Full-Time Faculty

PROFILE: Gregory Starrett is Professor of Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has conducted field research in Egypt and the United States on the cultural politics of Islamic education and popular culture, and he teaches courses on religion, the Middle East, […]

Profile: Sharon Elizabeth Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. As a medical anthropologist, Dr. Watson’s research most broadly examines how what we know, through scientific research about health, makes its way into real life changes and policies. Her work contributes to the goals of implementation and dissemination research […]

PROFILE: Dr. Coral Wayland is an Associate Dean in the Office of Undergraduate Education at UNC Charlotte. She specializes in medical anthropology and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has worked in Brazil and Charlotte. Her early research looked the politics of medicinal plant use in the urban Amazon. It also explored contested understandings […]