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
- Jarron Bowman– Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship
- Ben Kampler – Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Francisco Villegas – Associate Professor of Sociology
- Kiran Cunningham – Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
- Amy Leu – Office Coordinator
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
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
Jarron Bowman
Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship
Phone:
269-532-5078
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 303A
Research Interests
- Inequality
- Democracy
- Unemployment
- Wealth
- Subjective well-being
Teaching
- Drugs and Social Reality
- TBD
Education/Experience
- PhD, Sociology, Duke University
- MPP, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
- BA, Political Science; Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
- 2020-23: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Ithaca College
Publications
- Bowman, Jarron. 2023. “Whose Unemployment Hurts More? Joblessness and Subjective Well-Being in U.S. Married Couples.” Social Science Research 111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102795
- Bowman, Jarron. 2020. “Do the Affluent Override Average Americans? Measuring Policy Disagreement and Unequal Influence.” Social Science Quarterly 101(3): 1018-1037. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ssqu.12791
Benjamin Kampler
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Phone:
269.337.7363
Email:
Office:
Dewing Hall 309G
Research Interests
- Coming soon!
Teaching
- Coming soon!
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