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Department of Anthropology

    Our People

    Our award-winning faculty specialize in comparative diasporic studies and social justice issues in places throughout the globe including the Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and North America. With research interests spanning historical archaeology, medical anthropology, ethnobiology and much more, the faculty members also participate in at least one interdisciplinary program on campus. 

    Core Faculty

    Monica Barra

    Monica Barra, Assistant Professor

    Environmental and Urban Anthropology, Race and Inequality, North America and the US South, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Political Ecology

    C de la Cova

    Carlina de la Cova, Professor and Undergraduate Director

    Paleopathology, skeletal health disparities, social inequality, the African Diaspora, nineteenth century medicine

    John Doering-White

    John Doering-White, Assistant Professor

    Immigration, Humanitarianism, Violence, Social Entrepreneurship, Central America, Mexico, Detroit

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    Chelsea Fisher, Assistant Professor

    Environmental anthropologist - Archaeologies of environmental justice 

    Kelly Goldberg

    Katherine (Kelly) Goldberg, Clinical Assistant Professor / Director of USC Public Heritage Lab

    African Diaspora, historical archaeology, public archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, museum studies, oral history, memorialization and heritage, culture contact, identity, ceramics, West Africa, Caribbean, Eastern United States.

    Christina González

    Christina González, Bridge to Faculty Research Assistant Professor

    Sociocultural anthropologist, Native American & Indigenous Studies and Museum Studies 

    Marc Moskowitz

    Marc Moskowitz, Professor and Departmental Chair

    Cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, gender, popular culture, sexuality, Chinese-speaking Asia

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    Jelena Jankovic-Rankovic, Assistant Professor

    Human Variation, Anthropology of Migration: Displacement, Borders, and Health

    J Reynolds

    Jennifer Reynolds, Professor

    Linguistic and visual anthropology, language socialization and ideology, transnational migration, childhood

    D Simmons

    David Simmons, Associate Professor

    Dynamic and often conflicting relationships between vernacular forms of medicine and biomedicine

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    Kimberly E. Simmons, Associate Professor

    Cultural anthropology, race & ethnicity, gender, identity formation, women's formations, African diaspora

    Magdalena Stawkowski

    Magdalena Stawkowski, Assistant Professor

    Cultural and medical anthropology, militarized and nuclear spaces, socio-cultural legacies of atomic testing, Cold War science, political economy, bioethics, subjectivity, environmental governance, health disparities and environmental harm in Kazakhstan, post-Soviet reforms, Central Asia

    Jonah Steinberg

    Jonah Steinberg, Associate Professor

    Extreme marginality, justice-driven public scholarship, urban anthropology, migration and poverty, children in crisis, participatory ethnography and archaeology, South Asia, Romani Europe, Mediterranean.

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    Terrance Weik, Professor and Graduate Director

    Archaeology, African Diaspora, antislavery resistance, social identity, Ethnogenesis, self-liberation, Race, Native Americans

    Emeriti Faculty

    Name Title Email
    Joanna Casey Professor Emerita jlc@sc.edu
    Karl Heider Distinguished Professor Emeritus HeiderKG@gmail.com
    Alice Kasakoff Distinguished Professor Emerita Kasakoff@sc.edu
    Kenneth Kelly Distinguished Professor Emeritus kenneth.kelly@sc.edu 
    Thomas Leatherman Distinguished Professor Emeritus tleatherman@anthro.umass.edu
    Morgan Maclachlan Distinguished Professor Emeritus mmac@sc.rr.com
    Gail Wagner Professor Emerita gail.wagner@sc.edu

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