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Alessandro Angelini (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: urban anthropology, social inequality, capitalism, imagination, play and everyday life, art, craft, political economy, historical ethnography, anthropological method; Latin America, Brazil, Atlantic World

Veena Das

Research Professor

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Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe

Niloofar Haeri

Professor

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Research Interests: Religion, prayer, poetry, ritual, semiotics, presence, gender, voice, vernacularization, translation. Iran, Egypt and the Middle East.

Clara Han

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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Research Interests: Violence, care, urban poverty; affliction and illness experience; death and dying; everyday life; ethnography; Latin America; United States; East Asia

Naveeda Khan

Professor and Department Chair

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Research Interests: riverine society, nature philosophy and nature in Islamic theology, migration and memory, global warming and everyday life, animal-human relations, framings of the future, national and global climate governance, Bangladesh and Bonn

Aja Lans

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Archaeology of the African diaspora, bioarchaeology, Black feminist theory, museum studies, collections management, history of medicine

Scott MacLochlainn

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Research Interests: Media; Language; Semiotics; Abstraction & Type; Ethics; Religious Forms; Christianity; Death; Corporations & Collectivities; Legality & Bureaucracy; Philippines & Southeast Asia; United States; Ireland

Sabine Mohamed

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Urban anthropology, empire and infrastructure, blackness, race, violence, capitalism, borders and migration, ports and trade, postcolonial and feminist/queer theory, Afrofuturism; Ethiopia, Eritrea, East Africa, and Germany

Anand Pandian (he/him/his)

Professor

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Research Interests: Ecological ethics; sustainable design; environmental humanities; sensory ethnography; experimental writing; engaged anthropology; participatory teaching and research; India, America, Baltimore, Earth

Valeria Procupez

Lecturer

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Research Interests: Urban studies and theories of space and place; the anthropology of architecture and the built environment; the urban commons; social-movement urban planning and community-sponsored social policy; common ownership and diverse forms of property; labor and political mobilization; subjectivity, domesticity and intimacy; housing, homelessness and squatting; Latin America.

affiliated faculty

Jane Bennett

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Political Science and Comparative Thought and Literature

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Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts

Jasmine L. Blanks Jones

Lecturer, JHU Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship

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Jeremy Greene

Professor of Medicine, Professor of the History of Medicine, Chair in the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Research Interests: Biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, media studies, medical anthropology; global health; history of disease

Nicole Labruto

Assistant Research Professor; Director, Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities

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Research Interests: Agriculture, energy, plant-human relations, science and technology studies, anthropology of sustainability, environmental anthropology, Brazil, Mozambique, Latin America, Africa, Lusophone studies

Paola Marrati

Professor of Humanities, joint appointment in Dept. of Philosophy, Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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Todd Shepard

Associate Professor, History, Co-Director, Program in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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post-doctoral fellows

Tali Ziv

Postdoctoral Fellow, Addiction, Ethics, and the Social Sciences (AESS)

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Research Interests: Addiction, Medicaid; Urban Poverty; Incarceration; Race And Racialization.

professors emeriti

In Memoriam: Jane Guyer (1943-2024)

Academy Professor and George Armstrong Kelly Professor, Anthropology

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Research Interests: Social and economic anthropology, money and culture, household and gender; West Africa

Deborah Poole

Professor Emerita

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Research Interests: Political, legal, environmental, and visual anthropology; anthropology of the state and expertise; visual technologies; photography and racial thought in Latin America; Mexico; Peru

Pamela Reynolds

Professor Emerita

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Research Interests: Ethnography of children and youth—labor, healing, ethics; state violence; the political actions of the young and their involvement in armed conflict; ending war—truth, justice, and the archive; philosophers on the young; Southern Africa

staff

Khaleel Gheba (he/him)

Academic Program Manger

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Casey Rastegar (he/him)

Administrative Coordinator

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