Anthropology Department Faculty

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Douglas V. Armstrong

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

dvarmstr@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Global historical archaeology, archaeology of the African diaspora, the Atlantic world, ethnohistory, colonialism, ethnogenesis, culture contact and culture change, GIS, public policy and world heritage archaeology, collections management (Caribbean, American Northeast, California, Africa)

Mona Bhan

Professor, Anthropology Department

Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

Director, Extraction, Environment and Citizenship Working Group

Director, Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

327 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4198 | mobhan@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Border wars and counterinsurgency; militarism and humanitarianism; race, gender, and religion; environmentalism and climate change; occupation and human rights; space and place; water and infrastructure

Tom D. Brutsaert

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Professor, Exercise Science, Falk College

tdbrutsa@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Human biology, high-altitude adaptation, physical activity, growth and development

A.H. Peter Castro

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

ahcastro@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Applied anthropology, rural development policy and planning, environmental conflict management, climate change, forestry, food security, refugees, East Africa

Christopher DeCorse

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

207 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.4647 | crdecors@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

General anthropology, African archaeology and history, African diaspora studies, culture contact, colonialism and change, archaeology and popular culture

Gareth Fisher

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, East Asia Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

gfisher@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Buddhism, religion in contemporary China, religion and cultural change, globalization, post-socialism

Ann Grodzins Gold

Professor Emeritus by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Thomas J. Watson Professor Emerita, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

507 Hall of Languages | 315.443.5717 | aggold@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Sustained ethnographic engagement with religion and culture in provincial North India

Julia Haines

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

310C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.4995 | jjhaines@syr.edu

Amanda Hilton

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

209A Maxwell Hall | 315.443.2405 | ahilto01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, environmental anthropology, critical food studies, applied cultural anthropology, critical heritage studies

Azra Hromadžić

Professor and Undergraduate Director, Anthropology Department

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

209C Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5782 | ahromadz@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political anthropology; ethno-political violence and post-conflict reconciliation; socialism and post-socialism; gender; youth cultural practices; social policy and welfare; aging, care and responsibility; environmental politics and riverine worlds; the Balkans.

Jok Madut Jok

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

206B Maxwell Hall | 315.443.6231 | jjok01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Violence and public health, women’s reproductive health, Pastoralism, seasonal migration and cattle raiding in East Africa, medical anthropology, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda

Kenneth G. Kelly

Research Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

kennethgkelly@gmail.com

Areas of Expertise

Historical archaeology, African diaspora, slavery and slave trade

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Sandra D. Lane

Professor Emerita, Public Health Department

Professor Emerita by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

sdlane@syr.edu

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

125 Eggers Hall | 315.443.4216 | kmallona@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Medical and environmental anthropology, Caribbean, maritime studies, fishing, multispecies, environmental governance, conservation, risk and injury, the Dominican Republic

Shannon A. Novak

Professor, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

316A Maxwell Hall / 406 Lyman Hall (lab) | 315.443.4347 | snovak01@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Body and society, new materialism, anthropology of knowledge, historical bioarchaeology, gender, ritual, necropolitics, North America, Indo-Caribbean diaspora

Guido Pezzarossi

Associate Professor, Anthropology Department

Director, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

206A Maxwell Hall / Lab 414A Lyman Hall | 315.443.1359 / 315.443.0178 | gpezzaro@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology of colonialism, historical anthropology, postcolonial theory, new materialism, archaeology of food

Heather Law Pezzarossi

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

318 Maxwell Hall | 315.443.5102 | hblaw100@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology of North America, collaborative Indigenous archaeology, critical heritage studies, historical anthropology, photography

Robert A. Rubinstein

Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Department

Professor, International Relations

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

405A Maxwell Hall | 315.443.3837 | rar@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory

Maureen T. Schwarz

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

mtschwar@syr.edu

Areas of Expertise

Advocate of Native North Americans and their rights, Navajo reservation, issues of representation, personhood, organ transplantation, blood transfusion, medical and religious pluralism.