Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology 21
860-685-3266

Professor, Archaeology Program
Exley Science Center 301
860-685-3266

Chair, Anthropology
Anthropology 21
860-685-3266

Director of Collections, Archaeology Program
Exley Science Center 301
860-685-3266

dcharles@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Chicago
MA Northwestern University
PHD Northwestern University

ANTH202 - 01
Paleoanthropology

ANTH372 - 01
Archaeology Of Death

ANTH268 - 01
Prehistory of North America

ANTH349 - 01
The Human Skeleton

Office Hours:

Thursdays, 2:00-4:30 pm, Rm. 21, Anthropology Department

Research Interests:

My primary research interest is in understanding the complexity of the political economies of foraging/gardening societies, with a focus on pre-Columbian Eastern North American, particularly the Mississippi River drainage of the Eastern Woodlands. An early interest in the Archaic period (ca. 6000-3000 bp) has given way to a concentration on Middle Woodland "Hopewellian" cultures (ca. 2050-1550 bp). Much of our knowledge of social and political life in this period comes from the analysis of mounds and linear earthworks concentrated at "ceremonial" gathering sites, which create a landscape of communities (consisting of shifting networks of differing size and composition) and which were an integral part of the complex social world of a population otherwise dispersed in small hamlets. A complete political economy of Middle Woodland societies requires investigation of the hamlets as well, and I am currently analyzing the material recovered during the ca. 1980 Smiling Dan site CRM excavation by the Center for American Archeology. I am also interested in the history and theory of archaeology and how we construct archaeological knowledge. A set of secondary interests--human evolution and skeletal biology--stems from my concentration on biological anthropology in graduate school. My first academic appointment was as lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy in the Medical School at Northwestern University. Following that, and before coming to Wesleyan, I was the Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield, where I taught courses on mortuary archaeology and paleopathology.

Publications:
http://works.bepress.com/douglas_k_charles/

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology 26
860-685-4489

Assistant Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-4489

Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-4489

Faculty Fellow

scroucher@wesleyan.edu

BA Manchester University
MA University of Manchester
PHD University of Manchester

ANTH165 - 01
Global Goods

ARCP325 - 01
Middletown Materials

ANTH226 - 01
Feminist and Gender Arch

ANTH256 - 01
African Archaeology

Personal Homepage:
http://scroucher.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Monday 10am - noon (Centerr for the Humanities, Room 205) or by appointment.

Lab URL:
http://beman-triangle.research.wesleyan.edu/

BA University of Pennsylvania
MA University of California LA
PHD University of California LA

BA Pontificia Universidad Catolic
MA University of Texas Austin
PHD Columbia University

ANTH101 - 01
Intro to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH400 - 01
Cultural Analysis

Office Hours:
Fall 2012: Tuesdays 1-3 PM and by appointment. Anthropology Department, Room 24.

The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima (The University of Chicago Press, 2009). http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo6002261.html

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
222 Church Street 117
860-685-2454

Assistant Professor, Science in Society
222 Church Street 114
860-685-2454

ggoslinga@wesleyan.edu

BA Smith College
MA University Southern Calif
PHD University Calif Santa Crz

ENVS305 - 01
Moral Ecologies

Office Hours:

Allbritton 116/117, Tuesday 1-3 pm and by appointment.

Research Interests:

My driving research interest is ontological politics in zones of encounter between religion and science, indigenous healing systems and biomedicine, and anthropology and its others. I am especially interested in social phenomena that destabilize modern empirical categories of thought, analysis, and experience. For example:  gestational surrogacy (mothers who are not mothers), spirit possession and religious healing (bodies that are multiply inhabited), agential nature (for example mountains that "hear" humans) and virgin births (conceptions that are not biological sex).  My earlier work concerned epistemologies of embodiment in a U.S. gestational surrogacy arrangement.  My current book project, Virgin Birth in South India: Ontology in the Borderlands of Old and New Reproductive Technologies, experiments with how to interpret the virgin birth claims of the women devotees of a South India god who has the paradoxical reputation of causing and curing infertility both.  Considered alongside the arrival of the "new" reproductive technologies in Tamil Nadu and quickly came to code the modernity of the region, I argue that to encounter these virgin birth claims on their own terms, interpretation must be disengaged from the legacies of 19th century social thought in which the social and the biological came together in a ferociously positivist and colonialist political project that leaves little to no room for thinking about the facts of life outside of it.  My future research will consider the ontological politics of agential nature, that is, claims that nature, like the South India god Paandi, empirically "responds" to humans.

Scholarly Keywords:

Critical medical anthropology, philosophical anthropology, feminist science studies, political ontology, materiality and embodiment, nature-culture debates, reproductive technolgies, incommensurable religious phenomena, visual anthropology, feminist and experimental ethnography.

Academic Associations:

American Anthropological Association Society for Feminist Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Religion Society for Visual Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Grants:

Wesleyan hiring grant (2009-2012), American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship (2007-2008) Social Science Research Council IDFR (2000-2002) UC Regents Writing and Research grants (1996-2005)

BA University Calif Berkeley
PHD University Calif Santa Crz

AMST255 - 01
Anarchy in America

AMST314 - 01
U.S. in the Pacific Islands

AMST176 - 01
Race and Citizenship

ANTH111 - 01
Hawai`i: Myths and Realities

Personal Homepage:
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

I will be holding office hours on Mondays from 2-4pm, and by appointment, in my office at the Center for the Americas, room 216.

