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Department of Anthropology Student Directory

Autumn 2008

For a list of graduate students by area of interest, visit World of Chicago.

*(1) - First year (2) - Pre-field
(3) - In the field (4) - Post field

Name (Year)RegionDissertation or InterestEMail
ALVAREZ, Anthony (2) (Arch) North America-California Southeast Asia-Philppines Colonialism as a process; comparison of aspects of Spanish colonialism in California and the Philippines; technology including GIS archtony@uchicago.edu
AMARAL, Adela (2) (Arch) Latin America-Mexico Historical Archaeology/Anthropology, colonialism, African Diaspora, Creolization; Veracruz coast maroon communities, politics of archaeology amaral@uchicago.edu
ANDERSON, Maureen (4) W Africa "Imagined Democracies and Nocturnal Communities: The State of Civil Society in Cote d'Ivoire" manders@uchicago.edu
ARDEN, John (2) US-Legal Anthropology of law, state sovereignty and globalization, transnational and international legal practice, NGOs, advocacy, cultural construction of the rule of law,  human rights; litigation under the Alien Tort Claims Act  
ARELLANO, Emilia (2) Latin America-Mexico-US Gifts, money and value; labor and citizenship; ritual in state holidays; immigration (Mexico to the US, Zacatecas to Chicago), Zacatecas hometown and state umbrella organizations in Chicago; "Migrant Remittances and Long Distance Membership" earellan@uchicago.ecu
ARKIN, Kimberly (4+) W Europe-France " 'It's the French and the Arabs against the Jews': Identity Politics and the Construction of Adolescent Jewishness in France" karkin@uchicago.edu
AUGUSTINE, Jonah (2) (Arch) Latin America-Bolivia/Andes Titicaca Basin; political landscapes, settlement patterns, urban/rural dynamics (rural sites around the core at Tiwanaku), pre-Columbian hierarchical polities, patterns of consumption, agricultural production jmaugustine@uchicago.edu
AURIN, Marcus (4) W Europe-Germany "Science and Cultures: Eastern Germany's Second Scientific Culture" mpaurin@uchicago.edu
AUTRY, William (4) (Arch) Latin America Mexico "Depopulation and the Transformation of Mixteca Society in the Early Colonial Period, 1500-1700: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Approach" woautry@uchicago.edu
BAKER, J. Ckristafer (2) US urban; Mexico Embodiment and marginalization, Female-to-Male transitioning; "Female-to-Male Embodiment and Practice: An Ethnography of Gender as a Social Category in the US" jcbaker@uchicago.edu
BAUER, Andrew (4) (Arch) South Asia-India "Socializing Environments and Ecologizing Politics: Land Use and Social Differentiation in Iron Age Northern Karnataka" bauer@uchicago.edu
BECHTER, Frank (4+) US Deaf Culture "Of Deaf Lives: Convert Culture and the Dialogic of ASL Storytelling" fbechter@uchicago.edu
BHOLAT, David (2) W Europe - Britain Global culture of capitalism; commercial banking, monetary theory, interest as an institution; "The Cunning of Checking: The Temporal Bounds of Capitalist Banking" dbholat@uchicago.edu
BLANCHETTE, Alexander (2) Southwest US/Texas Panhandle American agribusiness ["factory" hog farms], farm labor and organization; political ecology, cultural studies of capitalism, industrial history blanchet@uchicago.edu
BLOECHL, Christopher (1) Latin America - Peru/Andes Linguistic anthropology, mediation, the internet, language ideologies, philosophies of language/mind cbloechl@uchicago.edu
BLUNT, Robert (4) Africa-Kenya "Fake Mau Maus and Ambiguous States: Oathing, Criminality and History in Contemporary Kenya" (about the "Mungiki sect" and the commuter taxi industry) rwblunt@uchicago.edu
BONNI, Joe (2) (Arch) Mediterranean Mediterranean; Late Roman Christianization of Europe & indigenous resistance; European sites with both Christian and indigenous pagan architecture still extant joebonni@uchicago.edu
BRADA, Betsey (3/4) Africa-Botswana "The World is Our Clinic: Citizenship, Philanthropy, and the Logic of AIDS Interventions in Contemporary Botswana" bbbrada@uchicago.edu
BROWN, Caroline (4) Native No America-Alaska " 'A Most Vital Resource': Legal Practice, Child Welfare, and Alaska Native Identity" brownie@mosquitonet.com
BRUMMEL, Elizabeth (2) Africa-Kenya Linguistic Anthropology, language ideology, language socialization, multilingualism in education; relative positions of Swahili and English in the post-indpendence Kenyan education system, the role that Pan-Africanism has played in the imaginings of Swahili as a 'national' language; the 1964 Ominde "Kenya Education Commission Report" ebrummel@uchicago.edu
