The Sociology and Anthropology Department is part of the Social Sciences Division at Wagner. This faculty listing does not include part-time or adjunct professors.
Anthropology Faculty
Dr. Alexa S. Dietrich, Assistant Professor
A.B., Barnard College; MPH, PhD., Emory University
Research Interests: corporations and communities; community environmental health; political ecology of Puerto Rico; the global pharmaceutical industry; social responsibility in business
Teaching Interests: Medical Anthropology; Culture, Community, and Environment; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Methods; Political Anthropology; Anthropology and Public Health; Cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America; Applying Anthropology in Everyday Life
Location: Parker Hall Room 209
Office Phone: (718) 420-4373 | E-mail: alexa.dietrich@wagner.edu
Dr. Celeste Marie Gagnon, Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Delaware; M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: heath, disease, diet, human osteology, social inequality, gender relations, colonialism, foodways, North Coastal Peru, Iroquoia
Courses Taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution; North American Indians; Forensic Anthropology and Human Osteology;
Location: Parker Hall Room 110
Office Phone: (718) 390-3126 | E-mail: celeste.gagnon@wagner.edu
Dr. Gordon F. McEwan, Professor, Chair
B.A., Texas A & M. University; M.A, , Ph.D., University of Texas
Research Interests: The origin of the state and New World complex societies, Archaeology of Andean South America, The Inca State and Society, Archaeology of the valley of Cuzco and the origin of the Inca State; Archaeology of the Wari State and Middle Horizon Peru; New World Archaeology; Pre-historic transoceanic contacts, archaeological frauds and mysteries
Courses Taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Archaeology; Native Cosmology and World View in the Andes. Land of the Incas: Peru Past and Present; Archaeological Perspective on the Ancient State; Chiefdoms: An Archaeological Perspective on the Origins of Social Complexity;
Location: Parker Hall Room 212
Office Phone: (718) 390-3498 | E-mail: gmcewan@wagner.edu
