Allison AlexyAssistant Professor |
Cultural anthropology, kinship, legal anthropology, romance, divorce; Japan |
Brooks Hall, 207 434-982-2997 |
Ira BashkowAssociate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies |
Globalization and development; whiteness and race studies; space and time; food and eating; exchange; cargo and prophetic movements; historical ethnography of Yap (Micronesia); Melanesian ethnography; colonial studies; social and cultural theory; history of anthropology. |
Brooks Hall, 209 434-924-3536 |
Ellen Contini-MoravaProfessor |
Meanings and discourse functions of grammatical forms; pragmatics; linguistic theory and method; African linguistics (especially Bantu); noun classification. |
Brooks Hall, 204 434-924-6825 |
Frederick H. DamonProfessor |
Structuralism, Marxism, world system theory, chaos theory; ethnobotony, historical ecology, ethnoastronomy; social structure, kinship, exchange and hierarchy; Melanesia, East and South Asia, US culture in the contemporary world system. |
Brooks Hall, 206 434-924-6826 |
Eve DanzigerAssociate Professor; Affiliated Faculty: Linguistics Program; Cognitive Science Program |
Linguistic relativity; Spatial language and spatial cognition, cross-cultural philosophies of mind, conversational gesture. Mayan linguistics; morpho-syntactic expression of verb argument structure, linguistic prehistory. Social organization and social identity. |
Brooks Hall, 200 434-924-3002 |
Lise DobrinAssistant Professor & Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics |
Linguistic morphology and phonology, Melanesian language and culture, history of anthropology, language endangerment, language documentation and description. |
Brooks Hall, 202 434-924-7048 |
Carrie DouglassProfessor & Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Cultural Anthropology; symbolic anthropology; Spain; the Mediterranean; European anthropology; ritual cycles; demography; reproduction; gender; marriage and the family; medical anthropology; transnational kinship; nationalism and ethnicity; art in small-scale cultures; animals (Good to Think). |
Brooks Hall, B003 434-924-7044 |
Gertrude FraserAssociate Professor & Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement |
Medical anthropology; reproduction, the body and sexuality; race, gender and science; African American ethnography; applied methodology, historical anthropology. |
Booker House, 103 434-924-3928 |
Andrew GraanLecturer |
Mass media, political communication, democracy and citizenship, public culture, political and cultural theory, linguistic anthropology, international intervention, global governance; Macedonia, the Balkans, the European Union and EU enlargement. |
Brooks Hall, 310 434-924-6821 |
Richard HandlerProfessor & Director of Global Development Studies Program |
Sociocultural anthropology; nationalism, ethnicity and multi-culturalism; museum studies; cultural criticism; symbolic anthropology; history of anthropology; anthropology and literature; culture theory; modern societies; contemporary North America. |
Nau Hall, 197 434-982-2166 |
Jeffrey L. HantmanAssociate Professor & Acting Director, Archaeology Interdisciplinary Major |
Eastern Woodland and Southwestern archaeology; ethnohistory; colonialism; regional systems; archaeological method and theory; indigenous archaeology; archaeology and communities. |
Brooks Hall, 205 434-924-3953 |
Ravindra KhareProfessor & Director of the Center on Critical Human Survival Issues |
Post-War theories in sociocultural anthropology; social inequalities and globalization; rationality, morality and anthropological relativism; colonial and postcolonial ethnographies: changing methods, contexts and writings; anthropological studies and anthropologists on (and in) India; contemporary India: caste, religion and cultural politics; Studying Hinduism: Old and New; Hindu Identity and Religious Nationalism; Indian Dalits' ethnopoetics of protest and subaltern power; modernization and Islam; social inequalities in India and America; the post-War Indian Diaspora in America; food ways and dietary cultures in India and America; and medico-legal issues surrounding modern birth and death technologies. |
Brooks Hall, 305 434-924-3644 |
Adria LaVioletteAssociate Professor |
Archaeology of Africa; African Iron Age; Swahili archaeology and history; urbanism and inequality; colonialism; household archaeology; political economy; specialization. |
Brooks Hall, B010 434-982-2631 |
Daniel LefkowitzAssociate Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions |
Language and Culture; Language and Identity; Language and Emotion; Sociolinguistics; Intonation, Prosody, and Voice Quality; Discourse Analysis; Language and Media; Film Studies; Semiotics; Semitic Languages (Hebrew); Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East; Israel. |
Brooks Hall, 203 434-982-3093 |
Susan McKinnonProfessor & Chair |
Cultural anthropology; gender, kinship; hierarchy, exchange; science studies; Indonesia, the United States. |
Brooks Hall, 309 434-924-6822 |
George MentoreAssociate Professor |
Amerindian and Caribbean studies, the anthropology of knowledge, the anthropology of power, and the anthropology of emotion. |
Brooks Hall, 310b 434-924-7038 |
Peter MetcalfProfessor |
Southeast Asia, especially Borneo; anthropological approaches to comparative religion; relations between power, community and ideology. |
Brooks Hall, 300 434-924-7740 |
Rachel MostProfessor & College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Dean |
Lithic analysis; quantitative methods; Southwestern archaeology; North American archaeology; prehistoric economic systems; foraging societies. |
Monroe Hall, 266 434-924-8873 |
Fraser D. NeimanLecturer |
Colonial North America and the Caribbean, vernacular architecture, archaeological theory, quantitative techniques, GIS, digital research archives. |
Archaeology Lab, Monticello 434-984 9812 |
Stephen PlogDavid A. Harrison Professor of Archaeology |
Social and ritual change, digital research archives, ceramic and stylistic analysis, demography, exchange. |
Brooks Hall, 308 434-924-3535 |
John ShepherdAssociate Professor |
Historical anthropology, political economy, social organization, marriage and domestic groups, demographic anthropology, Chinese culture and society, Taiwanese aboriginal culture and society. |
Brooks Hall, 303 434-924-6940 |
Edith TurnerLecturer |
Humanistic anthropology, experiential roots of ritual, healing, shamanism, spirits and power, rites of passage, festivals. Ndembu African ritual, Iñupiat healing, shrines and healing in Ireland. |
Brooks Hall, 104A 434-924-3536 |
Roy WagnerProfessor |
Indigenous conceptual systems, especially involving kin relations; ritual, myth and worldview in Melanesia, Australia, and North America; pragmatics of cultural representation (imagery, writing, and speech) as a basis for symbolism; shamanism and curing techniques exclusive of psychological, political, or "ethnic" perspectives; studies involving the human element in technology and power concepts. |
Brooks Hall, 302 434-924-6827 |
Patricia WattenmakerAssociate Professor |
Southwest Asia, complex societies, political economy, regional analysis, zooarchaeology. |
Brooks Hall, 101 434-924-7037 |
Kath WestonProfessor |
Political economy; political ecology and environmental issues; historical anthropology; science studies; kinship, gender, and sexuality. |
Brooks Hall, 306 434-243-4374 |