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 |
| H. Arthur Bankoff |
| European archaeology, Old World prehistory, Near Eastern ethnography, physical anthropology, archaeological field and laboratory techniques |
| Alexander A. Bauer |
| Trade & interaction, material culture, semiotics, cultural heritage, Near East, Eurasia |
| Leigh Binford |
| Political economy, migration & development, anthropology of violence, Mexico, Central America |
| Michael Blim |
| Political economy, globalization, inequality; Southern Europe |
| 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 justice, urban political ecology, social movements, US |
| Stephen Chester |
| Origins and early evolution of primates, primate supraordinal relationships, evolutionary morphology of mammals, mammalian responses to climate change |
| John Collins |
| Nationalism, historical anthropology, semiotics, political economy, racial theory, economic anthropology; Latin America, Brazil, Andes, Cuba |
| Vincent Crapanzano |
| Symbolic and interpretive anthropology, ethno-psychology, anthropology and literature, theories of interpretation, anthropology of law, religion; North Africa, South Africa, US |
| Gerald Creed |
| Political economy, rural identity, nationalism, community, family, ritual; Eastern Europe |
| Kate Crehan |
| Gramsci, political economy, gender, development, public anthropology, aesthetics; Southern Africa |
| Dana-Ain Davis |
| Poverty policy, feminist theory, public anthropology, urban political economy, US |
| Eric Delson |
| Paleoanthropology, primate paleontology, morphology, systematics and evolution; Old World |
| Marc Edelman |
| Economic and political anthropology, historical anthropology, social movements, development; Latin America |
| Ismael García-Colón |
| History, political economy, U.S. colonialism, migration, Latin America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latinas/os |
| Murphy Halliburton |
| Medical anthropology, anthropology of science, cross-cultural psychiatry, ayurvedic medicine, intellectual property; South Asia |
| William Harcourt-Smith |
| Paleoanth, hum evol, hominin postcran morphol & funct anat, primate locomotion, hominoid paleoecol, geomet morphomet, skeletal var; Old World |
| 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 |
| Mandana Limbert |
| Modernity, religion, gender, historical anthropology; Middle East & Indian Ocean |
| Christopher Loperena |
| Race, indigeneity, anti-Blackness, ethics, land, environment and development, extractivism, tourism; Central America and the Caribbean |
| Setha M. Low |
| Anthropology of space and place, medical anthropology, urban anthropology; Latin America, United States, cities of Western Europe |
| Felicia Madimenos |
| Human biology, reproductive ecology, skeletal biology, market integration, indigenous health, Amazonian Ecuador |
| Miki Makihara |
| Political economy of language, ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis; Polynesia, the Pacific |
| Jeff Maskovsky |
| Political anthropology; biopolitics, health, poverty, security, governance; populism and white nationalism; social movements, urban political economy; US |
| Patricia D. Mathews-Salazar |
| Human rights, women and Indian resurgence, cultural heritage, tourism and globalization; Latin America, Andean region |
| Thomas McGovern |
| Climatic impacts, zoo-archaeology, paleoeconomy, human dimensions of global change; North Atlantic Islands, Eastern Arctic |
| James A. Moore |
| European prehistory, historical arch, gatherer-hunter studies; Eastern North America, Ireland |
| 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 hominid paleoecology and behavior, hominid paleontology, human osteology; East Africa |
| Timothy W. Pugh |
| Maya, ethnohistory, ritual, architecture, social complexity, cultural contact; Central Amer |
| Ryan L. Raaum |
| Population genetics, human molecular variation, phylogeography, primate phylogenetics, molecular systematics; Africa, Middle East, Indian Ocean rim |
| Angela Reyes |
| Race, register, semiotics, discourse, US, Philippines |
| Donald Robotham |
| Postcolonialism, multiple modernities, work; the Caribbean and West Africa |
| Jessica Rothman |
| Primate ecology and behavior, nutrition, evolutionary ecology, Old World Monkeys, Apes; Africa |
| Victoria Sanford |
| Human rights, international humanitarian law, genocide, video ethnography, critical theory, race and gender in the Americas, displacement, child soldiers; Guatemala, Colombia, South Africa |
| Jonathan Shannon |
| Aesthetics, ethnomusicology, modernity, food; Middle East, Mediterranean |
| Julie Skurski |
| Nationalism, race, gender, anthropology and history, popular religion, Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic studies |
| Vincent H. Stefan |
| Forensic anthropology, human evolution, human osteology, paleoanthropology, quantitative methods, Polynesian / Easter Island skeletal biology; Oceania |
| Michael E. Steiper |
| Genetics, DNA, phylogenetics, population genetics, primates, hominoids, malaria, molecular clocks |