State Emergence and Development Social Science Experts in Institutions and Policies: State Emergence and Development Heading link Copy link Dr. Brian Bauer | Anthropology development of complex societies in the Americas and the European – American contact period Dr. Tarini Bedi | Anthropology intersection of urban and political anthropology, anthropology of infrastructure, roads, and mobilities, cultural geography, and gender studies methods: urban ethnography Dr. Mitch Hendrickson | Anthropology complex interaction between networks and technologies methods: archaeological data (survey and excavations) Dr. Laura Junker | Anthropology political economy and political ecology of pre-modern chiefdoms and states methods: archaeological data (survey and excavations) and historical research (classic chronicles and archival documents) Dr. John Monaghan | Anthropology Dr. Bill Parkinson | Anthropology social dynamics of early village societies and the emergence of early states methods: archaeological data (survey and excavations) and historical research (classic chronicles and archival documents) Dr. Kareem Rabie | Anthropology privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank methods: urban ethnography Dr. Anna Roosevelt | Anthropology human ecology and evolution methods: archaeological data (survey and excavations) and historical research (classic chronicles and archival documents) Dr. Yue Zhang | Political Science intersection of comparative and urban politics, with a focus on political economy of development, urbanization in the Global South, metropolitan and urban governance