Faculty

Ana Aparicio

Assistant Professor (PhD Graduate Center, City University of New York 2004) Urban Anthropology, race/ethnicity, social movements and activism, youth, immigration; Latinas, Urban US. 515 Clark, #201, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-5132, a-aparicio@northwestern.edu

Caroline H. Bledsoe
Professor (PhD Stanford 1976) Sociocultural anthropology, kinship and marriage, demography, medicine; Africa. 1810 Hinman, #201, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4825, cbledsoe@northwestern.edu.

James A. Brown
Professor Emeritus (PhD Chicago 1965) Archaeology, quantitative analysis, comparative mortuary studies, evolution of cultural complexity; eastern North America. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-7982, jabrown@northwestern.edu

Micaela di Leonardo
Professor (PhD Berkeley 1981) Gender, race/ethnicity, political economy, cultural theory, urban anthropology, kinship theory; US. Also appointment in Performance Studies. 1810 Hinman, #210, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4821, l-di@northwestern.edu

Malcolm M. Dow
Professor Emeritus (PhD California-Irvine 1979) Mathematical anthropology, network analysis, social epidemiology, demography, crosscultural research. mmd383@northwestern.edu

Timothy Earle
Professor Emeritus (PhD Michigan 1973) Archaeology of complex societies, ecological anthropology, prehistoric economics; Andes, Polynesia, Northern Europe. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-2852, tke299@northwestern.edu

William E. Funk

Research Assistant Professor (PhD UNC Chapel Hill, 2009) Exposure biology; environmental exposure assessment; biomarkers; protein adducts; dried blood spot analysis; prenatal and pediatric populations.

515 Clark Street, Room #206 (847) 467-6208 w-funk@northwestern.edu

Karen Tranberg Hansen
Professor Emerita (PhD Washington 1979) Sociocultural anthropology, urban anthropology, political economy, gender relations, colonial culture; southern Africa. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4826, kth462@northwestern.edu

Mark Hauser

Assistant Professor (PhD Syracuse University 2001) Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Slavery, Colonialism, Informal Markets, Race, Scale, Space and Place, Ceramic Analysis, Caribbean, African Diaspora.

1812 Hinman, #101, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/467-1648, mark-hauser@northwestern.edu

Carrie Heitman

Visiting Assistant Professor/Post-Doctoral Fellow (PhD University of Virginia, 2011) Archaeology, kinship and households, social and ritual organization, social inequality, heritage preservation, ethnoarchaeology, and digital anthropologies; American southwest. 1812 Hinman, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, heitman@ northwestern.edu

M. Geoffrey Hayes

Assistant Professor

http://www.cgm.northwestern.edu/cgm/Faculty-Research/Faculty/M.-Geoffrey-Hayes

Katherine E. Hoffman
Associate Professor (PhD Columbia 2000). Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, indigenous people, rural-urban relations, migration, colonialism; Imazighen (Berbers), Morocco, North Africa. 1810 Hinman, # 206, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4565, khoffman@northwestern.edu

John C. Hudson
Professor (PhD Iowa 1967) Cultural geography, physical geography, cartography, and settlement geography; North America. 515 Clark, # 106, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-2855, j-hudson@northwestern.edu

Geography Program Web site

William Irons
Professor Emeritus (PhD Michigan 1969) Evolutionary ecology, reproductive strategies, demography, evolutionary foundations of morality and religion, pastoral nomads; Middle East. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/644-4015, w-irons@northwestern.edu

Matthew H. Johnson

Professor (PhD Cambridge 1990) Archaeological theory, especially interpretive and interdisciplinary approaches; England and Europe AD1200-1800, particularly landscape castles and houses; world historical archaeology; archaeology in its cultural and political context. 1810 Hinman #101, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-3021, matthew-johnson@northwestern.edu

Chris Kuzawa
Associate Professor (PhD Emory 2001, MsPH Emory 2001) Developmental and evolutionary perspectives on health and disease, Human growth and development, Public health and biocultural perspectives on cardiovascular disease. 1810 Hinman, #A63, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-4302, kuzawa@northwestern.edu

