Sofia A. Villenas

Associate Professor

Publications

Books (Edited)

2010 (co-edited with E. Murillo Jr., R. Trinidad Galvan, C. Martinez, J. Muñoz, and M. Machado-Casas) (2010).  Handbook of Latinos and education: Theory, research and practice. NY: Routledge and Taylor Francis Group.

2006 (co-edited with D. Delgado Bernal, C.A. Elenes and F. Godinez). Chicana/Latina education in everyday life:  Feminista perspectives on pedagogy and epistemology.  Albany:  State University of New York Press.  

1999 (co-edited with L. Parker, and D. Deyhle)  Race is ... race isn’t:  Critical race theory and qualitative studies in education.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

2020. (with Carolina Osorio Gil). Latinx cultural programming as public pedagogy: Mobilizing cultura (culture) in a small town community in Upstate New York. In J. Hurtig and C. Chernoff (Eds.), Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning: Practitioner Ethnographies of Adult Education in the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

2019. The anthropology of education and contributions to critical race studies. Equity and Excellence in Education, 52(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2019.1632758.

2019. Pedagogies of being with: Witnessing, testimonio and critical love in everyday social movement. QSE: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 39(2), 151-166.

2014. Thinking Latina/o education with and from Chicana/Latina feminist cultural studies: Emerging pathways, decolonial possibilities. In A. Darder & R.D. Torres (Eds.), Latinos and education: A critical reader. New York, NY: Routledge. Originally published in Zeus Leonardo (Ed.), Handbook of Cultural Politics in Education. Sense Publishers (2010).

2013. The legacy of Derrick Bell and Latino/a education: A critical race testimonio. Urrieta Jr., Luis and Sofia Villenas. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 16(4), 514-535.

2013. Race talk and school equity in local print media: The discursive flexibility of whiteness and the promise of race conscious talk. Villenas, Sofia and Sophia L. Angeles. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34(4), 510-530.

2012. Pedagogies from nepantla: Testimonio, Chicana/Latina feminisms and teacher education classrooms. Prieto, Linda and Sofia Villenas. Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(3), 411-429.

2011. Critical ethnographies of education in the Latino/a diaspora. Villenas, Sofia and Douglas E. Foley. In R. Valencia (Ed.), Chicano school failure and success:  Past, present and future, 3rd edition.  New York and London:  Routledge and Falmer.

2007. Diaspora and the anthropology of Latino education: Challenges, affinities, and intersections. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 38(4), pp. 419-425. Reprinted in Roland Sintos Coloma (Ed.) Postcolonial challenges in education. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers, 2009.

2006. Latina feminist postcolonialities:  Perspectives on Un/tracking educational actors’ interventions.  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(5), pp. 659-672.

2006. Pedagogical moments in the borderlands:  Latina mothers and daughters teaching and learning.  In D. Delgado Bernal, C.A. Elenes, F. Godinez and S. Villenas (eds.), Chicana/Latina education in everyday life:  Feminista perspectives on pedagogy and epistemology (pp. 147-159).  Albany:  State University of New York Press.

2005. Between the telling and the told:  Latina mothers negotiating education in new borderlands.  In J. Phillion, M. F. He, and M. Connelly (Eds.), Narrative and experience in multicultural education (pp. 71-91).  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

2002. Reinventing educación in new Latino communities: Pedagogies of change and continuity in North Carolina.  In S. Wortham, E., Murillo Jr., and E. Hamann (Eds.), Education in the new Latino Diaspora:  Policy and the politics of identity (pp. 17-35).  Westport, CT:  Ablex Publishing.

2002. This ethnography called my back:  Writings of the exotic gaze, “othering” Latina, and recuperating Xicanisma.  In E. St. Pierre and W. Pillow (Eds.), Working the ruins:  Poststructural feminist theory and methods in education (pp. 74-95).  New York:  Routledge.

2001. To valerse por si misma (be self-reliant) between race, capitalism, and patriarchy:  Latina mother/daughter pedagogies in North Carolina.  Villenas, Sofia and Melissa Moreno. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14(5), pp. 671-687.

