Faculty

Ira Bashkow Associate Professor	Social and cultural theory, corporate organizations, financial markets, globalization, development, race studies, ethnographic research methods, history of anthropology, Oceania.	Brooks Hall, 209 434-924-3536 Email
Ellen Contini-Morava Professor	Meanings and discourse functions of grammatical forms; pragmatics; linguistic theory and method; African linguistics (especially Bantu); noun classification.	Brooks Hall, 204 434-924-6825 Email
Frederick H. Damon Professor	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 Email
Eve Danziger Professor and Chair; 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 Email
Lise Dobrin Associate Professor & Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics	Structural linguistics, Melanesian language and culture, history of anthropology, language shift, language documentation and description.	Brooks Hall, 202 434-924-7048 Email
Carrie Douglass Professor & 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 Email
Gertrude Fraser Associate Professor	Medical anthropology; reproduction, the body and sexuality; race, gender and science; African American ethnography; applied methodology, historical anthropology.	Brooks Hall, 310A 434-924-2624 Email
Richard Handler Professor & 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 Email
Jeffrey L. Hantman Professor	Eastern Woodland and Southwestern archaeology; ethnohistory; colonialism; regional systems; archaeological method and theory; indigenous archaeology; archaeology and communities.	Brooks Hall, 205 434-924-3953 Email
James Igoe Associate Professor	Globalization; biodiversity conservation; development; nature; value(s); spectacle; social movements; East Africa; North America.	Brooks Hall, 300 924-7740 Email
Ravindra Khare Professor & Director of the Center on Critical Human Survival Issues	Post-War theories in socicultural 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; India Dalits' ethnopoetics of protest and subaltern power; modernization and Islam; social inequalities in India and America; the post-War Indian Diaspora in America; the 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 Email
Adria LaViolette Associate 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 Email
Daniel Lefkowitz Associate Professor	Language and culture; language and identity; language and emotion; sociolinguistics; lntonation, 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 Email
George Mentore Associate Professor	Amerindian and Caribbean studies; the anthropology of knowledge, the anthropology of power, and the anthropology of emotion.	Brooks Hall, 307 434-924-7038 Email
Rachel Most Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs & Professor	Lithic analysis; quantitative methods; Southwestern archaeology; North American archaeology; prehistoric economic systems; foraging societies.	Monroe Hall, 266 434-924-8873 Email
Fraser D. Neiman Lecturer	Colonial North America and the Caribbean, vernacular architecture, archaeological theory, quantitative techniques, GIS, digital research archives.	Archaeology Lab, Monticello 434-984 9812 Email
Stephen Plog David A. Harrison Professor of Archaeology	Social and ritual change, digital research archives, ceramic and stylistic analysis, demography, exchange.	Brooks Hall, 308 434-924-3535 Email
China Scherz Assistant Professor	Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, alcohol, addiction, development, bureaucracy, accountability, Christianity, ethics, Uganda, Africa, Ireland, United States	Brooks Hall 207 434-982-3779 Email
John Shepherd Associate 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 Email
Mark Sicoli Assistant Professor	Embodied Interaction, Ethnography, Video Analysis, Semiotics, Language in Human Evolution and Prehistory, Language Contact, Documentary Linguistics, Indigenous languages of the Americas: Zapotec, Chatino, Chinantec (Mexico), Na-Dene (U.S.A and Canada)	Brooks Hall, 310B 434-924-6821 Email
Margaret Smith Director & Curator, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection	Cultural anthropology, Australian Aboriginal studies, indigenous art, museums	P.O. Box 400120 Email
Roy Wagner Professor	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 Email
Patricia Wattenmaker Associate Professor	Southwest Asia, complex societies, political economy, regional analysis, zooarchaeology.	Brooks Hall, 304 434-924-7037 Email
Kath Weston Professor	Political economy; political ecology and environmental issues; historical anthropology; science studies; kinship, gender, and sexuality.	Brooks Hall, 306 434-924-6820 Email
Jarrett Zigon William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Anthropology	Anthropology of moralities and ethics; the intertwining of humans, worlds and situations; political activity and theory; the intersection of anthropology and philosophy; critical hermeneutics; drug war	Brooks Hall, 301 Email

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