Richard Davis, Professor and Chair
Email: rdavis@brynmawr.edu

Phone:  610-526-5029

Office: Dalton Hall, Room 306 or

Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:30-12:30; Tue 10:00-11:00 or by appointment

(Ph.D., Columbia University)
Davis is a Paleolithic archaeologist who has conducted field work in several Asian locations with particular  focus on northern Afghanistan, southern Tajikistan, eastern Turkey, and central Siberia. Recently he has begun 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 Paleolithic Archaeology, Human Ecology, Traditional Technology, Food and Human Bio-Cultural Evolution, and Method and Theory in Archaeology.

Philip Kilbride, Professor, Mary Hale Chase Chair in the Social Sciences and Social Work and Social Research
Email: pkilbrid@brynmawr.edu

Phone:  610-526-5025

Office:  Dalton Hall, Room 212C

Office Hours: 

On Leave Spring Semster 2008

(Ph.D., University of Missouri)
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 Scott Murphy, Lecturer
Email: msmurphy@brynmawr.edu

Phone:  610-526-5032

Office:  Dalton Hall, Room 310

Office Hours:  Tue 4:30-6:00; Thu 11:30-12:30 or by appointment

(Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania; B.A., Haverford College )
Melissa Murphy is a biological anthropologist who has worked on archaeological projects and laboratories in the north and central coasts of Peru , as well as in Israel , and France. Currently she is one of the principal biological anthropologists on the Puruchuco-Huaquerones Archaeological Project, where she is investigating the health, disease and paleodemography of this large Inca cemetery (AD 1450-1532) located outside of Lima , Peru . Her research interests include paleopathology, paleodemography, the study of the biological impact of European contact on indigenous communities in South America , bioarchaeology, Inca social organization, and mortuary practices.

Melissa Pashigian, Assistant Professor
Email: mpashigi@brynmawr.edu

Phone:  610-526-5002

Office:  Dalton Hall, Room 208

Office Hours:  Mon/Tue 11:30-12:30; Wed 2:30-3:30 or by appointment

(Ph.D., UCLA; MA, Stanford; BA, Stanford.)

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 SPRING 2008 SEMESTER
Email: aweidman@brynmawr.edu

Phone:  610-526-5033

Office:  Dalton Hall, Room 212B

Office Hours:  On Leave Spring 2008 Semester

(PhD, Columbia University; M.A., University of Washington; B.A., Bryn Mawr College)
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.

Tamara Neuman

Email: tneuman@brynmawr.edu

Phone: 610-526-5652

Office: Dalton 212D

Office Hours: Mon 11:30-1:30; Wed 4:00-5:00 or by appointment

The Tri-College Middle Eastern Studies Initiative and the Bi-College Peace and Conflict Studies Program welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Tamara Neuman to the Bryn Mawr campus. Neuman, an anthropologist who studies the religious dimensions of the Israeli settlement movement, has taught at Reed College and the University of Chicago and comes to Bryn Mawr from a research affiliation at Harvard University. She earned her B.A. in classics and anthropology from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.  During her time at Bryn Mawr, Neuman will be working on a book titled Seizing Zion: Jewish Militancy and Israeli Settlement Over the Green Line. The manuscript is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork she conducted, primarily in Hebron, with the support of Fullbright Hays, the CASPIC/John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation, and the Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

See News & Links for announcement of a new Interim Lecturer for Spring 2008.

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