Rice University Anthropology

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Department of Anthropology MS-20
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Fax: 713-348-5455
Email: anth@rice.edu

Faculty/Staff

Faculty

Dominic Boyer, Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Media; knowledge; digital information and epistemology; experts, professionalism and cultures of expertise; intellectuals and identitarian movements; the politics of affect and belonging; renewable energy and energopolitics; late-, post- and neo-socialism; early and late liberalism; journalism; social theory and philosophy as resources for, and objects of, anthropological inquiry; Europe; Latin America; Germany.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 564 | 713-348-2061 | e-mail | profile

Tarek Elhaik, Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modernity & Cosmopolitan modernism; avant-garde media arts (historic & contemporary); visual anthropology; moving image media; screen studies; experimental & expanded cinema; installation art; curatorial practice as intellectual & media history; Gilles Deleuze; psychoanalysis & its discontents; Latin America, Mexico; United States; Middle East/North Africa.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 584 | 713-348-2584 | e-mail | profile

James D. Faubion , Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The anthropology of self-formation and ethics; anthropological research design; the work of Michel Foucault; the prevailing epistemological figures of anthropological thought; the more general sociocultural ecology of social and cultural thought; the theorization of kinship; religious ideation and practice; the anthropology of literature; ancient and modern Greece.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 570A | 713-348-3384 | e-mail | profile

Jeffrey Fleisher, Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Old World archaeology; African archaeology and ethnography; political economy; landscape and regional archaeology; household studies; ceramics; urban space; materiality of ritual; social memory.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 582 | 713-348-3482 | e-mail | profile

Eugenia Georges, Professor and Chair
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medical anthropology; cultural study of reproduction and new reproductive technologies; medicalization of the life cycle; relationships among social class, ethnicity, and disease; labor migration and economic development; sustainable energy; Greece; Dominican Republic; Lesotho.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 574 | 713-348-3390 | e-mail | profile

Cymene Howe, Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The anthropology of activism; media and political cultures; transformations of sexuality and subjectivity; neo-leftism in Latin America, human rights and transnational networks; knowledge and alternative energy epistemologies in Latin America and the United States; Nicaragua.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 578 | 713-348-4982 | e-mail | profile

Susan McIntosh, Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Origins of complex societies; West African Iron Age archaeology; ceramic analysis; human osteology; cultural property and heritage preservation issues; societies on the semi-arid mid-sections of two of West Africa's major rivers: the Senegal and the Niger.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 576 | 713-348-3380 | e-mail | profile

Amy Ninetto, Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural politics of science; postsocialist transformation; nation-states and globalization; privatization and migration; language and professional identities; rationalization; Russia.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 566 | 713 348-3117 | e-mail | profile

Stephen Tyler, Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Culture and rhetoric; the middle voice, the limits of representation; South Asia.

CONTACT: Sewall 568A | 713-348-3393 | e-mail | profile

Elizabeth Vann, Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Capitalism, consumption and production; consumer production; markets and socialism; material culture; branding; authenticity; intellectual property; anthropology of Vietnam and East/Southeast Asia.

CONTACT: Sewall Hall 580 | 713-348-3382 | e-mail | profile

Emeritus Faculty