Patricia A McAnany Affiliated Title:Kenan Eminent Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Patricia A McAnany Email: mcanany@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural heritage and Indigenous communities, ancestor veneration, archaeological understanding of detachment from place, cultural logic of noncapitalist economies, identity and gender constructs, cac...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Amanda L Thompson Affiliated Title:Professor and Department Chair Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Amanda L Thompson Email: althomps@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Biomedical anthropology, nutrition, human biology, early life determinants of body composition and obesity, infant and child feeding Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Benjamin Arbuckle Affiliated Title:Professor and Associate Chair Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Benjamin Arbuckle Email: bsarbu@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Near Eastern Archaeology, origins and evolution of animal economies, animals in complex societies Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Christopher T Nelson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Christopher T Nelson Email: ctnelson@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: History and memory, everyday life, ethnography, Critical Theory, storytelling, ritual and performance Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Angela Stuesse Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Angela Stuesse Email: astuesse@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Neoliberalism, race, ethnicity, and identity, globalization, migration, social movements, human rights, labor, methodologies of activist research Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Anna Agbe-Davies Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Anna Agbe-Davies Email: agbe-davies@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Historical archaeology, plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean, towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, African diaspora Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
C Margaret Scarry Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact C Margaret Scarry Email: scarry@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology, paleoethnobotany, subsistence economies, foodways, complex societies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Caela O'Connell Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Caela O'Connell Email: caela@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Climate change and climate change adaptation; Economics; Food and agriculture; Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation; Governance Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Colin Thor West Affiliated Title:Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Affiliated Contact Colin Thor West Email: ctw@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Human ecology of global change Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff Other: Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dale L Hutchinson Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Dale L Hutchinson Email: dhutchin@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Bioarchaeology, human osteology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology health and nutrition, agricultural origins and consequences Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Donald M Nonini Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Donald M Nonini Email: donald.nonini@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Urban anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of the state, cultural politics of class, ethnicity/race, and gender, political economy, global systems and transnationalism, critical theories...Read More Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Florence E Babb Affiliated Title:Harrington Distinguished Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Florence E Babb Email: fbabb@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural/economic/feminist anthropology,gender, race, and sexuality, critical development studies, urbanization in the global South, tourism studies, Latin American studies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Glenn D Hinson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Glenn D Hinson Area of Expertise: Ethnography, belief studies, folklife, public folklore, trauma-informed ethnographic practice, experience-centered anthropology, African American expressive culture, vernacular poetry, vernacular art,...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Jocelyn Lim Chua Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Jocelyn Lim Chua Email: jlchua@email.unc.edu Area of Expertise: Anthropologies and politics of health and well-being, globalization of psychiatry, mental health and illness, politics of life and death, suicide, ontologies of the body, kinship and care Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Karla Slocum Affiliated Title:Lambeth Distinguished Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Karla Slocum Email: kslocum@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Place, race and history, globalization, rurality, social movements Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Margaret J Wiener Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Margaret J Wiener Email: mjwiener@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Actor Network Theory, ontology, and science studies, history and memory, magic, human and animal relations, Colonial societies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Mark Sorensen Affiliated Title:Associate Professor and Undergraduate Research Liason Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Mark Sorensen Email: msorensen@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Biological anthropology, health and culture change, adaptability, energetics, nutrition Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Michele Rivkin-Fish Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Michele Rivkin-Fish Email: mrfish@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, moral economies of medicine and health, gender and health, reproductive politics, health care reform Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Paul W Leslie Affiliated Title:Pardue Distinguished Professor Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Paul W Leslie Email: pwleslie@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Biological anthropology, human ecology, demography, population genetics, reproduction Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Peter Redfield Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Peter Redfield Email: redfield@unc.edu Area of Expertise: Anthropology of science, technology and medicine, humanitarianism and human rights, colonial history, ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and transnational experts Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff