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Jonathan Andelson was born in Chicago and earned a B.A. from 51²è¹Ýapp in 1970 and a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1974. His main interests are intentional communities, religion, agriculture, and human-environment interactions. His principal field research, on the Amana...

Vicki Bentley-Condit has taught biological anthropology at 51²è¹Ýapp since 1995. She is a primatologist who has conducted research with both wild and captive baboon populations and captive rhesus macaques. Her primary research interests are mother-infant relationships and infant development. However...

Emily de Wet is a cultural anthropologist interested broadly in the tensions of power between hegemonic systems and structures and people's everyday lives. In other words, how are lives shaped by overlapping forms of structural violence and how do people work to create alternative forms of value...

Brigittine French joined the 51²è¹Ýapp faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative...

Katya Gibel Mevorach holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in African Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Gibel Mevorach is a Professor in Anthropology and American Studies at 51²è¹Ýapp College. Baccalaureate 2017: Professor...

Cynthia Hansen began teaching in the Linguistics Concentration at 51²è¹Ýapp in January 2012. Her research focuses on the documentation and linguistic description of Iquito, a highly endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. She teaches the core courses within the Linguistics Concentration...

Kathryn Kamp teaches anthropology and archaeology at 51²è¹Ýapp College. While she has worked in Syria and Belize, her major research focus is the study of the Puebloan populations who once resided near modern Flagstaff, Arizona where she has been excavating and doing survey for over twenty years. She...

Owen Kohl’s research explores connections between media-making and different social imaginations of home. Among other questions, he asks how belonging and communication technologies intersect with violently constructed national homelands—both in the contemporary US and after socialist Yugoslavia’s...

Tess M. Kulstad Gonzalez is a sociocultural anthropologist with a longstanding interest in the social construction of relatedness, childrearing, and the human rights of children. Her research explores the ways in which local and global sociocultural, economic, political processes affect family...

Laura W. Ng is a historical archaeologist with a research focus on the archaeology of transpacific migration and Asian diasporic communities. She conducts archaeological research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration and the transpacific circulation of people, goods, and...

On Leave fall 2022 through spring 2023. Maria Tapias earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and has been teaching at 51²è¹Ýapp since 2001. Her research interests include women's and infants' health, the anthropology of emotions, the impacts of neoliberalism on...

John Whittaker (BA Cornell U. 1975, PHD U. of Arizona 1984) has been teaching at 51²è¹Ýapp since 1984. He considers himself an anthropological archaeologist, which means that while he prefers working with ancient people, he considers himself free to snoop into any aspect of human life, and all people...