Naran Bilik Pamela Feldman- Savelsberg Jim Fisher Jerome Levi Beverly Nagel Annette Nierobisz Nader Saiedi Nancy Wilkie

Naran Bilik received his early education in Inner Mongolia, and his M.A. in ethnology and Ph.D. in linguistics from the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing. After two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University, between 1992 and 1994, he conducted fieldwork in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan. Naran is interested in semiotic approaches to ethnicity and politico-cultural boundaries. He teaches courses on language and culture, theory of race and ethnicity, anthropology of Japan, and race and ethnicity in the U.S. and China. He has worked as a consultant with the World Bank and UNDP, and he has participated in many development projects and training programs in China. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on Race and Ethnicity. Naran first came to Carleton as Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology in 2001. He is the Visiting Bernstein Chair of Anthropology and East Asian Studies for 2003.