Department of Anthropology
Faculty

 

George J. Armelagos
(Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1968; Goodrich C. White Professor and Chair) Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, demography, evolution of disease; Mediterranean, Africa. Email: . Phone: 404-727-2215. Anthropology 208.

Asli Baykal
(Ph.D., Boston University, 2007; Marjorie Shostak Lecturer) Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, political anthropology, postsocialism, gender; Central Asia, Middle East. Email:. Phone 404-727-0994. Anthropology 305.

Peggy F. Barlett
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974; Goodrich C. White Professor) Economic anthropology, sustainable development, agricultural systems, gender; U.S., Latin America. Email: . Phone: 404-727-5766. Anthropology 216.

Peter J. Brown
(Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1979; Professor) Medical anthropology, disease eradication and development, infectious diseases, obesity, Alzheimer's disease; Mediterranean Europe. Email: . Phone: 404-727-5760. Anthropology 215.

Benjamin Z. Freed
(Ph.D., Washington University, 1996; Lecturer) Primate ecology, social organization and evolution, conservation; Madagascar; Laos. Email: . Phone: 404-727-4021. Anthropology 200.

Carla Freeman
(Ph.D., Temple University, 1993; Associate Professor/joint appointment in Women's Studies) Gender and feminist anthropology, political economy and development, postcoloniality, global restructuring and transnational culture; Caribbean. Email: . Phone: 404-727-1039. Anthropology 219.

Sarah M. Gouzoules
(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981; Senior Lecturer, Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies) Primate vocal communication; macaque social behavior. Email: .Phone: 404-727-1354. Anthropology 209.

Craig Hadley
( PhD, UC-Davis, 2003; Assistant Professor ) Global health, demography, nutritional adaptation; Africa. Email: .Phone: 404-727-5248. Anthropology 218D

John Kingston
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992; Associate Professor) Biological Anthropology, ecology of human evolution, paleoecology, paleotology; East Africa. Email: . Phone: 404-712-9507. Anthropology 218A.

Bruce Knauft
(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor) Sociocultural and critical theory, power, representation, gender and sexuality, violence, history and ethnography, the evolution of violence; Melanesia. Email: . Phone: 404-727-5769. Anthropology 213.

Melvin J. Konner
(Ph.D., Harvard, 1973; M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1985; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor) Biological anthropology, human behavioral biology, human life cycle, San hunter-gatherers. Email: . Phone: 404-727-4195. Anthropology 106.

Corinne Kratz
(Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin, 1988; Professor/joint appointment in Institute of African Studies) Communication and culture, ceremony and performance, gender, cultural history, museums and cultural display, visual anthropology; East Africa. Email: . Phone: 404-727-1036. Anthropology 218B.

Scott M. Lacy
(Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, 2004; Marjorie Shostak Lecturer) Sociocultural anthropology, rural poverty and hunger, farming families and communities, development, knowledge production, US-Africa policy; Mali, West Africa. Email: . Phone: 404-712-1828. Anthropology 304.

Michelle Lampl
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1983; M.D., University of Pennsylvania 1989; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor) Human growth and development, medical anthropology, infant saltation [growth spurts], nutrition, eating disorders, paleoanthropology; United States. Email: . Phone: 404-727-2214. Anthropology 218C.

Peter Little
( PhD, Indiana, 1983; Professor ) Economic antropology, development anthropology, ecological anthropology, political economy, agrarian change, pastoralism; sub-Saharan Africa. Email:

David Nugent
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988; Professor, Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program) Political and economic anthropology, symbolism and power, race and inequality; Latin America, indigenous North America. Email:.Phone: 404-727-4164. Anthropology 212.

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
(Ph.D., 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. Email: . Phone: 404-727-4467. Anthropology 221.

Michael Peletz
(PhD, University of Michigan, 1983; Professor.). 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. Email: . Phone: 404-727-0484. Anthropology 220.

James Rilling
(Ph.D., Emory University, 1998; Assistant Professor) Neural bases of human social behavior, evolution of social behavior, comparative primate neurobiology, human brain evolution. Email: . Phone: 404-727-3062. Anthropology 114.

Bradd Shore
(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977;Goodrich C. White Professor, Director of Marial Center) Symbolic and psychological anthropology; Oceania, Polynesia. Email: . Phone: 404-727-4200. Anthropology 210.

Debra Spitulnik
(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994; Associate Professor) Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, media culture, national and transnational processes, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, semiotics, comparative Bantu linguistics; Africa, US. Email: . Phone: 404-727-3651. Anthropology 217.

Patricia Whitten
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982; Professor and Director of Graduate Studies) Biological anthropology, reproductive ecology, primate behavior, phytochemistry, field endocrinology. Email: Phone: 404-727-7594. Anthropology 211.

