Faculty and Staff


Espelencia Baptiste

Espelencia Baptist

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Phone

269.337.7242

Email

Espelencia.Baptiste@kzoo.edu

Office

Olds Upton 110B

Research Interests
  • Anthropology of Education
  • Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • Language and Culture
  • Creole Societies
Teaching
  • You Are What You Eat
  • Communities and Schools
  • Materiality of Money
  • Language, Culture and Society
  • Immigrants and Exiles

Nupur Joshi

Professor Nupur Joshi

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology

Nupur Joshi’s Page

Phone

269.337.7406

Email

Office

Dewing Hall 309G

Research Interests
  • Urban water security
  • Environmental governance
  • Food security
  • Cities: India, Kenya
  • Epidemiology
  • Development geography
  • Mixed-methods research

Teaching
  • Introduction to Society and Culture
  • Development and Dispossession
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Post-colonial cities
  • Water and Society

Dominique Somda

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of African Studies

Phone

269.337.7031

Email

Dominique.Somda@kzoo.edu

Office

Dewing Hall

Research Interests
  • Coming soon!
Teaching
  • Coming soon!

Koffi Nomedji

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Phone

269-337-7124

Email

Koffi.Nomedji@kzoo.edu

Office

Dewing Hall 309F

Research Interests
  • Coming soon!
Teaching
  • Coming soon!

Benjamin Kampler

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Phone

269.337.7363

Email 

Benjamin.Kampler@kzoo.edu

Office

Dewing Hall 309G

Research Interests
  • Coming soon!
Teaching
  • Coming soon!

Francisco J. Villegas

Francisco Villegas standing next to abstract artwork

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department Chair

Francisco Villegas’ page

Phone

269.337.7122

Email

Francisco.Villegas@kzoo.edu

Office

Dewing Hall 309H

Research Interests
  • Immigration
  • Race
  • Education
  • Social movements
  • Undocumented students
  • Immigration industrial complex
Teaching
  • Race and Racism
  • Race and the Law
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Kiran Cunningham

Kiran Cunningham

Professor of Anthropology, Emerita

Kiran Cunningham’s page

Email

Kiran.Cunningham@kzoo.edu

Research Interests
  • Applied Anthropology
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Change
  • Community Development
Teaching
  • Development and Dispossession
  • Social Research for Social Change
  • The Family
  • Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • Culture
  • Nationality and Religion


Abigail Davenport-Walker

Office Coordinator

Phone

269.337.7053

Email

Abigail.Davenport-Walker@kzoo.edu

Office

Dewing 302