Lab web page

Robert Launay
Professor (PhD Cambridge 1975) Social organization, history of theory, Islam; West Africa. 1810 Hinman, #205, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4841, rgl201@northwestern.edu

William R. Leonard
Professor (PhD Michigan 1987) Biological anthropology, adaptability, growth and development, nutrition; South American, Asia, US. 1810 Hinman, #A55, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4839, w-leonard1@northwestern.edu

D. Soyini Madison

Professor (PhD Northwestern University 1989) Social Movements/Activism and Radical Performance, Critical Performance Ethnography, Public Culture, Black Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Theory/Film/Fiction, Staging Oral History and Memory. 1920 Campus Drive, Room G6, 847-491-3171, dsmadison@northwestern.edu

Thomas McDade
Professor (PhD Emory 1999) Human biology, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, medical anthropology, ecological immunology, stress and health. 1810 Hinman, #A62, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/467-4304, t-mcdade@northwestern.edu

William Murphy
Lecturer (PhD Stanford 1976) Language and Culture, politics, and aesthetics; West Africa. 1812 Hinman, #305, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4832, wmurphy@northwestern.edu

Cynthia Robin
Associate Professor (PhD U Pennsylvania 1999) Archaeology, households and settlements, social organization, complex societies, gender, class, feminist theory; Mesoamerica. 1812 Hinman, # 104, Lab # 103, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4835, c-robin@northwestern.edu

Monica Russel y Rodriguez
Senior Lecturer Anthropology, Assoc Dean Weinberg College (PhD UCLA 1995) Cultural anthropology, race & mestizaje, Chicana feminist theory; US, Latino communities. mryr@northwestern.edu

Helen B. Schwartzman
Professor (PhD Northwestern 1973) Psychological anthropology, organizational ethnology, play and work, children and technology; US. 1810 Hinman, #202, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/ 491-4824, hsjsls@northwestern.edu

Rebecca Seligman

Assistant Professor (PhD Emory University 2004) Culture and mental health; global health, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology; mind-body interaction; ritual; Latin America. 1810 Hinman, #204, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-7207

r-seligman@northwestern.edu

Shalini Shankar

Associate Professor (PhD New York University 2003) Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, media, materiality, youth culture, language and identity, race/ ethnicity, South Asian diaspora, suburban US. Joint appointment with Asian American Studies. 1810 Hinman, #212, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-1638,

sshankar@northwestern.edu

Noelle Sullivan

Lecturer (PhD Univ. of Florida 2011) Medical anthropology, political anthropology, biomedicine, hospital ethnography, global health policy and practice, science and technology, infrastructure, maternal health and development, eastern Africa. 1812 Hinman, Rm. 304, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-2780, noelle.sullivan@northwestern.edu.

Erin B. Waxenbaum

Lecturer (PhD Univ. of Florida 2007) Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, growth and development, human variation, forensics; Native North America. 1810 Hinman, Rm. A54B , Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4818, e-waxenbaum@northwestern.edu

Mary Weismantel
Professor (PhD U of IL, Urbana-Champaign 1986) Cultural anthropology, food, adoption, sex/gender, race, historical materialism; Andes, Latin America.1812 Hinman, # 105, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4822, mjweis@northwestern.edu

Oswald Werner
Professor Emeritus (PhD Indiana 1963) Systematic ethnography, computer aided ethnography, folk medicine, translation, American Indians (Navajo), ethnographic photography. Joint appointment with Linguistics. ossy@aol.com

Hannah J. Wilson

Postdoctoral Researcher (PhD Loughborough University 2012) Biological anthropology, health and human development, nutrition, Central America. 1812 Hinman, Rm. 301, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4844, hannah.wilson1@northwestern.edu

