Orisanmi Burton
Assistant Professor
CAS - Anthropology
As a social anthropologist working in the United States, my research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression. Within this broad area of inquiry, my present work explores…
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oburton@american.edu
(202) 885-6792
Arvenita Cherry
Public Anthropologist-in-Residence
CAS - Anthropology
Arvenita Washington Cherry is a socio-cultural and educational anthropologist with expertise on the African Diaspora, race and ethnicity, and racism. Her research focuses on social constructions of bl…
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awcherry@american.edu
(202) 885-6342
C. Anne Claus
Assistant Professor
CAS - Anthropology
C. Anne Claus is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department. C. Anne Claus is a cultural anthropologist who researches environmental issues in contemporary Japan. Her academic work investigate…
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claus@american.edu
(202) 885-6797
Richard Dent
Associate Professor
CAS - Anthropology
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 ma…
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potomac@american.edu
(202) 885-1848
Manissa Maharawal
Assistant Professor
CAS - Anthropology
Manissa Maharawal's research focuses on the spatial and temporal dynamics of contemporary urban social movements in the United States, from Occupy Wall Street and anti-gentrification activism to Black…
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manissam@american.edu
(202) 885-6641
Adrienne Pine
Associate Professor
CAS - Anthropology
Adrienne Pine is a militant medical anthropologist who has worked in Honduras, Mexico, Korea, the United States, Egypt, and Cuba. In her book, Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in …
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pine@american.edu
(202) 885-1845
Kareem Rabie
Assistant Professor
CAS - Anthropology
Kareem Rabie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. He studies privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. His first bo…
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Daniel Sayers
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology
CAS - Anthropology
In over two decades working in the field of Historical Archaeology, Dr. Sayers has covered a wide range of people, places, and social issues in his research. Dr. Sayers builds from a Marxist worldview…
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sayers@american.edu
(202) 885-1833
Gretchen Schafft
Public Anthropologist-in-Residence
CAS - Anthropology
The major foci of Gretchen Schafft’s career have been minority/majority interface, social justice, education and access to health care in the United States. In addition to her doctorate in anthropolog…
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schafft@american.edu
(202) 885-1830
Sue Taylor
Public Anthropologist in Residence
CAS - Anthropology
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 …
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suet@american.edu
(202) 885-6793
David Vine
Professor
CAS - Anthropology
I am the author of The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (University of California Press, 2020), which is the third in a trilogy…
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vine@american.edu
(202) 885-2923
Rachel Watkins
Associate Professor
CAS - Anthropology
My research focuses on the biological and social history of African Americans living in the 19th and 20th century urban US. I began this journey studying the health consequences of poverty and inequal…
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watkins@american.edu
(202) 885-1663
Buck Woodard
Professorial Lecturer
CAS - Anthropology
Buck Woodard is a cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research, with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing, and ethnological study of indigenous North Americ…
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woodard@american.edu
(202) 885-6798