Dr. Mary Weismantel

Professor

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Biography

Mary Weismantel is a Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University and Co-Director of SPAN (the Sexualities Project Northwestern), where she is currently accepting PhD students. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, earned in 1986. Weismantel’s research focuses on ancient and contemporary cultures of the Indigenous Americas, paying particular attention to sex, gender, and material life in the Andean region of South America. Her recent work employs methods that bridge auto-ethnography, archaeology, and art history, evidenced in her book 'Playing Things: Moche Sex Pots' published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021, which won the Association of Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award in 2022. She has authored several articles, including 'Towards Transgender Archaeology: Queer Rampage Prehistory' and 'Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South America.' Weismantel has previously served as the Director of the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program at Northwestern University. Her teaching encompasses courses on Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Americas.

Research Interests

Indigeneity Gender Sexuality Race Decoloniality Food Studies Kinship

Courses

Gender and Sexuality: Sexualities Graduate Seminar on Gender and Sexuality Queer Reproduction Interdisciplinary Methods in Gender and Sexuality Studies Studying Ancient Sex Social Science Methods for Researching Sexuality Gender Culture Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Advanced Seminar in Gender Theory Senior Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies Materialities in Anthropology Ethnographic Writing Art and Anthropology Death, Dying, and Remembrance Exchange Theory Social Structure Social History of Food Qualitative Research Methods Anthropological Theory Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Senior Seminar in Anthropology Economic Anthropology Rural World Myth, Ritual, and Symbol Interdisciplinary: Animal, Human

Requirements for Northwestern University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
U.S. Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.