Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor, Anthropology
mueggler@umich.edu
Office Information:
204-A West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
phone: 734.763.4026
hours: Tuesday 1:00pm-3:00pm via email
Sociocultural ;
Anthropology
Education/Degree:
Deep Springs College; BA, Cornell University; PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
About
Erik Mueggler is Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor of Anthropology. His ethnographic and historical work is with indigenous peoples in southwest China. His research interests include ritual and politics; histories of natural history; histories of death, and slavery and literacy.
Affiliation(s)
- Leiberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
- PhD Program in Anthropology and History
- Accellerated Masters Degree Program inTranscultural Studies
Award(s)
- 2021-2022. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
- 2019-2020. Guggenheim Fellowship. Literacy, Sovereignty, Bondage: a Native Hereditary Chieftanship in Qing China.
- 2019. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
- 2013. Julian Steward Award for the best monograph in Environmental Anthropology. The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011).
- 2002-2008 2002. MacArthur Fellowship
