Faculty
Richard Davis, Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Email: rdavis@brynmawr.edu
Phone: 610-526-5029
Office: Dalton Hall, Room 306
Office Hours: M/T 10:00-12:00 or by appointment
Davis is a prehistoric archaeologist who has conducted field work in several Asian locations with particular focus on northern Afghanistan, southern Tajikistan, eastern Turkey, and central Siberia. Since 1995, he has had an excavation program in the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which is oriented toward the investigation of the origin and development of maritime cultures in this area. His basic research interests center on the study of human adaptations to the changing environments of the Pleistocene and Holocene, and also on the development of technology in its social context. His teaching interests have grown out of his research activities, and he regularly offers courses in North American Archaeology, Human Ecology, Traditional Technology, and Method and Theory in Archaeology.
IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR KILBRIDE'S PASSING ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
Philip Kilbride, Professor
Memorial Lecture Series at BMC
Friday, April 5 @ 3:00 p.m., Dalton 300 - Guest Speakers: Diana Putman, USAID Mission Director for Democratic Republic of Congo, Ph.D. 1985, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College; Chapurukha Kusimba, Curator of African Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum; and Professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Ph.D., 1993, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College; Maria Cattell, Research Associate at The Field Musesum of Natural History and Past President of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology and the Association for Africanist Anthropology, Ph.D. 1989, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Memorial Celebration at BMC
Saturday, April 6 @ 3:00, Ely Room, Wyndham - Students, colleagues, friends, and family will gather to celebrate his life and works. Please join us.
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Philip Kilbride has conducted research projects in East Africa where his field research has primarily focused on family studies, childhood, and social change. Most recently his research and teaching include the Irish Diaspora, especially the Irish living in Kenya. Whenever feasible, students have accompanied Professor Kilbride into the field in Kenya to investigate such subjects as child behavior and nutrition, the impact of formal education on indigenous values, and the plight of street children in urban environments.
Melissa Pashigian, Associate Professor and Department Chair
Email: mpashigi@brynmawr.edu
Phone: 610-526-5002
Office: Dalton Hall, Room 208
Office Hours: T 12:00-2:00; W 11:45-12:45
Ph.D., UCLA; MPH, Harvard
Melissa Pashigian is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She has conducted research on the social politics of infertility in Vietnam and the intersection of reproductive health policy, reproductive experience and treatment seeking surrounding infertility and involuntary childlessness. She is currently working on a study of the globalization of assisted reproductive technologies in Vietnam, France and Southeast Asia. Her other research interests include the relationship of race, ethnicity and identity in the use of donor gametes, cross-cultural experiences of healing, the dynamics of global flows of pharmaceuticals, medical knowledge and technology and the use of public space in shaping subjectivities among marginalized populations. Her course offerings include medical anthropology, anthropology of reproduction, anthropology of Southeast Asia, introduction to cultural anthropology, and senior conference.
Amanda Weidman, Assistant Professor
ON LEAVE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-13
Email: aweidman@brynmawr.edu
Phone: 610-526-5033
Office: Dalton Hall, Room 212B
Office Hours:
Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., University of Washington
Amanda Weidman is a cultural anthropologist with an area specialization in South Asia. Her previous research in South India examined the creation of South Indian classical music as a high cultural genre in the context of late colonialism, Indian nationalism, and regional politics in South India. This project combined ethnographic research, examination of archival sources, and her own study and performance of South Indian classical music. Her current research focuses on the people who create the music for South Indian popular cinema: playback singers, music directors, and studio musicians. She examines the social organization of the studios and discourses about voice and sound that emerge in recording sessions, relating these to broader politics and cultural movements. In addition to the introductory cultural anthropology course and senior conference, she teaches South Asian Ethnography, Language in the Social Context, and Cultures of Technology: Aesthetics, Senses, and the Body. In coming years she is looking forward to teaching courses in ethnomusicology, the anthropology of performance, and postcolonial theory.