Anthropology Department, Queens College, Kevin Birth, John Collins, Warren DeBoer,
Murphy Halliburton, Mandana Limbert, Miki Makihara, James Moore, Ekaterina Pechenkina, Thomas Plummer, Timothy Pugh, Roger Sanjek, Katherine Snyder, D. Michael Steffy, Karen Strassler, Sara Stinson, Larissa Swedell,

Powdermaker Hall 314
65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY, 11367
Phone: (718) 997-5510
Fax: (718) 997-2885

Anthropology Faculty
Fall 2007

Office Hours
Kevin Birth (Ph.D. UCSD 1993) Social anthropology, psychological anthropology, time, festivals, ethnicity, Caribbean.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 313C; Phone: (718) 997-5518;
E-mail:

ON LEAVE
John Collins (Ph.D. Michigan 2003) Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, cultural heritage and development, Latin America, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315G; Phone: (718) 997-5524;
E-mail:

M 11:00 AM - noon
W 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Warren DeBoer (Ph.D. UCB 1972) Archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, South America, North America.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312D; Phone: (718) 997-2894;
E-mail:

M 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Kalamida Ellas (Ph. D.) Cultural anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315M; Phone: (718) 997-5517;
E-Mail: georgia.kalamida@qc.cuny.edu
M 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
W 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Murphy Halliburton (Ph. D. CUNY 2000) Medical anthropology, South Asian culture and history, cross-cultural psychiatry, anthropology of science.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315I; Phone: (718) 997-5528;
E-mail:

M 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Mandana Limbert (Ph.D. Michigan 2002) Cultural anthropology, Middle East – Oman, Arab societies, anthropology of memory, historical anthropology, religion, modernity, colonialism.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315F; Phone: (718) 997-5526;
E-mail:

ON LEAVE
Miki Makihara (Ph.D. Yale 1999) Linguistic anthropology, language and identity, language contact, linguistic ideology, Pacific societies.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315L; Phone: (718) 997-5513;
E-mail:

ON LEAVE
James A Moore (Ph.D. UMass/Amherst 1981) Archaeology, quantitative methods, historical archaeology, European prehistory, forager/farmer interactions.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 313B; Phone: (718) 997-2891;
E-mail:

Tu and Th 9:25 AM - 10:30 AM
Jennifer Muller (Ph. D. 2006, SUNY Buffalo) Biological anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314B; Phone: (718) 997-2928;
E-Mail:
Tu and Th 11:00 AM - noon
or by appt.
Ekaterina Pechenkina (Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia 2002) Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, disease in prehistory, bone pathology, Neolithic China, Prehistoric Peru.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312A; Phone: (718) 997-5529;
E-mail:

M 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Plummer (Ph.D. Yale 1991) Biological anthropology, Hominid behavior and paleoecology, Hominid paleontology, human osteology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 313A; Phone: (718) 997-5514;
E-mail:

ON LEAVE
Timothy Pugh (Ph.D. Southern Illinois U - Carbondale 2001) Archaeology, Mesoamerica, complex society, Maya, ethnohistory, social identity.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312B; Phone: (718) 997-2896;
E-mail:

Tu and F 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Roger Sanjek (Ph.D. Columbia 1972) Cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, race and ethnicity, ethnographic writing and practice, history of anthropology, United States, Ghana, Brazil.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315P; Phone: (718) 997-5525;
E-mail: rsanjek@earthlink.net

M 4:20 - 5:20 PM
Katherine Snyder (Ph.D. Yale U 1993 ) Cultural anthropology, development, democratization, ecology, agriculture, religion, East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), globalization.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315M; Phone: (718) 997-5517;
E-mail:
ON LEAVE
D. Michael Steffy (D. Ed. Pennsylvania St 1979) Cultural anthropology, educational anthropology, pedagogical anthropology, instructional development, teacher education cross-cultural teaching, Belize, and NYC.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314I; Phone: (718) 997-5512;
E-mail:

M/W 9:30 - 10:30 AM
T 11:00 - noon
Su noon - 1:00 PM
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Sara Stinson (Ph. D. U Michigan 1978) Chair, Biological anthropology, human growth and development, human adaptation, nutritional anthropology, South America.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 312C and 314A;
Phone: (718) 997-5511 and -2893;
E-mail:
M/Th 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
T 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Karen Strassler (Ph. D. Michigan 2003) Cultural anthropology, visual and material culture, photography and new media technologies, history and memory, post-colonial literature, film and art, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asian diasporas.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315H; Phone: (718) 997-2859;
E-mail:

Th 11:30 - 1:30 PM
Larissa Swedell (Ph.D. Columbia University 2000) Biological anthropology, primatology, primate ecology and behavior, reproductive strategies, Hamadryas baboons.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 315E; Phone: (718) 997-2897;
E-mail:
Th 10:00 AM - noon
Part-time Faculty

 
Kara Becker Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314F; Phone: (718) 997-5522.
E-mail: karabecker@gmail.com
T/Th 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sam Byrd (CUNY, Ph. D. Candidate), Cultural Anthropology, music, gender, Mexico, US, immigration, militarization.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2889;
E-Mail: sbyrd@gc.cuny.edu
M/W 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Maggie Dickinson (Ph.D. Candidate CUNY), Cultural anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314B; Phone: (718) 997-2928;
E-Mail: mdickinson@gc.cuny.edu
Tu 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
or by appt.
Christine Folch (Ph.D. Candidate CUNY), Cultural anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314G; Phone: (718) 997-2844;
E-Mail:
Tu/Th 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
or by appt.
Frances Forrest (Ph. D. Candidate, CUNY), Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, Africa.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892;
E-Mail: Forrestelf516@hotmail.com
Th 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Aaron Kendall (PhD Candidate, CUNY), Archaeology, North Atlantic Archaeology. Viking Age, Medieval economies and trade, Materiality.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314G; Phone: (718) 997-2892;
E-mail: ackendall@gmail.com
M & W 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Martha Lincoln (Ph. D. candidate, CUNY), Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, contemporary issues in public health, social movements.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314F; Phone: (718) 997-5515
E-mail: lincoln.anthro@gmail.com
Tu 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Cameron McNeil (Ph. D. 2006, CUNY), Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314F; Phone: (718) 997-2890

E-mail: Cameron.McNeil@qc.cuny.edu
M 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Susan Meswick (Ph.D. U Connecticut 1982), Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, applied anthropology.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314D; Phone: (718) 997-5532;
E-mail:
Tu/F noon - 1:00 PM
Beatriz Perez-Sweeney (Ph D, 2002, Columbia), Biological Anthropology, human genetics, human variation, diseases.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314C; Phone: (718) 997-2892;
E-mail: bperez-sweeney@amnh.org
M/W 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Arthur Rostoker (Ph. D. 2005, CUNY), Archaeology of Formative Ecuador, ceramic analysis, Amazonian prehistory, public archaeology, tropical forest ecology.

E-mail:
Not teaching
Samara Rubinstein (Ph. D. 2006, Temple University), Biological anthropology, ancient DNA, molecular anthropology, Old Believers, Russia.

E-mail:
not teaching
Doreen Schmitt (Ph D candidate, CUNY), Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and law, forensic linguistics.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314J; Phone: (718) 997-5520;
E-mail:
Th noon - 1:00 PM
Nelson Ting (Ph D candidate, CUNY), Biological anthropology, molecular systematics, primate evolution, biogeography.
Office: Powdermaker Hall 314J; Phone: (718) 997-2854;
E-mail: nelsonting@gmail.com
Th noon - 1:00 PM