Stacey A. Langwick

I am a cultural and medical anthropologist. In addition to a PhD in Anthropology, I also hold a Master’s Degree in Public Health. My research, teaching, collaborations and program-building focus on healing and medicine in East Africa. The majority of my fieldwork over the past twenty years has studied healing practices in Tanzania. I have examined how health has been mobilized both as a form a governance and as a platform for change. I approach healing as practices dedicated to both knowledge production and worldmaking. These days, I am particularly interested in experiments – therapeutic, agricultural, economic, social and artistic – in ways of knowing, forms of collaboration, and modes of embodiment that strive to re-think and re-stage health on, and of, the planet.

Lori Khatchadourian

Trained as an archaeologist, my research spans the fields of archaeology, social anthropology, and critical heritage studies, with a particular focus on Armenia, the South Caucasus, and neighboring regions. In my work I explore problems of empire, materiality, the archaeology of modernity, Soviet socialism and its aftermath, and the politics of heritage. My research and teaching are temporally expansive, extending from the deep past to the present, and attentive to the ways in which the materiality of the past shapes contemporary politics, economics, and ethics. I pursue these concerns using the methods of archaeology, ethnography, spatial analysis, and archival research.

Kurt A. Jordan

Archaeology provides a perspective on Postcolumbian indigenous lives that both supplements and challenges document-based histories. My research centers on the archaeology of Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) peoples, emphasizing the settlement patterns, housing, and political economy of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) people. The empirical evidence provided by archaeology can do much to combat inaccurate narratives of Indigenous decline and powerlessness that pervade scholarly and popular writing about Indigenous North Americans. For example, fieldwork at the 1715-1754 Onöndowa’ga:’ Townley-Read site near Geneva, New York, recovered data indicating substantial Onöndowa’ga:’ autonomy, selectivity, innovation, and opportunism in an era usually considered to be one of cultural disintegration.

David Holmberg

My initial research among the Tamang - a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in Nepal - focused on ritual syncretism or hybridity: the relations among Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices in a society where people married their cross cousins. Although I sustain core interests in theories of ritual and myth broadly conceived, I have also turned my attention to how ritual and myth play out in relation to the broader context of power in society. I am now in the midst of writing a book based on a second major field project of a more ethnohistorical kind. Along with Kathryn March, I have been reconstructing the nature of a state system of forced labor through the memories of villagers and through archival evidence. This feudal system continued until the 1960s in some Tamang locales and its affects are still critical to an understanding of the contemporary situation in Nepal. This project has led me to expand my early research focus on ritual and social organization not only into questions of state formation, culture and politics, ritual as social production, and social violence but questions related to the history of anthropology of the Himalayas, transnational social relations in South Asia, and the anthropology of power, especially the nature of symbolic or sacred power. Along with this project, I have also been closely following recent developments in identity or ethnic politics in Nepal and studying the affects of the Maoist insurgency on Tamang villages as well as ritual developments. I have a strong commitment to theoretically engaged ethnography as the principle mode of knowledge production in anthropology. I also sustain very close ties to both the people with whom I work in Nepal and to academic institutions in Nepal where, over the last decade, we have developed a joint program with Tribhuvan University.

Saida Hodžić

Saida Hodžić, associate professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, studies women’s rights activism, NGO advocacy, humanitarianism, and civic environmental activism. Her first book, The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) has won the Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize by the Association for Feminist Anthropology, granted to a first book that embodies the theoretical rigor, ethnographic richness and advancement of feminist scholarship, as well as the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, Affective Encounters: Humanitarian Afterlives of War and Violence and For Whom is Africa Rising? Unsettling Transnational Feminism in the 21st Century.

Laura Sabatini

John S. Henderson

My teaching and research revolve around early complex societies, especially in Mesoamerica. My field work continues a long-term involvement in survey and excavation in the lower Ulúa valley in Honduras.

Frederic Wright Gleach

As Curator of the Anthropology Collections I work to sustain the Collections and facilitate their use. I teach a course each Spring in the Collections, and regularly host classes and other groups interested in seeing and working with particular groups of objects. I also host open-house events, typically at Homecoming and Reunion but also other times as appropriate. We have two main exhibit areas, in the first-floor hallway and in the Department seminar room, where we can feature materials from the Collections; these exhibits are usually produced working with students.

Magnus Fiskesjö

I teach in the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University and I am also an elected member of these Cornell units:Southeast Asia Program (SEAP),East Asia Program (EAP); CIAMS (Archaeology); Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA); and Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS)

Maia Dedrick

I am an anthropological archaeologist who focuses on the daily lives and livelihoods of farmers, with a particular focus on those living in Yucatán, Mexico, during the Colonial period (ca. AD 1540-1820). Through my work, I seek to understand how people living modestly in rural areas influence historical trajectories by examining the struggles they face and the strategies they employ in the pursuit of well-being for their families and communities. I am committed to community collaboration and find myself increasingly drawn to the archaeology of the contemporary and recent past based on the openings such research provides for engaged and applied scholarship.