Jessica Winegar

Associate Professor (PhD New York University 2003) Sociocultural Anthropology, cultural politics and culture industries, material and visual culture, the culture concept, class, gender, Islam, Middle East and North Africa. 1812 Hinman Avenue, #303, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4831,

j-winegar@northwestern.edu

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Home > Faculty Faculty Ana Aparicio Assistant Professor (PhD Graduate Center, City University of New York 2004) Urban Anthropology, race/ethnicity, social movements and activism, youth, immigration; Latinas, Urban US. 515 Clark, #201, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-5132, a-aparicio@northwestern.edu Caroline H. Bledsoe Professor (PhD Stanford 1976) Sociocultural anthropology, kinship and marriage, demography, medicine; Africa. 1810 Hinman, #201, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4825, cbledsoe@northwestern.edu. James A. Brown Professor Emeritus (PhD Chicago 1965) Archaeology, quantitative analysis, comparative mortuary studies, evolution of cultural complexity; eastern North America. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-7982, jabrown@northwestern.edu Micaela di Leonardo Professor (PhD Berkeley 1981) Gender, race/ethnicity, political economy, cultural theory, urban anthropology, kinship theory; US. Also appointment in Performance Studies. 1810 Hinman, #210, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4821, l-di@northwestern.edu Malcolm M. Dow Professor Emeritus (PhD California-Irvine 1979) Mathematical anthropology, network analysis, social epidemiology, demography, crosscultural research. mmd383@northwestern.edu Timothy Earle Professor Emeritus (PhD Michigan 1973) Archaeology of complex societies, ecological anthropology, prehistoric economics; Andes, Polynesia, Northern Europe. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-2852, tke299@northwestern.edu William E. Funk Research Assistant Professor (PhD UNC Chapel Hill, 2009) Exposure biology; environmental exposure assessment; biomarkers; protein adducts; dried blood spot analysis; prenatal and pediatric populations. 515 Clark Street, Room #206 (847) 467-6208 w-funk@northwestern.edu Karen Tranberg Hansen Professor Emerita (PhD Washington 1979) Sociocultural anthropology, urban anthropology, political economy, gender relations, colonial culture; southern Africa. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4826, kth462@northwestern.edu Mark Hauser Assistant Professor (PhD Syracuse University 2001) Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Slavery, Colonialism, Informal Markets, Race, Scale, Space and Place, Ceramic Analysis, Caribbean, African Diaspora. 1812 Hinman, #101, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/467-1648, mark-hauser@northwestern.edu Carrie Heitman Visiting Assistant Professor/Post-Doctoral Fellow (PhD University of Virginia, 2011) Archaeology, kinship and households, social and ritual organization, social inequality, heritage preservation, ethnoarchaeology, and digital anthropologies; American southwest. 1812 Hinman, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, heitman@ northwestern.edu M. Geoffrey Hayes Assistant Professor http://www.cgm.northwestern.edu/cgm/Faculty-Research/Faculty/M.-Geoffrey-Hayes Katherine E. Hoffman Associate Professor (PhD Columbia 2000). Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, indigenous people, rural-urban relations, migration, colonialism; Imazighen (Berbers), Morocco, North Africa. 1810 Hinman, # 206, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4565, khoffman@northwestern.edu John C. Hudson Professor (PhD Iowa 1967) Cultural geography, physical geography, cartography, and settlement geography; North America. 515 Clark, # 106, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-2855, j-hudson@northwestern.edu Geography Program Web site William Irons Professor Emeritus (PhD Michigan 1969) Evolutionary ecology, reproductive strategies, demography, evolutionary foundations of morality and religion, pastoral nomads; Middle East. 555 Clark, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/644-4015, w-irons@northwestern.edu Matthew H. Johnson Professor (PhD Cambridge 1990) Archaeological theory, especially interpretive and interdisciplinary approaches; England and Europe AD1200-1800, particularly landscape castles and houses; world historical archaeology; archaeology in its cultural and political context. 1810 Hinman #101, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-3021, matthew-johnson@northwestern.edu Chris Kuzawa Associate Professor (PhD Emory 2001, MsPH Emory 2001) Developmental and evolutionary perspectives on health and disease, Human growth and development, Public health and biocultural perspectives on cardiovascular disease. 