Carol M. Worthman
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor) Biological anthropology, human reproduction, human development, developmental epidemiology, biocultural and life history theory.
Email: . Phone: 404-727-4489. Anthropology 214.

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Adjunct Faculty

Katharine Sieck Barrett
(Ph.D., Emory University, 2004; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Visiting Scholar) American culture, adolescence, family, motherhood, institutional care environments, child abuse and maltreatment, and ethnographic research methods.Email: .

James W. Carey
(B.A., SUNY Buffalo, 1979; M.A., University of Massachusetts, 1981, Ph.D., 1988; Centers for Disease Control, Associate Professor) Epidemiology, Tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS prevention. Email: .

Jennifer W. Foster
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Visiting Scholar) Reproductive health, midwifery and health care, social inequality, medical anthropology, gender relations; Latin America and Latino populations in the US. Email: .

David G. Gantt
(Ph.D., Washington University; Georgia Campus Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Professor and Director of Anatomy) Craniofacial growth and development, oral biology, structure and ultrastructure of dental hard tissues, human and primate dental evolution, high resolution CT, digital imaging and scanning electron microscopy. Email: .

Robert A. Hahn
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976; Centers for Disease Control, Associate Professor) Social anthropology, medical anthropology, epidemiology. Email: .

Kathryn A. Kozaitis
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Christopher Krupa
(Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005; Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS) Postdoctoral Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer) Social and cultural anthropology, capitalism, race and race politics, state and state proxies, dialectics, history, historiography, ethnography, collective violence; Latin America, the Andes. Email: . Phone: 404-727-9840. 1385 Oxford Road ICIS room 209.

Leandris Liburd
(Ph.D. 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. Email: .

Daniel Sellen
(Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1995; University of Toronto, Associate Professor)Human ecology, evolutionary biology and global health consequences of young child feeding and care-giving practices.
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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. Email:

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Associated Faculty

Ron Barrett
(Ph.D. Emory University, 2002; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Assistant Professor) Social dynamics of infectious diseases, religious healing, decision-making at the end of life; India, the United States. Email: .

Joyce B. Flueckiger
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984; Department of Religion, Professor)Performance studies in religion, religions of South Asia. Email: .

Anna Grimshaw
(Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1984; Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Associate Professor) Visual anthropology, documentary cinema, experimental ethnography. Email: .

Ivan Karp
(Ph.D., 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 . Email: .

Sidney L. Kasfir
(Ph.D., 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). Email: .

Tong Soon Lee
(Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1998, Music Department, Associate Professor) Ethnomusicology. Email: .

Kristin Mann
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Reynaldo Martorell
(Ph.D., University of Washington, 1973; Rollins School of Public Health, Chair, Department of Global Health, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Nutrition) Nutrition, food, human biology, Latin American Studies. Email: .

Robert N. McCauley
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Gyanendra Pandey
(Ph.D., Oxford University, 1975; Department of History, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History) South Asian history, violence, citizenship and marginality. Email: .

Lisa A. Parr
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Robert A. Paul
PhD, University of Chicago, 1970; Candler Professor & Dean of Emory College) Psychological anthropology, symbolic anthropology, religion; Nepal, Tibet. Email: .

Todd Preuss
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Mark Risjord
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Tracy Rone
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002; Division of Educational Studies, Assistant Professor) Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, language socialization, discourse analysis, narrative and storytelling, language and social identity, anthropological approaches to urban education; African America. Email: .

Lore M. Ruttan
(Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1999; Department of Environmental Studies, Senior Lecturer) Human Ecology, Cooperation/Collective Action, ommon Pool Resource Management, Fisheries; USA and South-east Asia. Email: .

Don Seeman
(Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997; Department of Religion and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Assistant Professor) Medical anthropology, anthropology of experience, Ethiopian-Israelis, anthropological approaches to Hebrew Bible, Judaism and Hasidism, violence and extremism in Israel. Email: .

Lynn Sibley
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Valerie Singer
(Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2003; Oxford College of Emory, Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Social movements, environmentalism, values, leadership; Candomble, Brazil. Email: .

Alan Sokoloff
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Claire Sterk
(Ph.D., 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. Email: .

Aaron Stutz
(Ph.D. 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. Email: .

Susan Tamasi
(Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2003; Lecturer, Program in Linguistics) Language variation, perceptual dialectology, sociolinguistics, American English, language attitudes. Email: .

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Emeritus Faculty

Johnetta B. Cole
(Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1967; President, Bennett College; Presidential Distinguished Professor Emerita, Emory University) Cultural anthropology, women’s studies, African American studies.

Euclid O. Smith
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1977; Professor Emeritus) Biological anthropology, evolutionary theory, human behavioral evolution, primatology.

 
 

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