BUICE, Jenifer Blaxall (4) US Urban Education "Pedagogy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Education: On the Quality of Education in U.S. Schools" j-blaxall@uchicago.edu
CALVÃO, Filipe (3) Portuguese Colonies Angola & Mozambique Colonialism and postcolonialism, the culture of capitalism and neoliberalism, commodity theory and circulation, theories of labor and value, state, sovereignty, law; the economy and governance of diamonds in Angola; "The Rough and the Cut: Law, Value, and Fetish in a Postcolonial Diamond Enclave" fcalvao@uchicago.edu
CAMPISI, Christina (1) Latin America - Chile Economic globalization; work, labor and culture, mining, community formation, citizenship, violence, migration, environmental issues and politics; "Constituting Communities: Water, Development and Imagined Futures in the Pascua Lama Mine, Chile" ccampisi@uchicago.edu
CASTOR, Nicole (4+) Caribbean-Trinidad "Invoking the Spirit: Public Culture and the Politics of Nationhood in Trinidad" ncastor@tamu.edu
CHANCE, Kerry (3) Africa-South Africa Politics of the Poor in the New South Africa; Post-apartheid protests originating in the townships and shack settlements against radical "disconnections" of electricity, water, medical services and housing chance@uchicago.edu
CHASE, Zachary (2) (Arch) Jt.w/ History Latin America-Andes/Peru; Hawaii Ethnohistory, landscape, historical archaeology, religion; "The Historical, Ritual and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochiri, Peru" chase@uchicago.edu
CHEN, Chen (1) East Asia - China Anthropology of the body, visual anthropology, historical anthropology, postcolonialism chch@uchicago.edu
CHOWDHURY, Nusrat (4) South Asia-Bangladesh Crime, politics, grassroots mobilization, middle class; "The Phulbari Anti-Mining Movement and the Politics of 'Nature' in Bangladesh" nusrat@uchicago.edu
CHUMLEY, Lily (3/4) East Asia-China Beijing, Taipei "Creativity and Capitalism in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing" (Art education, ideologies of creativity) chumley@uchicago.edu
COLOMBI, Alice (4) W Europe-Italy "Schizophrenic Politics: Active Citizenship in Italy's Neo-Liberal Turn" alcst36@uchicago.edu
COYLE, Lauren (1) West Africa Money and Banking in postcolonial settings, neoliberalism, queer theory, linguistic anthropology, historical ethnography, technocracy, legal anthropology lcoyle@uchicago.edu
CZARNECKI, Natalja (1) Central & Eastern Europe Capitalism, post socialism, social imaginaries, "middle class," mass media, neoliberalism, language czarnecki@uchicago.edu
DAS, Nitya Deepa (2) South Asia Legal anthropology, Hinduism, citizenship, ritual practice; "Legislating Hinduism: Performance and Politics in the Practice of Sati" ndd@uchicago.edu
De QUINTAL, Denene (4) Native North America Race, Face, and American Indian Nations: Native American Identity in the Northeast (Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut) dadequin@uchicago.edu
DI GIOVINE, Michael (2) Italy, Southeast Asia Italy; Cambodia/Vietnam; tourism, pilgrimage/popular piety, heritage, placemaking, revitalization and development, museums, art, UNESCO/World Heritage sites; "Making Saints, Re-Making Towns: Tourism and Revitalization in the Land of Padre Pio" digiovim@uchicago.edu
DINGLEY, Zebulon (1) Africa - Kenya Neotraditionalism, "African Independent Churches," witchcraft, ritual, the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis zdingley@uchicago.edu
DOUGHAN, Yazan (2) Middle East-Jordan Anthropology of media; urban regeneration in Amman; theorizing space and time; nationalism, language ideologies, authority, pictorial representation; "Media Representations of Urban Regeneration and Nationalism in Amman, Jordan" yazan@uchicago.edu
DOWDY, Sean (1) South Asia - India Indebtedness and Indian debt collection firms, desire and intention as cultural categories, colonial law/legal history, public affect, anthropology of everyday life sdowdy@uchicago.edu
DUBBELD, Bernard (4) (Jt. w/ History Africa-South Africa "Constructing a Respectable Home: History and the Landscape of Aspiration in the KwaZulu-Natal Hinterland" bdubbeld@uchicago.edu
EASTMAN, Benjamin (4) Latin America-Cuba "Playing with Fire: Baseball and Moral Authority in Contemporary Cuba" beast@uchicago.edu
EDWARDS, Megan (2) (Arch) British Atlantic colonies North America and Ireland; early modern British expansion, historical archaeology, foodways, colonialism and modernization; hisotry and material remains of "industrialized" whiskey distillation in post-medieval Ireland megane@uchicago.edu
ENRIQUEZ, Falina (2) US and Brazil Ethnomusicology, identity, race, entextualization; linguistic ideologies, semiotics; Genres (regional vs national) in Brazilian popular music/interaction with discourses on identity and race lafalina@uchicago.edu
