School of Natural and Social Sciences:
Media, Society, and the Arts 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. South Asian Muslim immigrants in North America; anthropology of media and popular culture, gender and sexuality in cross-cultural perspectives.
ahmed.afzal@purchase.edu

John Forrest
Professor of Anthropology
B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Aesthetics; dance; ethnomusicology symbols; the American South.
john.forrest@purchase.edu

Rudolf Gaudio
Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Yale University; M.I.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Stanford University. Language, communication, and media; gender; sexuality; race and ethnicity; space, place, and global capitalism; Africa.
rudolf.gaudio@purchase.edu

Mary Kosut
Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
B.A., M.A., University of New Orleans; Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Art, the body, consumption, popular culture and subcultures, gender and feminist theory, social class, visual sociology.
mary.kosut@purchase.edu

Shaka McGlotten
Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Africana studies; new media and science/technology studies; feminist and queer studies.
shaka.mcglotten@purchase.edu

Jason A. Pine
Lecturer in Anthropology
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., The New School for Social Research; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Organized crime and neomelodica music, Naples; methamphetamine production and addiction in rural and urban Arizona, Missouri, California, New York, and Texas.
jason.pine@purchase.edu

Updated July 23, 2008