Faculty
Maris Boyd Gillette
Professor of Anthropology
A.B., Smith College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.
Research interests include capitalism and personhood; memory, history and narrative; ethnographic film; comparative Islam, China.
Email: mgillett@haverford.edu | Office: Roberts 102 | Profile | Research
Laurie Kain Hart
Edmund and Margiana Stinnes Professorship in Global Studies and Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Antioch College; Masters of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley, M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.
Research interests include ethnicity, civil war, conflict and violence, gender and kinship; local religion, and comparative modes of thought; art, architecture, and landscape; Greece and the circum-Mediterranean area; urban United States.
Email: lhart@haverford.edu | Office: Roberts 204 | Profile
Zolani Ngwane
Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology
Master's of Sacred Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research interests include the anthropology of education, with particular interest on issues of social reproduction; intergenerational politics, social rituals, social theory; South Africa.
Email: zngwane@haverford.edu | Office: Roberts 203 | Profile | Research
Jesse Shipley
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
A.B. Brown University; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago
Scholarly interests include African politics and religion, Ghana, African Diaspora, South Africa, post-independence political economy, popular culture, critical human rights, sexuality, race, electronic mediation, film, and urban space.
Email: jshipley@haverford.edu | Office: Roberts 103 | Profile | Research
Nikhil Anand
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
A.B. Reed College, A.M. Environmental Studies, Yale University, Ph.D Stanford University
Research interests include political ecology, political economy and state formation; infrastructure and technology; urban studies, democracy and citizenship; South Asia (particularly India).
Email: nanand@haverford.edu | Office: KINSC E304a | Profile | Research
Banu Nilgun Uygun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Bogazici University; Ph.D. Duke University
Scholarly interests include human trafficking, migration, sex and power, globalization development, and modern Turkey
Email: buygun@haverford.edu | Office: Ryan 203| Profile
Zainab Saleh
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, HHC and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, Columbia University
Her research interests include: diaspora and exile; media; memory and identification; gender; modernity and sectarianism; conceptions of “the other”. Her dissertation, entitled “Diminishing Returns," was an Anthropological Study of Iraqis in the UK. Saleh earned her B.A. in English Literature and Language from Baghdad University and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology at the American University of Beirut. Prior to coming to Haverford, Saleh was a Sultan Postdoctoral Fellow in Arab Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Email: zsaleh@haverford.edu