All Faculty

Associate Professor
(510) 642-4489
agarwal@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 212

Special interests: Bioarchaeology, biological and evolutionary anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology.

James Anderson

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
dood@berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Social and economic organization and change, ecology/economy, population, medical anthropology, social development, Southeast Asia with emphasis on Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Gerald Berreman

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
berreman@sscl.berkeley.edu
119 Kroeber

Special interests: Social cultural anthropology, social inequality, interaction theory, research methods and ethics, urban society, small scale societies, India, Himalayas, Arctic.

Stanley Brandes

Professor
(510) 642-6945
brandes@berkeley.edu
309 Kroeber

Special interests: Ritual and religion; food and drink; the anthropology of alcohol use; visual anthropology; and the cultural anthropology of Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (emphasis on Spain and Mexico).

Charles Briggs

Professor
(510) 643-2012
clbriggs@berkeley.edu
333 Kroeber

Special interests: Linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence.

Lawrence Cohen

Professor
(510) 642-1182
cohen@berkeley.edu
319 Kroeber

Special interests: Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory.

Elizabeth Colson

Professor Emerita
(510) 642-3392
gwembe@berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Politics, religion, social organization, social change, migration, anthropological history and theory, ethnography of Africa and North America.

Margaret Conkey

Professor Emerita
(510) 642-8711
meg@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 207

Special interests: Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe.

Terrence Deacon

Anthro. Dept. Chair, Professor
(510) 642-1182
deacon@berkeley.edu
329 Kroeber

Special interests: Biological anthropology, neuroanatomy, human communication, behavioral evolution.

Phyllis Dolhinow

Professor Emerita
(510) 642-3392
dolhinow@comcast.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Physical anthropology, primate social behavior, ecology, development, human behavior and evolution.

Stephanie F. Etting

Visiting Lecturer
etting@berkeley.edu
325 Kroeber

Mariane Ferme

Associate Professor
(510) 642-2958
mcf@berkeley.edu
321 Kroeber

Special interests: West Africa; socio-cultural/practice/feminist theories, interpretive and historical anthropology; gender, religion (transnational African Muslim communities).

Marc Goodwin

Visiting Lecturer
mgoodwin@berkeley.edu
325 Kroeber Hall

Nelson Graburn

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-2120
graburn@berkeley.edu
307 Kroeber

Special interests: Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan.

John A. Graham

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
chanelalbany@webtv.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Mesoamerican culture history, particularly Maya and Olmec archaeology and art, Maya epigraphy, history of archaeology.

John Gumperz

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
gumperz@education.ucsb.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S.

Junko Habu

Professor
(510) 643-2645
habu@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 203

Special interests: Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers in Japan, East Asian archaeology, ceramic analysis, historical archaeology in Japan, archaeology and society.

Eugene Hammel

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
gene@demog.berkeley.edu
2232 Piedmont #204

Special interests: Social anthropology, statistical and formal analysis of social anthropological data, computer applications, peasant society and culture, demography; Europe.

William F. Hanks

Professor
(510) 643-2651
wfhanks@berkeley.edu
315 Kroeber

Special interests: Maya culture, language in culture, discourse, cognition and communication, shamanism, the logic of anthropological inquiry, anthropology of literature.

Christine Hastorf

Professor
(510) 642-5457
hastorf@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 215

Special interests: Food and agriculture, archaeology, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany; Andes.

Cori Hayden

Associate Professor
(510) 642-1182
cphayden@berkeley.edu
327 Kroeber

Special interests: Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies.

Charles Hirschkind

Associate Professor
(510) 642-1182
chirschk@berkeley.edu
339 Kroeber

Special interests: Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East.

James Holston

Professor
(510) 643-1688
jholston@berkeley.edu
303 Kroeber

Special interests: Cities and citizenship; political theory, democracy, and law; planning and architecture; urban ethnography; Brazil, the Americas.

Rosemary Joyce

Professor
(510) 643-0975
rajoyce@berkeley.edu
2215 College, Room 204

Special interests: Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization in complex societies; analysis of archaeological ceramics; Central America.

