Affiliated Faculty

Received: Ph.D. From: Yale University Specialty: Primatology; Primate Reproduction; Primate Conservation; Madagascar Dr. Brockman is a Research Associate at the Duke University Lemur Center and a member of the Primate Life History Working Group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University. http://clas-pages.charlotte.edu/diane-brockman

Received: Ph.D. From: The New School Specialty: Cultural Anthropology, gender, nationalism, Israel and nearby areas http://clas-pages.charlotte.edu/joyce-dalsheim/ Read More

PROFILE: Dr. Erin R. Eldridge is an Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Management at Western Carolina University.   She taught with UNC Charlotte as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Anthropology and is a cultural and environmental anthropologist, with a background in botany and wildlife and fisheries science. Her research focuses on political ecological concerns, structural […]

Received: Ph.D. From: Syracuse University Specialty: Urban Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Intercultural Communication, Africa.

PROFILE: Dr. Andrea Freidus is an Affiliated Faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte and Coordinator of the M.A./M.P.H. Program. She specializes in applied and medical anthropology. She also has an MPH in global public health. She has worked in Latin America, Africa, and South Florida. Her research has looked at the […]

Dr Ipshita Ghosh is a cultural anthropologist with focus on economic anthropology and medical anthropology. Ipshita has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with health technology startup companies in India which formed the basis for her doctoral dissertation. Her current research examines how experiences of pollution-linked debility shapes the idea of value and work for white collar workers in […]

Martha Gimson (B.A. UNC Chapel Hill 1998, M.A. UNC Charlotte 2021) taught with the Anthropology department at UNC Charlotte as faculty from 2022 to 2024. Previously, she was a Geography lecturer at King’s College in Charlotte. She is a historical archaeologist and lifelong educator with a foundation in biological archaeology and geography. She is focused […]

Received: Ph.D. From: New School for Social Research Specialty: Cultural Anthropology; Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism; Caribbean Read More

Received: Ph. D. From: Tulane University Specialty: Archaeology, Maya, Latin America. Read More