UMass Boston

Program Director

Maria John
Assistant Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6860
maria.john@umb.edu

Expertise: Comparative histories of settler colonialism, 20th-century urban Indigenous histories (especially in the U.S. and Australia), social and political histories of health and health care, histories of health activism, and histories of Indigenous sovereignty.

Steering Committee

Ping-Ann Addo
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6845
ping-ann.addo@umb.edu

Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.

Christopher Fung
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6845
Christopher.Fung@umb.edu

Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Silliman
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6854
Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu

Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.

J. Cedric Woods
Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies
Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program

617.287.5784
Cedric.Woods@umb.edu

Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention

Student Outreach Coordinator

Jamie Morrison
New England Native American Studies and NISA Student Advisor

617.287.5596
Jamie.Morrison@umb.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Ping-Ann Addo
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6845
ping-ann.addo@umb.edu

Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.

Patrick Barron
Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6700
Patrick.Barron@umb.edu

Expertise: Twentieth-century American and Italian Poetry; Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism; Native American Literature; Professional Writing; Literary Translation

Jean-Philippe Belleau
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.794.5998
Jeanphilippe.Belleau@umb.edu

Expertise: Lowland indigenous societies, hunters-gatherers, human rights, anthropology of becoming, Amerindian perspectivism, mass violence, Brazilian cinema, raw art

Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6284
Jorge.Capetillo@umb.edu

Expertise: Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Media Studies, Latino Studies

Isabel Gómez
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.7554
Isabel.Gomez@umb.edu

Expertise: Translation studies, translation theories, Latin American poetics, comparative literatures Mexican and Brazilian vanguards and contemporary literatures, transhistorical baroque

Maria John
Assistant Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6860
maria.john@umb.edu

Expertise: Comparative histories of settler colonialism, 20th-century urban Indigenous histories (especially in the U.S. and Australia), social and political histories of health and health care, histories of health activism, and histories of Indigenous sovereignty.

Benjamin D. Johnson
Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6880
Benjamin.Johnson@umb.edu

Expertise: Professor Johnson researches and teaches about Latin America, its antecedents, and wider connections. His research investigates local politics in central Mexico after the Spanish invasions of the sixteenth century, particularly the emergence and functioning of unofficial patterns of order. He is also interested in processes of informal association in nineteenth century Brazil. Professor Johnson teaches introductory classes in Latin American and world history, as well as specialized courses on the pre-Columbian Americas, comparative colonialisms, and historical methods.

Eric Michael Kelley
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

N/A
Eric.Kelley@umb.edu

Jose E. Martinez-Reyes
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and School for the Environment

617.287.4871
Jose.Martinez-Reyes@umb.edu

Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agroforestry, Biocultural Diversity Conservation, Material Culture, Social and Critical Theory, Ecomusicology, Mexico, Caribbean, Fiji, Galicia

Stephen Mrozowski
University Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6842
Stephen.Mrozowski@umb.edu

Expertise: Social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology

Stephen Silliman
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6854
Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu

Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.

Lauren Sullivan
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6855
Lauren.Sullivan@umb.edu

Expertise: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya lowlands; development of complex society; ceramic analysis

Amy Todd
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6828
Amy.Todd@umb.edu

Expertise: Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, biological anthropology

J. Cedric Woods
Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies
Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program

617.287.5784
Cedric.Woods@umb.edu

Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention