Faculty
George J. Armelagos
PhD University of Colorado, 1968 | Goodrich C. White Professor
Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, demography, evolution of disease; Mediterranean, Africa.
antga@learnlink.emory.edu | 404-727-2215 | Anthropology 208
Peggy F. Barlett
PhD Columbia University, 1974 | Goodrich C. White Professor
Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, sustainable development, agricultural systems, gender; U.S., Latin America.
pbarlett@emory.edu | 404-727-5766 | Anthropology 216
Peter J. Brown
PhD State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1979 | Professor
Medical anthropology, disease eradication and development, infectious diseases, obesity, Alzheimer's disease; Mediterranean Europe.
antpjb@emory.edu | 404-727-5760 | Anthropology 215
Carla Freeman
PhD Temple University, 1993 | Winship Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies
Cultural anthropology, gender and feminist anthropology, political economy and development, postcoloniality, global restructuring and transnational culture; Caribbean.
carla.freeman@emory.edu | 404-727-1039 | Anthropology 219
Sarah M. Gouzoules
PhD University of Chicago, 1981 | Senior Lecturer, Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Biological anthropology, primate vocal communication; macaque social behavior.
sgouzou@emory.edu | 404-727-1354 | Anthropology 209
Craig Hadley
PhD University of California--Davis, 2003 | Assistant Professor
Biological anthroplogy, global health, demography, nutritional adaptation; Africa.
chadley@emory.edu | 404-727-5248 | Anthropology 218D
John Kingston
PhD Harvard University, 1992 | Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Biological anthropology, ecology of human evolution, paleoecology, paleotology; East Africa. jkingst@emory.edu | 404-712-9507 | Anthropology 218A
Bruce Knauft
PhD University of Michigan, 1983 | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Cultural anthropology, sociocultural and critical theory, power, representation, gender and sexuality, violence, history and ethnography, the evolution of violence; Melanesia.
knauft@learnlink.emory.edu | 404-727-5769 | Anthropology 213
Melvin J. Konner
PhD Harvard University, 1973; MD, Harvard Medical School, 1985 | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Biological anthropology, human behavioral biology, human life cycle, San hunter-gatherers.
antmk@mindspring.com | 404-727-4195 | Anthropology 106
Corinne Kratz
PhD University of Texas--Austin, 1988 | Professor, Joint appointment in Institute of African Studies
Cultural anthropology, communication and culture, ceremony and performance, gender, cultural history, museums and cultural display, visual anthropology; East Africa.
ckratz@emory.edu | 404-727-1036 | Anthropology 218B
Michelle Lampl
PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1983; MD, University of Pennsylvania 1989 | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Biological anthropology, human growth and development, medical anthropology, infant saltation [growth spurts], nutrition, eating disorders, paleoanthropology; United States.
mlampl@emory.edu | 404-727-2214 | Anthropology 218C
Peter Little
PhD Indiana University, 1983 | Professor
Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, development anthropology, ecological anthropology, political economy, agrarian change, pastoralism; sub-Saharan Africa.
peter.little@emory.edu | 404-727-0994 | Anthropology 305
David Nugent
PhD Columbia University, 1988 | Professor; Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Cultural anthropology, political and economic anthropology, symbolism and power, race and inequality; Latin America, indigenous North America.
david.nugent@emory.edu | 404-727-4164 | Anthropology 212
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
PhD University of Oxford, 2001 | Assistant Professor
Medical anthropology, anthropology of body and mind, discourse of selfhood, therapies and healing practices, suicide, psychiatric disorders and meditation, religious practices, religious experience, spirituality; Japan.
cozawad@emory.edu | 404-727-4467 | Anthropology 221
Michael Peletz
PhD University of Michigan, 1983 | Professor and Chair
Cultural anthropology, social and cultural theory, gender, sexuality, kinship, law, religion (especially Islam), social history, and modernity; Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.
mpeletz@emory.edu | 404-727-0484 | Anthropology 220
James Rilling
PhD Emory University, 1998 | Associate Professor
Biological anthropology, neural bases of human social behavior, evolution of social behavior, comparative primate neurobiology, human brain evolution.
jrillin@emory.edu | 404-727-3062 | Anthropology 114
Bradd Shore
PhD University of Chicago, 1977 | Goodrich C. White Professor, Director of Marial Center
Cultural anthropology, symbolic and psychological anthropology; Oceania, Polynesia.
antbs@emory.edu | 404-727-4200 | Anthropology 210
Debra Spitulnik
PhD University of Chicago, 1994 | Associate Professor
Linguistic and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, media culture, national and transnational processes, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, semiotics, comparative Bantu linguistics; Africa, United States.
dspitul@emory.edu | 404-727-3651 | Anthropology 217
Dietrich Stout
PhD Indiana University, 2003 | Assistant Professor
Brain evolution, language evolution, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, cultural psychology, cognitive neuroscience.
dwstout@emory.edu | 404-712-1828 | Anthropology 304
Patricia Whitten
PhD Harvard University, 1982 | Professor
Biological anthropology, reproductive ecology, primate behavior, phytochemistry, field endocrinology.
antpw@emory.edu. | 404-727-7594 | Anthropology 211
Carol M. Worthman
PhD Harvard University, 1978 | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Biological anthropology, human reproduction, human development, developmental epidemiology, biocultural and life history theory.
worthman@emory.edu | 404-727-4489 | Anthropology 214
Adjunct Faculty
Joanna Davidson
PhD Emory University, 2007 | Postdoctoral Fellow, States at Regional Risk Program
Political ecology; rurality and agrarian societies; cultural conceptions of knowledge; critical international studies; anthropological engagements with development theory and practice; social and religious transformation; inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict; African Studies.
jhd@emory.edu
Robert A. Hahn
PhD Harvard University, 1976 | Centers for Disease Control, Associate Professor
Social anthropology, medical anthropology, epidemiology.
rah1@cdc.gov
James G. Herndon
PhD Emory University, 1973 | Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Neural and cognitive aspects of aging; Endocrine and neuro-endocrine factors in non-human primate behavior.
james.herndon@emory.edu
Patience Kabamba
PhD Columbia University, 2008 | Visiting Lecturer, States at Regional Risk Program
New social formations that emerge when states disintegrate in war-torn Africa, dynamics of conflict, new state formations, transnational trade networks, ethnicity, and global political and economic governance.
pkabamb@emory.edu
Brandon Kohrt
PhD Emory University, 2009 | Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University
Mental health and human rights, child soldiers, psychosocial interventions in complex emergencies, war and violent conflict, torture, refugee mental health, stigma of mental illness, mental health policy, transcultural psychiatry, biocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, psychiatric epidemiology, South and Central Asian studies.
brandonkohrt@gmail.com
Kathryn A. Kozaitis
PhD University of Michigan, 1993 | Georgia State Univeristy, Associate Professor and Chair
Social theory, ethnicity, ethnography, social organization and culture change, urban applied anthropology; North America.
kozaitis@gsu.edu
Christopher Krupa
PhD University of California, Davis, 2005 | Postdoctoral Fellow, States at Regional Risk Program
Social and cultural anthropology, capitalism, race and race politics, state and state proxies, dialectics, history, historiography, ethnography, collective violence; Latin America, the Andes.
ckrupa@emory.edu
Leandris Liburd
PhD Emory University, 2006 | CDC, Chief, Community Health and Program Services Branch
Medical anthropology, intersection theory, race and ethnicity, the social construction of class, gender and health, chronic disease prevention and management, Black feminist thought, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and health disparities.
lel1@cdc.gov
J. Anthony Paredes
PhD University of New Mexico, 1969 | Florida State University, Professor Emeritus
Cultural and psychological anthropology, applied anthropology, tribal consultation, historic preservation and public resource management; contemporary North American Indians, southeastern USA.
janthonyparedes@bellsouth.net
Daniel Sellen
PhD University of California--Davis, 1995 | University of Toronto, Professor
Human ecology, evolutionary biology and global health consequences of young child feeding and care-giving practices.
dan.sellen@utoronto.ca
Liv Nilsson Stutz
PhD Archaeology, Lund University 2004 | Researcher affiliated with Lund University, Sweden
Burial archaeology, ritual theory, body theory, biological anthropology and excavation methodology, Mesolithic Europe, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Middle East, repatriation, ethics, public archaeology.
Liv.Nilsson_Stutz@ark.lu.se
Bethany L. Turner
PhD Emory University, 2008 | Georgia State University, Assistant Professor
Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, diet and residential mobility via isotope biogeochemistry, osteology, nutrition; South America (Peru).
antblt@langate.gsu.edu
Associated Faculty
Joyce B. Flueckiger
PhD University of Wisconsin, 1984 | Department of Religion, Professor
Performance studies in religion, religions of South Asia.
reljbf@emory.edu
Jennifer W. Foster
PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003 | Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Assistant Professor
Reproductive health, midwifery and health care, social inequality, medical anthropology, gender relations; Latin America and Latino populations in the US.
jennifer.foster@emory.edu
Anna Grimshaw
PhD University of Cambridge, 1984 | Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Associate Professor
Visual anthropology, documentary cinema, experimental ethnography.
agrimsh@emory.edu
Ivan Karp
PhD University of Virginia, 1974 | Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, National Endowment of the Humanities Professor
Anthropology and comparative culture studies, museums and cultural displays, African social organization, religion and systems of thought, culture and power, social and cultural theory, Anthropology and comparative culture studies, museums and cultural displays, African social organization, religion and systems of thought, culture and power, social and cultural theory .
