Faculty
Professor
Anne Allison
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 230 Friedl Building, East Campus, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 681-6257
Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist who researches the intersection between political economy, everyday life, and the imagination in the context of late capitalist, post-industrial Japan. Her work spans the subjects of sexuality, pornography, and maternal labor to the globalization of...
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Lee D. Baker
Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 210 Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0042
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0042
Phone: (919) 681-3263
Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He received his B.S. from Portland State University and doctorate in anthropology from Temple University. He has been a resident fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois...
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Engseng Ho
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-4544
J. Lorand Matory
Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 201C Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-9923
Specialties
Anthropology & History, Africa, African Diaspora, Transnationalism
Research Summary
Anthropology of religion, of ethnicity, and of education; history and theory of anthropology; African and African-inspired religions around...
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Diane Michele Nelson
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 201D Friedl Building, East Campus, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-2069
I began fieldwork in Guatemala in 1985 exploring the impact of civil war on highland indigenous communities with a focus on the more than 100,000 people made into refugees and 200,000 people murdered in what the United Nations has called genocidal violence. Since then my research has sought to...
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William M. O'Barr
Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 135 Social Sciences, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-8863
William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Northwestern 1969, is currently writing books about advertising and masculinity and about the history of legal anthropology. His extensive publications focus primarily on legal anthropology and include such concerns as law and politics in rural Africa, communication in...
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Charles D. Piot
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 205 Ernestine Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Department Of Cultural Anthropology, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 681-3264
Charlie Piot, Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986, Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, does research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempted to...
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Irene Silverblatt
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 500 W 111th St, Apt 2B, New York, NY 10025
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 641-0319
Irene Silverblatt researches the cultural dimensions of power. She studies how “race-thinking” and gender relations were integral to the making of the modern world as well as how historical memory has shaped feelings of national belonging and demands for universal rights. These interests are...
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Orin Starn
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 205 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-3221
Orin Starn is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History. He has wide-ranging interests including Latin America, Native North America, social movements and indigenous politics, the history of anthropology, activist anthropology, and, more recently, sports and society. His newest book, "The...
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Charles Thompson
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705
Campus Box: Box 90802, Durham, NC 27708-0802
Phone: (919) 660-3657
My research is centered on critical food studies at the nexus where food justice and immigration meet, with particular linkages to Latin America and the U.S. South. I am a filmmaker, photographer, oral historian, and writer. My projects (both completed and current) address such topics as...
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Ralph A. Litzinger
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 208 Friedl Building, Department Of Cultural Anthropology, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 681-6250
Ralph Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. His early research focused on the culture and politics of ethnicity, nationalism, and post-socialism in China. He has published on Marxist nationality theory in China, on ethnic politics in the post-Cold War...
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Louise Meintjes
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 072 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3339
Harris Scott Solomon
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Campus Box: 90091, Durham, NC 27708
I am an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health. My research explores connections between the body and its environments in urban India.
My first book is entitled Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption...
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Rebecca L. Stein
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 205 Friedl Building, 1316 Campus Drive Duke Box 900, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-4663
My research studies linkages between cultural and political processes in Israel in relation to its military occupation and the history of Palestinian dispossession. I am the author of (with Adi Kuntsman) Digital Militarism: Israel's...
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Christine Folch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Campus Box: 201 G Friedl Building, Campus Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708
Office Hours: Office hours are open to all students, not just those in my classes. Sign up here: http://christinefolch.com/office-hours/
I work on water and energy politics amidst the constraints of the Anthropocene.
My larger research agenda is on environmental ethics and how groups conceptualize and politicize their relationships to nature. As a cultural anthropologist, I am particularly interested in how energy and...
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Laurie N McIntosh
Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Laurie McIntosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. Professor McIntosh specializes in the anthropology of Europe, migration, critical race and gender studies, and film and visual...
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Ingrid Byerly
Senior Lecturing Fellow of the Thompson Writing Program
Office: Thompson Writing Program, Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: 919-613-1789
Robin Kirk
Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse B183, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 641-0635
Kirk is the Faculty Co-Chair of the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute and is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Project, an initiative of the center that seeks to use the legacy of this Durham daughter to examine the region’s past of slavery, segregation and...
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Katya Wesolowski
Lecturing Fellow of Cultural Anthroplogy
Office: Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90019, Durham, NC 27708-0025
Phone: (919) 660-7087
As an anthropologist and dancer, I am interested in the interrelationship between bodies, cultural practices and politics. My research focuses on Brazil and the African Diaspora; expressive culture and globalization; the intersection of play, sport and dance; learning communities, social...
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Brandon A. Kohrt
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Campus Box: Box 90519, 213 Trent Hall, 310 Trent Driv, Durham, NC 27708
Brandon Kohrt is a medical anthropologist and psychiatrist who completed his MD-PhD at Emory University in 2009. He is currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Kohrt has worked in Nepal since 1996 researching and aiding victims...
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Walter Mignolo
Professor
Office: 125B Friedl Building, Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0413
Phone: (919) 668-1949
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment (between 1pm and 3 pm)
Mignolo’s research and teaching have been devoted, in the past 30 years, to understanding and unraveling the historical foundation of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. In his research, modern/colonial...
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William M. Reddy
Professor
Office: 314 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Phone: (919) 684-2497
Most recent book-- The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Awarded the Pinkney Prize for best book in French History, 2012...
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Julie A. Tetel
Professor in the Department of English
Office: 319 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-7610
Julie Tetel (Andresen) writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback...
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Heather Settle
Visiting Instructor in Cultural Anthropology
Office: 108 Academic Advising Center, Box 90697, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90697, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 613-6689
Professor Emeriti
Katherine P. Ewing
Professor Emerita
Office: Columbia University, Departmen, 80 Claremont Ave., Room 103 Mc, New York, NY 10027
Campus Box: Friedl Building 212, Cultual Anthropology Dept, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (212) 851-9280
Katherine Pratt Ewing, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University.
212-851-9280
ke2131@columbia.edu
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Naomi Quinn
Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 201 A Science Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-2810
Naomi Quinn received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1971. Her research has pursued the reconstruction, from reasoning, metaphor, narrative, and other features of their discourse on it, of Americans’ cultural understandings of marriage. Recent research pursues the effects of early...
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