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

David Bholat - London, England (Global culture of capitalism, commercial banking, monetary theory, interest as an institution; "The Cunning of Checking: The Temporal Bounds of Captialist Banking")
Joe Bonni (A) - Mediterranean (Late Roman Christianization of Europe and indigenous resistance; European sites with Christian and indigenous pagan architecture still extant)
Natalja Czarnecki - Central and Eastern Europe (Capitalism, post-socialism, social imaginaries, "middle class," mass media, neoliberalism, language)
Michael Di Giovine - Italy (Tourism, pilgrimage, popular piety, heritage, placemaking, revitalization and development, museums, art, UNESCO/World Heritage sites; "Making Saints, Re-Making Towns: Toruism and Reviatlization in the Land of Padre Pio")
Megan Edwards (A) - Ireland, British Atlantic colonies (North America and Ireland; early modern British expansion, historical archaeology, foodways, colonialism and modernization; history and material remains of "industrialized" whiskey distillation in post-medieval Ireland)
Elizabeth Fagan (A) - Greece/Asia Minor/Southwest Asia (Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture)
Anna Jabloner - Germany & the US (Feminist science studies, genetics, capitalism, race, gender; "Multicultural Technologies of 'Race': (Re)Productions of Racisim in European and US Gene Databases")
Frederick Ketchum (MD/PhD) - Germany/US (Medical anthropology; performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), cognitive improvement, "cosmetic psychopharmacology," agency, subjectivity, identity; ethics)
Karim Mata (A) - NW Europe and Western Mediterranean (Iron Age, Roman Period, identity, martiality, socio-economic affiliation, survey methodology; ancient and modern representations of warrior societies, theorizing the social function of violence)
Benjamin Luley (A) - France (Iron Age/Roman Western Europe, especially southern France; colonialism/imperialism; money and systems of value)
Simon May - Britain/Fiji ("The Queen Still has Mana: On Ethnic Fijian Military Service in the British Armed Forces")
Francis McKay (Jt.w/CHSS) - Halle, Germany (Continental philosophy of social science, history and theory of anthropology -- existential, phenomenological and post-structuralist traditions. Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany)
(Shana) Ender Ricart - France (Technology, mass media, commodity culture and consumerism, phenomenology and social imaginaries)
Jessica Robinson - Britain and the British Caribbean (Britain and British ex-pat communities in the Anglophone Caribbean and Bermuda; colonialism/post-colonialism, citizenship, gender, constructions of Englishness, anthropology of sport, British cultural studies)
Lisa Simeone - International migration; Senegal/France/US ("Looking Homeward: Africans Living Race, Place and Desire in Paris and Chicago")
Eli Thorkelson - France (Universities, ideologies of knowledge, social relations and structure, history and sociology of literary theory and philosophy, academic politics, semiotic analysis of textual structure; "Political (Dis)Engagement and the Will to Knowledge in French Philosophy")
Shirley Yeung - Switzerland (Transnationalism, gender, race, citizenship, Filipina migration, cross-border marriage, transnational families, government discourses of migrants, Asian migrants in Europe)

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In the Field

Elayne Oliphant - Paris, France; "Signs of an Unmarked Faith: Cultural Practices of Discreet Catholicism in Paris" (Production of Catholicism as an intellectual culture that suits French secular identity -- artistic and cultural activities in Paris churches)
Tracey Rosen - Athens, Greece; "How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: An Ethnography of Chinese Capitalism at the EU's Frontier"

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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" (Defense October 2008)
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; "Schizophrenic Politics: Active Citizenship in Italy's Neo-Liberal Turn"
Maria Garrett de Liévano- Hamburg, Germany; " Imported Intimacies: Citizenship, the State and the Labor of Love in Thai Marriage Migration to Germany"
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"
Kari Robinson - Berlin, Germany (+ Bonn, Karlsruhe, Aachen, Bremen, Dresden, Munich); "Ja Zum Leben: Abortion Counseling in Reunified Germany"
Tien-An (Anne) Shih - Seville, Spain & Vilcashuamán District, Peru; Historical anthropology; "Miracles and Ritual Transformation in the District of Vilcashuamán, Peru 1539-1670" [Archival research in Seville]
Anwen Tormey - Ireland; "Discreditable Subjects: Migration and the Politics of Protection 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”
Trevor Goldsmith - Barcelona, Spain; "The Quality of City Life: Constructing Barcelona in Public and Private"
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: Language, Labor and the State 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”
Nitzan Shoshan - Berlin, Germany; "Reclaiming Germany: Young Right Extremists, the Return of the Nation, and the State of Politics on the Streets of East Berlin"
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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