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faculty
Alessandro Angelini (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 457
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
Niloofar Haeri
Professor
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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 462
- 410-516-5442
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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- Mergenthaler 463
- 410-516-2864
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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- Mergenthaler 460
- 410-516-7274
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
Sujung Kim
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Mergenthaler 459
Research Interests: East Asian Buddhism, folk religion, everyday life, ritual, mythology, medicine, material culture, gender, sensory experience
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Aja Lans
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 458
Research Interests: Archaeology of the African diaspora, bioarchaeology, Black feminist theory, museum studies, collections management, history of medicine
Scott MacLochlainn
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 462
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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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 461
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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- Mergenthaler 454
- 410-516-7267
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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- Mergenthaler 456
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.
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.
staff
Khaleel Gheba (he/him)
Academic Program Manager
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- Mergenthaler 465
- 410-516-7270
Pamela McCollough (she/her)
Budget Analyst
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- Mergenthaler 464
- 410-516-7270
Casey Rastegar (he/him)
Administrative Coordinator
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- Mergenthaler 466
- 410-516-7272
affiliated faculty
Jane Bennett
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Political Science and Comparative Thought and Literature
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- 192 Gilman
- 410-516-5230
Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts
Jasmine L. Blanks Jones
Lecturer, JHU Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship
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- 3103 N. Charles St.
- 410-516-4777
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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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 461
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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- [email protected]
- Gilman 220
Todd Shepard
Associate Professor, History, Co-Director, Program in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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- Gilman 316
Bernadette Wegenstein
Professor of Media Studies; Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
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- Gilman 461
- 410-516-7511
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
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professors emeriti
Veena Das
Professor Emeritus
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- Mergenthaler 441
- 410-516-0630
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
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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- Mergenthaler 469
- 410-516-5228
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