Anthropology Department Faculty

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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

Kristin Doughty

Doughty, Kristin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

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Foster, Robert J.

Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities

Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
Humanities Center Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-8741
Web Address
Website

Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Thomas Gibson

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

Kathryn Mariner

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

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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

John Osburg

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

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Qu, Ray

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
434 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion; Anthropology of Hope; Aging; Healing; Popular Religion and Daoism; Health Inequities; Mental Health; Chronic Illness; Disability; Ethics of Care; Hospital Ethnography; Addiction; Migration and Health; Rural Environments and Health; China Studies; East and Southeast Asia

Daniel Reichman

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

Llerena Searle

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