2001. Latina mothers and small-town racisms:  Creating narratives of dignity and moral education in North Carolina.  Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 32(1), pp. 3-28.

2000. Other encounters:  Dances with whiteness in multicultural education. Richardson, Troy and Sofia Villenas. Educational Theory, 50 (2), pp. 255-273.

1999. Critical race theory and ethnographies challenging the stereotypes: Latino families, schooling, resilience and resistance.  Villenas, Sofia and Donna Deyhle. Curriculum Inquiry, 29 (4), pp. 413-445. 1996

1996. The colonizer/colonized Chicana ethnographer: Identity, marginalization, and co-optation in the field.  Harvard Educational Review, 66(4), pp. 711-731. Reprinted in 2010, 2000, and 1998 in various edited collections.

Klarman Hall
226 McGraw Hall
svillenas@cornell.edu
607/288-3037

Departments and programs

Keywords

education, critical race studies, public pedagogy, Latin@/x diaspora, women of color/decolonial feminisms, narrative

 

Yohko Tsuji

Adjunct Professor

Publications

work in progress   A Temple Town Jōfukuji: A Japanese Neighborhood in Transformation.

2022  "Studying Aging and Practicing It.” In Anthropology News.

2022 “Negotiating the Gap Between the ‘Ought’ and the ‘Is’: Older Americans’ Strategies.” In The Anthropology of Power, Agency, and Morality: The Enduring Legacy of F.G. Bailey. Victor C. de Munck and Elisa J. Sobo, eds. pp. 117-131. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2020    Through Japanese Eyes: Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2020     “Changing Mortuary Practices in Japan.” In Anthropology News (electronic version). August.

2018    “Evolving Funerals in Contemporary Japan.” in A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Antonius C.G.M. Robben, ed. pp. 17-30. Wiley Blackwell: Malden, Massachusetts. 

2016    “The Obligation to Give, Receive, and Make a Return: Comparing the Meanings of Reciprocity in America and Japan.”  in the fourth edition of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture. Philip R. DeVita, ed. pp. 242-258. Waveland: Long Grove, Illinois.

2014    “Evolving Funerals in Japan.”  Anthropology News (electronic version). April.                     

2014    “Good Bye Rush Hour Trains, Hello Morning Walks: Changes in Morning Experience for Japanese Retirees.” lo Squaderno 32: 41-44.

2011     “Rites of Passage to Death and Afterlife in Japan.” Generations 35(3): 28-33.

2010    (editor) Social Change in Thailand: A. Thomas Kirsch, a Northeastern Village, and Two Families.  CreateSpace: Charleston, South Carolina.

2010    “A Tale of Two Thai Families: Reflections on Social Change.” in Social Change in Thailand: A. Thomas Kirsch, a Northeastern Village, and Two Families. Yohko Tsuji, ed. pp. 65-96. Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace.

2006      “Mortuary Rituals in Japan: The Hegemony of Tradition and the Motivations of Individuals.” Ethos 34(3): 391-431.

2006     “Railway Time and Rubber Time: The Paradox in the Japanese Conception of Time.” Time & Society 15(2/3): 177-195.

2005    “Time Is Not Up: Temporal Complexity of Older Americans’ Lives.” The Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 20(1): 3-26.

2004    "Raise as a Mirror of Gense: From Legally Sanctioned Ancestor Worship to Modern Mortuary Rituals in Japan.” in Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan. Susanne Formanek and William LaFleur, eds.  pp. 417-436. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2002    "Death Policies in Japan: The State, the Family, and the Individual." in Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Perspectives. Roger Goodman, ed. pp. 177-199. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

2001    “The Researcher and the Researched.” Anthropology Newsletter 42(5): 54.

1997     “AAA Session: ‘Rethinking Culture and the Individual’.” Anthropology Newsletter 38(2): 54. 

1997     "Encounters with the Elderly in America." in the second edition of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture.  Philip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong, eds. 89‑99. Belmont, California: Wadsworth. (Also appeared in the third edition, pp. 84-94, 2002.)

1997    "An Organization For the Elderly, By the Elderly: A Senior Center in the United States." in the second edition of The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. Jay Sokolovsky, ed. pp. 350‑363.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood.

