Executive Committee:
Fred Cooper, Fernando Coronil, Conrad Kottak, Alaina Lemon, Erik Mueggler, Carla Sinopoli, Norman Yoffee

Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History Faculty

Kelly M. Askew (Anthropology) Sociocultural anthropology, cultural politics, ethnomusicology, nationalism, media, performance, Swahili studies, East Africa.
kaskew@umich.edu

Ruth Behar (Anthropology) Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os.
rbehar@umich.edu

Jane Burbank (History) Russian history, 19th-20th centuries, intellectual and cultural, law, peasants, intelligentsia.
jburbank@umich.edu

Richard Candida Smith (History) 19th and 20th century U.S. and European intellectual history; aesthetics and subjectivity, oral history, art and architecture.
candida@umich.edu

John Carson (History) American intellectual and cultural history; history of Science and the human sciences; modern European intellectual history.
jscarson@umich.edu

Suann Caulfield (History) Twentieth-century Brazilian social history, sexuality and the state.
scaul@umich.edu

Sharad Chari (Anthropology) Human geography, political economy, agrarian studies, histories and ethnographies of work, gender and labor, Marxist theory, anthropology of development, South Asia.
schari@umich.edu

David William Cohen (Anthropology and History) Pre-colonial and twentieth-century African history, eastern and southern Africa; historical anthropology; the production of history.
dwcohen@umich.edu

Juan Cole (History): Middle East and South Asia: social, cultural and religious history; Islam.
jrcole@umich.edu

Fredrick Cooper (History) Africa, slavery and emancipation, labor, colonialism, decolonization.
fcooper@umich.edu

Fernando Coronil (Anthropology/History): Historical anthropology, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender; Latin America.
coronil@umich.edu

Laura Downs (History) Modern Europe, comparative studies, gender, labor, rural and urban history.
bombe@umich.edu

Geoff Eley (History) Modern Germany and Britain, nationalism, popular culture, film and history, historiography, cultural studies.
ghe@umich.edu

Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Anthropology) Kinship, gender and reproductive health care, religion, political ecology, anthropology of science, Madagascar, Africa, United States, historical and contemporary Judaism and Christianity
gfharnik@umich.edu

Dena Goodman (History and Women's Studies) French culture; gender; women's studies.
goodmand@umich.edu

Raymond Grew (History) Modern Europe, comparative history .
rgrew@umich.edu

Janet Hart (Anthropology) Gender, narrative and oral history, comparative nationalisms, informal economy, social movements, Mediterranean Europe
janeth@umich.edu

Gabrielle Hecht (History) History of technology; France; Africa; colonialism and postcoloniality; labor; national identity.
hechtg@umich.edu

Diane Hughes (History) Medieval and Renaissance history; cultural, social, and legal history.
dohughes@umich.edu

Nancy Hunt (History & Obstetrics/Gynecology) Colonial studies; empire & medicine; politics of reproduction; historical ethnography and narrative form; gender; histories of objects; childbirth & gynecology; Africa, especially Congo-Zaire.
nrhunt@umich.edu

Judith T. Irvine (Anthropology) Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization.
jti@umich.edu

Kali Israel (History) Modern Britain; women's history, modern Europe, cultural studies.
kisrael@umich.edu

Carol Karlsen (History) American women's history; early American social & cultural history; Native Americans
ckarlson@umich.edu

Webb Keane (Anthropology) Indonesia, language, discourse & semeiotics, material culture & exchange, religion & religions conversion, modernity, social & cultural theory.
wkeane@umich.edu

Raymond Kelly (Anthropology) Melanesia, East Africa, Polynesia, historical and evolutionary development of tribal groups.
rck@umich.edu

Conrad Kottak (Anthropology) Brazil, Madagascar,& East Africa; social change, globalization, development, precolonial history of East Africa & Madagascar.
ckottak@umich.edu

Alaina Lemon (Anthropology) Performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology. Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-Socialist states.
amlemon@umich.edu

Rudi Lindner (History) History of nomads, especially steppe nomads in Inner Asia, Near East, & Great Plains of North America.
rpl@umich.edu

Joyce Marcus (Anthropology) Ethnohistory, ancient writing systems, early complex societies; Mexico, Central America, South America.
joymar@umich.edu

