Professional Background
Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education
Educational Background
A.B., Ph.D., Columbia University
Scholarly Interests
Sociocultural change. Education in the developing world. Drugs and society. Caribbean. Latin America. Migration studies.
Selected Publications
The Complete Caribbeana 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature (4 vols, Kraus Thomson).
Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use (Mouton).
West Indian Perspectives (4 vols, Anchor Press/Doubleday).
Interdisciplinary Research and Doctoral Training: A Study of the Link_ping University (Sweden).
Tema Departments (Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges).
"Ethics in Anthropology: Dilemmas and Conundrums." (New York Academy of Sciences).
With Ithaca on My Mind: An Anthropologist's Journey (Teachers College).
"Ethnology: West Indies" (16 vols of Handbook of Latin American Studies).
Lambros Comitas
Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education
Phone: 212-678-4040
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Web site: http://www.tc.edu/centers/comitas/
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00 pm (walk-in), Thursday 2:00-4:00 pm (walk-in)
Office Location: 216 Zankel (Main)