Katherine Amato
Associate Professor
Core Faculty by Subfield
Ana Aparicio
Associate Professor
Diego Arispe-Bazán
Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Megan Baker
Assistant Professor
Adia Benton
Associate Professor
Mark Hauser
Professor
Katherine E. Hoffman
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Matthew H. Johnson
Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology - Not accepting new graduate students for 2026-2027, will serve on committees
Chris Kuzawa
Professor Kuzawa is no longer taking students at Northwestern. He moved to the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University January 1, 2025. Adjunct Professor
Robert Launay
Professor - No longer advising graduate students, will serve on committeess
William R. Leonard
Watkins Family Professor of Global Health
Amanda Logan
Associate Professor, 2022 Carnegie Fellow
Thomas McDade
Carlos Montezuma Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research
Hirokazu Miyazaki
Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology
Zachary A. Nissen
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Cynthia Robin
Professor
Melissa S. Rosenzweig
Associate Professor of Instruction in Anthropology and Environmental Policy and Culture - Does not accept graduate students
Rebecca Seligman
Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Shalini Shankar
Professor
Elizabeth Smith
Assistant Professor of Instruction
LaShandra Sullivan
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
Doris Warriner
Professor
Erin Waxenbaum
Professor of Instruction - Does not accept graduate students
Mary Weismantel
Professor, Co-Director of SPAN (the Sexualities Project at Northwestern) - Not currently accepting PhD students.
Jessica Winegar
Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Middle Eastern Studies - Not accepting new primary advisees for 2025-2028, will serve on committees.
Emrah Yıldız
Associate Professor of Anthropology and MENA Studies
Sera Young
Professor