Faculty & Staff


Departmental Faculty

 

Maurizio Albahari
Assistant Professor
620 Flanner; (574) 631-7759
Curriculum Vitae
malbahar@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:

Urban life, migration, transnationalism, and globalization; culture, identity, pluralism, and interreligious dialogue; Italy, Europe, the U.S.

Jada Benn-Torres
Assistant Professor
619 Flanner; (574) 631-3763
Curriculum Vitae
benntorres.1@nd.edu

Biological Anthropologist:

Biological anthropology; transatlantic slave trade; genetic adaptations to environment, culture and disease; genetics and health disparity; African Diaspora.

Susan D. Blum
Professor
614 Flanner; (574) 631-3762

Chair of Anthropology

613 Flanner; (574) 631-5547
Curriculum Vitae
blum.24@nd.edu

Cultural & Linguistic Anthropologist:

Cultural, linguistic , & psychological anth; language & self; truth, lying & deception; language ideology; naming practices; multilingualism; pragmatics; nationalism & ethnicity; plagiarism; applied ethics; food & culture; childhood & adolescence; education & schooling; theory; China, Asia, United States.

Catherine Bolten
Assistant Professor
317 Hesburgh Center

(574) 631-5099
Curriculum Vitae
bolten.2@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:

Peace, development, structural violence & inequalities, poverty, morality, youth Africa.

Meredith S. Chesson
Associate Professor
615 Flanner; (574) 631-3775
Curriculum Vitae
chesson.3@nd.edu

www.nd.edu/~mchesson/

Archaeologist:

Archaeology, early urbanization, anth of gender, mortuary practices; Italy, Ancient Near East.

Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain
Bova Marina Archaeological Project

 

Agustín Fuentes
Professor
648 Flanner; (574) 631-5421
Curriculum Vitae
afuentes@nd.edu

Biological Anthropologist:

Biological anth, primatology, evolution of social organization, primate ecology & conservation, human-nonhuman primate interactions; SE Asia, Gibraltar.

 

Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C.
Associate Professor
644 Flanner
; (574) 631-4113
Curriculum Vitae
gaffney.1@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Religious leadership & politics, symbolic systems, humanitarian crises, language & culture, social structure & conflict; Russia, Central Africa, Egypt & the Middle East.

Donna M. Glowacki
John Cardinal O'Hara CSC Assistant Professor
635 Flanner;
(574) 631-7619
Curriculum Vitae
dglowack@nd.edu

Archaeologist:
Archaeology, depopulation & migration, social & religious change, intraregional exchange, ceramic & compositional analysis; Southwest & Eastern N. America.

Ines Jindra

Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Adjunct Assist. Professor
622 Flanner; (574) 631-2308
Curriculum Vitae
ijindra@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Interaction between a changing society & the individual, identity, religion & identity, religious conversion, conversation narratives.

Michael Jindra
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Adjunct Assoc. Professor
622 Flanner; (574) 631-2308
Curriculum Vitae
mjindra@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Social & cultural change, cultural diversity, subculture diversity & equality, religion & popular culture; Africa & the U.S.
Ian Kuijt
Professor
617 Flanner; (574) 631-3263
Curriculum Vitae
kuijt.1@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~ikuijt
www.nd.edu/~lnguyen5/kuijt
Archaeologist:
Archaeology, Neolithic & lithic technology, & early agriculture; Ancient Near East, Western N. America, Ireland.

Joanne M. Mack
Concurrent Assoc. Professor
Curator, Arts of the Americas Gallery
102 Snite Museum of Art;

(574) 631-9406
636 Flanner; (574) 631-9406
Curriculum Vitae
mack.13@nd.edu

Archaeologist:
Archaeology of complex hunter-gatherers, N. American ethnography, museum collections, Native American art history, ceramics of hunter-gatherers; Western N. America.

Cynthia Mahmood
Associate Professor
639 Flanner; (574) 631-7604
Curriculum Vitae
mahmood.2@nd.edu

www.nd.edu/~cmahmood/

Cultural Anthropologist:
Anth of war & peace, engaged anth, human rights, religion & conflict, writing in ethnography; S. Asia.
James J. McKenna
The Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anth.
624 Flanner; (574) 631-3816
Curriculum Vitae
mckenna.25@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab
Biological Anthropologist:
Primate social behavior, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, human ethology, infancy, evolutionary medicine, sleep, medical anth.
Carolyn R. Nordstrom
Professor
623 Flanner; (574) 631-5072
Curriculum Vitae
nordstrom.1@nd.edu
Cultural Anthropologist:
Political/economic anth, war & peace, transnational crime, globalization, gender, culture theory; Southern Africa & S. Asia.

Rahul Oka

Assistant Professor
645 Flanner; (574) 631-1372
Curriculum Vitae
oka.1@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist &
Archaeologist:

Archaeology and ethnography of urbanism, trade, economic transitions, and collapse; Conflict, trade, and exchange; Network analysis, and complex systems; Anthropology of development, relief, refugee studies, and poverty issues; East Africa and South Asia.

