Anthropology Faculty & Staff
Chair
Graduate Director
Jean Wogaman Senior Administrative Assistant CAS - Anthropology
Full-time Faculty
Orisanmi Burton Asst Professor CAS - Anthropology
As a social anthropologist working in the United States, my research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression. Within this broad area of inquiry, my present work explores…
Arvenita Cherry Public Anthropologist-in-Residence CAS - Anthropology
Arvenita Washington Cherry is a socio-cultural and educational anthropologist with expertise on the African Diaspora, race and ethnicity, and racism. Her research focuses on social constructions of bl…
C. Anne Claus Assoc Professor CAS - Anthropology
C. Anne Claus is a cultural anthropologist who researches environmental issues in contemporary seascapes, primarily in Japan. Her academic work investigates how the interplay of international and loca…
Zev Cossin Professorial Lecturer CAS - Anthropology
Zev Cossin is an historical archaeologist and environmental anthropologist, specializing in the Ecuadorian Andes. His research integrates archaeological, archival, oral historical and ethnographic res…
Zoltan Gluck Asst Professor CAS - Anthropology
My research focuses on issues of security, war, cities, postcolonialism and racial capitalism in East Africa. My current project is a study of the war on terror in Kenya, examining how counterterroris…
Manissa Maharawal Asst Professor CAS - Anthropology
I am a cultural anthropologist and critical geographer whose work focuses on eviction, race, displacement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements from Occupy Wall …
Mubbashir Rizvi Professorial Lecturer CAS - Anthropology
My research and teaching interests span social movements, political ecology, racial capitalism in South Asia and its diasporas. My book, The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights in Paki…
Thurka Sangaramoorthy Professor CAS - Anthropology
Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy is a cultural and medical anthropologist and global health expert with 23 years of experience conducting community-engaged ethnographic research, including rapid assessments,…
Daniel Sayers Assoc Professor CAS - Anthropology
• Time Logged--doing what?: I have spent over 25 years working as an Anthropological Historical Archaeologist in the U.S. I have been on faculty at AU for 15 years.• My Angle: I build from an engaged …
Gretchen Schafft Public Anthropologist-in-Residence CAS - Anthropology
The major foci of Gretchen Schafft’s career have been minority/majority interface, social justice, education and access to health care in the United States. In addition to her doctorate in anthropolog…
Sue Taylor Public Anthropologist in Residence CAS - Anthropology
Taylor had extensive experience in nursing administration and clinical practice when she pursued a career in anthropology focusing on issues of health and gerontology. She directed a graduate program …
David Vine Professor CAS - Anthropology
I am the author of The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (University of California Press, 2020), which is the third …
Rachel Watkins Associate Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology CAS - Anthropology
I am a biocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on African American biohistory and social history, bioanthropological research practices and histories of (US) American biological anthropology. In…
Buck Woodard Sr Professorial Lecturer CAS - Anthropology
Buck Woodard is a cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research, with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing, and ethnological study of indigenous North Americ…