Applied Anthropology
Mona Bhan
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Director, Extraction, Environment and Citizenship Working Group
Advisory Board Member, South Asia Center
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2006
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
A.H. Peter Castro
Professor, Anthropology Department
Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Areas of Expertise
Applied anthropology, rural development policy and planning, environmental conflict management, climate change, forestry, food security, refugees, East Africa
Azra Hromadžić
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Professor
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; the Balkans.
Jok Madut Jok
Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Director, International and Intra-State Conflict
Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
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
Lars Rodseth
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Areas of Expertise
Political and historical anthropology, social theory, history of the human sciences, kinship, nationalism, violence, ideology, South Asia, Tibet, United States
Robert A. Rubinstein
Distinguished Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Department
Professor, International Relations
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1977
Ms.PH, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1983
Areas of Expertise
Peace, conflict and international security, medical anthropology and public health, methods, history and theory