Full-Time Faculty
MARC BOGLIOLI
Madison) is Associate Professor of Anthropology. His research focuses on human-nature relations, gender, and modernity. His book, A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont (University of Massachusetts Press), explores a wide range of issues, including masculinity at homosocial Vermont deer-hunting camps, controversial coyote-hunting tournaments in central Vermont, and theorizations of the “West”. “In the broadest sense,” he observes, “my work in Vermont has been a long meditation – in all its cultural, historical, and ethical complexity – on what historian Bill Cronon refers to as ‘the unending task of struggling to live rightly in the world’”
ALLAN CHARLES DAWSON
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Dawson, Allan C.
2014 In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeastern Brazil. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Dawson, Allan C, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro (eds.)
2014 Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition. New York: Routledge.
Dawson, Allan Charles (ed.)
2009 Shrines in Africa: History, Politics and Society. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
BOOKS SECTIONS
Dawson, Allan Charles
2015 A Legacy of Sugar and Slaves: Disconnection and Regionalism in Bahia, Brazil. In Anthropology of Disconnection: The Political Ecology of Post-Industrial Regimes, Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, and D. Seth Murray, eds. Pp. 132-146. New York: Routledge.
Dawson, Allan Charles
2014 Ancestors Shape the Land: Earth Shrines, Chieftaincy and Territoriality in Northern Ghana. In Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition, Allan C. Dawson, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. Pp 163-179. New York: Routledge.
Vaccaro, Ismael, Laura Zanotti and Allan Charles Dawson
2014 Introduction. In Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition, Allan C. Dawson, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. Pp 1-17. New York: Routledge.
Dawson, Allan Charles
2014 Food and Spirits: Religion, Gender, and Identity in the ‘African’ Cuisine of Northeast Brazil. In African Diaspora in Brazil: History, Culture and Politics, Fassil Demissie, ed. Pp. 93-113. New York: Routledge. (Reprinted version of Dawson 2012).
Dawson, Allan Charles
2009 Introduction. In Shrines in Africa: History, Politics and Society, Allan C. Dawson, ed. Pp. vii-xvii. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Dawson, Allan Charles
2009 Earth shrines and autochthony among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana in Shrines. In Shrines Africa: History, Politics and Society, Allan C. Dawson, ed. Pp. 71-94. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
YULIYA GRINBERG
Yuliya Grinberg (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Business. Her research raises questions about the social impact of digital data, the role of gender in computing, and the future of work in the age of automation. Her first book, Data Entrepreneurialism and the Digital Body (under contract with Cambridge University Press) focuses an anthropological lens on the developers of wearable technology and analyzes how digital knowledge is produced in the tension of analytic savvy, entrepreneurial habit, and commercial pressure. Dr. Grinberg also holds a B.S. in Marketing from NYU Stern School of Business and has worked as a brand strategist and as qualitative research across a range of categories, including CPG, B2B, and the technology sector. She teaches courses on marketing and business anthropology, as well courses that address the ethical, social, and political issues as they relate to questions of technological innovation, automation, and big data.
MARIA MASUCCI
Affiliated Faculty
JONATHAN GOLDEN
Adjunct Faculty
MARY KLABACHA
Emeritus Faculty
H. LEEDOM LEFFERTS
Ph.D., University of Colorado. Social Organization; Material Culture (especially textiles and ceramics); Southeast Asian Cultural Anthropology
PHILIP M. PEEK
Ph.D., Indiana University. Folklore; African religion; African art; Divination; Psychological anthropology; Visual and Verbal Arts of West Africa (especially Nigeria)