People in “Anthropology”

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  Arjun Appadurai

  Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also president and founder of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), based in Mumbai. He is the author of numerous books and…

• João Biehl

  Princeton University

  João Biehl is an assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University. He collaborated on the book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (2005) with Torben Eskerod.

• Dominic Boyer

  Cornell University

  Dominic Boyer is an assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University. His first book, Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture, was published in 2005.

• Carol A. Breckenridge

  The New School

• Partha Chatterjee

  Columbia University

  Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University, New York. Among his many books are Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986), The…

• Jean Comaroff

  University of Chicago

  Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Her publications include Body of Power, Spirit of Resis…

• John L. Comaroff

  University of Chicago

  John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

• Shelly Errington

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  Shelly Errington’s current work focuses on documentary film, photography, arts, and multi-media, and non-linear ethnography. Currently she is working on a book manuscript on the effects of globablization on the production and marketing of artesanal…

• Steven Feld

  University of New Mexico

• Ulf Hannerz

  Stockholm University

  Ulf Hannerz has been Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University since 1981 (acting professor 1976-1980). He has devoted himself particularly to urban anthropology, media anthropology and the anthropology of globalization. His field studies…

• Thomas Blom Hansen

  Yale University

  Thomas Blom Hansen teaches anthropology at Yale University. Currently he is finishing a book on freedom and its anxieties in a postapartheid South African township. His publications include The Saffron Wave: Hindu Nationalism and Democracy in Modern…

• Tod Hartman

  University of Cambridge

  Tod Hartman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, researching labor migration between Romania and Spain. His story “Dear Dear Leader: Letters to Kim Jong-Il” appeared in the British Council’s NW15…

• Andrew Irving

  University of Manchester

  Andrew Irving is a research fellow at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester. His research explores how the world appears to people close to death, particularly in…

• Marilyn Ivy

  Columbia University

  Marilyn Ivy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Ivy taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Washington. Her…

• John L. Jackson

  John L. Jackson, Jr., is the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Penn, Jackson taught in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University in Durham, North…

• Webb Keane

  University of Michigan

  Webb Keane is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society (1997) and Christian…

• Paul Kockelman

  Barnard College, Columbia University

  Paul Kockelman is an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of “A Semiotic Ontology of the Commodity” (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006) and “Agency: The Relation between Meaning, Power, and…

• Igor Kopytoff

  University of Pennsylvania

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  Claudio Lomnitz

  Public Culture

  Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology and editor of Public Culture. Prior to joining Columbia University, Lomnitz was distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School of Social Research and, before…

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  Saba Mahmood

  University of California at Berkeley

  Saba Mahmood teaches anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005).