Faculty by Research Clusters
Health and Culture
Focuses on the study of medical anthropology, biological anthropology, multispecies ethnography, health and culture, and science and technology studies.
- Susan Blum sustainability and food, wellbeing, childhood and education, global justice
- Catherine Bolten human-animal entanglements, global health, food and ecological security
- Agustin Fuentes biological anthropology, evolution and health, multispecies anthropology
- Lee Getler biological anthropology, neurobiology, behavioral endocrinology, reproductive physiology
- James McKenna medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, SIDS, sleep, and infancy
- Natalie Porter medical anthropology, science & technology studies; multispecies ethnography; biopolitics
- Mark Schurr stable isotope analysis, archaeological chemistry, human adaptation
- Susan Sheridan biological anthropology, diet and disease, health and adaptation
- Vania Smith-Oka medical anthropology, globalization & health, ethnomedicine, anthropology of reproduction
Business Anthropology
Focuses on the study of corporations, development, business media, global economics, transnational exchange, and trade networks and the cultural dimensions of consumption.
- Maurizio Albahari immigration and its political economy; international relations
- Christopher Ball political economy of language, possession and exchange, Amazonian development
- Susan Blum education and economics, food production and consumption
- Alex Chavez music consumption, immigration, and Latinas/os in the United States
- Meredith Chesson material culture, consumption, socioeconomic inequality, and heritage studies
- Donna Glowacki archaeology of development, sustainability, and exchange
- Mark Golitko social networks, human-environment systems, archaeometry, social network analysis
- Eric Haanstad global media, transnational security, cultural marketing, organizational culture
- Ian Kuijt social inequality, historical and archaeological trade networks, visual production
- Rahul Oka development, economics, trade and exchange, network analysis, poverty
Anthropological Sciences
- Meredith Chesson
- Agustín Fuentes
- Lee Gettler
- Donna Glowacki
- Mark Golitko
- Ian Kuijt
- James McKenna
- Rahul Oka
- Natalie Porter
- Mark Schurr
- Susan Sheridan
Childhood, Families, and Learning
- Susan Blum
- Catherine Bolten
- Meredith Chesson
- Agustín Fuentes
- Lee Gettler
- James McKenna
- Susan Sheridan
- Vania Smith-Oka
Development, Violence, and Peace
- Christopher Ball
- Catherine Bolten
- AgustÍn Fuentes
- Patrick Gaffney
- Mark Golitko
- Eric Haanstad
- Rahul Oka
Evolutionary Anthropology and Health
Social Complexity, Identity, and Power
- Maurizio Albahari
- Christopher Ball
- Susan Blum
- Meredith Chesson
- Donna Glowacki
- Mark Golitko
- Eric Haanstad
- Ian Kuijt
- Rahul Oka
- Mark Schurr