ANSO Faculty and Staff:
- Espelencia Baptiste – Associate Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair
- Nupur Joshi – Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Robert Mowry – Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Houman Oliaei – Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship
- Ian VanderMeulen – Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Francisco Villegas – Associate Professor of Sociology
- Kiran Cunningham – Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
- Amy Leu – Office Coordinator
- Maya Nathwani – Departmental Student Advisor
Espelencia Baptiste
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair
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
Nupur Joshi
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
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
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
Houman Oliaei
Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship
Phone:
269.337.7123
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 303D
Research Interests
- Migration and Citizenship
- Forced Displacement
- Anthropology of Humanitarianism
- Anthropology of State
- Human Rights
- Middle East Studies
Teaching
- Ethics and Politics of Humanitarianism
- Immigration and Exile
- Human Rights in Global Perspective
Ian VanderMeulen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
Phone:
269.337.7363
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309E
Research Interests
- Middle East, North Africa, Muslim World
- Religion (Islam)
- Sound, Listening, and the Senses
- Media, Technology, and Society
- Anthropologies of the State
Teaching
- Media Ecologies
- Religion and Capitalism
- Language, Culture, and Society
- North African Encounters: Culture and Society in Transnational Perspective
Phone:
269.337.7122
Email:
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
Phone:
Email:
Office:
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