FAGAN, Elizabeth (2) (Arch) (Jt w/History) Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture; "Statements of power in the architecture and epigraphy of three capitals in Armenia between ca 600 BC - 400 AD" egafagan@uchicago.edu
FAULKNER, Gwen (4) Latin Amer/US Migration "Making War and Making Peace from Abroad: Guatemalan Refugees as Transnational Actors" g-faulkner@uchicago.edu
FEENEY, William (2) East Asia - Japan Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, genre and intertextuality, popular representations of violence, institutionality, language education and standardization, religion in Japan; "Intertextualities and Institutionalizations of Violence in the Production of Japanese Comedy and Comedians" wfeeney@uchicago.edu
FEINBERG, Joseph Grim (3) East/Central Europe Slovakia; Polynesia "Valleys of Hunger, Cities of Shine: An Investigation into the Possibility of Folklore and Democracy in Czecho-Slovakia at the 'End of History'" feinberg@uchicago.edu
FENNELL, Catherine (4) US urban - Chicago "The Last Project Standing: Building an Ethics for a City without Public Housing" ckf@uchicago.edu
FESER, Ali (2) Middle East-Lebanon; US-War on Terror State sovereignty and governance; gender and sexuality; memory, violence and youth politics feser@uchicago.edu
FLAM, Danielle (2) East Asia-China Place, home, community, memory, views on death and dying; the state, political authority; "Relocation and (Re)burials around the Three Gorges Dam: The Politics of Dislocation and the Rebuilding of Community" dflam@uchicago.edu
FRANKLIN, Kathryn (2) (Arch) Armenia & the Caucasus, Russian and Eastern Europe/Eurasia Archaeology of long distance mobility; "Trade routes and structural distances: Movement, trade and social change in the early medieval south Caucasus, AD 300-1300" kathrynjane@uchicago.edu
GARRETT de LIÉVANO, Maria (4) Europe-Germany, Thailand "Imported Intimacies: Citizenship, the State and the Labor of Love in Thai Marriage Migration to Germany" mcgarret@uchicago.edu mariaclewes@yahoo.com
GASTROW, Claudia (2) Southern Africa, Angola Portuguese Atlantic empire, Lusophone Africa; colonialism, urban anthropology, space and place, historical anthropology, the archive cgastrow@uchicago.edu
GERAGHTY, Mark (3) Africa-Rwanda An ethnographic investigation of Genocide Ideology in Rwanda geraghty@uchicago.edu
GHAZAL, Royal (4) (Arch) Middle East-Oman; Indian Ocean Rim "Craft and Trade in Bronze Age Oman from the Perspective of the Coastal Ja'alaan Region" omar1@uchicago.edu
GIRALDO, Santiago (4) (Arch) Latin America-Colombia "Lords of the Snowy Ranges: Sociocultural Transformations of Landscape in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia (1000-1600 AD)" sgiraldo@uchicago.edu
GOLDFARB, Kathryn (2) E Asia-Japan Gender relations, nationalist discourses, medical anthropology, reproductive technology, science studies, kinship, gender and discourse; "Preserving the Body Politic: Nationhood, Citizenship and Advanced Reproductive Technologies in Japan" kgold@uchicago.edu
GONÇALVES, João Felipe (3) Latin America and the Caribbean Cuba/Brazil

"Nationalism and the City: Havana and Miami as Cuban Capitals"

joaofg@uchicago.edu
GODBOUT, Geneviève (1)    (Arch) Caribbean, British colonial settlements Historical archaeology of colonialism, landscape archaeology, archaeology of foodways and performance ggodbout@uchicago.edu
GRAAN, Andrew (4) SE Europe-Macedonia "Permanent Transition: News Media and the Everyday Politics of International Oversight in Post-Conflict Macedoina" apgraan@uchicago.edu
GRAFF, Rebecca (4) (Arch) US-Chicago, Great Lakes "The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Consumption, Tourism, and the Archaeology of Event in Chicago's Jackson Park" rsgraff@uchicago.edu
GRAIF, Peter (3) South Asia-Nepal "How to be understood when you speak: Difference, Intelligibility, and Activism in Deaf Nepal" pjgraif@uchicago.edu
GRAY, D. Ryan (2) (Arch) Southeastern US Historical archaeology of New Orleans; urban 'slums' and informal development in cities; urban development and contested space; unplanned development and populations that are poorly documented in the historic record; crime, criminality, and identity in the 19th century dryangray@uchicago.edu
GREENE, Alan (3) (Arch) Asia Minor / the Caucasus "The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Ceramic Production and Exchange in Tsaghkahovit, Armenia" agreene@uchicago.edu
GUENGERICH, Anna (2) (Arch) Latin America - Andes Peru/Andes-Chachapoyas region; core/periphery interactions in sociopolitical organizations; household archaeology; food and consumption; gender guengeri@uchicago.edu