1997    "Continuities and Changes in Conceptions of Old Age in Japan."  in Aging: Asian Concepts and Experiences Past and Present. Sepp Linhart and Susanne Formanek, eds. pp. 195‑208. Vienna:  Austrian Academy of Sciences.

 

 

Klarman Hall
265 McGraw Hall
yt33@cornell.edu
607/255-5137

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology Cornell University 1991

Departments and programs

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry

Associate Professor

Publications

Academic Articles
2008 Transnationalism and Migration: Locating Sociocultural Practices Among Mexican Immigrants in 
the United States. Reviews in Anthropology 37(1):16-40.
2005 Language Rights. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinos in the United States 2:466-472.
2003 Binary Oppositions: Re-Inscribing Ethnoracial Hierarchies in Institutional Settings. Journal for Latin 
American Anthropology 8(2):174-194.
2003 Environmentalism, Identity Politics, and the Nature of 'Nature'. Latino Studies 1(1):47-78.
2002 Transcending Dichotomies: How to do anthropology in real life/Transcendir les dicotomies: com fer 
antropologia a la vida real. Revista d'etnologia de Catalunya 20:64-73.
Books
2001 Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting. Ithaca, NY: 
Cornell University Press (CUP).
Chapters
2013 Labels, Genuine and Spurious: Anthropology and the Politics of Otherness in the United States. In 
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, ed. Pp. 78-97. Tuscaloosa, AL: 
The University of Alabama Press.
2007 Reflexivity and Visual Media: Entanglements as a Productive Field. In Doing Anthropology in 
Consumer Research. Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita Mary Taylor Denny, authors. Pp. 205-209. Walnut 
Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2001 Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language 'Rights' in New York City (and 
Beyond). In Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City. Agustín Laó-Montes and Arlene Dávila, 
eds. Pp. 449-473. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

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212 McGraw Hall
vs23@cornell.edu
607/288-2047

Education

  • Anthropology, NYU
  • Certificate in Movement Analysis, Laban Centre (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
  • J.D., University of Puerto Rico Law School.

Departments and programs

Paul Steven Sangren

Hu Shih Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Publications

Academic Articles

2013 The Chinese family as instituted fantasy: or, rescuing kinship imaginaries from the ‘symbolic'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(2):279-299.

2012 Fate, Agency, and the Economy of Desire in Chinese Ritual and Society. Social Analysis 56(2):117-135.

2010 Lessons for General Social Theory in the Legacy of G. William Skinner from the Perspectives of Gregory Bateson and Terence Turner. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 8(1):47-64.

2009 'Masculine Domination': Desire and Chinese Patriliny. Critique of Anthropology 29(3):255-278.

2007 Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity. Anthropology Today 23(4):13-16.

2006 Introduction to Turner Special Issue. Critique of Anthropology 26(1):5-13.

2006 ‘Fraught with Implications’, or Turner’s Back-burner. Critique of Anthropology 26(1):121-130.

2004 Psychoanalysis and Its Resistances in Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Lessons for Anthropology. Ethos 32(1):110-122.

2001 China: Sociocultural Aspects. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. N. K. Smelser and P. B. Baltes, eds. 3:1:1733-1738. Elsevier Ltd.

Chapters

2009 Chinese Ghosts: Reconciling Psychoanalytic, Structuralist, and Marxian Perspectives. In Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions. Poo, Mu-chou, ed. Pp 299-310. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

2005 Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual. In The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture. Christopher Lupke, ed. Pp. 225-244. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

2003 Separations, Autonomy, and Recognition in the Production of Gender Differences: Reflections from Consideration of Myths and Laments. In Living with Separation in China: Anthropological Accounts. Charles Stafford, ed. Pp. 53-84. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Books

2017 Filial Obsessions:  Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents.  Palgrave Macmillan.

2000 Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of Alienation and Social Reproduction. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

1997 Myth, Gender, and Subjectivity. Hsin Chu Bank Endowed Lecture Series on Thought and Culture. The Program for Research of Intellectual-Cultural History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan: R.O.C.

