Erik Mueggler

Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor, Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies/Grad Department Chair, Anthropology

mueggler@umich.edu

Office Information:

204-A West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
phone: 734.763.4026
hours: Mondays, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Sociocultural ; Anthropology; Department Administration

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

Current Courses

ANTHRCUL 498-001
Honors in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology

TCS 599-001
Transcultural Studies Colloquium

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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

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