HAMANN, Byron (4) (Jt. w/History) Latin America-Oaxaca, Mexico "Bad Christians, New Spains: Transatlantic Transformations, Inquisitions, and Local Social Conflicts in 16th Century Yanhuitlán and Valencia" behamann@uchicago.edu
HAMRICK, Robert (4) (Jt.w/Ling) Latin America-Guatemala "Sociolectal Difference in a Town of Shopkeepers: Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala" rphamric@uchicago.edu
HANDMAN, Courtney (4) (Jt. w/Linguistics) Papua New Guinea "Schism and Christianity: The Social Organization of Denominationalism in the Waira Valley, Papua New Guinea" cjhandma@uchicago.edu
HANKINS, Joseph (4) E Asia-Japan Ethnicity, the nation and the other; multiculturalism and the politics of recognition; ideology, semiotics, subjects; "Working through Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan" doylej@uchicago.edu
HANLON, Julie (2) (Arch) South Asia-India/Tamilnadu; Indian Ocean rim Tamil Nadu and the Indian Ocean Rim; underwater archaeology, archaeological survey; economic anthropology (mobility, exchange, urbanization) jhanlon@uchicago.edu
HANNIG, Anita (2) Africa-Ethiopia/Eritrea (Post-)colonialism, refugees, diaspora, ethnic conflict; "The Politics of Resettlement Schemes and Opposition Formation at Shimelba Refugee Camp, Northern Ethiopia" ahannig@uchicago.edu
HARA, Kristyn (1) (Arch) Oceania Environmental archaeology, demography, paleobotany, subsistence systems, human ecodynamics krishara@uchicago.edu
HARKNESS, Nicholas (3/4) E Asia-South Korea Germany Semiotics of culture; theoretical persepctives on the voice; "The Voices of Seoul: A Study of Chronotopic Shift at the Phonic-Sonic Nexus" hark@uchicago.edu
HARTIKAINEN, Elina (3) Latin America-Brazil Linguistic Anthropology: language ideologies, register phenomena, indexicalities; Candomblé: Spirit possession, religion in the African diaspora, social types in national imaginaries. "From Public Discourse to Spirit Speech: The Circulation and (Re)contextualization of Public Discourses on Africanness in Brazilian Candomblé" elina@uchicago.edu
HARTLEY, Charles (3) (Arch) EAsia-China "Community, Pottery, and Public Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE" chartley@uchicago.edu
HARTNETT, Alexandra (Arch) (4) W Euorpe-Ireland "The Virtues of Vice: Colonialism, Consumption and the Politics of Identity in Late and Post-Medieval Galway, Ireland" a-hartnett@uchicago.edu
HASTINGS, Julie (2) US Intellectual property law/trademark law, marketing, semiotic theory jhastings@uchicago.edu
HEARD, Debora (2) (Arch) Africa Egypt/Nubia State Power: ideology, religion and material culture; Archaeology of Ideology: iconography, landscape and ritual; "The intersection of religion and politics in the establishment and maintenance of the Kushite (Napatan/Meroitic) state" ddheard@uchicago.edu
HEINSCH, MaryFran (4) (Arch) Russia Caucasus "Technology Networks: Understanding Technical Variation in Kura-Araxes Period Ceramics as Evidence for Community Interaction in the Eastern Caucasus" mfheinsc@uchicago.edu
HIBBARD, Stephen (4) (Jt.w/Linguistics) E Europe-Poland "Iconic Communities: Linguistic Practice, Cultural Performance, and Ideologies of Nationhood in the Polish Highlands" s-hibbard@uchicago.edu
HILAL, Yaqub (1) Middle East Bedouin subjectivity; gender, linguistics, semiotics yhilal@uchicago.edu
HITE, Emma (1) (Arch) Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe Bronze and Iron Age; ritual and symbolic behaviors in nomadic mortuary contexts; human and faunal remains emmahite@uchicago.edu
HORNE, Brian (3) Russia Mass media, aesthetics, audio technology, music; "'Save Our Souls': Russian Bards and the 'Sound' of State Transformation" bhorne@uchicago.edu
HUMPHREYS, Laura-Zoe (3) (Jt.w/Cinema/Media Studies) Latin America-Cuba "Films that Make You Think: Cuban Cinema between the Socialist State and the Global Market." Cuban and New Wave cinemas, anthropology of intellectuals, aesthetics and politics, semiotics, queer theory laurazoe@uchicago.edu
INGEBRETSON, Britta East Asia - China Language and ideology, critical language study, class, the modernizing process and postsocialism, transformation of urban spaces ingebretson@uchicago.edu
JABLONER, Anna (2) Science Studies (US/Germany) Feminist science studies, genetics, capitalism, race, gender; "Multicultural Technologies of 'Race': (Re)Productions of Racisim in European and US Gene Databases" annajabloner@uchicago.edu
JAMISON, Kelda (4) Turkey "Inscribing Illiteracies: Standarizing Linguistic Practices and Publics in Kurdish Turkey" keldaj@uchicago.edu
