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.
Brochure for the health and culture research and teaching cluster
- Susan Blum sustainability and food, wellbeing, childhood and education, global justice
- Catherine Bolten human-animal entanglements, global health, food and ecological security
- Tracie Canada anthropology of sport, African-American ethnography, institutions of higher education
- Lee Gettler biological anthropology, neurobiology, behavioral endocrinology, reproductive physiology
- Cara Ocobock human biology, biological anthropology, energetics, ecological physiology, thermoregulation
- 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.
Brochure for the business anthropology research and teaching cluster
- 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 Chávez 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
- Lee Gettler
- Donna Glowacki
- Mark Golitko
- Ian Kuijt
- Rahul Oka
- Mark Schurr
- Susan Sheridan
Childhood, Families, and Learning
Development, Violence, and Peace
Evolutionary Anthropology and Health
Social Complexity, Identity, and Power
- Maurizio Albahari
- Christopher Ball
- Susan Blum
- Alex Chávez
- Meredith Chesson
- Donna Glowacki
- Mark Golitko
- Eric Haanstad
- Ian Kuijt
- Rahul Oka
- Mark Schurr