Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor William James Hall 314
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Research Interests: Secularism and Religion, Language and the law, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, Ethnography of the State, Identities and Surveillance, South Asia aaahmed@fas.harvard.edu
Theodore C. Bestor, Professor Chair of the Department of Anthropology*
Research Interests: Markets, globalization, urban studies, economic institutions and exchange; food systems and cultures, space, place and identity; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic.
Teaching and Research Office:
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Chair's Office: Peabody Museum 53 B
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Steve Caton, Professor Social Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) William James Hall 318
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Research Interests: Linguistics, cultural studies, gender, Yemeni poetics and politics, US men's movement. > website
Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor William James Hall 336
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Research Interests: Anthropology of Science; Medical Anthropology; Race; Health Disparities; Global Health Politics; especially in France, Senegal, West Africa, and the United States dfullwil@fas.harvard.edu
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Byron Good, Professor
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Research Interests: Medical and psychiatric anthropology; cultural psychology of Middle East and of American health, Iran, Turkey and the USA.
Michael Herzfeld, Professor Social Anthropology Wing Chair
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Research Interests: social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history; Europe (especially Greece & Italy), and Thailand. herzfeld@wjh.harvard.edu
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Arthur Kleinman, Professor William James Hall 330
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Research Interests: Medical Anthropology: social experience, suffering, social and mental health; China, Taiwan, North America On leave 2007-08
Smita Lahiri, Associate Professor
Social Anthropology Head Tutor William James Hall 360
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Research Interests: Popular religion, religious change and the politics of religion; comparative colonialisms and post-colonial identities; Southeast Asia (the Philippines); rationality; historical ethnography; history of anthropology.
Catalina Laserna, Lecturer
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Research Interests: Culture, education and new technologies in Latin and Central America, Native American schools, Boston and Pittsburgh public schools, transformations of orality and literacy.
J. Lorand Matory, Professor
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Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, anthropology of religions, spirit possession, gender, ethnicity and transnationalism; West Africa and African-American civilizations.
Katrina Moore, Lecturer William James Hall 385 e-mail
Sally Falk Moore, Professor Emerita
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Research Interests: law; politics; kinship; social structure; Africa.
David Odo, Lecturer Peabody Museum 24D e-mail
*Mary Steedly, Professor Acting Department Chair 06/10/08 through 07/31/08
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Research Interests: Historical ethnography; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; Indonesia; southern U.S. and military culture.
Ajantha Subramanian, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Postcolonial anthropology, political theory political economy, race, class, multiculturalism, liberalism and equality, nations and minorities, capitalism and community secularism and religion. South Asia.
Stanley J. Tambiah, Research Professor
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Research Interests: religion and ritual; economics; politics; kinship; social stratification; ethno-nationalist conflicts and collective violence; South and Southeast Asia.
Lucien Castaing Taylor, Assistant Professor
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(617) 495- 9706
Research Interests: sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West. e-mail
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Kimberly Theidon, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Latin American Studies, Andean Region; gender and sexuality; medical anthropology; violence, human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation; drug policy.
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James Watson, Professor
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Research Interests: Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain.
Rubie S. Watson, Senior Lecturer
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(617) 495-1415
Research Interests: Family and kinship, gender systems, museum studies, history and anthropology; art and politics; China.
Nur Yalman, Research Professor
Peabody Museum 24 B
(617) 495-2435
Research Interests: Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies: contemporary social theory and theorists; anthropology of religion with special reference to Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism; social and political conditions in South Asia and the Middle East.