1987 History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

 

Klarman Hall
pss3@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Links

Lucinda E.G. Ramberg

Associate Professor

Publications

BOOKS

Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion (Duke University Press, 2014).

Conjugality and Beyond: Sexual Economy, State Regulation and the Marital Form in India, edited with Srimati Basu (Delhi:Women Unlimited Press, 2015).

ARTICLES

“Casting Religion and Sexing Gender in South India”, Caste and the Imagination of Equality, Anupama Rao (editor) Delhi: Women Unlimited Press, 2018.

“Who and What is Sex For?” Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality of Religion” for “Sex and Religion” Mayanthi Fernando and Joan Scott (eds), a special issue of History of the Present: A

Journal of Critical History, 2017, Vol. 7(2).

“Backward Futures and Pasts Forward: Queer Time and Dalit Conversion in South India” for “Area Impossible” Anjali Arondkar and Geeta Patel (eds.), a special issue of Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, 2016, Vol. 22 (2).

“Clinical Encounters and Citizenship Projects” Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, November 2014, Vol. 33 (6).

“Troubling Kinship: Sacred Marriage and Gender Configuration in South India” American Ethnologist, November 2013, Vol. 40 (4).

“When the Devi is Your Husband: Sacred Marriage and Sexual Economy in South India” Feminist
Studies, Spring 2011, Vol. 37 (1). (Awarded the Clare Goldberg Moses Award by the Feminist Studies Collective).

“Magical Hair as Dirt: Ecstatic Bodies and Postcolonial Reform in South India” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, December 2009, Vol. 33 (4). (Awarded the Kenneth W. Payne prize by the Association for Queer Anthropology).

Klarman Hall
203 McGraw Hall
ler35@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Keywords

sexuality, gender, religion, power; South India, United States

Paul Nadasdy

Professor

Publications

Books

Articles

Chapters in Edited Volumes

 

Klarman Hall
206 McGraw Hall
pn79@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Anthropology of North American Indians and the circumpolar North, anthropology of science and knowledge, environmental/ecological anthropology, indigenous-state relations, ethnography of the state, the politics of wildlife management, political economy/ecology, property, territoriality, citizenship, hunting/hunting societies

Viranjini P Munasinghe

Associate Professor

Publications

Academic Articles

2007 Dougla logics and nation building in Trinidad. South Asian Review. Special issue on “Empire and Racial Hybridity”. Edited by Deepika Bhari. 27(1):182-204.

2006 Claims to purity in theory and culture: Pitfalls and promises. American Ethnologist 33(4): 588-592.

2006 Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization. American Ethnologist 33(4): 549-562.

2005 Narrating a Nation through Mixed Bloods. Social Analysis 49(2): 155-163.

2002 Nationalism in Hybrid Spaces: The Production of Impurity out of Purity. American Ethnologist 29(3): 663-692.

2001 Redefining the Nation: The East Indian Struggle in Trinidad. Journal of Asian American Studies 4(1):1-34.

1997 Culture Creators and Culture Bearers: The Interface Between Race and Ethnicity in Trinidad. Transforming Anthropology 6(1):72-86.

Books

2001 Callaloo or Tossed Salad?: East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (CUP).

Chapters

2009 Foretelling Ethnicity in Trinidad: The Post Emancipation Labor Problem. In Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology. Eric Tagliacozzo and Andrew Willford, eds. Pp 139-186. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

2008 Rescuing Theory from the Nation. In Knowing How to Know: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present. Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch and Judith Okely, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

 

Klarman Hall
205 McGraw Hall
vpm1@cornell.edu
607/2553505

Departments and programs

Links

Kathryn March

Professor Emerita

Publications

Academic Articles

1999 Local Production/ Local Knowledge: Forced Labor From Below. Studies in Nepali History and Society 4(1):5-64.

1983 Weaving, Writing, and Gender. Man, New Series 18(4):729-744.

Books

2002 If Each Come Halfway: Meeting Tamang Woman in Nepal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (CUP).

1995 Mutual Regards: America and Nepal Seen through Each Other’s Eyes. Kathmandu: Jivan Support Press.

Chapters

2003 Two Houses and the Pain of Separation in Tamang Narratives from Highland Nepal. In Songs, Stories, Lives: Gendered Dialogues and Cultural Critique. Gloria Goodwin Raheja ,ed. Pp 134-172. New Delhi: Kali for Women.

