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

For many years, my work centered on questions of religion, secularity and law in modern Egypt. I aimed to offer a different perspective on what’s invo...

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.

I work between cultural, linguistic, and medical anthropology to study how ideas, logics, norms and values are authorized, enacted, institutionalized,...

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.

Julie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and t...

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.

My fieldwork combines archival, ethnographic, and archaeological methods in the U.S. and Latin America. I am especially interested in how landscapes a...

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 Dietler has conducted archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research projects in Europe and Africa. In addition to his work on alcohol,...

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.

Michael Fisch’s research is situated at the intersection of sociocultural anthropology and science and technology studies and is concerned with the dy...

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.

Susan Gal is presently doing research on the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and gender, and especially the ...

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.

Ryan Cecil Jobson is an anthropologist and social critic of the Caribbean and the Americas. His research and teaching engage issues of energy and extr...

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.

John D. Kelly does research in Fiji and in India, on topics including ritual in history, knowledge and power, semiotic and military technologies, colo...

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.

Karin D. Knorr Cetina specializes in economic anthropology/sociology, the anthropology of science, knowledge and technology, globalization and global ...

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.

Kolata's recent research interests include comparative work on agroecological systems, human-environment interactions, the human dimension of global c...

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.

Darryl Li is an anthropologist and legal scholar thinking mostly about questions of war, law, migration, empire, and racialization in the currents bet...