ikarp@emory.edu
Sidney L. Kasfir
PhD School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1979 | Art History Department, Professor
Idoma masquerade and sacred kingship (Nigeria), Samburu blacksmiths (Kenya), contemporary urban and tourist art (Kenya, Uganda), museum representation (USA, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa).
hartsk@emory.edu
Tong Soon Lee
PhD University of Pittsburgh, 1998 | Music Department, Associate Professor
Ethnomusicology.
tslee@emory.edu
Kristin Mann
PhD Stanford University, 1977 | Institute of African Studies, Associate Professor
Social history, gender, law, marriage and kinship, slavery and emancipation, economic transformation, historical anthropology; West Africa.
histkm@emory.edu
Reynaldo Martorell
PhD University of Washington, 1973 | Rollins School of Public Health, Chair, Department of Global Health, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Nutrition
martorel@sph.emory.edu
Robert N. McCauley
PhD University of Chicago, 1979 | Department of Philosophy, William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor
Philosophy of science (especially philosophy of psychology), cognitive science of religion, naturalized epistemology.
philrnm@emory.edu
Marjorie Pak
PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2008 | Program in Linguistics, Lecturer
Syntactic theory, Phonological theory, Syntax-phonology interface, and Word formation and word-level phonology.
mgpak@emory.edu
Gyanendra Pandey
PhD Oxford University, 1975 | Department of History, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History
South Asian history, violence, citizenship and marginality.
gpande2@emory.edu
Lisa A. Parr
PhD Emory University, 2000 | Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Assistant Research Professor; Yerkes Chimpanzee Cognition Laboratory, Assistant Research Professor and Director; Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Neurobiology of autism, neuropsychology of social cognition, consequences of maternal separation in monkeys, emotional cognition and social recognition in chimpanzees.
parr@rmy.emory.edu
Robert A. Paul
PhD University of Chicago, 1970 | Candler Professor & Dean of Emory College
Psychological anthropology, symbolic anthropology, religion; Nepal, Tibet.
rpaul@emory.edu
Todd Preuss
PhD Yale University, 1990 | Associate Research Professor, Division of Neuroscience and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Human brain evolution, based on comparative studies of humans, chimpanzees, and other nonhuman primates, human specializations of the molecular biology, histology, and anatomy of cerebral cortex, comparative neuroimaging.
tpreuss@emory.edu
Mark Risjord
PhD University of North Carolina, 1990 | Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor
Philosophy of science, philosophy of anthropology, philosophy of language, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics.
mrisjor@emory.edu
Lore M. Ruttan
PhD University of California--Davis, 1999 | Department of Environmental Studies, Senior Lecturer
Human Ecology, Cooperation/Collective Action, Common Pool Resource Management, Fisheries; USA and South-east Asia.
lruttan@emory.edu
Don Seeman
PhD Harvard University, 1997 | Department of Religion and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, anthropology of experience, Ethiopian-Israelis, anthropological approaches to Hebrew Bible, Judaism and Hasidism, violence and extremism in Israel.
dseeman@emory.edu
Lynn Sibley
PhD University of Colorado, 1993 | School of Nursing, Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Clinical Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, international health, women in health and development; Belize, India.
lsibley@emory.edu
Valerie Singer
PhD Syracuse University, 2003 | Oxford College of Emory, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Social movements, environmentalism, values, leadership; Candomble, Brazil.
vsinger@emory.edu
Alan Sokoloff
PhD Harvard University, 1989 | Physiology Department, Assistant Professor
Evolution and neuromuscular organization of the primate tongue and larynx, anatomical, molecular and physiological investigation of neural strategies for posture and movement.
sokoloff@physio.emory.edu
Claire Sterk
PhD Eramus University, 1990 | Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Candler Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Addiction, mental health, women's health, community-based prevention/intervention, infectious diseases.
csterk@sph.emory.edu
Aaron Stutz
PhD University of Michigan, 2002 | Oxford College of Emory, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Biocultural perspectives on human population and economic development, bioarchaeology, Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Near East, prehistoric transitions to agriculture.
astutz@emory.edu
Susan Tamasi
PhD University of Georgia, 2003 | Lecturer, Program in Linguistics
Language variation, perceptual dialectology, sociolinguistics, American English, language attitudes.
susan.tamasi@emory.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Johnetta B. Cole
PhD Northwestern University, 1967 | President, Bennett College; Presidential Distinguished Professor Emerita, Emory University
Cultural anthropology, women’s studies, African American studies.
Euclid O. Smith
PhD Ohio State University, 1977 | Professor Emeritus
Biological anthropology, evolutionary theory, human behavioral evolution, primatology.