Research Interest: Social anthropology, Africa, religion and symbolism, witchcraft and magic, history of colonialism, Christian missionaries, African literature, urban neighborhood and landscape preservation movements, history of British and European anthropology and sociology.
Retired and Emeritus Faculty
Research Interest:Biological anthropology, primate evolution, molecular evolution, genomics, mitochondrial DNA, phylogenetic systematics, bioinformatics, conservation genetics, Darwinian medicine, human variation, cryptozoology, and the history of biological anthropology.
Research Interests: Anthropology and sociology of Islam, history and anthropology, narrative theory, anthropology of power and violence, urban studies, cultural representation
Research Interests: Human evolution; fossil apes and monkeys; functional morphology; paleobiology; primate comparative anatomy; allometry; taphonomy; paleoecology.
Research Interest: Physical anthropology; primatology; serology; population genetics and speciation; East Africa and Asia.
Research Interest: Anthropology of science and medicine, gender, cultures of the mind, emotion and rationality, history of psychiatry and psychology, US culture and society.
Research Interests: Gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology, United States, and Europe.
Research Interest: Sociocultural anthropology, food production, rural development, family and kinship, history of anthropology Europeanist ethnography and history, French society and culture.
Research Interest: Sociocultural anthropology, theory, history, cultural poetics, poetry, ethnography as text; island Southeast Asia, US Latinos, Mexico.
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, language socialization, childhood, missionization, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean.
Research Interest: Urbanism; state formation; gender relations; the ancient Near East, and South Asia.