Monica Barra, Assistant Professor
Environmental and Urban Anthropology, Race and Inequality, North America and the US South, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Political Ecology
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.
Environmental and Urban Anthropology, Race and Inequality, North America and the US South, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Political Ecology
Paleopathology, skeletal health disparities, social inequality, the African Diaspora, nineteenth century medicine
Immigration, Humanitarianism, Violence, Social Entrepreneurship, Central America, Mexico, Detroit
Environmental anthropologist - Archaeologies of environmental justice
African Diaspora, historical archaeology, public archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, museum studies, oral history, memorialization and heritage, culture contact, identity, ceramics, West Africa, Caribbean, Eastern United States.
Sociocultural anthropologist, Native American & Indigenous Studies and Museum Studies
Cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, gender, popular culture, sexuality, Chinese-speaking Asia
Human Variation, Anthropology of Migration: Displacement, Borders, and Health
Linguistic and visual anthropology, language socialization and ideology, transnational migration, childhood
Dynamic and often conflicting relationships between vernacular forms of medicine and biomedicine
Cultural anthropology, race & ethnicity, gender, identity formation, women's formations, African diaspora
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
Extreme marginality, justice-driven public scholarship, urban anthropology, migration and poverty, children in crisis, participatory ethnography and archaeology, South Asia, Romani Europe, Mediterranean.
Archaeology, African Diaspora, antislavery resistance, social identity, Ethnogenesis, self-liberation, Race, Native Americans
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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 |