JASAREVIC, Larisa (4) East Europe-Bosnia "The Intimate Debt: Health, Wealth and Reordering of a New Bosnian State" larisa@uchicago.edu
JAUREGUI, Beatrice (4) South Asia-India "Shadows of the State, Subalterns of the State: Police, Authority and 'Law and Order' in Postcolonial India" bea@uchicago.edu
JENKINS, Andrea (1) Americas The Americas, Atlantic world; settler nations; indigenous peoples of the Americas, African diaspora, education, social movements, race, marginalization aljenkins@uchicago.edu
JHA, Shefali (1) South Asia - India South India/Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh; secularism and its relationship with caste politics and minority religious identity shefalij@uchicago.edu
JOHNSON, Zada (3)

US-New Orleans; Cuba

"The Second-Line After the Storm: Race and Space in the Street Parade Traditions of Post-Katrina New Orleans" zjohnson@uchicago.edu
JONES, Jeremy (4) Africa-Zimbabwe Youth, gender, temporality (specifically the future), the everyday, value and representation; "The Everyday Construction of the Future Amongst Zimbabwe's Urban Youth" jayeljay@ycgicago.edu
KAHN, Jeffrey (4) Caribbean and West Africa Haiti, Benin Sovereignty, nation-state, liberalism; space, place and circulation; biomedicine, biopolitics, and HIV/AIDS; "Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Quarantine: The Haitian Migrants on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 1991-1994" jskahn@uchicago.edu
KAUTZ, Sarah (2) (Arch) East Asia-Japan Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (Dutch at Dejima); Commodities and materiality, value and commensuration, early modern globalization and commerce, sociality of economic transactions, alterity skautz@uchicago.edu
KETCHUM, Frederick (2) (Jt MD/PhD) Western Europe-Germany; US Medical anthropology, performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), cognitive improvement, "cosmetic psychopharmacology"; agency, subjectivity, identity; ethics fketchum@uchicago.edu
KIM, Kiho (2) East Asia-Northeast China Transformation of local governance in China, urban-place making in rural districts, the political language of environmentalism and sustainable development; government promotion of organic farming/farmers' response to top-down environmental engineering kiho@uchicago.edu
KIM, Yongjin (2) Southeast Asia -           Indonesia (Bali)/Malaysia Culture and tourism, "objectification" of culture, museums and the politics of display; ethnicity and nationalism; bureaucracy and state-driven development projects; "Culture, Tourism and the Developmental State in Bali" kimyj@uchicago.edu
KIVLAND, Chelsey (3) Caribbean - Haiti Sovereignty, citizenship and difference, performance; "Of Bands and Soldiers: Performing Governance in Contemporary Haiti" chelsey@uchicago.edu
KOCHEMS, Lee (4) US Medical "Gay Culture: Identity and Assertive Symbolic Activity among Gay Men in America" LMKochems@aol.com
KOHL, Owen (2) Southeast Europe; former Yugoslavia Ethnomusicology, media, ethnographic film, youth culture, hip hop studies; why hip hop resonates with young people in vastly different cultural contexts owenkohl@uchicago.edu
KOHN, Alison (4) (Arch) Andes and S France "Of Bricks and Blood: Vernacular Spatial Practice and Social Relations in the City of LaPaz, Bolivia" akohn@uchicago.edu
KOSIBA, Steven (4+) (Arch) Latin America-Andes/Peru "Making the Imperial Heartland: Household Land, Labor, and Life during Inka Political Development (Cusco, Peru)" kosiba@uchicago.edu
KRAMER, Elise (2) US Linguistic anthropology, gender, humor, language ideology, popular media, medical anthropology elise@uchicago.edu
KRIZANCIC, Catarina (4+) Oceania-Tahiti "Tahiti Royale: Kingship and Stranger-Marriage above and beyond French Tahiti (1842-Present)" c-krizancic@uchicago.edu
KUTTY, Omar (4) South Asia-India "Purifying Labor: Public Goods and the Politics of Sanitation in Delhi" okutty@uchicago.edu
LABENSKI, Edward (4) Canada-Native North America "The Politics of Reconciliation: Self-Government and Bureaucratic Normalization of Aboriginal-State Relations in Saskatchewan" elabensk@uchicago.edu
LAGIA, Anna (4) (Phys) Greece, Eastern Mediterranean "A Bioarchaeological Survey of Social Structure in the Polis of Athens during the Classical, Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods" annalagia@googlemail.com
LAKIER, Genevieve (4+) South Asia-Nepal "The Spectacle of Politics: Protest, Violence and the Problem of Democracy in Nepal, 1990-2006" glakier@uchicago.edu
