Department Faculty

Full Time Faculty

Elise Andaya (PhD, NYU, 2007)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Medical anthropology
Areas:Cuba
E-mail:  eandaya@albany.edu

Louise M. Burkhart (PhD, Yale, 1986)
Professor
Interests: Ethnohistory/Historical ethnography; colonialism and evangelization; symbolic, interpretive, and postmodern anthropology; Mesoamerican religions (pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary); textual analysis; Mesoamerican history and ethnology; Native North American and Mesoamerican literatures; Nahuatl catechistic and devotional literature; folklore and folk narrative; Nahuatl language; and pre-Columbian and Indo-Christian art.
Areas: Mesoamerica
E-mail:  burk@albany.edu

Jennifer Burrell (PhD, New School for Social Research, 2005)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Political economy, structural and political violence, human rights, forensic anthropology, transitional states, migration, development, gender, neoliberalization, anthropology and history
Areas: Mesoamerican and Latin America
E-mail: jburrell@albany.edu

Robert W. Jarvenpa (PhD, Minnesota, 1975)
Professor
Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology, ecology, social change, interethnic relations, ethnographic methods, Circumpolar societies, Native North Americans
Areas: Northern Europe, Central America
E-mail:  jarvenpa@albany.edu

Walter E. Little (PhD, University of Illinois, 2001)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Cultural and Ethnic Identity, Cultural Performance, Gender Relations, Marketplace and Household Economics, Transcultural Studies - Tourism, Urban Anthropology
Areas: Mesoamerica
E-mail:  wlittle@albany.edu

James W. Wessman (PhD, University of Connecticut, 1976)
Associate Professor
Interests: Economic anthropology, political economy
Areas: Caribbean, Latin America
E-mail:  wessman@albany.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Robert M. Carmack (PhD, UCLA, 1956)
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Social Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Mesoamerican Studies, Social Theory
Areas: Central America
E-mail:  rcarmack@albany.edu

Gail H. Landsman (PhD, Catholic University, 1982)
Associate Professor
Interests: Cultural anthropology, gender, reproduction, feminist theory, disability studies, social movements, American culture, Iroquois
Areas: North America
E-mail:  landsman@albany.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Annette McLeod Richie
Lecturer
E-mail: am272559@albany.edu