Emeriti

Manuela Carneiro Da Cunha



Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
mm-cunha@uchicago.edu
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Shannon Lee Dawdy



Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Office: Cobb 003
Phone: (773) 702-7701
sdawdy@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Historical and contemporary archaeology, historical anthropology; cities; colonialism and capitalism; piracy and informal economies; death; disaster; temporality; U.S. and Gulf of Mexico.

Judith B. Farquhar



Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences
Phone: (773) 702-7735
farquhar@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Medical anthropology; anthropology of everyday life; popular culture studies; post-structural and critical theory; China.

James W. Fernandez



Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Office: Haskell 105
Phone: (773) 702-7003
jwf1@midway.uchicago.edu
Interests:

Cultural anthropology; narrative and narrative ethnography; trope theory; culture change; Africa; Europe; Western Mediterranean; Atlantic Fringe (Celtic World).

Ralph W. Nicholas



William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; President, American Institute of Indian Studies
r-nicholas@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Cultural, social, and psychological anthropology; religion; kinship; South Asia, Bengal.