Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College

10 faculty and 16 courses in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.

Faculty

• Maja Seselj, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair h-index 7
  The evolution of the modern human pattern of growth and development. To that end, she has investigated the relationship between dental development and skeletal growth in a variety of archaeological and known-age human skeletal collection
• Monique Renee Scott, Associate Professor of History of Art and Director of Museum Studies h-index 6
  Es on the representation of Africa in Philadelphia museums, exploring the dense tension between African objects collected as art or artifact in some of the country’s oldest museums. At Bryn Mawr College, Monique teaches on visual studies, A
• Amanda Weidman, Professor of Anthropology
  South Asia, her research focuses on Tamil-speaking South India. Her first book, Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India , examined the creation of South Indian classical music as
• Casey R. Barrier, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  Es on major world-historical transitions, including the development of farming economies, the emergence of village life, and the rise of early urban societies. More broadly, it contributes to cultural-evolutionary approaches to long-term ch
• Colin McLaughlin-Alcock, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Gary W. McDonogh, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities
• Melissa Pashigian, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  The relationship of race, ethnicity and identity in the use of donor gametes, cross-cultural experiences of healing, the dynamics of global flows of pharmaceuticals, medical knowledge and technology and the use of public space in sh
• Nicholas Carby Denning, Assistant Professor of International Studies
• Richard S. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
  Center on the study of human adaptations to the changing environments of the Pleistocene and Holocene, and also on the development of technology in its social context. His teaching interests have grown out of his research activities, and he
• Susanna Fioratta, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Courses

• Becoming Human: Introduction to Biological and Archeological Anthropology ANTH B101
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ANTH B102
• North American Archaeology ANTH B204
• Rumor, Secrecy, and Conspiracy Theory ANTH B205
• Anthropology of Food ANTH B213
• Activist Imaginaries & Conflict Management ANTH B218
• Words that Matter: Applying Linguistic Anthropology ANTH B246
• History of Anthropological Theory ANTH B303
• Disease and Human Evolution ANTH B317
• Performance, Culture, and Power ANTH B319
• The Arab Spring ANTH B325
• Political Economy in Vietnam ANTH B354
• Sound, Power, and Resistance ANTH B366
• Senior Conference (Fall) ANTH B398
• Senior Conference (Spring) ANTH B399
• Praxis III: Independent Study ANTH B425

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.