LEIGHTON, Mary (2) (Arch) Latin America-Bolivia, Chile, Peru Science studies, ethnography of archaeology, historiography; The use and impact of archaeology -- especially the political, ideological and economic impact of archaeological tourism and foreign excavations on indigenous peoples; "Making Experts, Making Expert Knowledge: The Dynamics of Labour, Authority and Knowledge in Andean Research Communities" mtfl2@uchicago.edu
LELIEVRE, Michelle (3) (Arch) North America-Nova Scotia "Crucible of Colonialism: Maligomish (Nova Scotia) and the Construction of Indigenous Social Landscapes in the Post-Contact Northeast (ca 1758-1930)" lelievma@uchicago.edu
LESLIE, Averill (2) US-Vermont Local government and community life in northern Vermont, citizenship, kinship, democracy, alterity, common sense; discourses of "real" Vermonterhood ajleslie@uchicago.edu
LEVIN, Erik (2) (Jt. Ling) Latin America Amazonia

Constructions of Truths and Authority with Grammaticized Evidentiality in Shamanic Discourse of the Rio Inuya Amawaka

ginlevin@uchicago.edu
LIN, Hu (4) (Arch) E Asia-China Empires, political economy and ancient cities; survey and regional analyses; "Nomadism, Urbanization, and Social Order: An Archaeological and Historical Study of a Steppe Town in Northeast China (10th-12th Centuries AD) [Liao]" hulin@uchicago.edu
LIRON, Tal (3) Northeast Asia Mongolia, Manchuria Anthropology of affect, value and circulation, modernities; "Intimacy as Imagined Community in Post-Revolutionary Mongolia" tliron@uchicago.edu
LUDWIG, Kathryn (1) Latin America/Mesoamerica Linguistic anthropology; indigenous languages and cultures; language loss and preservation; Maya language, culture and epigraphy kateludwig@uchicago.edu
LULEY, Banjamin (2) (Arch) Europe-France Iron Age/Roman Western Europe, especially southern France; colonialism/imperialism; money and systems of value bpluley@uchicago.edu
LUNA, Sarah (3) US/Mexico border Intersections of intimacy and economy; sex work and sex tourism; space, borders & nationalism; "Selling Sex and Making the Nation on the US/Mexican Border" luna@uchicago.edu
MALCOM, Christine (4) (Phys) Osteology "Cultural Markers and Craniometric Variation in the Lower and Middle Osmore Valley, Peru: A Model-Bound, Population Genetics Perspective" cmm9@uchicago.edu
MANGEANGO, Azande (3/4) Ringara Azand-Sudan, DR Congo, CentAfricanRep "Performing the Nation [Sudan]: CyberSpace, Commemoration, and the Social Production of Trans/National Identities" azande@uchicago.edu
MARSHALL, Maureen (3) (Arch) Eurasia, Caucasus Bronze Age Southern Caucasus; mortuary analysis and social complexity, bioarchaeology; "Burials and Bodies: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BC) Social Life in the Southern Caucasus" memarsh@uchicago.edu
MATA, Karim (2) (Arch) NW Europe, 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 kmata@uchicago.edu
MAY, Simon (2/3) Fiji and the Pacific; Britain "The Queen Still Has Mana: On Ethnic Fijian Military Service in the British Armed Forces" sjmay@uchicago.edu
McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (3) South Africa Genomics, Genealogy, Race. "Isolated Population?: The Production of Afrikaanerness in Post-Apartheid South Africa" kathmcd@uchicago.edu
McGUIRE, Meredith (3) South Asia and diaspora Media, globalization, capitalism, public culture; The Cultural Politics of American Service in Urban India [production of customer service in and around Indian call centers/"business process outsourcing" mcguire@uchicago.edu
McHARRY, Kathryn (2) Africa-Senegal, Francophone West Africa Anthropology of age/lifecourse/embodiment; development; science and technology studies; "Growing the Nation: Childhood, Medicine, and Technology in Senegal's Development" kmcharry@uchicago.edu
McKAY, Francis (1/2) (Jt. w/ CHSS) History of Anthropology, Germany Continental philosophy of social science, history and theory of anthropology -- existential, phenomenological and post-structuralist traditions.  Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany francismckay@uchicago.edu
McLACHLAN, Amy (1) Amazonia Personhood, gender, history, postcolonial studies, selfhood, linguistic and symbolic anthropology amy.mclachlan@gmail.com
McLEESTER, Madeleine (2) (Arch) US-urban, Ecology Political ecology, landscape theory, archaeobotanical analysis, human/environment interactions, historical archaeology; "Reclaiming Nature: How Social Imaginations of Nature Shape the Calumet Landscape through Time" maddie@uchicago.edu
MEIU, George Paul (2) East Africa-Kenya Sexuality and gender; Theories of embodiment and personhood; hegemonic processes in everyday life; visual representations and the stereotyping of bodies; Cultural tourism and the commodification of ethnicity; Identy politics among the Samburu of Northern Kenya meiu@uchicago.edu
