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Faculty & Staff
Program Director
Maria John
Assistant Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6860
maria.john@umb.edu
Expertise: Comparative histories of settler colonialism, 20th-century urban Indigenous histories (especially in the U.S. and Australia), social and political histories of health and health care, histories of health activism, and histories of Indigenous sovereignty.
Steering Committee
Ping-Ann Addo
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6845
ping-ann.addo@umb.edu
Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.
Christopher Fung
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6845
Christopher.Fung@umb.edu
Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Silliman
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6854
Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.
J. Cedric Woods
Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies
Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program
617.287.5784
Cedric.Woods@umb.edu
Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention
Student Outreach Coordinator
Jamie Morrison
Director of the Urban Scholars Program
617.287.5596
Jamie.Morrison@umb.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Ping-Ann Addo
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6845
ping-ann.addo@umb.edu
Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.
Patrick Barron
Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6700
Patrick.Barron@umb.edu
Expertise: Twentieth-century American and Italian Poetry; Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism; Native American Literature; Professional Writing; Literary Translation
Jean-Philippe Belleau
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.794.5998
Jeanphilippe.Belleau@umb.edu
Expertise: Lowland indigenous societies, hunters-gatherers, human rights, anthropology of becoming, Amerindian perspectivism, mass violence, Brazilian cinema, raw art
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6284
Jorge.Capetillo@umb.edu
Expertise: Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Media Studies, Latino Studies
Amy Den Ouden
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6496
Amy.Denouden@umb.edu
Expertise: Indigenous land rights and the reservation system in colonial southern New England
Christopher Fung
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6845
Christopher.Fung@umb.edu
Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa
Isabel Gómez
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.7554
Isabel.Gomez@umb.edu
Expertise: Translation studies, translation theories, Latin American poetics, comparative literatures Mexican and Brazilian vanguards and contemporary literatures, transhistorical baroque
Maria John
Assistant Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6860
maria.john@umb.edu
Expertise: Comparative histories of settler colonialism, 20th-century urban Indigenous histories (especially in the U.S. and Australia), social and political histories of health and health care, histories of health activism, and histories of Indigenous sovereignty.
Benjamin D. Johnson
Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6880
Benjamin.Johnson@umb.edu
Expertise: Professor Johnson researches and teaches about Latin America, its antecedents, and wider connections. His research investigates local politics in central Mexico after the Spanish invasions of the sixteenth century, particularly the emergence and functioning of unofficial patterns of order. He is also interested in processes of informal association in nineteenth century Brazil. Professor Johnson teaches introductory classes in Latin American and world history, as well as specialized courses on the pre-Columbian Americas, comparative colonialisms, and historical methods.
Eric Michael Kelley
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
Eric.Kelley@umb.edu
Jose E. Martinez-Reyes
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and School for the Environment
617.287.4871
Jose.Martinez-Reyes@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agroforestry, Biocultural Diversity Conservation, Material Culture, Social and Critical Theory, Ecomusicology, Mexico, Caribbean, Fiji, Galicia
Blaire Morseau
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6851
Blaire.Morseau@umb.edu
Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Indigenous science fiction and futurisms, counter-mapping, traditional knowledge, and digital heritage
Stephen Mrozowski
University Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6842
Stephen.Mrozowski@umb.edu
Expertise: Social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology
Tim Sieber
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617-287-6853
Tim.Sieber@umb.edu
Expertise: Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education.
Stephen Silliman
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6854
Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.
Lauren Sullivan
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6855
Lauren.Sullivan@umb.edu
Expertise: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya lowlands; development of complex society; ceramic analysis
Amy Todd
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6828
Amy.Todd@umb.edu
Expertise: Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, biological anthropology
J. Cedric Woods
Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies
Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program
617.287.5784
Cedric.Woods@umb.edu
Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention
Judith Zeitlin
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6836
Judith.Zeitlin@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology - Prehistoric and historical archaeology, ethnohistory, complex societies, New World colonialism. Geographical area: Mesoamerica, Andean South America.