ANSO Faculty and Staff:
- Espelencia Baptiste – Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Kiran Cunningham – Professor of Anthropology
- Gamze Evcimen – Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Adriana Garriga-Lopez – Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Robert Mowry – Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Francisco Villegas – Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Amy Leu – Office Coordinator
- Mauricio Guillén – Departmental Student Advisor
Espelencia Baptiste
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Phone:
269.337.7242
Email:
Office:
Upjohn Library Commons 301
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
Phone:
269.337.7124
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309E
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
Phone:
269.337.7406
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309G
Research Interests
- Social inequalities
- Contentious politics
- Neoliberalism
- Subject formation
- Work
Teaching
- Work, Identities, and Intersectionality
- Capitalism and Freedom
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Authoritarian Politics and Alternative Futures
- Religion and Capitalism
Adriana Garriga-Lopez
Associate Professor of Anthropology , Department Chair
Phone:
269.337.7363
Email:
Adriana.Garriga-Lopez@kzoo.edu
Office:
Dewing Hall 309H
Research Interests
- Caribbean and Latin America
- Sovereignty and State Formations
- Medical Anthropology
- Critical Social Theory
- Sexuality and Queer Studies
Teaching
- Sex and Sexualities
- States, Bodies, and Epidemics
- Medicine and Society
- Latin America in Global Context
- Border Epistemologies
Phone:
269.337.7124
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309F
Research Interests
- Urban Disaster
- Collective Action
- Materiality and Meaning
- Humor and Laughter
- Production of Culture
- Japan
Teaching
- Disasters in the Making
- Nature and Society
- Ways of Knowing and Seeing
- Quantitative Methods
Phone:
269.337.7122
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309F
Research Interests
- Immigration
- Race
- Education
- Social movements
- Undocumented students
- Immigration industrial complex
Teaching
- Race and Racism
- Race and the Law
- Qualitative Research Methods
Amy Leu
