Professor Anita Barrow (Ph.D. 1983 U.C. Berkeley; MA 1976) is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in family and gender studies, folklore, urban development, and social change. Professor Barrow was an NIMH Trainee and teaches a variety of courses including "Cultural Change in Latin America," "Myth and Folklore in the Modern World, " and "Visual Anthropology. " She has conducted fieldwork in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States. Professor Barrow has also served as a consultant to numerous non-profit agencies including the Women's Foundation and Mega-Cities.

Professor Jo Ann Cunningham (Ed.D. 1989 Rutgers University) specializes in the Anthropology of Education and Caribbean cultures with a focus on Haiti. She teaches The Faces of Diversity, Introduction to Anthropology, and Teaching Foundations of Education. She is interested in the study of Haitian immigrant youth, their education, reselttlement and cultural identity in the United States. She has received recognition three consecutive years in Who's Who in American Teachers. In 2004, she received recognition by the Student Government Association at WPUNJ as "Professor of the Year." She has served on the Princeton School Board since 2002.

Professor Thomas Gundling (Ph.D. 1999 Yale University; M.Phil. 1994) is a biological anthropologist specializing in the history of paleoanthropology. In addition to an upper level elective course on human evolution, he also teaches "Forensic Osteology" and "Primate Biology and Behavior. " He has carried out research in Kenya, England and in the United States.

Professor Balmurli Natrajan (Ph.D. 1999 University of Iowa, M.A. Iowa State University, M.S. Southern Polytechnic State U) is a cultural anthropologist specializing in group formation/collective action, theories of community, and globalization and development. His fieldwork and publications are on the formation of caste-based communities in India, comparing caste and race in the context of global human rights, and the cultural economy and politics of development. He teaches introductory classes in anthropology, South Asian civilizations, and courses on Globalization, the Anthropology of South Asia, and Race and Caste in comparative perspective. Dr. Natrajan also leads an ethnographic Study Abroad Program to Bangalore, India in the summers.

Study Abroad in India http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/natrajanb/

Professor Janet Pollak (Ph.D. 1973 Rutgers; M.A. 1971 Temple) is WPUNJ's senior anthropologist and the founding chair of the department. Professor Pollak specializes in the prehistory of Eastern North America and teaches the department's courses in archaeology along with maintaining a laboratory where she conducts research on artifact collections with our majors. Besides archaeology, she teaches "Indians of North America" and "Shamans, Witches, and Magic." She also conducts ethnographic fieldwork on ethnicity and nationalism in Esatern Europe, especially Slovakia. Professor Pollak speaks Slovak, Russian, and French.

Professor Geoffrey G. Pope (Ph.D. 1982 U.C. Berkeley; M.A. 1977) specializes in paleolithic archaeology and human evolution research in Asia. He has led expeditions in China, Thailand and Indonesia. He teaches a course in evolutionary psychology, "Biological Bases of Human Behavior," and human paleontology, "Human Origins." Professor Pope was a Fulbright Professor and speaks Chinese, Thai and Indonesian.

Professor Maria de Lourdes Villar (Ph.D. 1989 Indiana University Bloomington; M.Sc. 1977 SUNY Stony Brook) is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in demography and economics; and interested in applied and educational anthropology. She teaches "Comparative Cultures", "Theory and Methods" and "Educational Anthropology." Professor Villar speaks Spanish and studies Latin American cultures.

Professor Cory Harris (M.A. University of Arizona 2000, PhD expected 2006) is an archaeologist specializing in Southwestern archaeology, archaeological method and theory and the sociology of archaeological knowledge and has conducted fieldwork throughout the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. He teaches “Archaeology,” “Introduction to Anthropology,” and “Human Origins.”

Professor Christopher Kaplonski (PhD Rutgers 1996) is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in political anthropology. He is interested in identity, nationalism, political violence, democratization and human rights. He teaches a range of cultural anthropology courses at WPU. He has previously taught at SUNY – Plattsburgh and the National University of Mongolia. Dr. Kaplonski is also currently the Project Manager for the “Oral History of 20th century Mongolia” at the University of Cambridge. He carries out research in Mongolia, and speaks Mongolian. He maintains a website on anthropology and Mongolia at www.ChrisKaplonski.com

Nancy Galimi, secretary, is the "heart" of the Anthropology Department. She started in November, 1993, soon after the program was established. Nancy attends classes and
computer/business related workshops at WPU. She enjoys working in the Department as she finds the Anthropology discipline fascinating. Her interests are reading mysteries, metaphysics and her three grandchildren.