Empires, States, Sovereignties
Affiliated Faculty
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Nadia L. Abu El-Haj
Barbara Chamberlain and Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg '30 Professor of Anthropology & Chair of Anthropology, Barnard College
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Lila Abu-Lughod
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Emeritus Faculty
Partha Chatterjee
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Archaeology
Hannah Chazin
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Myron Cohen
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Archaeology
Terence N. D'Altroy
Loubat Professor of American Archaeology
Research Interests
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Sociocultural
Nicholas Glastonbury
Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology
Research Interests
Sociocultural
Radhika Govindrajan
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Marilyn Ivy
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Claudio Lomnitz
Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
David Scott
Ruth and William Lubic Professor
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Lesley A. Sharp
Barbara Chamberlain & Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg ’30 Professor Emerita of Anthropology Barnard College
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Audra Simpson
Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests
Core Teaching Faculty - Sociocultural
Kaya Williams
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College
Research Interests
Affiliated Graduate Students
Amani Agbaria
PhD Student
Research Interests
Empires, States, Sovereignties, Indigeneity, Diasporas, Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism, Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory
Oliver Friedmann
PhD Student
Research Interests
Empires, States, Sovereignties, Institutions, Law, Governmentality, Criminalization, Policing, Law and Society, Migration and Border Studies
Paulina Gomez
PhD Student
Research Interests
Empires, States, Sovereignties, Indigeneities, Diasporas, Toxicity, Environment & Climate Crisis
Zarino Lanni
PhD Student
Research Interests
Indigeneities, Diasporas, Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism, Empires, States, Sovereignties, Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory
Asprey Jing-Yao Liu
PhD Student
Research Interests
Empires, States, Sovereignties, Institutions, Law, Governmentality, Intellectual & Disciplinary Histories, Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Media, Technology, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Toxicity, Environment & Climate Crisis, Value, Commodities, Gift & Debt
Sean Michael Muller
PhD Student
Research Interests
Empires, States, Sovereignties, War, Nationalism, Displacement, Trauma, Media, Technology, Infrastructure, Urbanism
Sebastian Wang Gaouette
PhD Student