1810 Hinman, #A63, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-4302, kuzawa@northwestern.edu Lab web page Robert Launay Professor (PhD Cambridge 1975) Social organization, history of theory, Islam; West Africa. 1810 Hinman, #205, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4841, rgl201@northwestern.edu William R. Leonard Professor (PhD Michigan 1987) Biological anthropology, adaptability, growth and development, nutrition; South American, Asia, US. 1810 Hinman, #A55, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4839, w-leonard1@northwestern.edu D. Soyini Madison Professor (PhD Northwestern University 1989) Social Movements/Activism and Radical Performance, Critical Performance Ethnography, Public Culture, Black Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Theory/Film/Fiction, Staging Oral History and Memory. 1920 Campus Drive, Room G6, 847-491-3171, dsmadison@northwestern.edu Thomas McDade Professor (PhD Emory 1999) Human biology, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, medical anthropology, ecological immunology, stress and health. 1810 Hinman, #A62, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/467-4304, t-mcdade@northwestern.edu William Murphy Lecturer (PhD Stanford 1976) Language and Culture, politics, and aesthetics; West Africa. 1812 Hinman, #305, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4832, wmurphy@northwestern.edu Cynthia Robin Associate Professor (PhD U Pennsylvania 1999) Archaeology, households and settlements, social organization, complex societies, gender, class, feminist theory; Mesoamerica. 1812 Hinman, # 104, Lab # 103, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-4835, c-robin@northwestern.edu Monica Russel y Rodriguez Senior Lecturer Anthropology, Assoc Dean Weinberg College (PhD UCLA 1995) Cultural anthropology, race & mestizaje, Chicana feminist theory; US, Latino communities. mryr@northwestern.edu Helen B. Schwartzman Professor (PhD Northwestern 1973) Psychological anthropology, organizational ethnology, play and work, children and technology; US. 1810 Hinman, #202, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/ 491-4824, hsjsls@northwestern.edu Rebecca Seligman Assistant Professor (PhD Emory University 2004) Culture and mental health; global health, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology; mind-body interaction; ritual; Latin America. 1810 Hinman, #204, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847/491-7207 r-seligman@northwestern.edu Shalini Shankar Associate Professor (PhD New York University 2003) Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, media, materiality, youth culture, language and identity, race/ ethnicity, South Asian diaspora, suburban US. Joint appointment with Asian American Studies. 1810 Hinman, #212, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-1638, sshankar@northwestern.edu Noelle Sullivan Lecturer (PhD Univ. of Florida 2011) Medical anthropology, political anthropology, biomedicine, hospital ethnography, global health policy and practice, science and technology, infrastructure, maternal health and development, eastern Africa. 1812 Hinman, Rm. 304, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-467-2780, noelle.sullivan@northwestern.edu. Erin B. Waxenbaum Lecturer (PhD Univ. of Florida 2007) Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, growth and development, human variation, forensics; Native North America. 1810 Hinman, Rm. A54B , Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4818, e-waxenbaum@northwestern.edu Mary Weismantel Professor (PhD U of IL, Urbana-Champaign 1986) Cultural anthropology, food, adoption, sex/gender, race, historical materialism; Andes, Latin America.1812 Hinman, # 105, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4822, mjweis@northwestern.edu Oswald Werner Professor Emeritus (PhD Indiana 1963) Systematic ethnography, computer aided ethnography, folk medicine, translation, American Indians (Navajo), ethnographic photography. Joint appointment with Linguistics. ossy@aol.com Hannah J. Wilson Postdoctoral Researcher (PhD Loughborough University 2012) Biological anthropology, health and human development, nutrition, Central America. 1812 Hinman, Rm. 301, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4844, hannah.wilson1@northwestern.edu Jessica Winegar Associate Professor (PhD New York University 2003) Sociocultural Anthropology, cultural politics and culture industries, material and visual culture, the culture concept, class, gender, Islam, Middle East and North Africa. 1812 Hinman Avenue, #303, Evanston, IL 60208-1310, 847-491-4831, j-winegar@northwestern.edu Back to top of page