Anthropology Department Faculty
Ahmed, Anu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 445 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Medical anthropology; Psychological anthropology; Madness and mental illness; Gendered and sexual violence; Ethics, morality, and subjectivity; Family intimacy; South Asia
Doughty, Kristin
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology
Co-Director, Rochester Educational Justice Initiative
- Office Location
- 437 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5155
Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda
Foster, Robert J.
Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 509 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8614
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Gibson, Thomas P.
Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 442 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8739
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia; The anthropology of war and peace; Cosmology and state formation; Islamic states; Religious nationalism in the Indian Ocean; Colonialism and bureaucracy
Mariner, Kathryn
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 444 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8734
Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States
Mondragon-Celis, Agnes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 445A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Knowledge production and circulation; Drug warfare and organized crime; Political authority ; US imperialism in Latin America; Affect and performative politics; Militarization; Feminism in the Global South; Mexico
Osburg, John
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Chair of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 436 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3329
Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
Qu, Ray
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 434 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Medical and Sociocultural Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion; Anthropology of Hope and the Good Life; Science, Technology, and Medicine; Environmental Anthropology; Aging, Chronic Conditions, and Disability; Care and Abandonment; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Environmental Degradation and Rural Health; Rural-to-Urban Migration; China Studies; East and Southeast Asia
Reichman, Daniel
Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 439 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8737
Interests: Globalization and trade; Migration and transnationalism; Food, development, and environment; Coffee industry; Latin America; Honduras, Brazil
Searle, Llerena G.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 443 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8740
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
Zafar, Uzma
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 535 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Critical medical anthropology, gender, citizenship and human rights, history of medicine, health law and bioethics, MAID and end-of-life decisions; public health and inequality; international development and transnational networks; ethnographic, archival and legal research methods, South Asia and North America