CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Professor Myers
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Associate Professor Di Fiore

The Department of Anthropology is one of the country’s leading graduate and undergraduate centers for cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology—the four principal subfields of anthropology studied in the undergraduate curriculum. The department considers its greatest assets to be the various individual areas of faculty expertise: archaeological specialties such as European, Near Eastern, and South Asian prehistory; biological anthropology areas such as molecular primatology primate behavior and ecology, and paleoanthropology; linguistic anthropology foci such as discourse analysis and language socialization; and cultural anthropology specialties such as the ethnography of North America, Africa, India, China, the Near and Middle East, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and the South Pacific. Major theoretical emphasis is on the systems of thought and symbolic representation of the self and society; the relation between female and male domains of interaction; changing patterns of social organization and hierarchy within small-scale societies, urban settings, and bureaucratic institutions; medical anthropology; science studies; race and ethnicity; and the problem of ethnographic representation in film and other media.

Departmental resources include an extensive film and video collection as well as teaching and research labs for archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology, which can be used for research by advanced undergraduates. A regular colloquium series and an undergraduate student association welcome undergraduate participation. Formal and informal cooperative arrangements with museums, zoos, and other academic programs in the greater New York area place at students’ disposal a group of anthropological scholars, materials, and resources unparalleled in this country.

Faculty

Professor Emeritus:

Lynch

David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology:

Ginsburg

Silver Professor; Professor of Anthropology:

Myers

Professors:

Beidelman, Dávila, Disotell, Gilsenan,Harrison, Jolly, Kulick, Martin, Merry, Rapp, Schieffelin, White

Associate Professors:

Abercrombie, Antón, Crabtree, Di Fiore, Grant, Khan, Rogers, Wright, Zito

Assistant Professors:

Bailey, Ganti, Himpele, Siu

Visiting Professor:

Rosaldo

Research Associates:

Campana, Cantwell, Friedlander, Pike-Tay, Rockefeller, Schuldenrein, Sutton, Weatherford