George E Marcus Affiliated Title:Distinguished Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology George E Marcus Email: gmarcus@uci.edu Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Kim Fortun Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Kim Fortun Email: kfortun@uci.edu Area of Expertise: anthropology of science, environment, disaster; experimental ethnography; data studies and infrastructure; open access publishing; critical pedagogy Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Bill Maurer Affiliated Title:Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Law Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Bill Maurer Email: wmmaurer@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Law, political economy, anthropology of money and finance, payment systems and technologies, mobile communications, social implications of computational systems, artificial intelligence and law, kinsh...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Angela Jenks Affiliated Title:Associate Teaching Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Angela Jenks Email: ajenks@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, race, ethnicity, and the politics of difference, social studies of science and knowledge, urban ethnography Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Anneeth Kaur Hundle Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor and Dhan Kaur Sahota Presidential Chair of Sikh Studies Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Anneeth Kaur Hundle Area of Expertise: Sikh studies, african and south asian diaspora/studies; africana studies; afro-asianism; race citizenship decolonization and global migration; minoritization and community politics, transnational femi...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Damien Sojoyner Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Damien Sojoyner Email: dsojoyne@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Urban anthropology, prisons, public education, race, African diaspora theory, masculinities, activism, Black political theory, non-profit, policy formation Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
David Theo Goldberg Affiliated Title:Distinguished Professor and Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute and Executive Director, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub/Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact David Theo Goldberg Email: dgoldberg@hri.uci.edu Area of Expertise: Race, racism, postcolonial theory, political and critical theory, digital technology and humanities Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Eleana Kim Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Eleana Kim Email: eleana.kim@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Kinship, transnationalism, nationalism, political ecology, environment, posthumanism Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Ian Straughn Affiliated Title:Assistant Teaching Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Ian Straughn Email: istraugh@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology, Islam, Material Culture, manuscript cultures, heritage, spatiality Position: Assistant Teaching Professor Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Justin B Richland Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Justin B Richland Area of Expertise: Legal discourse analysis and semiotics; anthropology of law; contemporary native american law, politics, art and ethnographic museology Position: Professor Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Keith M Murphy Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Keith M Murphy Email: kmmurphy@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, design, typography and graphic language, semiotics, face-to-face interaction, Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Kristin Peterson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Kristin Peterson Email: kris@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Political economy, theories of capital and property, post-colonialism and globalization, medicine and science, clinical research, AIDS policies, pharmaceuticals, transnational feminism Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Leo R Chavez II Affiliated Title:Distinguished Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Affiliated Contact Leo R Chavez II Email: lchavez@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Transnational migration, citizenship, globalization, illegality, abjectivity, discourses of nation and identity, governmentality, medical anthropology, semiotics of visual representations Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Lilith Mahmud Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Lilith Mahmud Email: lmahmud@uci.edu Area of Expertise: feminist anthropology; anthropology of Europe; secrecy; nationalism; migration; elites; liberalism; fascism and the Right Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Mei Zhan Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Mei Zhan Email: mzhan@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, social and cultural studies of science, globalization and transnationalism, humanism, traditional Chinese medicine Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Mike Fortun Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Mike Fortun Email: mike.fortun@uci.edu Area of Expertise: genomics, life sciences, biotechnology, infrastructures, science and technology studies, affect, open access publication, open source software, archives, Geographic expertise: North America, Iceland Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Mimi Ito Affiliated Title:Professor in Residence and MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, University of California Humanities Research Institute and School of Information and Computer Science Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Mimi Ito Email: mizukoi@uci.edu Area of Expertise: New media use among young people in Japan and the US, mobile technology, children and informal learning, anime fandom in Japan and the English-speaking online world Individual Type: Affiliated or Other Faculty/Staff
Roxanne Varzi Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Roxanne Varzi Email: rvarzi@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Media, youth culture, religion, public space, performance, war, experimental ethnography, documentary, Islam, visual anthropology, multimodal, sound ethnography and documentary filmmaking, film; roxan...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Samar Al-Bulushi Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Samar Al-Bulushi Email: samar.a@uci.edu Area of Expertise: surveillance, policing, and militarized urbanisms; elites, diplomacy, and geopolitics; war on terror Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Sherine Hamdy Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Sherine Hamdy Email: shamdy@uci.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, gender/sexuality studies, reproduction, comics and ethnography, Muslim experiences Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff