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