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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.