Anthropologists in Other Departments

Roberto Armengol Ford Postdoctoral Fellow	Political economy; gift exchange and alternative economies; globalization and development; socialism and postsocialism; language, semiotics, and the media; visual anthropology; science and technology studies; public anthropology. Cuba, the Caribbean, Latin American and the United States.	434-297-7940 Email
Caren Freeman International Student & Scholar Advisor; Director of Studies at Hereford Residential College	Contemporary Korea and China; gender, kinship, marriage, and divorce; diaspora and ethnic identity; transnational family formations; migrant labor; citizenship and illegal migration.	434-297-7938 Email
Adriana Greci Green Curator of Indigenous Art of the Americas, Fralin Art Museum	North American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Ethnohistory, Material Culture Studies, Museum Anthropology. Native American art histories, emphasis on Plains and Great Lakes arts, material culture and cultural performances; 18th, 19th and 20th c. American Indian histories; federal Indian policy; cultural and material expressions of sovereignty and treaties; representation of Native Americans in museums, popular culture and media; issues of collecting and repatriation; economic significance of women’s work; indigenous aesthetic systems, epistemologies and materialities. http://indigenousarts.as.virginia.edu/	Email
Jerome Handler Senior Scholar, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities	Caribbean and West African societies and cultures; African American social and cultural history; early African diaspora in the New World and slavery; Atlantic slave trade; peasant and plantation communities in the Caribbean; historical anthropology and the use of documentary sources; historical archaeology with particular reference to the Africa Diaspora; West Indian historical bibliography.	Email Professional Website
Diane M. Hoffman Associate Professor, Curry School of Education	Anthropology of education, self/identity, cultural psychology; East Asia.	Email
Peter E. Hook Professor Emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences	Languages of N. India and Pakistan; linguistic typology; Asian poetry and poetics.	Email Professional Website
Michelle Kisliuk Associate Professor, McIntire Department of Music	Performance, ethnographic writing, field research, Central Africa, American folklore, ethnomusicology.	Email Professional Website
Catarina Krizancic Coordinator for Independent Projects and Associate Director for Program Design, International Studies Office	Polynesia; 2009 University of Chicago Ph.D. 'Tahiti Royale: Divine Kings Disguised As A Rising French Colonial Elite.'	Email
Ekaterina V. Makarova Lecturer, Department of Sociology	Sociology and anthropology of socialist societies, post-socialist transition, Central Asia, Islam and socialism, urban anthropology/sociology.	Email Professional Website
R. Lawrence Merkel Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Medicine	Psychiatric anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.	Email Professional Website
Vanessa L. Ochs Director of Jewish Studies, Department of Religions Studies	Anthropology of religion, religion and material culture, ethnographies of American Jewish life, new ritual.	Email Professional Website
M. Norman Oliver Professor	Medical anthropology; race, gender, and social class issues in health care; Marxism.	434-924-9686 Email
Lisa Toccafondi Shutt Director of Undergraduate Programs, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies	Gabon, Francophone Central Africa , transnational migration, urban Africa, national identities, petro-states, anthropology of food, France	924-8889 Email Carter G. Woodson
Matthew Trevett-Smith Assistant Director & Assistant Professor, Teaching Resource Center	digital ethnography, computer-mediated communication, anthropology of education, faculty development	982-2807 Email UVa's Teaching Resource Center