Faculty
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Eugene Cooper Professor of Anthropology Research Areas: Chinese Civilization, Contemporary China, Chinese Folk Custom, Popular Religion, Political Economy Phone: (213)740-1905 Email: eugeneco@usc.edu |
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Janet Hoskins Professor of Anthropology and Religion Research Areas: Visual Anthropology, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Transnational Religion, Ritual Performance, Indigenous Representations of the Past and of Time, Material Culture, Gender, Exchange, Narrative and Healing Phone: (213)740-1913 Email: jhoskins@usc.edu |
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Lanita Jacobs Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity Research Areas: Language, Identity, and Culture; Language and Gender; Race, Performance, and Popular Culture; Race and Humor; Race, Health, and Disability; Race, Gender, and Aesthetics Phone: (213)740-1909 Email: jacobshu@usc.edu |
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Dorinne Kondo Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity Research Areas: Cultural Theory, Contemporary Performance in the U.S., Aesthetics and Politics, Race, Bodies/Subjects, Transnationalism, Japan and the United States Phone: (213)740-1910 Email: kondo@rcf.usc.edu |
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Nancy Lutkehaus Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and Political Science Research Areas: Melanesian Gender and Social Organization, Political and Economic Anthropology, Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Cultures of Oceania, Visual Culture, Ethnographic and Documentary Film Phone: (213)740-1917 Email: lutkehau@usc.edu |
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Cheryl Mattingly Professor of Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy Research Areas: Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Narrative, Phenomenology of Illness and Healing, Culture of Biomedicine, Expressive Culture, Race and Health Phone: (213)740-3550 Email: mattingl@usc.edu |
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G.alexander Moore Professor of Anthropology Research Areas: Anthropology and Education, Political Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Ethnographic Film, Film Criticism, Latin America, Panama, Guatemala, Turkey Phone: (213)740-0519 Email: almoore@usc.edu |
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Gary Seaman Associate Professor of Anthropology Research Areas: Taiwan, China, Ethnographic Film, Ethnography, Hypermedia in Ethnography, Ritual Phone: (213)740-1906 Email: seaman@usc.edu |
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Andrei Simic Professor of Anthropology Research Areas: Balkans and Eastern Europe, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Post-Communist Society, Cross-cultural Gerontology, Visual Anthropology Phone: (213)740-1901 Email: asimic@usc.edu |
Research, Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty
| Thomas Garrison Lecturer Phone: (213)740-1980 Email: tgarriso@usc.edu |
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Erin Moore Associate Professor (Teaching) of Anthropology Research Areas: India, South Asia, Gender, Kinship, Global Health, Performance of Healing, Mexico and Immigration, Law, Dispute Resolution, Justice Phone: (213)740-0515 Email: epm@usc.edu |
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Tok Thompson Associate Professor (Teaching) of Anthropology Research Areas: Folklore, Popular Culture, Translation Studies, Heritage, Minority Languages, the Internet Phone: (213)740-5195 Email: thompst@earthlink.net |
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Thomas Ward Associate Professor (Teaching) of Anthropology Research Areas: Street Gangs, Urban Youth Gangs, Transnational Gangs, Central American Gangs, MS-13 Gang, Mara 18, Tibetan Buddhism, Bön, Dzögchen. Phone: (213)740-8222 Email: tww@usc.edu |
Emeritus Faculty
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Joan Weibel-Orlando Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology Research Areas: Urban Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Tourism, Global Economies, Alcohol Studies, Aging, Ethnographic Field Methods, Medical Anthropology, North American Indians, Italy Phone: (213)740-1902 |
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