Faculty Profiles
Faculty Profiles
Kimberly Arkin
Assistant Professor
E-mail: karkin@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-5016
Research area:
Identity politics, youth culture, nationalism, citizenship, education, France, Judaism
Thomas Barfield
Professor
E-mail: barfield@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-5028
Research area:
Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia. Afghanistan
Anthony Barrand
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: csharp@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-1768
Research area:
Folklore, Anglo-American folk songs and dance, psychology of perception
Khiara Bridges
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology
E-mail: kmb73@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-3110
Research area:
Critical race theory; criminal law
Kaye Brown
Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Marketing & Grants
E-mail: kaybrown@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-2197
Research area:
Social movements, collective behavior, architectural gerontology
Matt Cartmill
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
E-mail: cartmill@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-5488
Research area:
Human and primate origins and phylogeny, systematics, cranial morphology, and the functional anatomy and evolution of bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion
Joanna Davidson
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jhdavid@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-5024
Research area:
Political ecology; rurality and agrarian societies; cultural conceptions of knowledge; critical international studies; anthropological engagements with development theory and practice; social and religious transformation; inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict; African Studies.
Jeremy DeSilva
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jdesilva@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-5026
Research area:
Human evolution, locomotor anatomy
Shahla Haeri
Associate Professor
E-mail: shaeri@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-2370
Research area:
Social/Cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion. Iran, Middle East, South Asia
Robert Hefner
Professor
E-mail: rhefner@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-2194
Research area:
Cultural theory, religion and modernity, political theory, political economy, democracy, Islam, Southeast Asia
Cheryl Knott
Associate Professor
E-mail: knott@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-7723
Research area:
Orangutan behavior and biology, reproductive physiology of male and female orangutans, conservation
Frank Korom
Professor of Religion and Anthropology
E-mail: korom@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-0185
Research area:
Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet
Kevin Langergraber
Assistant Professor
E-mail: klangerg@yahoo.com
Research area:
Primate molecular and behavioral ecology
Charles Lindholm
Professor and University Professor
E-mail: ldhm@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-1775
Research area:
Social anthropology and social studies, social theory, psychological anthropology, idealization and authenticity: Islamic societies, U.S.
Christina Luke
Lecturer
E-mail: cluke@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-1500
Research area:
Cultural heritage management, Archaeology of Latin America, the Balkans, and Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean
Lisa Messersmith
Associate Professor
E-mail: ljmesser@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-1449
Research area:
Medical Anthropology
Robert E. Murowchick
Research Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
E-mail: remurow@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-8000
Research area:
Archaeology of China and Southeast Asia; history of archaeology; archaeological remote sensing; bronze metallurgy
Fallou Ngom
Associate Professor and Director of the African Language Program
E-mail: fngom@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-7305
Research area:
Sociolinguistics, Culture & Language Contacts, Islam and Mouridisme (Muridiyya), and West African Ajami literary traditions
Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of Anthropology and International Relations
E-mail: arn@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-7808
Research area:
Politics and economy, civil society and democracy. Middle East
Parker Shipton
Professor
E-mail: shipton@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-8904
Research area:
Social anthropology, economic and symbolic anthropology, kinship, history of theory, development; East and West Africa
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
E-mail: smhefner@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-2198
Research area:
Anthropological linguistics, psychological anthropology, gender, Asians in America, anthropology and education; Southeast Asia
Robert P. Weller
Professor and Chair
E-mail: rpweller@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-2195
Research area:
Religion and ritual, environment, political change and civil life, anthropological theory, China and Taiwan
Jenny B. White
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
E-mail: jbwhite@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-7709
Research area:
Sociocultural anthropology, gender, migration, the urban poor, Islam and politics: Turkey, Middle East
Merry White
Professor
E-mail: corky@bu.edu
Phone: 617-353-7711
Research area:
Urban Japan; food studies; travel and tourism; family, elderly and social change in Japan; the cafe and social spaces in Japanese cities.