Ahmed, Asad (PhD, Chicago, 2006), Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Legal, linguistic & historical anthropology, Muslim societies. secularism and religion, ethnography of the state, Islamic Nationalism, Islamic Law, South Asian History.

Barry, John (PhD, Yale, 1976), Lecturer on Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Primate evolution, paleontology, geology, paleoenvironments, Miocene hominoids; Pakistan, Southwestern America.

Bar-Yosef, Ofer (PhD, Hebrew University, 1970), George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology. The origin of modern humans and early farming societies; Near East.

Bestor, Theodore C. (PhD, Stanford, 1983), Professor of Anthropology. Markets, globalization, and urban studies; economic institutions and exchange; food systems and food culture; fishing and the environment; space, place, and identity; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic.

Carrasco, David (PhD, University of Chicago, 1977), Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. History of -religions.

Caton, Steven (PhD, Chicago, 1984), Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Linguistics, cultural studies, gender, Yemeni poetics and politics, US men’s movement.

Ellison, Peter T. (PhD, Harvard, 1983), John Cowles Professor of Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Human biology, integration of lab-oratory and field research, reproductive physiology.

Fash, William L. (PhD, Harvard, 1983), Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology. Cultural process, settlement pattern analysis, sociopolitical evolution, the rise of complex culture, Maya epigraphy; Mesoamerica.

Flad, Rowan K. (PhD, UCLA, 2004), Assistant Professor of Anthropology. East Asian archaeology; Neolithic and Bronze Age China; Complex Societies; Production; Zooarchaeology; Intersections between economic, ritual, political and social aspects of ancient society.

Fullwiley, Duana (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2002), Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Global and historical notions of health, disease, race; France, Senegal, U.S.

Good, Byron (PhD, Chicago, 1976), Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine and Social Anthropology. Medical and psychiatric anthropology; symbolic anthropology and ethnography of Middle East and of American health care; Iran, Turkey, the United States.

Herzfeld, Michael F. (DPh, Oxford, 1976), Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Social and semiotic theory, history of anthropology, performance and poetics; Europe, Balkans.

Ho, Engseng (PhD, Chicago, 2000), Associate Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Social theory, ethnographic history/texts (Arabic, Malay, Imperial English), creolization, diaspora, pre-colonial cosmopolitanism; Islam, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean.

Kleinman, Arthur (MD, Stanford, 1967), Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology, and Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry (Harvard Medical School). Social experience, suffering, social and mental health; China, Taiwan, and North America.

Knott, Cheryl (PhD, Harvard, 1999), Associate Professor of Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Orangutan reproduction, nutrition, and behavioral ecology; human and great ape reproduction and biology; human evolution.

Kramer, Karen (PhD, New Mexico, 1998), Associate Professor of Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Comparative demography; comparative reproductive ecology and life history; demographic and economic transitions; household economics and generational wealth transfers; farming intensification, land use patterns and ecology.

Lahiri, Smita (PhD, Cornell, 2002), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Popular religion, religious change and the politics of religion, historical ethnography, history of anthropology; Southeast Asia.

Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1965), Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology. The urban process and exchange networks, physico-chemical analysis of archaeological remains; Near East and Russia.

Lieberman, Daniel E. (PhD, Harvard, 1993), Professor of Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Functional and developmental morphology, craniofacial anatomy, history and phylogenic analysis of bone, human evolution; Middle East and Africa.

Lipson, Susan (PhD, Harvard, 1985), Lecturer on Anthropology. Human biology, reproductive endocrinology and physiology, reproductive ecology.

Matory, J. Lorand (PhD, Chicago, 1991), Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Social Anthropology. Anthropology of religions; West Africa and African-American civilizations.

Meadow, Richard (PhD, Harvard, 1986), Senior Lecturer on Anthropology and Director of the Zooarchaeology Lab, Archaeology. Archaeology of the Middle East and South Asia, faunal analysis, domestication of plants and animals.

Peters, Pauline (PhD, Boston, 1983), Lecturer on Anthropology, Social Anthropology, and Research Associate. Political and economic anthropology, gender; Africa.

Pilbeam, David R. (PhD, Yale, 1967), Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology. Paleo-anthropology, hominoid evolution, anatomy, paleoecology; Africa and Asia.

Quilter, Jeffrey (PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 1981), Senior Lecturer on Anthropology, Archaeology. Andean South America, The Intermediate Area, and interactions between and shared culture among New World peoples. Social change and transformations. Ancient and Non-Western Art. The limits and potentials of archaeology in understanding the past.

Ruvolo, Maryellen (PhD, Harvard, 1983), Professor of Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Molecular evolution of adapted genes in humans and other primates, primate genomics.

Stager, Lawrence (PhD, Harvard, 1975), Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel and Director of the Semitic Museum. Israel and the Near East.

Steedly, Mary M. (PhD, Michigan, 1989), Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Historical ethnography; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; spirit possession; Indonesia.

Subramanian, Ajantha (PhD, Duke, 2000), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Postcolonial anthropology, political theory, anthropology of development, social movements; South Asia, South Asian Diaspora.

Taylor, Lucien (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2000) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, Creoles, Caribbean, Africa, and North America.

Theidon, Kimberly (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2002) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Social Anthropology. Medical Anthropology, political violence and human rights in Latin America.

Tuross, Noreen (PhD, Brown, 1985) Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology. Paleodiet, human impacts on the environment, light isotope archaeochemistry, taphonomy, DNA damage.

Ur, Jason A. (PhD, University of Chicago, 2004), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology. Environmental/landscape anthropology; archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia; GIS; Near East.

Urton, Gary (PhD, University of Illinois, 1979), Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology. South American archaeology and ethnology, ethnoastronomy, state formation; Peru, South America.

Watson, James L. (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1972), John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, Social Anthropology. Chinese kinship and social organization, ritual and political symbolism, social stratification, migration, historical ethnography, social aspects of food and eating; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Britain.

Watson, Rubie S. (PhD, London School of Economics, 1982), Senior Lecturer on Anthropology, Social Anthropology, and William and Muriel Howells Director of the Peabody Museum. Economic anthropology, gender systems, ritual, history and anthropology; China.

Wrangham, Richard W. (PhD, Cambridge, 1975), Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Biological Anthropology. Primate behavior and ecology, human ecology, evolutionary biology.