Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida

Cultural Anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology


Willie Baber, Ph.D.

Economic anthropology; plantation and peasant systems of production, culture theory, and race/ethnic relations; applied anthropology, anthropology and education, public health. 

H. Russell Bernard, Ph.D.

Anthropological methods, literacy

Allan Burns, Ph.D.

Visual and applied anthro., Latin America and U.S.

Brenda Chalfin, Ph.D.

Economic anthropology, political economy, state processes, globalization, Africa

Peter Collings, Ph.D.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Development and Aging, Human Ecology, Native North America, Circumpolar Arctic and Subarctic

Hansjörg Dilger, Ph.D.

African Studies; Anthropology of HIV/Aids; Medical Anthropology; Mobility and Health; Anthropology of Religion and Gender (esp. Masculinities)

Elizabeth A. Guillette, Ph.D.

Contamination, puberty, women's and children's health

Faye Harrison, Ph.D.

African diaspora, the Caribbean, social inequality, human rights, political economy, history of anthropology, critical race feminism

Abdoulaye Kane, Ph.D.

Transnational migration, African diaspora

Jack Kugelmass, Ph.D.

East European & American Jews, Israel, New York City, festivals, food, humor, ethnicity, urban studies, and photography

Maxine L. Margolis, Ph.D.

Transnational migration, Women's roles in the United States, Gender roles cross-culturally, Anthropological theory, Anthropological ecology, Frontier agriculture, Brazil; United States; Paraguay

John H. Moore, Ph.D.

North American Indian ethnology, kinship, demography, and social evolution. He is particularly interested in the Great Plains, the Southeast, and the Canadian Sub-Arctic.

Gerald Murray, Ph.D.

Applied anthropology, anthropology of religion, linguistics, agroforestry, Caribbean and Latin America, Israel and Palestine

Anthony Oliver-Smith, Ph.D.

Displaced people, disasters, Andes, Caribbean, Latin America

Helen Safa, Ph.D.

Gender, labor, Caribbean and Latin America

Marianne Schmink, Ph.D.

Tropical conservation and development, gender and development

Chuan-kang Shih, Ph.D.

Ethnography, historical anthropological demography, China

Anita Spring, Ph.D.

Applied Anthropology; International Agricultural Development and Food Security; Micro-enterprises; Women/Gender in International Development; Resource Management

John Richard Stepp, Ph.D.

Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, Mesoamerica

Maria M. Stoilkova, PhD

Transnationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging, Social Reproduction, Political Economy of Eastern Europe

marilyn thomas-houston, Ph.D.

Visual Anthropology, Community studies, African American studies