Diane M. Hoffman
Ph.D. Stanford, Anthropology, 1986

      Associate Professor
      Social Foundations of Education
      Leadership, Foundations and Policy Department
      Curry School of Education

       personal web page
       dmh3a@virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Anthropology of education, self/identity, cultural psychology; East Asia
 

Peter E. Hook
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics, 1973
      Professor Emeritus
      Indo-Aryan Languages and Linguistics
      Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
      College of Arts and Sciences

      http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/
      peh6n@virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Languages of N. India and Pakistan; linguistic typology; Asian poetry and poetics

Michelle Kisliuk
Ph.D. New York University, Performance Studies, 1991

      Associate Professor
      McIntire Department of Music

      http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk6k/seize.htm
      mk6k@unix.mail.virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Performance, ethnographic writing, field research, Central Africa,
      American folklore, ethnomusicology
 
 

Ekaterina V. Makarova
Ph.D. University of Manchester, Sociology, 1999

      Lecturer
      Department of Sociology

      em5d@virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Sociology and anthropology of socialist societies, post-socialist transition,
      Central Asia, Islam and socialism, urban anthropology/sociology
 

R. Lawrence Merkel
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology, 1996
M.D. University of Virginia 1979

      Assistant Professor
      Department of Psychiatric Medicine
      School of Medicine

      http://www.med.virginia.edu/medicine/clinical/psychiatric/merkel.html
      rlm3u@virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Psychiatric anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological
      anthropology, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
 

Vanessa L. Ochs
Ph.D., Drew University, Anthropology, 2000

      Director of Jewish Studies
      Department of Religions Studies

      vanessa@virginia.edu

      Specializations
      Anthropology of religion, religion and material culture, ethnographies
      of American Jewish life, new ritual.
 

Bryan Pfaffenberger
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology, 1977

      Associate Professor of Technology, Culture, and Communication
      Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication
      School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

      bp@virginia.edu
      http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bp

      Specializations
      Anthropology of technology, media studies, anthropology of computing,
      science and technology studies (STS)

Margo Smith
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Anthropology, 2001

     Curator, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

  The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of
  the University of Virginia promotes learning
  about Australian Aboriginal art and culture
  through an integrated program of collection
  management, exhibition, education, research and
  publication. We are committed to building
  mutually beneficial partnerships with
  Aboriginal artists and communities to better
  represent their art and knowledge in each aspect
  of our program.

       kluge-ruhe@virginia.edu
       http://www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/