Research
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:
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
Upcoming Events
- Feb 14, 5:30pm-7pm: The Invisible Arab: Marwan Bishara
- Feb 22, 12pm-1:30pm: Courting, Matchmaking and Marriage Amidst a Marriage Crisis
- Mar 1, 12pm-1:30pm: Business Networks in Syria

