Faculty & Staff

Department Chair

Anthony Graesch

Professor of Anthropology, College Archaeologist

Archaeology of the contemporary • Household Archaeology • Discard & Discarding • Experimental archaeology • Materiality • Indigenous and Settler Societies in North America

agraesch@conncoll.edu

Faculty

Jeffrey Cole

Professor of Anthropology

North America and Europe • Food and Agriculture • Migration • Race and Ethnicity • Labor Markets

jcole1@conncoll.edu

Karlie Fox-Knudtsen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Environmental and Multispecies Anthropology • Natural Resources, Extraction, and Green-Energy Transitions • Anthropology of Religion and Secularism • Indigeneity and Sovereignty • Water and Hydrosocial Relations • Anthropology of Corporations, Development, and Political Economy • South Asian Studies

kknudtsen@conncoll.edu

Christopher B. Steiner

Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program

History of Photography • African Art • Offbeat Museums and Visionary Art • Stereotypes in Art and Visual Culture • Art Market and Collecting • Kitsch and "Bad" Art

cbste@conncoll.edu

Sufia Uddin

Professor of Anthropology and Religion

Environment and religion • Global Islam • Race and ethnicity in South Asia • South Asian studies • South Asian American studies

suddin@conncoll.edu

Staff

Nancy Lewandowski

Academic Department Assistant

nflew@conncoll.edu

Associated Faculty

Petko Ivanov

Associate Teaching Professor of Slavic Studies, Chair of the Slavic Studies Department

Cultural history of the Slavs • History of Slavistics • Linguistic anthropology • Second language acquisition • Nationalism • Ethnography of religion • Polish and Balkan studies

pivanov@conncoll.edu