Although the Department does not offer a graduate degree in anthropology, five professors are members of the Graduate Faculty of the University. They serve on MA thesis committees and offer graduate courses for students.
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Dr. Jon H. Carter Assistant Professor of Anthropology (828) 262-6380 346 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2012) Anarchist anthropology, anthropology of violence, borders and immigration, incarceration and surveillance, media theory, fictocriticism and ethnographic writing; Honduras, Latin America |
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Dr. Eric I. Karchmer Assistant Professor of Anthropology (828) 262-6398 349A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005) Medical anthropology, science studies, the politics of knowledge, Chinese medicine, China studies, colonial and postcolonial societies, history of medicine, ethnobotany; China |
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Dr. Dana E. Powell Assistant Professor of Anthropology (828) 262-2268 349H Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011) Cultural politics of energy development; political ecology; critical Native/Indigenous studies; infrastructure; science and technology studies; social movements; ethnography; and engaged scholarship; Native North America. |
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Dr. Timothy J. Smith Department Chair Associate Professor of Anthropology (828) 262-8473 342 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University at Albany, SUNY 2004) Sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity and development, electoral politics and democracy, languages (Kaqchikel Mayan and Kichwa); Latin America (Guatemala and Ecuador) and Europe (France and Spain) |
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Dr. Christina Verano Sornito Assistant Professor of Anthropology (828) 262-6429 349D Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2015) Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, video/audio documentary, voice theory and anthropology of sound, healing and sorcery, magic and religion, anthropology of nature and the Anthropocene, indigenous studies, nationalism, transnational labor, psychoanalysis, Central European avant-gardes; The Philippines, Southeast Asia |