Department of Anthropology

Georgetown's Deparment of Anthropology is home to significant, pertinent, exciting research and scholarship that spans a number of different fields. In this section, you can learn about our faculty's most recent projects or browse a historical list of research efforts that illustrate the department's academic strength.

Anthropological Specializations:

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 

Europe-Asia Studies
Religion & Gender
Shamanism & the Politics and Culture
Buddhism in Russia
Slavic Studies
Contemporary Central Asian Politics & Resources
Religion & the Global Politics of Human Rights

Denise Brennan
Global Sex Trade
Human Trafficking
Migration
Women's Labor
Latin America and the Caribbean

Professor Rochelle Davis

Palestinian Refugees
Historiography
Oral History
Memory & History
Contemporary Arab World

Melissa S Fisher
Late Capitalism

Class, Gender, Race/Ethnicity

Feminist Theory

Women and Work

Corporate Ethnography

Global Cities and Urban Culture

Financial networks and markets

Contemporary US, including Wall Street 
 

Elzbieta Gozdziak
International Migration
Immigrant Integration
Religion and Migration
Human Trafficking
Child Labor
Refugee Resettlement
Mental Health and Migration
Medicalization of Human Suffering

Michael Lempert
Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Semiotics
Language Ideology
Language and Globalization
Poetic Structure in Discourse
Stance and Affect
Tibetan Buddhism 

Sylvia Wing Önder
Turkish and Turkic Cultures
Medical Anthropology
Eastern Mediterranean Cultures
Religion and Politics
Folklore and Folklife
Central Asian Cultures
Rural Women's Social Networks
Economic Migration
Gender and Nationalism 

Joanne Rappaport
Andean Ethnography & Ethnohistory
Community Based Research
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnicity
Historical Anthropology
History/Historiography
Intellectuals
Latin America
Literacy
New Social Movements
Race

Susan Terrio
Political and Legal Anthropology
Youth Advocacy, Youth Cultures, and Juvenile Justice
Immigration, Race and Racism
Class and Educational Systems
Craft in Advanced Capitalism
Food and Foodways
History, Memory and Nationalism
France and Western Europe