Mio Katayama Owens

Visiting Lecturer
miokat@berkeley.edu

Patrick Kirch

Professor
(510) 643-8346
kirch@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 206

Special interests: Prehistory and ethnography of Oceania, ethnoarchaeology and settlement archaeology, prehistoric agricultural systems, cultural ecology and paleoenvironmentalism, ethnobotany and ethnoscience, development of complex societies in Oceania.

Kent G. Lightfoot

Professor
(510) 642-1309
klightfoot@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 213

Special interests: Coastal archaeology, California, Southwestern and Northeastern archaeology and ethnography, theoretical issues of coastalhunter-gatherers.

Xin Liu

Professor
(510) 642-0705
xinliu@berkeley.edu
301 Kroeber

Special interests: Social cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and culture, China/East Asia.

Saba Mahmood

Associate Professor
(510) 642-3565
smahmood@berkeley.edu
117 Kroeber

Special interests: Anthropology of subject formation, liberalism, and secular modernity; feminist and post-structuralist theory; religion and politics; Islam and the Middle East.

Doris Maldonado

Visiting Lecturer
dmaldonado@gmail.com

Clara Mantini-Briggs

Visiting Lecturer
mantini.briggs@gmail.com
273 Evans Hall

Donald Moore

Associate Professor
(510) 642-8357
dsmoore@berkeley.edu
331 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa

Laura Nader

Professor
(510) 642-1218
313 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural anthropology, comparative methods, law, dispute resolution, controlling processes, kinships, professional mind-sets, Middle East, Mexico, and U.S.

Aihwa Ong

Professor
(510) 642-8711
aihwaong@berkeley.edu
317 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural anthropology, modernity, transnationalism, citizenship, global cities, migration. Southeast Asia, China, contemporary U.S.

Stefania Pandolfo

Associate Professor
(510) 642-9229
pandolfo@berkeley.edu
201 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb

Herbert Phillips

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
hpp@berkeley.edu
232Kroeber

Special interests: Psychological anthropology, art and literature as ethnography, elites; mainland Southeast Asia with emphasis on Thailand and Indonesia.

Jack M. Potter

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
zengbu@comcast.net
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Social anthropology, classical social theory, peasants, change, ethnographic film; China, Thailand, U.S.

Paul Rabinow

Professor
(510) 642-2634
rabinow@berkeley.edu
311 Kroeber

Special interests: Cultural anthropology, social thought, modernity, biotechnology, global genomics; France.

Arpita Roy

Visiting Lecturer
arpita@berkeley.edu
119 Kroeber

Vincent Sarich

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-3392
sarich@sscl.berkeley.edu
232 Kroeber

Special interests: Human variation, comparative biochemistry and molecular evolution, mammalian systematics, primate evolution, evolution of human behavior.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Professor
(510) 642-8431
nsh@berkeley.edu
305 Kroeber

Special interests: Critical Medical Anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, childhood and the family, Ireland, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa.

Steven Shackley

Professor Emeritus
(510) 642-2533
shackley@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 210

Special interests: Geoarchaeology, North American Southwest, lithic technology and analytical chemistry in archaeology, hunter-gatherers.

William Simmons

Professor Emeritus

Special interests: Anthropology of religion, ethnohistory, folklore, North American Indians (particularly of California and New England), American pluralism.

Kojun "Jun" Sunseri

Assistant Professor
jsunseri@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Rm. 214

Special interests: Colonialism, Foodways, Landscapes, Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Southwest US and Northern South Africa

Ruth Tringham

Professor Emerita
tringham@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 209

Special interests: Archaeology, European (especially Central and Eastern), Mediterranean, and Anatolian Prehistory, Early Agriculturalists, Architecture, Household Archaeology, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, New Media

Laurie Wilkie

Professor
(510) 643-0677
lawilkie@berkeley.edu
2251 College, Room 208

Special interests: Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean

Alexei Yurchak

Associate Professor
(510) 642-1182
yurchak@berkeley.edu
337 Kroeber

Special interests: Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism.