Associate Professor
Regional Focus: Americas; Africa
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Development; Food; Globalization; Evolution; Environment; Health/Medicine
Phone number: 847-467-5890
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #A62
katherine.amato@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Race/Ethnicity; Youth/Children
Phone number: 847-491-5132
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #212
a-aparicio@northwestern.edu
Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Regional Focus: Europe; Americas; Africa
Subfield(s): Linguistic Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Inequality; Migration; Race/Ethnicity; Post/Colonialism; Gender/Sexuality
Phone number: 847 467-3061
Office location: 1810 Hinman Ave, #A54B
diego.arispe-bazan@northwestern.edu
Assistant Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Post/Colonialism; Gender/Sexuality; Inequality; Race/Ethnicity
Phone number: 847 467-4274
Office location: 1812 Hinman Room 303
megan.baker@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor
Regional Focus: Africa
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Race/Ethnicity; Health/Medicine; Globalization; Inequality; Development; Post/Colonialism
Phone number: 847/491-2852
Office location: 1812 Hinman #101
adia.benton@northwestern.edu
Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Post/Colonialism; Race/Ethnicity; Environment
Phone number: 847-467-1648
Office location: 1810 Hinman, #210
mark-hauser@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Regional Focus: Middle East
Subfield(s): Linguistic Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Post/Colonialism; Race/Ethnicity; Inequality
Phone number: 847-491-4565
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #206
khoffman@northwestern.edu
Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology - Not accepting new graduate students for 2026-2027, will serve on committees
Regional Focus: Europe
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Environment
Phone number: 847-467-3021
Office location: 1812 Hinman Avenue, #201
matthew-johnson@northwestern.edu
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
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Evolution; Health/Medicine
Professor - No longer advising graduate students, will serve on committeess
Regional Focus: Africa
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Religion
Phone number: 847-491-4841
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #205
rgl201@northwestern.edu
Watkins Family Professor of Global Health
Regional Focus: Americas; Asia
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Health/Medicine; Evolution
Phone number: 847-491-4839
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #A55
w-leonard1@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor, 2022 Carnegie Fellow
Regional Focus: Africa
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Inequality; Food; Environment
Phone number: 847-491-4564
Office location: 1812 Hinman Ave, #203
amanda.logan@northwestern.edu
Carlos Montezuma Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research
Regional Focus: Oceana; Americas; Europe; Asia
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Development; Evolution; Health/Medicine
Phone number: 847-467-4304
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #202
t-mcdade@northwestern.edu
Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology
Regional Focus: Americas; Asia
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Phone number: 847 467-5540
Office location: 1819 Hinman Ave. #110
hirokazu.miyazaki@northwestern.edu
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Gender/Sexuality
Phone number: 847-491-8916
Office location: 1908 Sheridan Rd, Room 306
Zachary.nissen@northwestern.edu
Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Population; Inequality; Gender/Sexuality
Phone number: 847-491-4835
Office location: 1812 Hinman Avenue, #104
c-robin@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor of Instruction in Anthropology and Environmental Policy and Culture - Does not accept graduate students
Regional Focus: Middle East
Subfield(s): Archaeology
Interest(s): Environment; Inequality
Phone number: 847 467-4092
Office location: 1812 Hinman #103
melissa.rosenzweig@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Embodiment; Religion; Health/Medicine
Phone number: 847-491-7207
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #204
r-seligman@northwestern.edu
Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology; Linguistic Anthropology
Interest(s): Race/Ethnicity; Youth/Children
Phone number: 847-467-1638
Office location: 1810 Hinman, #209
sshankar@northwestern.edu
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Office location: 1908 Sheridan Road
eliz.smith@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Gender/Sexuality; Art/Performance; Race/Ethnicity; Environment; Inequality
Phone number: 847 491-4821
Office location: 1812 Hinman, #301
sullivan@northwestern.edu
Professor
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology; Linguistic Anthropology
Interest(s): Inequality; Migration; Globalization; Environment; Youth/Children
Phone number: 847 467-0568
Office location: 1812 Hinman Room 205
doris.warriner@northwestern.edu
Professor of Instruction - Does not accept graduate students
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Evolution; Development; Health/Medicine
Phone number: 847-491-4818
Office location: 1810 Hinman Avenue, #A54A
e-waxenbaum@northwestern.edu
Professor, Co-Director of SPAN (the Sexualities Project at Northwestern)
Regional Focus: Americas
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Inequality; Art/Performance; Gender/Sexuality; Race/Ethnicity
Phone number: 847-491-4822
Office location: 1812 Hinman Avenue, #105
mjweis@northwestern.edu
Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Middle Eastern Studies - Not accepting new primary advisees for 2025-2028, will serve on committees.
Regional Focus: Middle East
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Youth/Children; Inequality; Art/Performance
Phone number: 847-491-4831
Office location: 1819 Hinman Ave #204
j-winegar@northwestern.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology and MENA Studies
Regional Focus: Middle East
Subfield(s): Cultural Anthropology
Interest(s): Migration; Religion; Gender/Sexuality
Phone number: 847 467-6254
Office location: 1819 Hinman Av, # 103
eyildiz@northwestern.edu
Professor
Regional Focus: Africa; Americas
Subfield(s): Biological Anthropology
Interest(s): Health/Medicine; Race/Ethnicity; Youth/Children; Development; Inequality
Phone number: 847 467-2174
Office location: 1819 Hinman Ave Room 105
sera.young@northwestern.edu
