Anna Agbe-Davies
Assistant Professor
agbe-davies@unc.edu
919-962-5267
Historical archaeology, plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean, towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, African diaspora.
Benjamin Arbuckle
Assistant Professor
bsarbu@email.unc.edu
Near Eastern Archaeology, Turkey, origins and evolution of animal economies, animals in complex societies
Brian Billman
Associate Professor
bbillman@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-9348
Archaeology of Chiefdoms and States, Political Economy, Human Violence, the Evolution of Human Behavior, Heritage Preservation, Settlement Pattern Analysis, the prehistory of the Andes and the American Southwest
Jocelyn Lim Chua
Assistant Professor
jlchua@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-1564
Anthropologies and politics of health and well-being; globalization of psychiatry; mental health and illness; politics of life and death; suicide; ontologies of the body; kinship and care; South Asia; Kerala
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Professor and Chair
rudi-colloredo@unc.edu
(919) 843-9123
Indigenous peoples, artisan economies, competition, commodities, consumer cultures, producer associations, local food systems
Robert E Daniels
Associate Professor
robert_daniels@unc.edu
(919)962-5609
Social Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Systems Theory, Africa
Jean Dennison
Assistant Professor
jeandennison@unc.edu
(919) 843-1557
Representation, visual anthropology, bodily politics, and North American Indian citizenship, governance, and sovereignty.
Arturo Escobar
Kenan Distinguished Professor
aescobar@email.unc.edu
(919) 843-7392
Political ecology, anthropology of development, social movements, science and technology studies, pluriversal studies, anthropology of design, Latin America, Colombia.
Glenn D Hinson
Associate Professor
ghinson@unc.edu
(919) 962-1661
Ethnography, Belief Studies, Folklife, Experience-Centered Anthropology, Public Folklore, African American Expressive Culture, Vernacular Art; African Diaspora, The North American South
Dorothy Holland
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research
dholland@unc.edu
(919) 962-3040
Identity and Agency, Activism, Social Movements, Alternative Agriculture Movement, Environmental Studies, Schooling and Work, Race, Class and Gender, US
Dale L Hutchinson
Professor and Associate Chair
dhutchin@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3844
Bioarchaeology; Human Osteology; Forensic Anthropology; Paleopathology; Health and Nutrition; Agricultural Origins and Consequences; Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States; South America
Fatimah Jackson
Professor
fatimahj@email.unc.edu
919-843-9920
Genetics, demographics history, dietary patterns, researched health disparities, African and African-American health
Valerie Lambert
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology
vlambert@unc.edu
(919) 843-7808
American Indians; tribal sovereignty; tribal nation building and tribal governance; federal-tribal relations and tribal-state relations; bureaucracy and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Paul W Leslie
Professor
pwleslie@unc.edu
(919) 843-8978
Biological Anthropology, Human Ecology, Demography, Population Genetics, Reproduction, East Africa
Patricia A. McAnany
Kenan Eminent Professor
mcanany@email.unc.edu
(919)-962-0524
Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Communities; Ancestor Veneration; Archaeological Understanding of Detachment from Place; Cultural Logic of Noncapitalist Economies; Identity and Gender Constructs; Cacao Production and Use; Social Reproduction of Technology; Maya Studies; Archaeology of Mesoamerica.
Townsend Middleton
Assistant Professor
ctm22@email.unc.edu
Political Anthropology; Anthropology of Knowledge; Recognition, Belonging, and Autonomy; Subnationalist Politics; the State; Affect and Anxiety; Post/Colonialism; South Asia; India; Nepal
Christopher T Nelson
Associate Professor
ctnelson@email.unc.edu
(919) 619-9105
History and Memory; Everyday Life; Ethnography; Critical Theory; Storytelling, Ritual and Performance; Japan and Okinawa
Donald M Nonini
Professor
donald.nonini@unc.edu
(919) 962-8092
Urban anthropology; political anthropology with special reference to anthropology of the state; cultural politics of ethnicity/race, class, and gender; political economy; global systems and transnationalism; critical theories of power; theory of the commons. Geographic: Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia; local politics, economic restructuring, and race relations in the Southern United States; East Asia.
James Peacock
Kenan Distinguished Professor
peacock@unc.edu
(919) 966-4106
Identities and Global Issues, Southeast Asia, Southeast USA.
Charles Price
Associate Professor
cprice1@email.unc.edu
(919) 843-7809
Identity formation, social movements, community organizations and organizing, ethnographically-grounded oral and life history, and action research and collaborative research projects.
Peter Redfield
Professor
redfield@unc.edu
(919) 843-7807
Anthropology of Science,Technology and Medicine; Humanitarianism and Human Rights; Colonial History; Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts; Europe; French Guiana; Uganda; South Africa
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Associate Professor
mrfish@unc.edu
(919) 962-3353
Medical anthropology, moral economies of medicine and health, gender and health, reproductive politics, health care reform, Russia, United States
C. Margaret Scarry
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Curriculum in Archaeology
scarry@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3841
Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Subsistence Economies, Foodways, North America, Greek Aegean, Complex Societies
Karla Slocum
Associate Professor and Director of Institute of African American Research
kslocum@unc.edu
(919) 962-2438
Place, Race and History; Globalization; Rurality; Social Movements; the Caribbean; the U.S. Southwest
Mark Sorensen
Associate Professor
msorensen@unc.edu
(919) 962-3280
Biological Anthropology; Health and Culture Change; Adaptability; Energetics; Nutrition; Russia; Siberia; Ecuador
Vincas P Steponaitis
Professor and Director of Research Labs of Archaeology
Vin@unc.edu
(919) 962-6574
Archaeology, Political Economy, Chiefdoms, Quantitative Methods, North America.
Amanda Thompson
Assistant Professor
althomps@email.unc.edu
(919) 843-2060
Biomedical anthropology, nutrition, human biology, early life determinants of body composition and obesity, infant and child feeding
Silvia Tomášková
Associate Professor Women's & Gender Studies and Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies Anthropology
tomas@unc.edu
(919) 962-3908
Archaeological method and theory, history of archaeology; Social and gender archaeology; Archaeology and nationalism, the state, and politics; Gender and science, women in scientific professions and society; Old World prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, Central and Eastern European archaeology; Prehistoric imagery, theories of symbolic representation; Stone tool analysis (low and high-power use-wear).
Colin Thor West
Assistant Professor
ctw@email.unc.edu
(919) 966-5588
Human ecology of global change
Margaret J Wiener
Associate Professor
mjwiener@unc.edu
(919) 962-2399
Actor Network Theory and Ontological Politics, History and Memory, Materiality, Religion and Magic, Colonial Societies, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali