Department of Anthropology
114 MacBride Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242-1322
Phone: 319-335-0522
Fax: 319-335-0653
E-mail: anthropology at uiowa.edu
The department of anthropology at The University of Iowa has a new and rising strength in the peoples and cultures of Asia and in Asian diasporic communities in other parts of the world. Faculty members and graduate students have carried out research in recent years in India, Myanmar, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Korea, and Japan. Topics addressed by faculty members include primate evolution, geochronology, the rise of state societies, ideologies of communicative practice, gender and sexuality, ascetic practice, intellectual history, disability, ritual and resistance, and environmentalism. Faculty and students participate in activities and events sponsored by the University’s South Asian Studies Program (SASP) and Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS).
Faculty with Current or Recent Research Projects in Asia:
Russell Ciochon (Myanmar, India, China, Cambodia, Indonesia)
Adi Hastings (India, Fiji)
Meena Khandelwal (India)
Sonia Ryang (Japan, Korea)
Scott Schnell (Japan)
Current and Recent Graduate Students with Research Projects in Asia:
Jenna Grant –“Biomedicine, Ethics, Nations: A Controversial AIDS Clinical Trial in Cambodia.” M.A. 2006
Hannah Marsh –“Javan Homo erectus: Stratigraphic and Paleontological Insights into the state of Research on Sangiran Dome.” MA 2006.
Lavanya Murali –“English as a Status Language in India.”
Balmurli Natrajan –“Ailing Artisans, Dubious Development: Potters in Central India.” Ph.D. 1999.
Jessica White –“Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Adapiform Dentition, with Particular Emphasis on the Asian Sivaladapidae.” Ph.D., 2006.