1998 Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders. In Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Debra Skinner, Alfred Pach III, and Dorothy Holland, eds. Pp 219-236. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

1998 Hospitality Women, and the Efficacy of Beer. In Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Carole Counihan and Steven L. Kaplan. Pp. 45-80. London: Routledge.

Klarman Hall
ksm8@cornell.edu
607/255-5127

Departments and programs

Stacey A. Langwick

Associate Professor

Publications

Books

Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Co-edited with Hansjoerg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane  Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2012

Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011

Journal Articles

in press. “Properties of (Dis)Possession: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Questions of Justice in Tanzania,” Special issue on Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law edited by Helen Tilley, Osiris, expected 2021.

2018. “A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World.” Cultural Anthropology 33(3): 415-443.

2017. Liwa, A., R. Roediger, H. Jaka, A. Bougaila, L. Smart, S. Langwick and R. Peck. “Herbal and Alternative Medicine Use in Tanzanian Adults Admitted with Hypertension-related Diseases: A Mixed-methods Study,” International Journal of Hypertension 3:1-9.

2015. “Partial Publics: The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa.”  Current Anthropology 63(4) August, with commentaries by by Rajshree Chandra, Rosemary Coombe, Ruth Prince, Noelle Sullivan, and Claire Wendland.

2012. "Agitating for Hope, Learning to Care." Comments on Clare Wendland's article, "Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order: The Crisis of Practice in Malawian Medical Training," Current Anthropology. 

2010. From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-based herbals: China's relationship to the Shifting Politics of Traditional Medicine in Tanzania. Medical Anthropology. 

2008. Articulate(d) Bodies: Traditional Medicine in a Tanzanian Hospital. American Ethnologist.

2007. Devils, Parasites and Fierce Needles: Healing and the Politics of Translation in Southeastern Tanzania. Science, Technology, and Human Values.

Book Chapters

forthcoming. “The Garden: New Objects of Medicine in the More-than-Human Anthropocene,” in Anna Harris and John Notts (eds) Between Blackboards and Formaldehyde: The Matters of Medical Knowledge. Intellect.

2018. “Healing in the Anthropocene.” In Keiichi Omura, Atsuro Morita, Shiho Satsuka and Grant Jun Otsuki (eds.) The World Multiple: Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds. Routledge.

2017. “The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge.” In William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent (eds.) African Medical Pluralism. Indiana University Press. Pp. 31-49.

2012. “The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health.”  In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick (eds.) Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.

2012. “Introduction,” Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa (co-written with Hansjoerg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane). In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick (eds.) Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.

2011 hardcover/2017 paperback. “Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania, or “Moving Away from Traditional Medicine.”” In Geissler and Molyneux (eds.) Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. Berghahn Books. Pp. 263-295.

2006. “Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika.” In Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West (eds.)  Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Indiana University Press. Pp. 143-165.

Photo Essay

2018. “Cultivating Vitality: A Photo Essay,” Anthropology News website, 24 January.

News and Events

"Stacey Langwick receives fellowship for work on toxicity and healing" https://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/news/stacey-langwick-receives-fellowship-work-toxicity-and-healing

Food and Healing Justice workshop I, Ecological Learning Collaboratory http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/06/collaboratory-shares-ideas-food-healing-justice

"Anthropologist explores toxicity and healing in East Africa" http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/05/anthropologist-explores-toxicity-and-healing-east-africa

Planting Futures Garden, Qualities of Life working group http://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2016/12/campus-pauses-reflect-future

"Langwick Awarded Institute for Social Sciences Grant" http://anthropology.cornell.edu/langwick-awarded-institute-social-sciences-grant

"Langwick wins grant to study African Law" http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/01/langwick-wins-grant-study-african-law-medicine

Klarman Hall
260 McGraw Hall
sal54@cornell.edu

Education

PhD Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Masters of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Bachelor of Arts, Agnes Scott College. 

