University of Chicago: Department of Anthropology: About the Department

University of Chicago Anthropologists who work in Western Europe

Faculty
Students:
     Preparing for the field
     In the field
     Writing up
     Recent PhDs

Faculty:

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha - Archives in Portugal, England, Italy, France; Goias, Brazil (Kraho), Upper Jurua, Acre, Brazil; Nigeria
Michael Dietler (A) - Southern France; Kenya (Luo) (Archaeology & ethnoarchaeology; colonialism & post colonialism, political economy, consumption, ritual, material culture, memory, identity politics)
Kesha D. Fikes – Portugal, Cape Verde, Lusophone Africa (Race and the bureaucracies of spatial mobility, relations between colonial migrant labor projects and post-colonial/post-independence migrant labor phenomena)
Susan Gal - Hungary, Austria (Linguistic anthropology, politics of communication, sociolinguistics, social theory, gender, ethnicity, post socialism)
Karin Knorr Cetina – Europe (globalization, cultural studies, economic sociology/anthropology, knowledge, science & information)
James Fernandez - Asturias, Spain; Ethnohistorical research in Madrid, Barcelona, Castile, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfort, Cologne, Paris; Gabon, Dahomey, Togo, Ghana, Natal;
Leslie Freeman (A) - Cantabrian Spain

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Students:

Preparing for the Field

Joe Bonni (A) - Europe (Late Roman Christianization of Europe and indigenous resistance; European sites with Christian and indigenous pagan architecture still extant)
Michael Di Giovine - Italy (Tourism, pilgrimage, popular piety, heritage, placemaking, art worlds, museums, UNESCO/World Heritage sites)
Megan Edwards (A) - British Atlantic colonies (North America and Ireland; early modern British expansion, historical archaeology, foodways)
Elizabeth Fagan (A) - Greece/Asia Minor/Southwest Asia (Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture)
Anna Jabloner - Europe? (Science Studies, laboratory studies, genetics; gender, ethnicity, ‘race,' science and technology, history of science, life sciences, queer studies)
Frederick Ketchum (MD/PhD) - Germany/US (Medical anthropology; performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), cognitive improvement, "cosmetic psychopharmacology," nexus of enhancements, medicine and identity)
Karim Mata (A) - NW Europe and Western Mediterranean (Iron Age, Roman Period, Identity, Martiality, Socio-Economic Affiliation, Survey Methodology)
Benjamin Luley (A) - Europe/Old World (Cross-cultural contact between Iron Age temperate Europe and the Mediterranean world during the Roman Iron Age; colonialism, economic archaeology)
Simon May - Britain/Fiji ("The Queen Still has Mana: The Neo-Colonial Recruitment of Fijians into the British Army")
Elayne Oliphant - France ("Laïcité and Discreet Religiosity: Experiences of Catholicism in Secular France")
(Shana) Ender Ricart - France (Linguistic anthropology, religious movements, religious language, mass media, popular culture, consumerism, symbolic anthropology)
Jessica Robinson - Britain/Spain (Britain and British ex-pat communities in Trinidad and Spain; political anthropology, constructions of Englishness, public culture, anthropology of sport; British cultural studies)
Lisa Simeone - International migration; France/Senegal ("Looking Homeward: Politics of Desire and the Riddle of African Integration in Contemporary France")
Eli Thorkelson - France (Universities, ideologies of knowledge, social relations and structure, history and sociology of literary theory and philosophy, linguistic anthropology. "Philosophy and Institutional Structure in Parisian Universities")

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In the Field

Tracey Rosen - Athens, Greece; "How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: An Ethnography of Chinese Capitalism at the EU's Frontier"
Tien-Ann Shih (A) - Spain and Peru; "Value in Contemporary and Historical Andean Pilgrimage"

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Writing Up

Kimberly Arkin - Paris, France; " ‘It's the French and the Arabs against the Jews': Identity Politics and the Construction of Adolescent Jewishness in France"
Marcus Aurin - Berlin, Germany; "Science and Cultures: Eastern Germany's ‘Second Scientific Culture' " [East German social scientists in reunified Germany who remain professionally active but are excluded from mainstream academic institutions]
Alice Colombi - Turin, Italy; "Politics Otherwise: Intercultural Interstices and Gender Gaps in Italy's Neo-Liberal Turn"
Maria Garrett - Hamburg, Germany; " Imported Intimacies: Citizenship, the State and the Labor of Love in Thai Marriage Migration to Germany"
Trevor Goldsmith - Barcelona, Spain; "The Quality of City Life: The Battle for Legitimacy in the Transformation of Barcelona"
Byron Hamann (Jt.Hist) -Valencia, Spain/ Oaxaca, Mexico; "Bad Christians, New Spains: Transatlantic Transformations, Inquisitions, and Local Social Conflicts in 16th Century Yanhuitlán and Valencia"
Alexandra Hartnett (A) - Galway, Ireland (Medieval Ports); "The Virtues of Vice: Colonialism, Consumption and the Politics of Identity in Late and Post-Medieval Galway, Ireland"
Anna Lagia (P) - Athens, Greece; "A Bioarchaeological Survey of Social Structure in the Polis of Athens during the Classical, Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods"
Kenneth McGill - Berlin/Hellersdorf, Germany; "Bist du was: State, Labor and Culture on the Edge of Berlin"
Deann Muller (A) - Mainz, Germany; "Relative Wealth? Kinship, Mortuary Practice and Social Structure in the West Hallstatt Early Iron Age"
Kari Robinson - Berlin, Germany (+ Bonn, Karlsruhe, Aachen, Bremen, Dresden, Munich); "Ja Zum Leben: Abortion Counseling in Reunified Germany"
Nitzan Shoshan - Berlin, Germany; "Violence, Space, and Visibility: Place Making and the Return of the Nation Among Right Extremists in East Berlin"
Anwen Tormey - Ireland; "Entering the Celtic Tiger: Migration and Nation-State in Ireland"

