Faculty
The Anthropology Program at the Graduate Center draws its faculty from across the CUNY system. There are currently over 50 active, fulltime faculty members representing 10 different CUNY campuses, supported by a rich collection of emeritus professors, many of whom continue to participate substantively in student training, and a broad set of adjunct/affiliated faculty from a variety of prestigious institutions. The fulltime doctoral faculty includes members who teach only at the Graduate Center as well as others who teach at both the Graduate Center and another CUNY campus. Additional anthropologists in the CUNY system also participate in the doctoral program in diverse ways. For a fuller profile of faculty resources in the CUNY system, see the websites of CUNY anthropology departments.
| Andrea Baden |
| Molecular ecology, sociobiology, primate reproductive strategies, cooperative breeding, sexual selection and conservation biology |
| Alexander A. Bauer |
| Trade & interaction, material culture, semiotics, cultural heritage, Near East, Eurasia |
| Kevin Birth |
| Cultural concepts of time, time metrology, the experience of Carnival and music, chronobiology, social rhythms, science and technology. |
| Yarimar Bonilla |
| Political and historical anthropology; race, sovereignty, coloniality, disaster; Caribbean studies, American studies, ethnic studies |
| Anna Lucille Boozer |
| Houses and households, imperialism, connectivity, rubbish, material culture, social archaeology and ancient history, Roman Empire, Meroitic Sudan, Egypt, and Nubia |
| Kelly Britt |
| Historical archeology, specializing in urban spaces of the northeast; contemporary archaeology; the intersection of activism, and material culture |
| Jacqueline Nassy Brown |
| Diaspora and transnationalism; race, place and space; Black identities: U.S. and Britain |
| Jillian R. Cavanaugh |
| Language ideology, language shift/social change, gender, materiality, Italy, Europe |
| Melissa Checker |
| Environmental racism, environmental justice activism, urban sustainability, green capitalism, environmental gentrification, participatory politics, middle class precarity, political ecology, urban U.S., U.S. South |
| Stephen Chester |
| Origins and early evolution of primates, primate supraordinal relationships, evolutionary morphology of mammals, mammalian responses to climate change |
| Shahrina Chowdhury |
| The study of biology and behavior of nonhuman primates, including social behavior, ecology, endocrinology and conservation |
| Leo Coleman |
| Political and legal anthropology; urban anthropology; science and technology Studies; colonialism and postcolonialism; constitutionalism & nationalism; India, Scotland, and the British Empire |
| John Collins |
| Nationalism, historical anthropology, semiotics, political economy, racial theory, economic anthropology; Latin America, Brazil, Andes, Cuba |
| Vincent Crapanzano |
| Symbolic, Interpretive, Psychiatric ,and Philosophical (Existential and Phenomenological) Anthropology, Pragmatics, Literary Anthropology, Narratives of the Self, Anthropology of the Law, Religion, North Africa, South Africa, France, and the U.S. |
| Gerald Creed |
| Political economy, rural identity, nationalism, community, family, ritual; Eastern Europe |
| Dana-Ain Davis |
| Poverty policy, feminist theory, public anthropology, urban political economy, US |
| Eric Delson |
| Paleoanthropology, primate paleontology, morphology, systematics and evolution; Old World |
| Victoria M. Dominguez |
| Skeletal biology, bone histology and microarchitecture, bone quality, biomechanics, and forensic anthropology |
| Marc Edelman |
| The Americas, critical agrarian studies, social movements, human rights, development and underdevelopment, political anthropology. |
| Omri Elisha |
| Anthropology of Religion, Ritual, North America, Christianity, Evangelicalism, Spirituality, Performance, Occultism, Cosmology, Secularism. |
| Alyshia Gálvez |
| Specialization in the areas of food, health, migration, trade, policy, citizenship and rights, Mexico and Mexican populations, Latin America, and Latinx communities in the United States, public health, health disparities, medical anthropology, gender, reproduction, chronic disease, religion, and performance |
| Ismael García-Colón |
| Political economy, colonialism, migration, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinxs |
| Christopher Gilbert |
