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
Department Chair
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 | Research
Zolani Ngwane
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
Associate 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
Patricia Kelly
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York
Patty comes to Haverford from George Washington University. She is the author of Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel (University of California Press), which was awarded the American Ethnological Association's Sharon Stephen's Book Prize in 2009; the book is an ethnographic account of state-regulated prostitution in urban Mexico and based on a year she spent inside a working brothel. More recently, she co-edited Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective. Patty's most current research has been with Central American migrants in southern Mexico; she is currently contemplating fieldwork in northeast Philadelphia. Her scholarly interests include Mexico, political economy, gender and sexuality, work, and migration.
Email: pkelly@haverford.edu
Tapoja Chaudhuri
Visiting Assistant Professor
Masters and M.Phil, University of Delhi, Ph.D. University of Washington
Tapoja was supported by the International Fellowship for Professional Development (currently known as Wadsworth International Fellowship) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research during her training at UW. For her dissertation research she studied collaborative biodiversity conservation in a tiger reserve in southern India. After her graduation she continued at the University of Washington as a Visiting Scholar from 2009 - 2011. As a visiting scholar she taught courses at the Departments of South Asian Studies and Gender,Women, and Sexuality studies. Tapoja also directed a ten week long study-abroad program in the Indian Himalaya during Fall 2010. She moved to New York in the Summer of 2011, and soon after joined the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the City University of New York - College of Staten Island as an adjunct assistant professor for the academic year of 2011-2012. Tapoja is currently engaged in working on her book manuscript based on her dissertation research.
Email: tchaudhu@haverford.edu
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