Mark R. Schurr
Professor
647 Flanner; (574) 631-7638

Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters: 101 O'Shaughnessy;

(574) 631-1792
Curriculum Vitae
schurr.1@nd.edu

www.nd.edu/~mschurr

Archaeologist:
Archaeology, quantitative methods, archaeological chemistry, mortuary analysis, social complexity in Middle Woodland & Middle Mississippian periods, Native American historical archaeology; Eastern N. America.
Susan G. Sheridan
Associate Professor
637 Flanner; (574) 631-7670
Curriculum Vitae
sheridan.5@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~sheridan
Biological Anthropologist:
Biological anth, paleosteology, trace element analysis, forensic anth, chemistry; Israel, Sudan, Southwest US.
Vania Smith-Oka
Assistant Professor
649 Flanner; (574) 631-7269
Curriculum Vitae
vsmithok@nd.edu
Cultural Anthropologist:
Medical anth, globalization & health, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, anth of reproduction; Mexico.
Robert Wolosin
Adjunct Associate Professor
636 Flanner; (574) 631-4479
Curriculum Vitae
wolosin.1@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~rwolosin

Research Interests:

Social psychology, psychology. Course:

Cultural Aspects of Clinical Medicine  

 

Anthropologists in Other Departments, Schools or Institutes

 

Douglas E. Bradley
(Concurrent, anthropology)

Curator of Mesoamerican Art

Snite Museum of Art
M01 Snite Museum of Art; (574) 631-4712
bradley.1@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Olmec art iconography, ritual ballgame art, origin of writing in Mesoamerica, African art, Haitian Voodoo art, American Southwestern prehistoric ceramics.

Ann-Marie Conrado

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Assistant Professor

Department of Art, Art History, and Design

110 Riley Hall; (574) 631-9498

Profile

conrado.2@nd.edu

Applied Anthropologist:
Product development, ethnographic field studies in various segments of the population in order to derive insight that will inform product development strategies, design research methods; Japan and the U.S.
 

Paulette Curtis

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Letters; 104 O'Shaughnessy; (574) 631-8636

Curriculum Vitae

curtis.30@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:

American veterans, battlefield tourism, commemoration in the US, American science fiction


Diarmuid O Giollain

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Professor

Department of Irish Language and Literature
511 Flanner; (574) 631-7879
Curriculum Vitae
gillan.1@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Folklore & Irish national culture; history, theory & practice of Irish folklore scholarship; Irish popular religion & ethnomuseology; Ireland.

David Hernandez

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Assistant Professor

Department of Classics

354 Decio Hall; (574) 631-1382

Profile

Curriculum Vitae

hernandez.135@nd.edu

Archaeologist:
Archaeology of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean; excavation methods; urbanism; Roman colonization, topography, and technology; Greek and Roman urbanism and trade in ancient Epirus.

José Limón

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Professor

Department of English

356 O'Shaughnessy Hall; (574) 631-1670

Curriculum Vitae

limon.5@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Mexican-American literature and culture, Latino leadership and literature.

Matthew Ravosa

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Professor

Dept. of Biological Sciences

Lab: 110 Galvin Life Sciences

Office: 221 Galvin Life Sciences (574) 631-2556

Curriculum Vitae

Matthew.J.Ravosa.1@nd.edu

Biological Anthropologist:
Evolution, function, development, aging and pathobiology of the skull, feeding apparatus and musculoskeletal system in primate and non-primate mammals.

Karen Richman
(Concurrent, anthropology)

Director of Border and Inter-American Affairs

Institute for Latino Studies
230 McKenna Hall; (574) 631-8146
Curriculum Vitae
krichman@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
Ritual, transnational migration, agricultural labor, economic anth, gender, performance; Haiti, US, Caribbean.

Deborah L. Rotman

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Director, Ctr for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE)
233 Geddes; (574) 631-7125

640 Flanner; (574) 631-1361
Curriculum Vitae
rotman.1@nd.edu

http://blogs.nd.edu/irishstories/

Archaeologist:
Historical & industrial archaeology; political economy; transnational migration; social relations of class, gender, & ethnicity; landscape studies; Eastern N. America & Ireland.

John Sherry

(Concurrent, anthropology)

Professor, Department Chair

Marketing

102B Mendoza College of Business; (574) 631 6484
Curriculum Vitae

jsherry@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:

Consumer behavior, experiential consumption, holistic branding, informal marketing systems, symbolic communication, creativity, placeways, gift giving, international marketing; Urban U.S., Ireland, United Kingdom, French West Indies, Japan, Belgium, Thailand

Lawrence Sullivan
(Concurrent, anthropology)

Professor

Department of Theology
323 Malloy; (574) 631-6418
Curriculum Vitae
lsulliv3@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:
History of religions, anth of the sacred, health & medicine in religious traditions, religion & culture.

Robert Walls

Visiting Assistant Professor

American Studies, Anthropology

1047 Flanner Hall; (574) 631-4260

Curriculum Vitae

walls.11@nd.edu

Cultural Anthropologist:

Native American literature, ethnohistory, indigenous issues, environmental history, working-class studies, folklore and folklife; Coast Salish, Western North America.


 

Emeritus Faculty

James O. Bellis
Emeritus Faculty
bellis.1@nd.edu

Roberto A. DaMatta
Emeritus Faculty
damatta.rlk@terra.com.br

Leo A. Despres
Emeritus Faculty
despres.1@nd.edu

Kenneth E. Moore
Emeritus Faculty
moore.1@nd.edu

Irwin Press
Emeritus Faculty
press.1@nd.edu
www.pressganey.com

Staff

Chair

Susan D. Blum

Chair of Anthropology

613 Flanner; (574) 631-5547

blum.24@nd.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ines Jindra

Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
622 Flanner; (574) 631-2308

ijindra@nd.edu

Michael Jindra
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
622 Flanner; (574) 631-2308

mjindra@nd.edu

Senior Administrative Assistant

Michelle Thornton

612 Flanner; (574) 631-6433
mthornt2@nd.edu

Administrative Assistant

Eileen Barany
611 Flanner; (574) 631-0299
ebarany@nd.edu