School of Natural and Social Sciences:
Anthropology Faculty (Board of Study)

Ahmed Afzal
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Vassar College; M.S., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.
ahmed.afzal@purchase.edu

Rudolf Gaudio
Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Yale University; M.I.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Stanford University.
rudolf.gaudio@purchase.edu

Lorraine Plourde
Lecturer in Anthropology and Media, Society, and the Arts
B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., Columbia University.
lorraine.plourde@purchase.edu

Contributing Faculty

Shaka McGlotten: Media, Society, and the Arts
Jason A. Pine: Media, Society, and the Arts
Richard Gioioso: Sociology

Faculty Emeriti

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

John Forrest
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Esther Newton
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Updated June 27, 2011

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