MENDOZA, Marcos (3) Latin America- S.Chile, S.Argentina, W.Mexico Post-authoritarian Argentine politics; ecologies of capitalism; anthropology of environment; risk; "New Habitations: Risk Culture of Environmental Liberalism in a Patagonian Periphery [Parque Nacional los Glaciares]" mendoza@uchicago.edu
MIKHAYLOVA, Marina (3/4) East Europe-Lithuania Western Russia "Nation-State and the Politics of Youth in Contemporary Lithuania" marinam@uchicago.edu
MOHAMED, Kharnita (2) South Africa Anthropology of the senses and the body, visual culture, media, disability; ethnography of the blind kmohamed@uchicago.edu
MORGAN, Marston (4) Melanesia (New Caledonia) Algeria (French colonies) "Uncommon Origins: Ethno-Historical Politics in New Caledonia and the World beyond its Lagoon" marston@uchicago.edu
MORK, Carolyn (4) Russia "States of Care: Gender, Morality, and the Politics of Health Care in Post-Soviet Russia" camork@uchicago.edu
MORTON, G. Duff (2) (Jt. w/Social Service Admin) Latin America-Brazil/Mexico Economic anthropology, ideas of equality, social services/anthropology of social work, development, social movements, "identites of deprivation," homelessness/ landlessness, household economies duffmorton@uchicago.edu
MUIR, Sarah (4) Latin America-Argentina "Theorizing Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Conspiracy among the Buenos Aires Middle Class" muir@uchicago.edu
NAHIGIAN, Jolie (4) US urban "Making Culinary Worlds: Craft, Commodity and Cuisine in American Restaurants" jnnahigi@uchicago.edu
NAIR, Urmila (4) Tibet/North India "When the Sun's Rays are as Shadows: The Rituals of the Nechung Deity in Tibetan Exile" urmila@uchicago.edu
NOZAWA, Shunsuke (4) East Asia-Japan "The Advent of Readers: The Project(ion) of Remembering and the Semiotics of Inscription in Japanese Personal Historiography" snozawa@uchicago.edu
OLIPHANT, Elayne (3) W Europe-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] elayne@uchicago.edu
OLIVER, Chris (4) E Asia-Japan "Occidentalist Imaginings and the Question of Encounter: 'Intercultural Communication' in Contemporary Japan" c-oliver@uchicago.edu
PACIFICO, David (2) (Arch) Latin America-Andes Urbanism, household archaeology, landscape; style and (sub) culture in the archaeological record; public interest archaeology; communities surrounding archaeological sites (El Purgatorio, Casma, Peru) dpacifico@uchicago.edu
PANDYA, Mihir (3) US - Southern California The American military economy; intellectuals and social systems, corporate work, defense work, the place of low wage work; the American national project; regionalism, internationalism; "Secrecy by Design: Tracing the Stealth Project in Postwar California" mapandya@uchicago.edu
PAPPAS, Erin (2) Russia-Ukraine/Crimea Language ideologies, code-switching, bilingualism, gender and sexuality, nationalism, masculinity, queer activism; emergence of Gay Pride parades in East Europe and the planning process emanating from Western Europe pappasee@uchicago.edu
PAZ, Alejandro (4) (Jt. w/Ling) Middle East (Israel) and Latin America "Discursive Transformation: Ethnolinguistic Identites among Latin American Labor Migrants and their Children in Israel" aipaz@uchicago.edu
PFEIL, Gretchen (3/4) (Jt. Ling) Africa-Dakar, Senegal; US-based Evangelical missionary organizations "Small Change, Big Changes: Religious Commitments and the High Stakes of Small Charitable Gifts in Dakar, Senegal" pfeil@uchicago.edu
PHILPOT-MUNSON, Jennifer Jailey (4) Latin America-Guatemala " 'In God We Trust': Evangelical Churches, NGOs and 'Civil Society' in Post-War Guatemala" jjphilpo@uchicago.edu
PHOA, Yan (4) Latin America-Bolivia "The Anatomy of 'Participatory Developmnet': Aid Agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations and Local Communities in Bolivia"

phoa@uchicago.edu

QUIJADA, Justine Buck (4) Russia/Siberia "Opening the Roads: History and Religious Practice in Post-Soviet Buryatia" jbuck@uchicago.edu
RALPH, Laurence (4) US and the Caribbean

Theories of domination and resistance, anthropological theories of value, semiotics, ethnography of gangs and rap music.   " 'The Gang is Dead (?)': An Ethnography of Chicago Youth Socialization in the Wake of Corporation"

lralph@uchicago.edu
RAMASWAMI, Shankar (4) South Asia-India "Souls in Kalyug: Migrant Workers' Lives and Struggles in Contemporary Delhi" shankardelhi@yahoo.com
RAMSEY, Jason (3) (Arch) Mesoamerica-Yucatan "La Pro(piedad), or the Piety in Possession: Popular Consumption and Negotiations of Status on a Yucatecan Hacienda, 1700-1847" jdramsey@uchicago.edu