| Neogene primate evolution, biochronology, and biogeography in Africa and Asia; evolutionary history and phylogenetic systematics of catarrhines; biogeography and biochronology of Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoids and its relationship to hominin evolution; Paleocene-Eocene primate and mammalian ecomorphology, diversity, biogeography, and evolution; Character coding methodology in phylogenetic analysis, comparison of cladistic and morphometric methods in phylogenetic analysis, phylogenetic analysis |
| Murphy Halliburton |
| Medical anthropology, anthropology of science, psychiatric anthropology, ayurvedic medicine, intellectual property; South Asia |
| William Harcourt-Smith |
| Paleoanthropology, Hominin paleobiology, postcranial morphology and locomotion, functional anatomy, geometric morphometrics, 3D modelling |
| David Harvey |
| Cultural anthropology, urbanization, environment, political economy, geography and social theory; advanced capitalist countries |
| Louise Lennihan |
| Political economy of agrarian societies, development, historical anthropology; Africa |
| Stephanie Levy |
| Energetics, developmental origins of health and disease, life history theory, climate change, cardio-metabolic health, and brown adipose tissue |
| Mandana Limbert |
| Modernity, religion, gender, historical anthropology; Middle East & Indian Ocean |
| Christopher Loperena |
| Race, indigeneity, anti-Blackness, ethics, land, environment, extractivism, tourism; Central America and the Caribbean |
| Setha M. Low |
| Anthropology of Space and Place; Security and Surveillance; Private Governance; The Corporate City; Engaged Urban Anthropology of North and South America; Affective and Embodied Practices |
| Felicia Madimenos |
| Human biology, epidemiological transitions, Indigenous health, Amazonian Ecuador |
| Miki Makihara |
| Linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, ethnography, semiotics, language and politics, multilingual practices, language contact, language revitalization, Indigenous movements, Polynesia, the Pacific, Latin America |
| Jeff Maskovsky |
| Political anthropology; race and class politics; biopolitics, health, poverty, and urban governance; security and securitization; ethics and politics of care; populism and white nationalism; social movements, protest anthropology, urban political economy; US |
| Thomas McGovern |
| Environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, island archaeology, climate change, Historical Ecology & Long- Term Human Ecodynamics, cultures of the North Atlantic and Circumpolar North. Application of archaeology to current issues of global change and long- term resilience. |
| Sarah Muir |
| Linguistic anthropology; semiotic ideologies and moral economies; narratives genres and publicity; investment and finance, social inequality and economic crisis; Argentina and Latin America |
| William Parry |
| Hunters and gatherers, lithic technology; American Southwest, Mesoamerica |
| Ekaterina Pechenkina |
| Paleopathology, paleodietary reconstruction, health & demography, Andean prehistory; Northern China |
| Thomas Plummer |
| Pliocene and Pleistocene hominin paleoecology and behavior, hominin paleontology, human osteology; East Africa |
| Timothy W. Pugh |
| Maya, social complexity, early urbanization, colonialism, Central America |
| Ryan L. Raaum |
| Population genetics, human molecular variation, phylogeography, primate phylogenetics, molecular systematics; Africa, Middle East, Indian Ocean rim |
| Matthew Reilly |
| Intersections of race, class, slavery, freedom, colonialism, and capitalism in the Atlantic World; origins of modern racial discourse and the development of whiteness as a racial identity and ideological concept; archaeological approaches to time, materiality, memory, and praxis |
| Angela Reyes |
| Race, register, semiotics, discourse, US, Philippines |
| Diane Riskedahl |
| Language and politics, semiotic landscapes, protest rhetoric and social movements, language ideologies, interactional linguistics, narratives of migration and displacement, Lebanon, the Middle East |
| Chris Robinson |
| Hominoid mandibular variation, human evolution, geometric morphometrics, Australopithecus, paleoanthropology, European Early Pleistocene paleoecology, giraffe evolution |
| Donald Robotham |
| Postcolonialism, multiple modernities, work; the Caribbean and West Africa |
| Jessica Rothman |
| Primate ecology and behavior, nutrition, evolutionary ecology, Old World Monkeys, Apes, Primate conservation; Africa |