Naran Bilik received his early education in Inner Mongolia, and his M.A. in ethnology and Ph.D. in linguistics from the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing. After two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University, between 1992 and 1994, he conducted fieldwork in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan. Naran is interested in semiotic approaches to ethnicity and politico-cultural boundaries. He teaches courses on language and culture, theory of race and ethnicity, anthropology of Japan, and race and ethnicity in the U.S. and China. He has worked as a consultant with the World Bank and UNDP, and he has participated in many development projects and training programs in China. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on Race and Ethnicity. Naran first came to Carleton as Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology in 2001. He is the Visiting Bernstein Chair of Anthropology and East Asian Studies for 2003.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (anthropology) received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She has been working on reproductive health care issues in Cameroon since 1980, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as an anthropological researcher. Pamela's first research, on women's fear of infertility among the rural Bamiléké of Cameroon, addresses the ways female poverty and the state-ethnic relations are inscribed in women's views of their bodies. She is currently working among the urban Bamiléké, studying the role of women's voluntary associations in reproductive decision-making. In addition to introductory anthropology, she teaches courses on gender, Africa, health and illness, and the relationship between human and social reproduction.

Jim Fisher (anthropology) received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. His real interest is South Asia, and he has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 30 years - on economics and ecology among Magars (in a village two weeks walk from the nearest road), on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. In addition to introductory courses, Jim teaches on South Asia, anthropological theory, and biography and ethnography.

Jerome Levi (anthropology) (M.Phil. Cambridge, Ph.D. Harvard) is interested in the ethnography of the Greater Southwest and Mesoamerica. In Mexico, he has conducted research among the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) of Chihuahua, and the Tzotzil of Chiapas. In the U.S., he has worked with indigenous peoples of southern California and on the Hopi-Navaho land dispute. His current research focuses on the politics of identity, symbolism, and interethnic relations in the Sierra Tarahumara of northwest Mexico. Jay teaches courses on the comparative history of native peoples and the state in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.; ethnicity, gender, and exchange in Latin America; and anthropological approaches to the study of religion, economics, and indigenous rights.

Annette Nierobisz graduated from the Ph.D. program in Sociology at the University of Toronto in 2001. Annette's research interests are in the areas of the sociology of law, work and occupations, human rights, and gender. Her most recent research project examines the development of sexual orientation rights in Canada. She has also conducted research on how Canadian judges responded to workplace wrongful dismissals that occurred with the transition to a globally interconnected economy, and she has examined female law professors experiences with authority challenges from students. Annette teaches introductory sociology, research methods, the sociology of law, the sociology of work and occupations and criminology.

Nader Saiedi (sociology) has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1983 and has taught at Wisconsin, UCLA, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt. Born in Iran, Nader brings a global perspective and a Middle East background to the department. He is strongly interested in social theory and social philosophy. Nader is also engaged in Baha'i study and advises the department of Integrative Study of Religion in Landegg Academy, Switzerland. In addition to introductory sociology, he teaches courses in classical and contemporary social theory, social stratification, sociology of religion, and the Middle East.

Meera Sehgal received her Ph.D in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. She has a joint appointment as assistant professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies. She specializes in social movements, gender, and South Asia. Her research, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, focuses on the mobilization and participation of women in a religious right wing movement in India. Originally from India, she emphasizes a transnational feminist perspective in her teachings and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on South Asia, social movements, qualitative methods, post-colonial feminist theory, feminist approaches to research and women's health in the U.S.

A.B. Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Special interest in archaeology. Co-coordinator of the Archaeology Concentration. Began teaching at Carleton in 1974.

Emeritus Professor

Adrienne Falcón, Visiting Lecturer (University of Chicago, ABD) focuses on urban sociology, sociology of youth and community organizations, environmental sociology and ethnography of Latin America. She has conducted research on a diverse immigrant community in Chicago and on youth and education in Cuba and Ecuador. Her current work focuses on questions of power and social change through community organizing. She teaches courses in introductory sociology, urban sociology and ethnography of Latin America.

Beverly Nagel (sociology) received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. Her research interests concern rural development, grassroots action, and social change in Latin America. For the past twelve years, she has been engaged in research on agricultural development, ethnic relations, and social movements on Paraguay's eastern frontier. She has also conducted research on rural development and migration patterns in Mexico, and has served as a consultant on both urban and rural development projects for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Fundación Intermon. In addition to introductory sociology, she teaches courses on social research methods, Third World development, population, social movements, and the ethnography of Latin America.

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