Cornell University Emblemthe department of Anthropology
Faculty

Ascher, Robert - (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1960)
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
ra27@cornell.edu

Arcadi, Adam Clark - (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1991)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
primates, conservation, language evolution, ethnoprimatology
apc13@cornell.edu

Boyer, Dominic - (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, media, intellectuals, knowledge, journalism, public culture, Germany
dcb25@cornell.edu

Fiskesjö, Magnus - (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
historical and political anthropology, autonomy and dependence, ethnicity and ethnonymy in interethnic relations, cultural heritage, archaeology, museums and modernity, China, East and Southeast Asia
nf42@cornell.edu

Fajans, Jane - (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
the anthropology of food, symbolic anthropology, work, personhood, Melanesia, Oceania, Brazil, Portugal
jf20@cornell.edu

Gleach, Frederic - (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992)
Senior Lecturer and Curator of the Anthropology Collections
historical anthropology and history of anthropology; material and visual culture; museum studies; tourism; warfare; religion; Native North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba
fwg1@cornell.edu

Greenwood, Davydd - (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1970)
Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology; Director, Institute for European Studies
action research, industrial democracy, program evaluation; political economy, universities as work organizations; Spain (Basque Country, La Mancha)
djg6@cornell.edu

Henderson, John - (Ph.D., Yale University, 1975)
Professor of Anthropology
jsh6@cornell.edu

Holmberg, David - (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980)
Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies
sociocultural anthropology; ethnographic practice and writing; ritual, myth, and social organization; culture and power; ethnicity; shamanism; Buddhism; Himalayan cultures and societies; South Asia
dhh8@cornell.edu

Isbell, Billie Jean - (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1973)
Emeritus/Graduate Professor of Anthropology
bji1@cornell.edu

Jordan, Kurt A. - (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies
Iroquois archaeology and history, historical archaeology of indigenous peoples, colonialism and cultural entanglement, political economy, shell bead wampum
kj21@cornell.edu

Lambert, Bernd - (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1963)
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
bl16@cornell.edu

Langwick, Stacey - (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology of medicine, healing and the body. Postcolonial science studies. African ethnography. Anthropology of knowledge. Politics of materiality. Cultural and feminist theory. Tanzania.
sal54@cornell.edu

March, Kathryn - (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979)
Professor of Anthropology/Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies/Asian Studies; Academic Supervisor, Nepali Language
sociocultural anthropology, gender, narrative, social change, life histories, ethnohistory, Nepal, Himalayas, Tibet
ksm8@cornell.edu

Miyazaki, Hirokazu - (Ph.D., Australian National University, 1998)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
anthropology of knowledge, risk, trust, hope, utopia and anti-utopia, materiality, evidence, economic anthropology, social studies of finance, social studies of engineering, philosophical anthropology, historical anthropology, anthropology of religion, Christianity, gifts and exchange, Fiji, Japan, U.S
hm67@cornell.edu

Munasinghe, Viranjini - (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1994)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
thnicity, race, nationalism, transnationalism, diaspora, hybridity and creolization; caribbean region, asian american studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, anthropological theory and historical anthropology
vpm1@cornell.edu

Rigi, Jakob - (Ph.D., SOAS, University of London, 1999)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Post-Socialist Space, Eurasia (particularly Russia, Central Asia and Caucasus), the Middle East; state and market, mafia, commodification of violence, commodity, consumption and spectacle, value and money, sex-work, social movements, nostalgia and utopia, class, gender, ethnicity, nationalism and trans-nationalism
jr344@cornell.edu

Riles, Annelise - (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1996)
Professor, School of Law, Department of Anthropology; Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
institutional knowledge practices, legal elites, non-governmental organizations, gender and sexuality; social movements, international institutions, anthropology of theory; epistemology; aesthetics; ethnography of formalism and pragmatism, anthropology of finance, property regimes; Fiji, Japan, China, United States
ar254@cornell.edu

