Primary Contact David Scott Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Department Lead David Scott Email: das133@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Severin M Fowles Affiliated Title:Associate Prof, Barnard Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Severin M Fowles Email: sf2220@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: iconography, religion, landscape, indigeneity, colonialism, oral history, archaeology and ethnography of American SW Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Audra Simpson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Audra Simpson Email: as447@cornell.edu Area of Expertise: Indigeneity, nationhood, citizenship, borders, discourse and narrativity, Mohawk Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Brian Boyd Affiliated Title:Director; Lecturer in Discipline (Anthropology) and Program Director (Center for Archaeology), Director of Museum Anthropology MA Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brian Boyd Email: bb2305@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology of Levant, human-animal relations, technologies, gender, theory Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Brian Larkin Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brian Larkin Email: bl190@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Social cultural anthropology, media, infrastructure, urbanism, religion Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Brinkley Messick Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brinkley Messick Email: bmm23@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Catherine Fennell Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Catherine Fennell Area of Expertise: Urban anthropology, citizenship, sociality and kinship in urban space, space, race and place Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Claudio Lomnitz Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Claudio Lomnitz Email: cl2510@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Anthropology and history of Latin America, historical anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of corruption and death, historicity and crisis in contemporary societies, cultural, geography,...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Elizabeth A Povinelli Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Elizabeth A Povinelli Email: ep2122@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Language, culture and power, subjectivity and sexuality, critical theory, liberalism and multiculturalism, indigenous and human rights Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Ellen Marakowitz Affiliated Title:Lecturer, Director of MA Program Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Ellen Marakowitz Email: em8@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Gender, nationalism, social welfare systems, medical anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Hannah Rachel Chazin Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Hannah Rachel Chazin Area of Expertise: Archaeology, political anthropology, human-animal relationships, anthropology of value, zooarchaeology, isotope analysis Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
John Pemberton Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact John Pemberton Email: jp373@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Colonial/postcolonial studies, historiography, politics, discourse, ritual practice, translation Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Lesley A Sharp Affiliated Title:Professor, Barnard Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Lesley A Sharp Email: lsharp@barnard.columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, symbolics of the body, biotechnologies, trans-cultural psychiatry, religion, anthropology of work, migration, gender, youth, theory and methods Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Lila Abu-Lughod Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Lila Abu-Lughod Email: la310@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Gender, nationalism and media, popular culture and oral literature, memory, self and emotion, human rights, transnational feminism, politics of scholarship, Islam Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Mahmood Mamdani Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Mahmood Mamdani Email: mm1124@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: State formation and state reform, political identity Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Maria José de Abreu Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Maria José de Abreu Email: md3605@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Social Cultural Anthropology, anthropology of religion, media, literature Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Marilyn Ivy Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Marilyn Ivy Email: mji4@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Critical theory, history, anthropology of modernity, literature and textuality Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Michael Taussig Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Michael Taussig Email: mt107@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Theory, colonialism, shamanism, terror, folk healing, mimesis, magicalities of the state, secrecy, experimental ethnography Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
Myron L Cohen Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Myron L Cohen Email: mlc5@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Social organization, political organization, economic culture, historical anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Nadia Abu El-Haj Affiliated Title:Professor, Barnard Organization:Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Nadia Abu El-Haj Email: ne2008@columbia.edu Area of Expertise: Social cultural anthropology, anthropology of science, colonialism, race Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff