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	Asif Agha			PhD	University of Chicago			1990
		Department Chair			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Professor Appointments		Department of Anthropology Faculty; Graduate Groups in Linguistics, Folklore, South Asia Regional Studies, and the Lauder Program in International Studies; Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies; Faculty Master, Hill College House; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Linguistics, anthropology, semiotics; language structure and function, language typology and universals; social theory; language and social relations; discourse analysis; metaphor and tropes, register and style; communicative practices in the media; Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics.
	Sandra T. Barnes			PhD	University of Wisconsin			1974
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1973
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Founding Director, African Studies Center; Folklore and International Relations Graduate Groups; Consulting Curator, African Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Social and Cultural anthropology; Sub-Saharan Africa; complex societies, political anthropology; religion; popular culture; historical anthropology.
	Philippe Bourgois			PhD	Stanford University			1985
		Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine			began teaching at Penn in 2007
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Masters in Public Health Faculty (Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine); Urban Studies Program.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Medical anthropology; power and social inequality; U.S. inner city apartheid; violence; drug use; HIV; homelessness; immigration; Central America; political economy; Public anthropology.
	Harold L. Dibble			PhD	University of Arizona			1981
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1982
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator-in-Charge, European Archaeology Section, University Museum; Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Middle Paleolithic of Western Europe, Egypt, and the Near East; project Director of excavations at Pech de l'Azé IV, and Roc de Marsal in France, and the Abydos Survey for Prehistoric Sites in Egypt; currently working on issues of Pleistocene hominid behavioral evolution; computer applications to archaeological fieldwork and analysis; lithic technology, typology, and experimentation.
	Clark L. Erickson			PhD	University of Illinois			1988
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1988
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator, American Section, University Museum; Latin American Cultures Program.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; South America and New World; archaeology of landscapes; prehistoric agricultural systems; technology and social organization; analogy; ethnobotany; experimental and applied archaeology.
	Eduardo Fernandez-Duque			PhD	University of California, Davis			1996
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2006
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty.
		Research Interests		Primate behavior and ecology, mating systems, monogamy, social bonds, paternal care. Mainly Latin America (Venezuela, Ecuador and Argentina).
	Gautam Ghosh			PhD	University of Chicago			2000
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2000
		Appointments		Anthro Faculty; South Asia, History, International Studies, Asian-American Studies & Folklore Graduate Groups; Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Advanced Study of India; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Migration and Diaspora; Anthropology, History & Ethnohistory; Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity; Time & Space; Social Theory and Social Thought; Religion; Development; Cyberia and Cultural Studies; Asian-American Studies; Music; South Asia, U.S., UK.
	John L. Jackson, Jr.			PhD	Columbia University			2000
		Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 2006
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Annenberg School for Communication Faculty; Africana Studies.
		Research Interests		Ethnographic Film and Visual Studies; Race Theory and Identity; Globalization, Transnationalism, and Diaspora; Religion, Media, and Modernity; Social Theory; Urban Studies and Class Formation; The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography; Cultural Studies and Performance Theory; Africana Studies and Popular Culture; U.S, Israel.
	Richard M. Leventhal			PhD	Harvard University			1979
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2004
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Williams Director, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Mesoamerica; complex societies; archaeological theory and method; and the intellectual history of archaeology in the USA.
	Adriana Petryna			PhD	University of California, Berkeley			1999
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2006
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, globalization, state formation and citizenship, Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, and the United States.
	Robert W. Preucel			PhD	University of California, Los Angeles			1988
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1995
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator, American Section, University Museum; American Civilization Graduate Group; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program.
		Research Interests		Archaeological method and theory; post-processual archaeology, meaning and practice, semiotics, materiality, landscape, gender, ethnogenesis, NAGPRA, native North America, American Southwest, Pueblo cultures.
	Jeremy A. Sabloff			PhD	Harvard University			1969
		Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 1994
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator, American Section, University Museum; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program; History & Sociology of Science Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Archaeological theory and method and the history of American archaeology; ancient civilizations, pre-industrial urbanism and the use of settlement pattern studies; Maya lowlands; and the study of the transition from Classic to Postclassic Maya civilization.
	Peggy R. Sanday			PhD	University of Pittsburgh			1966
		Professor Retired			began teaching at Penn in 1972
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; southeast Asia, US; religion, culture, history, sex and gender; ethos; world view. Author of Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory (ed.); Female Power and Male Dominance; Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System; Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender (ed.); Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus; A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial.
	Theodore G. Schurr			PhD	Emory University			1998
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2001
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, Physical Anthropology and American Sections, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Subject areas: Molecular anthropology; modern human evolution; human biological variation; biomedical genetics; ancient DNA. Geographic areas: Siberia; Americas; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Australia; Melanesia; Africa.
	Robert L. Schuyler			PhD	University of California at Santa Barbara			1975
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1979
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator in Charge, Historical Archaeology, University Museum; American Civilization Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Archaeology--North America and global; anthropological theory and history of anthropology and archaeology; evolutionism; historical archaeology, both colonial period and the 19th century; East Coast and the historic American West. In 2001 initiated the South Jersey Project, a long-term investigation of Vineland, New Jersey (founded in 1861) and the region around this planned Victorian Period agricultural community. Project will equally explore both the 19th and the 20th centuries and involve not only archaeology but also archival, oral historic and ethnographic research.
	Robert J. Sharer			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1968
		Sally & Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 1972
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Shoemaker Curator, American Section, University Museum; Research Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Mesoamerica; Maya area; origins and development of complex societies; archaeological method and theory; process of cultural change. Chalchuapa Archaeological Project: origins and development of Preclassic cultures of S.E. Maya area; Verapaz Archaeological Project: origins and development of Preclassic highland Maya culture; Quirigua Project: development and testing of functional and explanatory models for Classic Maya presence in the Southeast Lowlands; El Mirador Project: origins and development of classic lowland Maya civlization; Copan Acropolos Project: architectural and functional development of the Eastern Acropolis.
	Brian J. Spooner			D. Phil	Oxford University			1967
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1968
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; South Asia Regional Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies Graduate Groups; Curator, Near Eastern Ethnology, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Middle East, South Asia, Central Asial; social organization; religion; ethnohistory; ecology; rural development.
	Deborah A. Thomas			PhD	New York University			2000
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2006
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Africana Studies.
		Research Interests		Nationalism; Globalization; Race and Gender; Labor Migration; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Cultural Politics; Performance; Violence and the Transformation of Space; Culture and Political Economy; Popular Culture; Caribbean.
	Gregory Urban			PhD	University of Chicago			1978
		Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 1994
		Appointments		Chair, Anthropology Department; Folklore and Folklife Graduate Group; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program; Consulting Curator, American Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S.
	Claudia Valeggia			PhD	University of California, Davis			1996
		Francis E. Johnston Term Assistant Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 2005
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty.
		Research Interests		Human reproductive ecology; reproductive physiology; ethnopediatrics; biosocial perspectives on sexual and reproductive health; health of South American indigenous people.