Research Interests:

See:   http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/  

Scholarly Keywords:

See:   http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/  

ANTH206 - 01
Movements, Law and Policy

ANTH304 - 01
Native American Land Rights

PHD

BA Eugene Lang College
MA Stanford University
MA Columbia University
PHD Stanford University

ANTH259 - 01
Anthropology of Development

ANTH295 - 01
Theory 1: Anth and Pol Economy

ANTH302 - 01
Critical Perspectives on State

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-4

BA Radcliffe College
MA Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Harvard University

ANTH244 - 01
Television:The Domestic Medium

ANTH324 - 01
Global/Local Youth Cultures

ANTH296 - 01
Theory 2

ANTH308 - 01
Television Storytelling

Office Hours:
Fall 2012: Thursdays, 3:30-5:30PM

Research Interests:
I received my B.A in Folklore & Mythology from Radcliffe in 1970 and my PhD in Anthropology from Harvard in 1977. One set of current research interests grows out of my dissertation fieldwork in what was then Portuguese Timor and today, after a 24 year occupation by Indonesia, is Timor Leste, East Timor. I first returned to East Timor in 2000 during the UN transitional administration, established after a 1999 referendum in which the East Timorese had voted overwhelmingly for independence. I went back to the same interior town where I had lived in 1973-74 and revisited the two sacred origin villages which had been the focus of my earlier research. Both villages were in ruins; they had been laid waste in 1999 by Indonesian-sponsored militias, as part of a campaign launched in retaliation for popular support of independence. For the custodians of these villages and for the local community, the underlying question was not what had motivated the militias but rather why two such sacred centers had proved vulnerable to external force. One possibility was that their spiritual status had been weakened by their long involvement with me in the past. Although this was neither the only nor, I think, the dominant interpretation in play, it has nonetheless obliged me to reflect on the afterlife of ethnographic projects in popular memory and cultural practice. I am presently writing about the diverse ways in which Timorese have made outsiders into insiders, with emphasis on the indigenization of nationalist discourses of popular sovereignty. Over the decades when research on Timor was precluded, I became involved in cultural and media studies. In my book Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender and Generation (Westview Press) I analyzed a number of successful Hollywood movies released during the Reagan era as a contradictory terrain where new possibilities and identities mingled with calls for a return to a represented past. My more recent interests in television studies include the television industry's relations to changing forms of domesticity in the US, new modes of television storytelling, and aesthetic ideology among television producers.

Scholarly Keywords:
social and cultural theory; anthropology of ritual; cultural and media studies

Academic Associations:
American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology

My teaching interests include social and cultural theory, ethnographic writing, the anthropology of ritual and the cultural politics of nationalism. I also teach a number of courses on popular culture in the US, such as ANTH324 (Youth Culture), ANTH244 (Television: The Domestic Medium), and ANTH308 (Television Storytelling).

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology 24
860-685-3575

Associate Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies
860-685-3575

Director, Center for African American Studies
860-685-3575

gulysse@wesleyan.edu

BA Upsala College
MA University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan

AFAM205 - 01
Key Issues in Black Feminism

ANTH232 - 01
Alter(ed)native Approaches

ANTH210 - 01
Post Quake Haiti

Office Hours:
Mondays 10:00- 11:30 (ANTH) or by appt.

Lab URL:
www.ginaathenaulysse.com

Assistant Professor of American Studies
Center for the Americas 211
860-685-5754

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Center for the Americas 211
860-685-5754

mdweiss@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Chicago
MA Duke University
PHD Duke University

AMST293 - 01
Politics of the Body

ANTH398 - 01
Queer/Anthropology

AMST201 - 01
Critical Queer Studies

ANTH208 - 01
Crafting Ethnography

Personal Homepage:
http://mdweiss.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Monday and Wednesday 1-2 in CAMS 211

Research Interests:

Margot Weiss specializes in the ethnography of contemporary sexual cultures and politics. Her first book, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke University Press) won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize for best monograph in queer anthropology and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Her current research with North American queer left activists focuses on the possibilities and parameters of a radical political imagination at a time of economic crisis.  The research is supported by a Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, Osmundsen Initiative Award, and CLAGS Joan Heller-Diane Bernard Senior Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies. She has published essays on the politics of BDSM media visibility; on labor, leisure, and commodified sexuality; on the performative effects of BDSM interrogation scenes and the Abu Ghraib photographs; on neoliberalism, homonormativity, and new queer activisms; on methods in queer anthropology; and on left intellectuals and activism in the neoliberal university.

Scholarly Keywords:

anthropology of sexuality and gender, queer studies, social theory

Publications:
http://works.bepress.com/mdweiss/

Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus

lkeiser@wesleyan.edu

BA Lawrence University
MA Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Rochester

Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus

aostor@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Melbourne
MA University of Melbourne
PHD University of Chicago

Office Hours:
By appointment via email or call x 3261