Anthropologists in Other Departments

Roberto Armengol Media Lab Producer	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
Nomi Dave Assistant Professor, Critical & Comparative Studies, McIntire Deparment of Music	Ethnomusicology, politics and aesthetics, human rights; West Africa	434-243-2396 Email
Tessa Farmer GSMS Track Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, and Global Studies	Water, Environment, Waste; Middle East	434-924-8460 Email
David Flood Post-Doctoral Research, College of Arts and Sciences	Cultural ethics, politics of class difference; contemporary US	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 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
Noel Lobley Assistant Professor, Critical & Comparative Studies, McIntire Deparment of Music	Ethnomusicology, sound curation, sound studies, popular music studies, material anthropology, anthropology of sound, sonic art, museum ethnography; Sub-Saharan Africa, especially South Africa and Central Africa	434-297-6987 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
Rachel Most Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Professor	Lithic analysis, quantitative methods, Southwest archaeology, North American archaeology, prehistoric economic systems, foraging societies; Southwest US	434-924-8873 Email

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