Rosemary Joyce is a professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Global, International & Area Studies (GIAS).

Global, International & Area Studies (GIAS) is the leading research and outreach hub for international and area studies on the UC Berkeley campus. It is home to the Institute of International Studies (IIS) and the Area Studies cluster combined of the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS), the Center for African Studies (CAS), the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Institute of European Studies (IES), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the Canadian Studies Program.

Rosemary Joyce's research is concerned with questions about the ways people employ things in actively negotiating their place in society, the lives and itineraries of objects, and the reframing of human engagement with the world in terms of materiality.

Some areas of her research interests are materiality and the archaeology of inequality; gender, sex, and sexuality; cultural heritage policy; Central America and Mexico.

Source: https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/rosemary-joyce