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 |
| Kevin Birth |
| Cultural concepts of time, the experience of Carnival and music, chronobiology, social rhythms, political economy, and theology and liturgical studies |
| Yarimar Bonilla |
| Political and historical anthropology; colonialism, race, sovereignty, citizenship, and nation; Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican studies, American studies, ethnic studies |
| Anna Boozer |
| Roman Empire, Roman Egypt, Meroitic Sudan, archaeology, ancient history, imperialism, everyday life, urbanism |
| Kelly Britt |
| Historical archeology, specializing in urban spaces of the northeast; the intersection of gentrification, activism, and material culture in Brooklyn |
| 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, sustainability, environmental gentrification, social movements, urban US |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Economic and political anthropology, historical anthropology, social movements, development; Latin America |
| Omri Elisha |
| Evangelicalism and christianity, urban anthropology, North American ethnography, cultural activism and social movements |
| Ismael García-Colón |
| History, political economy, U.S. colonialism, migration, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinxs |
| 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 |
| 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 and development, extractivism, tourism; Central America and the Caribbean |
| Setha M. Low |
| Security and Surveillance, Private Governance, Anthropology of Corporations, Ethnography of Space and Place, Illiberal Urbanism, Politics of Public Space |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Matthew Reilly |
| Intersections of race, class, gender, 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 |
| 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 |