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Recent PhDs

Sareet Amrute - Berlin, Germany; "Producing Mobility: Indian ITers in an Interconnected World"
Daphne Berdahl - The Eichsfeld, Germany; “Where the World Ended: Identity, Differentiation and Unification in the German Borderland”
Jeffrey Bennett – Lisbon & Fatima, Portugal; “Crisis, Revitalization, and Religious Politics in Portugal (1917-1932): The Fátima Apparitions and the Catholic Counterrevolution”
Dominic Boyer - Berlin, German; “Spirit and System: Ethnographic Studies of Modern German Intellectual Culture”
Matti Bunzl - Vienna, Austria; “From Silence to Defiance : Jews and Queers in Contemporary Austria”
Donald Carter -- Turin, Italy (Senegalese immigrant laborers); “Invisible Cities: Touba-Turin Senegalese Transnational Migrants in Northern Italy”
Steve Coleman - Connemara, Western Co. Galway, Ireland; “Return from the West: A Poetics of Voice in Irish”
Anthony D'Andrea - Ibiza, Spain; Goa; “Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa”
Eve Darian-Smith - Dover, Ashford & Canterbury, East Kent, England; Calais, France; “Landscapes of Law: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe”
Sarah Deleporte - Paris, France; "The Trocadéro Matrix: Politics and Practice in French Ethnographic Museums"
Verity Elston - Badolato, Italy, Brussels, Belgium; “Through Constantine’s Arch: Entering the Market and Haven of Europe"
Mayanthi Fernando – Paris, France, “ 'French Citizens of Muslim Faith': Islam, Secularism and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary France”
Eylana Goldman Goffe (P) – Netherlands; “Preferential Relationship, Reciprocity and Interchange among Female Bonobos at Apenheul Primate Park, the Netherlands”
Kathleen Hall - Leeds, England (Sikh community); “Becoming British Sikhs: The Politics of Identity and Difference in Post-colonial England”
Monica Ibanez-Angulo - Gernika, Bizkaia, Spain; “The Nation within the State: Basque Nationalism and Everyday Life in Gernika”
Janet Morford - Paris, France; “La Décontraction: The Modernization of Middle-Class Manners in Contemporary France”
Emily McEwan-Fujita - Western Isles, Scotland; “Gaelic in Scotland, Scotland in Europe : Minority Language Revitalization in the Age of Neoliberalism”
Kenneth McGill – Berlin/Hellersdorf, Germany; “Bist du was: State, Labor and Culture on the Edge of Berlin”
Andrea Muehlebach - Milan, Italy; "The Moral Neo-Liberal: Welfare State and Ethical Citizenship in Contemporary Italy"
Barra O’Donnabhain (P) - Ardfert, Co. Kerry, Ireland & Iceland; “Immigrants and Indigenes: Morphological Variability and Irish-Viking Interactions in the Early Historic Period”
Gustav Peebles - Southern Sweden/Eastern Denmark; “The Search for Sound Currencies: An Anthropological Approach to the European Monetary Union”
James Pokines (A) - El Juyo, Santander, Spain; “Microfaunal Indicators of Paleoenvironment from El Juyo, Santander, Spain”
Frank Romagosa - Paris, France / Martinique; “‘Sea History’: The Location of Race in the French Atlantic World”
A. Jamie Saris - Dublin & Belmullet, co. Mayo, West Ireland; “The Proper Place for Lunatics: Asylum, Person and History in a Rural Irish Community”
Kirsten Anderson Segal (P) - Odense, Denmark; “Bioarchaeological Analysis of St. Jorgensgard, A Medieval Leprosy Hospital in Odense, Denmark”
Paul Silverstein - Paris Suburbs of St. Denis, Aulnay-sous-Bois & Aubervilliers, France; “Trans-Politics: Islam, Berberity, and the French Nation-State”
Heather Stettler (A) - El Juyo, Santander, Spain; “Material Culture & Behavioral Change: Organic Artifacts from the Site of El Juyo and the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic”
David Sutton - Kalymnos, Greece; “Images of History: The Uses of the Past on a Greek Island [Kalymnos]”
Rob Van Veggel - Miravet, Catalonia, Spain; “The Potters and Pottery of Miravet: A Study of Production, marketing and Consumption in Catalonia”
Gary Wilder (Jt.Hist) - Paris, France; “Greater France between the Wars: Négritude, Colonial Humanism, and the Imperial Nation-State”

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