Robert Albro Associate Research Professor, Center for Latin American & Latino Studies Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail albro@american.edu vCard Area of Expertisecultural policy in contexts of national security, public diplomacy, climate change, human rights, urban planning, science and technology; ethnography, ethics, and science policy
Geoffrey L Burkhart Associate Professor Emeritus Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail gburkhar@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseSocial anthropology, ethnicity
Orisanmi Burton Assistant Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail oburton@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertisePolicing and carceral studies, race and racialization, urban geography, political economy, social movements
Lauren Carruth Assistant Professor, School of International Service Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail lcarruth@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseMedical anthropology, global health, humanitarianism, food security, nutrition
Arvenita Washington Cherry Public Anthropologist in Residence Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail AWCherry@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseRace, identity, education, the African diaspora, Afro-Latinas/os and African Americans/African American Cultures
C. Anne Claus Associate Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail claus@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertisePolitical ecology, environmentalism, ocean studies, food studies
Richard J Dent Jr Associate Professor Emeritus Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail potomac@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseNorth American archaeology, Eastern North American prehistory and history, paleoecology, cultural resource management
Scott Freeman Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail freeman@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseAnthropology of development, NGOs, political ecology, conservation, labor
Zoltan Gluck Assistant Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact
Dolores Koenig Professor Emerita Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail dkoenig@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseRural and urban development, gender in development, development-caused forced displacement and resettlement
William L Leap Professor Emeritus Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Position: Professor Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail wlm@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseLanguage, culture and media, language and sexuality studies, queer theory, globalization, necropolitics
Manissa Maharawal Assistant Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact Area of ExpertiseSocial movements, activism, protest, urban studies, gentrification, displacement, affect, critical race theory, racial capitalism, public anthropology, neoliberalism, political economy
Jack Rasmussen Director and Curator of the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail rasmussen@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseArt and anthropology, curatorial practice
Thurka Sangaramoorthy Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact
Daniel O Sayers Associate Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail sayers@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseHistorical archaeology, political economy, landscapes and spatialities of modern world, maroons, community, diasporas and exile, agrarian capitalism, animal emancipation and archaeology, labor, archae...Read More
Gretchen Schafft Public Anthropologist in Residence Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail gschafft@verizon.net vCard Area of ExpertiseViolence, exclusion, anthropology of the Third Reich, US health, welfare, education
Susan Shepler Associate Professor, School of International Service Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail shepler@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertisePeace and conflict, youth, education, development, child soldiers, Ebola
Sue Ann Taylor Public Anthropologist-in-Residence Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail suetaylor@verizon.net vCard Area of ExpertisePublic anthropology, medical anthropology, life course and aging, oral history and heritage, tourism
Amelia Tseng Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail tseng@american.edu vCard Area of Expertisemultilingualism, migration, identity construction, language and place, US Latino diaspora
David Vine Professor Organization:American University, Department of Anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Affiliated Contact E-mail vine@american.edu vCard Area of ExpertiseUS foreign policy, war, US military, US foreign policy, military bases, militarization, human rights, displacement, gentrification, Indigenous peoples' rights, ethnographic writing