

Phone: (773) 702-4333

johnkelly@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social theory; capitalism; nation and decolonization; anthropology of knowledge; semiotic technologies; Fiji, India.

Karin D. Knorr Cetina

Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and of Social Sciences in the College

Office: Social Science 424

Phone: (773) 702-4333

knorr@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Globalization; cultural studies; economic sociology and anthropology; knowledge; science and information; Europe.

Alan L. Kolata

Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology; Committee on Southern Asian Studies; Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization

Office: Haskell 135

Phone: (773) 702-7729 / (773) 702-7742

kol7@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Archaeology and ethnohistory; preindustrial urbanism; development of agricultural systems; human environment interactions; anthropology of development; Andes, Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia.

Darryl Li

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Associate Member, Law School

Office: Haskell 227

Phone: (773) 702-4001

darrylli@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Law; war; empire and colonialism; race; mobility; migration; carcerality; universalism; region-formation; sovereignty; violence; security; humanitarianism; human rights; Middle East, South Asia, Balkans.