Samar Al-Bulushi
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Yale University, 2017

  • surveillance, policing, and militarized urbanisms; Islam, Africa, and the racialized geopolitics of the war on terror; elites, diplomacy, and transnational governance

  •  SBSG 3568

  • samar.a@uci.edu
  • Website
Tom Boellstorff
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford, 2000

  • digital culture, disability, globalization, HIV/AIDS, Indonesia, language, mass media, nationalism, postcoloniality, queer studies, Southeast Asia, video games, virtual worlds

  •  SBSG 3322

  • tboellst@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Kim Fortun
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 1993

  • environmental problems and science, science and technology, environmental health, disaster, india

  •  SBSG 3302

  • kfortun@uci.edu
Michael Fortun
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993

  • anthropology of science, air pollution science, data science, genetics, history of science, united states, iceland

  •  SBSG 3308

  • mike.fortun@uci.edu
  • Website
David Theo Goldberg
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., The City University of New York, Graduate School and Center 

  • race and racism, social and political theory, social-legal studies/law and society, South Africa, social impacts of digital technology

  •  3338 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • goldberg@uci.edu
  • Website
Sherine Hamdy
  • Professor
    Ph.D., New York University, 2006

  • medical anthropology, science, technology and society, bioethics, comics, islam, egypt, middle east

  •  SBSG 3328

  • shamdy@uci.edu
  • Website
Anneeth Kaur Hundle
  • Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies
     Ph.D.,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,  2013

  • Sikhism and Sikh Studies; race, religion and minoritization; violence, citizenship and decolonization; Afro-Asian entanglements; feminist anthropology, gender and sexuality; critical university studies; Uganda, Africa, South Asia

  •  SBSG 3554 | 949-824-1624

  • ahundle@uci.edu
  • Website
Angela Jenks
  • Professor of Teaching, Anthropology
    Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, 2009

  • medical anthropology, race and ethnicity, urban ethnography, united states

  •  SBSG 3304 | 949-824-3188

  • ajenks@uci.edu
  • Website
Eleana Kim
  • Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions, Anthropology
    Ph.D., New York University, 2007

  • kinship, transnationalism, environment, korea

  •  SBSG 3332

  • eleanak@uci.edu
  • Website
Christopher Lowman
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • historical archaeology, race, gender, immigration

  •  3326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • clowman@uci.edu
Lilith Mahmud
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • Europe, feminist ethnography, elites, race, the Right, liberalism, migration, secrecy

  •  SBSG 3312

  • lmahmud@uci.edu
  • Website
George Marcus
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976

  • elites, ethnography, and cultural critique, pacific

  •  SBSG 3566

  • gmarcus@uci.edu
  • Website
Bill Maurer
  • Dean and Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994

  • money and finance, law and culture, caribbean

  •  SBSG 5218 | 949-824-6802

  • wmmaurer@uci.edu
  • Website
Keith Murphy
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008

  • linguistics, design, aesthetics and morality, sweden

  •  SBSG 3306

  • kmmurphy@uci.edu
  • Website
Valerie Olson
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2010

  • environmental systems, science and technology, u.s., extreme environments

  •  SBSG 3334 | 949-824-9737

  • olsonv@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Kristin Peterson
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2004

  • science and technology, feminism, pharmaceuticals, west africa

  •  SBSG 3336 | 949-824-9652

  • kris@uci.edu
  • Website
Justin Richland
  • Professor and Chair, Anthropology
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 
    J.D., University of California, Berkeley

  • legal discourse analysis and semiotics; anthropology of law; contemporary native american law, politics, art and ethnographic museology

  • jbrich@uci.edu
Damien Sojoyner
  • Professor (Ph.D. and M.A. in Medicine, Science and Technology Studies (MSTS))
     Ph.D.,  University of Texas at Austin,  2009

  • prisons; public education; urban anthropology; race; african diaspora theory; public policy and law; gender; united states

  •  SBSG 3546

  • damien.sojoyner@uci.edu
  • Website
Ian Straughn
  • Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2006

  • archaeology, cultural heritage, middle east and islamic studies, space and landscape, material culture

  •  SBSG 3544

  • ian.straughn@uci.edu
  • Website
António Tomás
  • Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology
    Ph.D., Columbia University 

  • colonialism, race and racism, social and political theory, african urbanism and cityness, Angola, cartography and graphic representation

  •  3552 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • aptomas@uci.edu
Roxanne Varzi
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002

  • iran, war, islam, visual anthropology, film, art/popular culture in iran, social cultural anthropology, religious studies, visual culture

  •  SBSG 3314

  • rvarzi@uci.edu
  • Website
Mei Zhan
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002

  • medical anthropology, science and technology studies, theory and methodology, chinese medicine, globalization, china

  •  SBSG 3316

  • mzhan@uci.edu
  • Website
Salvador Zárate
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • race, gender, labor, and the environment; southern california domestic work and gardening labor; marxism and women of color feminism; historical methods and anthropology; ethnic studies

  • sezarate@uci.edu

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