Prehistoric and historic archaeology, the origins of settled village life, and the incorporation of horticulture into subsistence bases after AD 1200
Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement in urban areas with a focus on new infrastructure projects in West Africa and Asia
Public anthropology; language, sexuality, ideology, and globalization; and lesbian, gay, transgender studies
Social and community activism surrounding mountaintop removal coal mining
Adrienne Pine
Violence, migration, gender, health care, technology & the body, political economy, labor justice, human rights, drug and alcohol studies in the United States, Central America, Mexico, Korea, Egypt
Political economy, landscapes, alienation, disaporae and exile, labor and commodities, defiance and resistance, animal rights, community systems and structure, capitalist transformations and transitions, and historical archaeology as public and political praxis
Nina Shapiro-Perl
Television and video production
Civil rights movement, minorities in education, American Civil War, African American history, community organization, urban policy
Aging, ethnographic research methods, aging, oral history, and urban anthropology
U.S. foreign policy and human rights, militarization, forced displacement, indigenous peoples' rights, race and ethnicity, gentrification, urban anthropology, ethnographic writing
Rachel Watkins
Biological and social history of African Americans living in the 19th and 20th century urban US, health consequences of poverty, and inequality through skeletal and documentary data analysis
American culture and folklore, credit and debt, urban life, gentrification and displacement, homelessness, poverty, politics and family values, environmental justice, and the history and culture of Washington D.C.
