Administration and Staff
Director, Certificate Program in Culture and Media
Director, Center for Media, Culture, and History
Director, Center for the Study of Human Origins
Department Administrator
cdiaz@nyu.edu; (212) 998-8554
Carmen Diaz is the Department Administrator for the Department of Anthropology. She supervises the day-to-day operations of the department and staff members.
Lab Supervisor
urf1@nyu.edu; (212) 998-3819
Uli has worked in the Anthropology Department for over ten years. He troubleshoots the technology around the
Contact Uli for help with computer matters, audio-visual and telecommunications assistance.
Media Production Specialist and Filmmaker-in-Residence, Center for Media, Culture, and History
cheryl.furjanic@nyu.edu; (212) 998-8542
Cheryl Furjanic is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose documentary and fiction films have screened at 150+ festivals worldwide and on television. Her most recent feature documentary, Back on Board: Greg Louganis was broadcast on HBO and nominated for an Emmy Award and Producers Guild of America award in 2016. The film also gained
Assistant Director, Center For The Study Of Human Origins
hannah.taboada@nyu.edu; (212) 992-9785
Hannah Taboada has over ten years of non-profit administrative experience managing research grants, programs
Co-Director, Center for Media, Culture
pegi.vail@nyu.edu; (212) 998-3759
Pegi Vail is an anthropologist (PhD 2004, NYU), filmmaker, and curator whose academic work has focused on visual anthropology, Indigenous media and on the role of storytelling to the political economy of global tourism. She is the Co-Director at New York University’s Center for Media, Culture and History. Her award-winning documentary Gringo Trails looks at the long term cultural and environmental effects of travel and tourism. The film has been broadcast and released theatrically in the USA and internationally. Vail teaches documentary filmmaking through the NYU Department of Anthropology’s Program in Culture and Media and has previously taught in NYU's Performance Studies Program as well Columbia University's Anthropology Department. She is a former Fulbright scholar who has lectured on travel study tours with National Geographic and Smithsonian, and is a seasoned lecturer on tourism and visual anthropology at museums and universities internationally. As a curator, she has collaborated with colleagues at NYC arts and cultural institutions such as the National Museum of the American Indian, American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and through organizations such as the The Moth, the storytelling collective she was a founding board member and curator for, and storytelling alumna. Vail serves as a judge for the International Documentary Association Awards and has served as a judge for National Geographic’s World Legacy and World Travel Tourism Council's Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.
More info: pegivail.com
Front Office
Undergraduate Administrative Aide I
undergrad.anthro@nyu.edu; (212) 998-8588
Star Jimenez is the Undergraduate Administrative Aide who helps course planning as well as maintain the department website.
Student Employees
