Anthropology | Faculty & Staff Directory

Associate Professor

Prof. Dent is the author of Chesapeake Prehistory? Old Traditions, New Directions and a significant number of other publications on the archaeology of the Chesapeake and Middle Atlantic regions. He maintains interests in both prehistoric and historic... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor

Dolores Koenig is a specialist in international development, interested in both its challenges and its successes. She is especially interested in finding new ways of talking about development and social change that value the experiences of local peop... [More]

Department Chair, Anthropology

Language in everyday life is shaped by material conditions, by ideology, by power, by resistance– and by yearnings that are never extinguished by social regulation. Professor Leap's studies of American Indian English, language and AIDS, “gay men’s En... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor McNeil's fieldwork since 2000 has been based in southern West Virginia. It focuses on social and community activism surrounding mountaintop removal coal mining. He incorporates themes of social movements, political and historical ecology, e... [More]

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Adrienne Pine is a militant medical anthropologist who has worked in Honduras, Mexico, Korea, the United States, and Egypt. Her book, Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras, examines the formation of Honduran subjectivities... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sabiyha Prince is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology whose research has centered on urban life in the United States. Her focus has been on the way(s) race intersects with other aspects of status and standpoint to sh... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sayers is an Historical Archaeologist with training in philosophy, history, and anthropology. Recently he has explored African and Indigenous Diasporas and exile and alienation through the the Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study (GDSLS). Through t... [More]

Public Anthropologist in Residence

Assistant Professor

Debarati Sen is a Cultural Anthropologist with a background in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Over the last several years she has conducted research in Eastern India, specifically the Darjeeling district in West Bengal. Dr. Sen’s research ... [More]

Filmmaker in Residence

Assistant Professor

Ed Smith is a third-generation Washingtonian and the Director of American Studies and Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Special Advisor to the President at American University, where he has taught since 1969. He i... [More]

Public Anthropologist in Residence

Taylor had extensive experience in nursing administration and clinical practice when she pursued a career in anthropology focusing on issues of health and gerontology. She directed a graduate program in medical anthropology at Wayne State University ... [More]

Senior Administrative Assistant

Assistant Professor

Author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009), David Vine’s work focuses on issues including forced displacement, U.S. foreign and military policy, military bases, and human... [More]

Assistant Professor

My research focuses on the biological and social history of African Americans living in the 19th and 20th century urban US. Specifically, I examine the health consequences of poverty and inequality through skeletal and documentary data analysis. I co... [More]

Professor

Brett Williams began her work as an anthropologist working among migrant farm workers in Illinois, exploring how they coped with terrible poverty and helping them organize a lettuce boycott and raise money for a halfway house. Since coming to Washing... [More]