Hunter College Anthropology Faculty



Spring 2010


Brown, Jacqueline N.
[Ph.D. Stanford University 1995; Associate
Professor - on leave 2009-2010]
Diasporic subjectivities, race, space and place, transnationalism
and the local, black identities; Britain
Tel. [212] 772-5458
jnbrown@hunter.cuny.edu
Video
[1042K]

Chaturvedi, Ruchi
[Ph.D. Columbia 2007; Assistant Professor] Political and
Legal Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, South
Asian Studies.
rchaturv@hunter.cuny.edu.

Clemente, Ignasi
[Ph.D. UCLA 2005; Assistant. Professor & Undergraduate Advisor] Linguistics,
Culture and Communication, Gesture and Deixis.
iclement@hunter.cuny.edu.

Creed, Gerald W.
[Ph.D. The City University of New York 1992,
Professor and Executive Officer CUNY Ph.D. Program in Anthopology] Agrarian political economy, rural
identity, family and
community, ritual; Eastern
Europe; joint appointment [1/3rd time] GSUC
Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5651
gcreed@hunter.cuny.edu
Video [711K]

Edelman, Marc
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1985; Professor and Chair]
Economic
and political anthropology, historical anthropology; Latin
America;
joint appointment [1/3rd time] GSUC Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5410
medelman@hunter.cuny.edu
Video [735K]

Friedlander, Judith.
[Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago 1973, Professor]
ethnicity and minortiy cultures, gender and feminist
theory; Latin America, US, Europe
judith.friedlander@hunter.cuny.edu

Greenberg, Robert
[Ph.D. Yale University
1991;
Professor and Acting Dean of The School of Arts and Sciences]
South Slavic and Balkan Slavic linguistics; Language, Nationalism and Ethnic Identity
in the Former Yugoslavia; and Sociolinguistic Issues in the Yugoslav Successor States.
Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences.
Tel. [212] 650 3045
robert.greenberg@hunter.cuny.edu.

Hodges, David J.
[Ph.D. Anthropology of Education, New York
University 1972;
Professor]
U.S. race relations,
civil rights, human rights, application of anthropology to
education, prison education and
prison reform
dhodges@hunter.cuny.edu.

Johnson, Gregory A.
[Ph.D. The University of Michigan 1972; Professor]
Complex
Societies, quantitative analysis, archaeology; Near East; faculty
member GSUC
Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5652 / FAX [212] 772-5422
gjohnson@hunter.cuny.edu

McGovern, Thomas H.
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1979; Professor]
Archaeology,
paleoecology, faunal analysis, Norse and Inuit cultures, human
dimensions of global change;
faculty member GSUC Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5654
nabo@voicenet.com
Video
[540K]

Parry, William
[Ph.D. The University of Michigan 1983; Professor & Graduate Advisor]
Archaeology, hunters and gatherers, early agriculture, lithic
technology; Mesoamerica;
American Southwest; faculty member GSUC Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5657
wparry@hunter.cuny.edu

Rothman, Jessica
[Ph.D. Cornell University 2006; Asstistant Professor]
Primates, Evolutionary Ecology, Nutrition, Africa, Uganda; faculty member
GSUC Anthropology
Tel. [212] 772-TBA
jessica.rothman@hunter.cuny.edu.

Shannon, Jonathan
[Ph.D. CUNY 2001; Associate Professor]
Cultural Anthropology, Aesthetics, Ethnomusicology, Postcolonial
Studies, Psychological
Anthropology, Religion; The Middle East, Islamic Society
Tel. [212] 772-5452
jonathan.shannon@hunter.cuny.edu
Video [541K]

Steiper, Michael E.
[Ph.D. Harvard University 2003; Associate Professor]
Biological Anthropology,Molecular evolution and phylogenetics,
population genetics, primates
Michael.Steiper@hunter.cuny.edu
Video
[1,112K]

Susser, Ida
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1980; Professor] Medical
anthropology,
contemporary US studies, urban, political economy, gender,
Southern Africa; faculty
member GSUC Anthropology.
Tel. [212] 772-5429
isusser@hunter.cuny.edu.

EMERITUS FACULTY

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Bates, Daniel G.
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[Ph.D. The University of Michigan 1971, Professor]
Social
Anthropology, ecological studies, economic and political
anthropology; Turkey
and the Middle East, East European Minority Populations
dbates@hunter.cuny.edu
danielgbates.com

Bendix, Edward H.
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1965; Professor]
Sociolinguistics,
cognitive anthropology, semantics/pragmatics, Creole languages;
Nepal; faculty member GSUC Anthropology, faculty member GSUC
Linguistics.
ebendix@gc.cuny.edu

Conant, Francis P.
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1960; Professor]
Cultural
anthropology, ecology, remote sensing; Africa, Caribbean.
fconant
@hunter.cuny.edu

Gropper, Rena C.
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1950; Professor] Applied
anthropology, medical anthropology, Gypsies; South Asia,
Tibet.

Lees, Susan H.
[Ph.D. The University of Michigan 1970; Professor
and Undergraduate
Advisor] Cultural
Anthropology, human ecology, economic anthropology, anthropology
of
development; faculty member GSUC
Anthropology.
slees@hunter.cuny.edu

McLendon, Sally
[Ph.D. The University of California at Berkeley
1966; Professor]
Linguistics, stylistics, text analysis; North America,
California, Indian peoples, ethnohistory,
material culture, redocumenting museum collections, exhibits;
smclendo@hunter.cuny.edu

Oates, John F.
[Ph.D. The University of London 1974; Professor]
Primate ecology
and social behavior, tropical rain forest ecology and
conservation; Africa; India;
faculty member GSUC Anthropology
joates@hunter.cuny.edu
Video [592K]

Pasternak, Burton
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1967; Professor] Social
organization,
social demography, ecology; China.
buphc@taconic.net

Szalay, Frederick S.
[Ph.D. Columbia University 1967; Professor] history
and
morphology of fossil and living primates, mammalian systematics,
evolutionary theory; faculty member GSUC Anthropology.
fszalay@hunter.cuny.edu