Russell, Nerissa - (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Old World archaeology, eastern Europe, Anatolia, Neolithic, zooarchaeology, bone tools, gender archaeology, human-animal relations
nr29@cornell.edu

Sangren, P. Steven - (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980)
Professor of Anthropology
socio-cultural anthropology, religion and ritual, gender, psychoanalysis, practice, China and Taiwan
pss3@cornell.edu

Santiago-Irizarry, Vilma - (Ph.D., New York University, 1993)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
institutional culture, language, law and medicine, ethnoracial identity, methods, dance and human movement, Latino/as, United States and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
vs23@cornell.edu

Schoss, Johanna - (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995)
Senior Lecturer
anthropology of work, entrepreneurship as cultural practice, knowledge of work in the New Economy, the informal economy, tourism economies, qualitative research methodology, applied and business anthropology; East Africa, Kenya and the United States
js376@cornell.edu

Siegel, James - (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1968)
Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies
Southeast Asian studies, political anthropology, cultural studies
jts4@cornell.edu

Simpson, Audra - (Ph.D., McGill University, 2004)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
nationhood, citizenship, colonialism, borders (US-Canada), the Iroquois (Mohawk)
as447@cornell.edu

Small, Meredith - (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1980)
Professor of Anthropology
biological anthropology; biology/culture interaction; human behavioral biology; parenting; primate behavior
ms32@cornell.edu

Smith, Robert - (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1953)
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
rjs6@cornell.edu

Turner, Terence - (Ph.D., Harvard, 1965)
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
tst3@cornell.edu

Volman, Thomas - (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
human origins, stone age archaeology, southern Africa, lithic analysis
tpv1@cornell.edu

Welker, Marina - (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Corporations and capitalism; international development; extractive industry; Indonesia; USA
maw82@cornell.edu

Willford, Andrew - (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1998)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
ethnicity; nationalism, globalization; psychoanalysis; religious revivalism; Malaysia; India
acw24@cornell.edu

Visiting

Cody, Francis P. - (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007)
Mellon Teaching and Research Fellow
linguistic anthropology; social and semiotic theory; social movements and activism; political economy of representation; literacy and written language; development; media-studies; anthropology of the postcolonial state; gender and citizenship; Tamilnadu, India
fpc22@cornell.edu

Fisher, Daniel - (Ph.D., NYU, 2005)
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor
df262@cornell.edu

Morrissey, Suzanne - (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2006)
Visiting Professor
Anthropology of medicine. Feminism and critical medical anthropology. Maternal and child health studies. HIV/AIDS. Health services research and program evaluation studies. North America.
sem255@cornell.edu

Graduate Faculty in Other Departments


Kennedy, Kenneth A. R.
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(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)
Professor of Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Palaeoanthropology (South Asia:  India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and borderlands); forensic anthropology, human skeletal biology, history of biological anthropology
kak10@cornell.edu

Haas, Jere D. - (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1973)
Professor/Director
long-term consequences of protein energy malnutrition and the effects of iron deficiency on physical and reproductive performance; the effects of moderate iron deficiency on various aspects of physical performance in young women and how measures of performance relate to everyday productivity and social and economic well-being in Bolivia and Mexico; efficacy of biofortification of rice to improve iron status in the Philippines
jdh12@cornell.edu

Pelletier, David L. - (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor
nutrition policy analysis and development; risk analysis; regulation of dietary supplements and agricultural biotechnology; malnutrition and child mortality in developing countries.
dlp5@cornell.edu

Pelto, Gretel - (Ph.D.)
Professor
development and evaluation of nutrition and health interventions; application of ethnographic methods and anthropological theory in nutrition.
gp32@cornell.edu

Sterling, Kathleen - (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005)
Postdoctoral Associate Archaeology Program and Department of Anthropology
Paleolithic archaeology, France, stone tools, learning, landscape, feminism, sociopolitics of archaeology kas273@cornell.edu