Faculty
Maris Boyd Gillette
Chair and Associate 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; China, Hong Kong and Iran.
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, gender, kinship; local religion, and comparative modes of thought; art, architecture, and landscape; Greece and the Mediterranean.
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
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
Banu Uygun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Bogazici University; Ph.D. Duke University
Research focused on the experiences of migrant women from the former Soviet Union
working in Trabzon, Turkey. She has taught courses on gender and sexuality, and globalization.
Email: buygun@haverford.edu | Office: Ryan 203| Profile
Wyatt MacGaffey
Emeritus John R. Coleman Prof. of Soc. Sci., Dept. of Anthropology
B.A. and M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Research interests include Kongo politics, religion and society, and the anthropology of art.
Email: wmacgaff@haverford.edu