Spring 2025 Courses

Professional Development in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology 
GC: day/time/dates/location TBA, Prof. Diane Riskedahl
Non-credit workshop; students do not register, but attendance is highly recommended for 1st year students.

ANTH 70000 – Colloquium: Current Topics in Anthropology   
GC:   F. 4:15-6:15 pm, Rm. C415-A, 0 credits, Profs. David Harvey and Donald Robotham
Guest Lecture schedule/dates TBA. Non-credit, PASS grade only. Required for Anthropology students in years 1 & 2. 

ANTH 70100 – History of Anthropology 
GC: T. 10 am-1 pm, Rm. 6494, 4 credits, Prof. Kevin Birth
Required for all Level 1 GC Anthropology students. Open to Anthropology doctoral students only, OR by instructor’s permission. 

ANTH 70400 – Contemporary Social Theory
GC: F. 10:45am – 1:45pm, Rm. 6421, 4 credits, Profs. Christopher Loperena and Karen Strassler
Required for GC Level 1 Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology doctoral students. 

ANTH 70500 – Decolonial Methodologies
GC: T. 4:15-6:15pm, Rm. 3309, 4 credits, Prof. Naomi Schiller
Fulfills Research Methods requirement for Cultural & Ling Anth Subfields. Cross listed with UED 72200.

ANTH 70600 – Black Marxism
GC: TH. 11:45am-1:45pm, Rm. 4419, 3 credits, Prof. Gary Wilder
Cross-listed with AFCP 73100, EES79903, and HIST 75900. See below for course descriptions.

ANTH 71100 – Environmental Justice and the Ethnographic Imaginary
GC: M. 4:15-6:15pm, Rm. 4422, 3 credits, Prof. Melissa Checker
Cross-listed with EES79903 and MALS 72700, seats for ANTH are limited. See below for course descriptions.

ANTH 72100 – Fugitive Childhoods
GC: W. 4:15-6:15pm, Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Wendy Luttrell
Cross-listed with UED 73200. Seats for ANTH are very limited.

ANTH 72200 – Spacializing Culture: Anthropology of Space and Place
GC: TH. 2 – 4 pm, Rm. 4419, 3 credits, Prof. Setha Low 
Cross-listed with EES 79903; seats for ANTH are limited. See below for course descriptions.

ANTH 72600 – Central America: Intimacies, Solidarities, Violence
GC: W. 11:45 am – 1:45 pm, Rm. 3308, 3 credits, Prof. Lotti Silber
Fulfills area course requirement for Cultural Anthro subfield. Cross-listed with WGS 81000. See below for course descriptions.

ANTH 77000 – Core Course in Linguistic Anthropology 
GC: TH. 11:45am-1:45pm, Rm. 3207, 4 credits, Prof. Diane Riskedahl.
Fulfills subfield core course requirement. 

ANTH 78000 – Subjects, Ideologies, and Linguistic Practices [Topics in Linguistic Anthropology]
GC: W. 4:15 – 6:15 pm, Rm. 5417, 3 credits, Prof. Miki Makihara
Can fulfill subfield core course requirement. Cross-listed with SPAN 80100, seats for ANTH are limited.

ANTH 80800 – Doctoral Dissertation Writing [hybrid]
GC: W. 2-4pm. Rm. 4422, 0 credits, Prof. Louise Lennihan
Open to GC Anthropology Level 3 doctoral students for audit only. 

ANTH 80900 – Anthropology and History 
GC: TH. 4:00-6:00pm, Rm. 4422, 3 credits, Profs. Ajantha Subramanian and Vincent Brown
Instructor permission required.

ANTH 81000 – Reflections on Psychoanalysis
GC: W. 2:00-4:00pm, Rm. 3306, 3 credits, Prof. Vincent Crapanzano
Cross-listed with C L 80100.

ANTH 81500 – Populism
GC: TH. 9:30-11:30am, Rm. 3308, 3 credits, Prof. Marc Edelman

ANTH 81600Critical and Decolonial Approaches to Migration: from Racial Capitalism to Border Abolition
GC: T. 2:00 – 4:00pm, Rm. 3207, 3 credits, Profs. Miriam Ticktin and Sofya Aptekar

ANTH 83900 – Heritage and Pragmatism
GC: T. 2:00-4:00pm, Rm. 6493, 3 credits, Prof. Alexander Bauer

ANTH 84000 – Resistance, Resilience, and Their Discontents
GC: W. 2:00-4:00pm, Rm. 7314, 3 credits, Prof. Matthew Reilly 

ANTH 89100 – Paleoanthropology 2
GC: TH. 11:00am-1:30pm, location TBA*, 3 credits, Prof. Thomas Plummer
Open only to CUNY-NYCEP students, OR with instructor’s permission.
*Course will meet at NYU. Contact instructor for location.