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Ahmed, Asad (PhD, Chicago, 2006), Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Legal, linguistic, and historical anthropology, Muslim societies, secularism and religion, ethnography of the state, Islamic nationalism, Islamic law, South Asian history.

Bar-Yosef, Ofer (PhD, Hebrew Univer­sity, 1970), George Grant 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, Chicago, 1977), Neil L . Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America. History of religions. 

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

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. Global and historical notions of health, disease, race; France, Senegal, US. 

Good, Byron (PhD, Chicago, 1976), Professor of Medical Anthropology, Departments 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 and semiotic theory, history of anthropology, performance and poetics; Europe, Balkans.

Kleinman, Arthur (MD, Stanford, 1967), Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthro­pology, Professor of Medical Anthropology (Medical School). Social experience, suffering, social and mental health; China, Taiwan, and North America. 

Lahiri, Smita (PhD, Cornell, 2002), Associate Professor of 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. 

Liebmann, Matthew (PhD, Pennsylvania, 2006), Assistant Professor of Anthropology. North American Archaeology, Southwest US, contact and colonialism in the Americas, Historic Pueblos, NAGPRA.

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

Quilter, Jeffrey (PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 1981), Senior Lecturer on Anthropology. 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. 

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. Historical ethnog­raphy; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; spirit possession; Indo­nesia.

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

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

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

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

Urton, Gary (PhD, University of Illinois, 1979), Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies. 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. 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.