Michael MacDonald (History) Early modern England, history of medicine, death and mortuary rituals.
mmacdon@umich.edu

Bruce Mannheim (Anthropology) Linguistic anthropology, historical ethnography, narrative, rhetoric, poetics, Native South America, especially Andes; colonial Andean religion.
mannheim@umich.edu

Tomoko Masuzawa (Comparative Literature) Nineteenth and twentieth century European intellectual history; literary and critical theory; disciplinary formation of human sciences, including religionswissenschaft; psychoanalysis.
masuzawa@umich.edu

Terrence McDonald (History) Twentieth century America; historiography & historical methodology & relationship between liberalism & corruption.
tmcd@umich.edu

Michelle Mitchell (History) African American history; gender & sexuality; U.S. (1860-1940); nationalism; African diaspora/Black Atlantic; feminist theory.
mmitch@umich.edu

Regina Morantz-Sanchez (History) US women's history; social history of medicine; history of the family, American Jewish history.
reginann@umich.edu

Erik Mueggler (Anthropology) Socialist and post-socialist China, ethnic and religious minorities in China; religion; history of botany and botanical exploration.
mueggler@umich.edu

Aamir Mufti (English and Comparative Literature) Colonial & Postcolonial literature, especially India & Britain, nationalism, secularism, citizenship, religious minorities.
mufti@umich.edu

Maxwell Owusu (Anthropology) Africa, Caribbean, political and legal transformation, culture, human rights & democratization, globalization, economic development, popular protests, modernization & tradition.
omk@umich.edu

Jeffrey Parsons (Anthropology) Archaeology, Complex Society, Latin America.
jpar@umich.edu

Martin Pernick (History) Cultural/social history of disease, healers, bodies, Anglophone cultures, post-1700.
mpernik@umich.edu

Leslie Pincus (History) Modern Japanese history, ethnicity and nationality; philosophies and histories of aesthetics, intellectual history, history and public memory.
lpincus@umich.edu

Sumathi Ramaswamy (History) Colonial and modern South Asia; ancient India.
sumathi@umich.edu

Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology) Japan, Asia, sex/gender/sexuality, internationalism and nostalgia, cultural strategies of colonialism, performance theory, mass/popular cultures and organized leisure.
jennyrob@umich.edu

William G. Rosenberg (History) Russia, Soviet Union, labor, revolutions.
wgr@umich.edu

Daniel Rothenberg (Anthropology) International human rights, transitional justice, truth commissions, Mexican migration to the United States, economic development and democratization, and the social impact of state terror and violence in Latin America.
dmrothen@umich.edu

Rebecca Scott (History) Latin America, slavery emancipation.
rjscott@umich.edu

Andrew Shryock (Anthropology) Modernity, historical ethnography, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, identity politics, (trans) nationalism; Middle East and Middle Eastern communities in North America.
ashryock@umich.edu

Carla Sinopoli (Anthropology) South Asia, south India, material culture, archaeology of empires, history & archaeology
sinopoli@umich.edu

Julie Skurski (Anthropology) Latin America, nation formation, gender, race.
skurski@umich.edu

Ann Stoler (Anthropology) Colonial cultures, critical race theory, gender studies, political economy, historical methodologies; Southeast Asia.
astoler@umich.edu

Thomas Trautmann (Anthropology and History) India, kinship, history of anthropology
ttraut@umich.edu

Katherine Verdery (Anthropology) Eastern Europe, property relations, transforming socialism, socialist systems.
verdery@umich.edu

Maris Vinovskis (History) U.S. history on social, family, educational, policy history
vinovski@umich.edu

Michael Wintroub (History): history of ethnography, "Old World's" relationship with "New", material culture, the use of anthropological/ethnographic methods in studying early modern culture & society.
wintroub@umich.edu

Henry Wright (Anthropology): Pre state societies, state formation, N. East, Madagascar, Indian Ocean.
hwright@umich.edu

Norman Yoffee (Anthropology) Assyriology, Mesopotamian culture, languages, history; Near Eastern archaeology: late prehistoric and early historic periods ; Comparative early civilizations; Legal anthropology.
nyoffee@umich.edu