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Anthropology of medicine, healing and the body. Ethnography of care and chronicity. Postcolonial science studies. Toxicity. Intellectual property. Anthropology of knowledge/materiality. Ontological Politics. Crtical Plant Studies. African ethnography. Tanzania. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

 

Lori Khatchadourian

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

2017  Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia (third author, with Kathryn Weber, Emma Hite, and Adam T. Smith). Brill.

2016  Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires. University of California Press.

Articles (selection):

2023 Monitoring Heritage At Risk: Caucasus Heritage Watch and the Armenian Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh. Second author (with A.T.Smith and I. Lindsay). In Systemizing the Past: Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan. Y. Grekyan and A. Bobokhyan. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., pp. 429-439.

2022 Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry. Cultural Anthropology, 37(2):317-348.

2020 Education Beyond Preservation: An Archaeological Camp for Girls in Armenia. Near Eastern Archaeology 83(4):248-255.

2020 False Dilemmas? Or What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Material Theory, Responsibility and 'Hard Power'. Antiquity 94(378):1649-1652.

2020 Project ArAGATS 1998-2018: Twenty Years of Archaeological Investigations into the Bronze and Iron Ages of Armenia. Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2016: 1-2, pp. 61-81. (fourth author with Ruben Badalyan, Alan Greene, Armine Harutyunyan, Ian Lindsay, Maureen Marshall and Adam T. Smith)

2020  “From Copy to Proxy: The Politics of Matter and Mimesis in Achaemenid Armenia.” The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Festschrift in Honor of Margaret Cool Root, eds. M. Garrison and E. Dusinberre. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, pp. 601-633.

2018  “Pottery Typology and Craft Learning in the Northern Near East.” Iranica Antiqua, LIII:179-265.

2018  “A New Chronological Model for the Bronze and Iron Age Caucasus.” Antiquity, 92(366):1530-1551. (third author with Sturt Manning, Adam T. Smith, and Ruben Badalyan, Ian Lindsay, Alan Greene, Maureen Marshall).

2015  "Objects in Crisis: Curation, Repair, and the Historicity of Things in the South Caucasus (1500-300 BC)." Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History: The Present and Future of Counternarratives, ed. Geoff Emberling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 231-258 (with Adam T. Smith).

2014. "Empire in the Everyday: A Preliminary Report on the 2008-2011 Excavations at Tsaghkahovit, Armenia." American Journal of Archaeology, 118(1):137-169.

2013  “An Archaeology of Hegemony: The Achaemenid Empire and the Remaking of the Fortress in the Armenian Highlands.” In Empires and Complexity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology, ed. G. Areshian. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 108-145.

2012  “The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective.” In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), ed. D.T. Potts. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 963-983.

2011  “The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, ed. S. Steadman and G. McMahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.      

2010  “Project ArAGATS: 10 Years of Investigation of Bronze and Iron Age Sites in the Tsaghkahovit Plain.” TŰBA AR: Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology (co-authored with R. Badalyan and A.T. Smith).

2008  “Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze Age and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2003-2006 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia.” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (co-authored with R. Badalyan, A.T. Smith, I. Lindsay, and P. Avetisyan).

2008  “The 2005-2006 Excavations of the Iron III Settlement at Tsaghkahovit.” Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 91-100.

2008  “Making Nations from the Ground Up: Traditions of Classical Archaeology in the South Caucasus.” American Journal of Archaeology, 112.2, p. 247-78.

2007  “Unforgettable Landscapes: Attachments to the Past in Hellenistic Armenia.” In Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research, ed. N. Yoffee. University of Arizona Press, p. 43-75.

2005  “Seals and Sealings: Archaeological Perspectives.” In This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq, ed. M.C. Root, p. 19-34. Kelsey Museum Catalogue.

2005  “An Overview of Place and Space.” In This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq, ed. M.C. Root, p. 15-17 (with M.C. Root). Kelsey Museum Catalogue.

Klarman Hall
406 White Hall
lk323@cornell.edu

Education

  • University of Michigan, Classical Art & Archaeology, M.A., Ph.D., 2008
  • London School of Economics, Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, M.Sc. 1998
  • Georgetown University, Classics and Government, B.A. 1997

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Anthropological archaeology

 

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