Field-Of-Study: Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Nina G. Jablonski is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University.  She is a biological anthropologist and paleobiologist who conducts research on the evolution of adaptations to the environment in humans and their close primate relatives.  Jablonski is especially fascinated by problems of evolution that do not have immediate answers in the fossil

Bruce Grant is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. A specialist on cultural politics in the former Soviet Union, he has done fieldwork in both Siberia and the Caucasus. He is author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas (Princeton UP, 1995), a study of the Sovietization of an indigenous

Kristen Ghodsee earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and is the Director and John S. Osterweis Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College.  Her research interests include the gendered effects of the economic transition from communism to capitalism and the ethnographic study of postcommunist nostalgia in Eastern Europe.  Primarily focusing on the

John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences and Professor in Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He studied at Stanford and Chicago, and has held visiting positions in Paris and London. He has been studying Islam and society in Indonesia since the late 1970s, and since 2001 has worked

I am currently working on a book project that will address the cultural and symbolic dimensions of the way refuge is imagined locally and globally by displaced Somalis and the communities to which they go in order to advance a new understanding of refugee agency from the perspective of those who move. The book engages

Agnes Weiyun He is a  Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at Stony Brook University. She received her B.A. in English from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University, China), Diploma-in-Education from the National Institute of Education (Singapore), M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona (U.S.),

Li Zhang is an associate professor of anthropology and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Davis. She received her doctoral degree from Cornell University and a M.A. and a B.A. from Peking University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. As a cultural anthropologist, Ms.

Kevin A. Yelvington is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. He received a B.S. in communications (1983) and an M.A. in international studies (1985) from Florida International University. He then continued his studies at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, where he earned

Jonathan H. Shannon is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, and a member of the doctoral faculties in Music and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Stanford University in 1988 and the Ph.D. in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center in

In the concluding words of my recent book, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, I say, “ This is how I see the public role of anthropology: acting on the double register in which we offer evidence that contests the official amnesia and systematic acts of making evidence disappear, but also