RAN, Michal (2) West Africa-Senegal; France Legal anthropoloogy; family, marriage, intimacy in Africa; Islam and the anthropology of religion; liberal political rule in post-colonial states; the civil/family law tradition in post-colonial Africa with focus on divorce disputations and the regulation of polygamy ranm@uchicago.edu
RAYMOND-YAKOUBIAN, Brenden (2) US, CircumPolar North Limits of knowledge [skepticism and its problems, metaphysical uncertainty and doubt]; mental disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder brenden@uchicago.edu
REDDY, Malavika (2) Southeast Asia-Thailand Refugees, humanitarianism, visibility, legal recognition mreddy@uchicago.edu
RICART, (Shana) Ender (2) North America, France Technology, mass media, commodity culture and consumerism, phenomenology and social imaginaries enderricart@uchicago.edu
RICH, Matthew (3) Northeast India/ Bangaldesh border Language ideologies, standardization, indigeneity; ethics and politics of community; "Encountering Khasi in Bangladesh: Languages of Beloning and Figures of Indigeneity" bangla@uchicago.edu
RIVERA, Gustavo (3) Latin America-Brazil "Spatial Governance: The Negotiation of Slum-Upgrading Programs in Belo Horizonte, Brazil" grivera@uchicago.edu
RIZZO, James (4) US - Nevada Gambling "No Desire is Lost: The Epistemology and Ethics of Capitalism" (on compulsive gambling) jnrizzo@uchicago.edu
ROBINSON, Jessica (2) W Europe-Britain and the British Caribbean Britain and British ex-pat communities in in the Anglophone Caribbean and Bermuda; colonialism / post-colonialism, citizenship, gender, constructions of Englishness, anthropology of sport, British cultural studies jsr1@uchicago.edu
ROBINSON, Kari (4) W Europe-Germany "Ja Zum Leben: Abortion Counseling in Reunified Germany" kmr@sugarloaf.net
ROSA, Jonathan (3) US-Urban "Spanglish-Only: Language Ideologies and the Fashioning of EthnoRacial Difference in a U.S. High School" jrosa1@uchicago.edu
ROSE, B. Theodore (2) West Africa-Liberia, Sierra Leone Governmentality, temporality, post-war development, humanitarianism; postcolonial studies btrose@uchicago.edu
ROSECAN, Stephen (4+) Native North America-Choctaw "Becoming Spiritually and Socially Aware: Transformative Experiences and Mississippi Choctaw Sweat Lodges" s-rosecan@uchicago.edu srosecan@hotmail.com
ROSEN, Tracey (3) Europe-Greece EAsia-China "How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: An Ethnography of Chinese Capitalism at the EU's Frontier" trosen@uchicago.edu
ROSENTHAL, Abigail (2/3) North America - American deaf community How a deaf community is constructed within American urban spaces - Sioux Falls, SD ajr@uchicago.edu
ROSENZWEIG, Melissa (2) (Arch) Turkey 2nd and 1st millennium BCE southeastern Anatolia; Political economics, interregional interaction, subsistence production and consumption; "The Impact of Interregional Interaction on Local Subsistence Strategies: A Case Study from Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey, 1500-600 BCE" mrosenzw@uchicago.edu
ROZO, Jennifer (2/3) (Arch) US Southwest Archaeology of New Mexico Pueblo groups under Spanish colonialism; landscape archaeology, archaeobotany jlschaff@uchicago.edu
RUBIN, Jonah (2) Latin America & the Caribbean; Spain Legal anthropology, anthropology of history, memory practices, pedagogy and learning jrubin@uchicago.edu
SAMMELLS, Clare (4) Latin America-Andes/Bolivia "Being Aymara in Touristic Tiwanaku: Capitalism, Development, Archaeology, and Politics" casammel@uchicago.edu
SAMOUKOVA, Nelly (2) US and Russia Medical anthropology; authority, legitimacy, religion, popular culture, consumption and identity, politics of the body; "Alternative Medicine and Folk Healing in Russia" nelly@uchicago.edu
SARFATY, Galit (4) World Bank Human Rights Issues "Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank" gsarfaty@uchicago.edu
SARGENT, Adam (2) South Asia-India (Bangalore) Language and political economy, cultures of capitalism; caste, class and alterity; semiotics and materiality of built space; the construction industry in Bangalore sargenta@uchicago.edu
SCHECHTER, Kate (4) US Mental Health US mental health professions, psychoanalysis/psychotherapy, psychological anthropology, language and subjectivity kates5@earthlink.net
SCHER, Micahel (4) Science Studies Law "Cultural Practice, Legal Norms, and Intellectual Banditry in the Contemporary US" [Computer crime, resistance, and historical precedents] mbscher@uchicago.edu
SCHUSTER, Caroline (2) Latin America-Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil tri-national border Economic anthropology; development policy; Ciudad del Este free trade zone; microcredit, circuits of commerce, kinship and gender, regulatory forms; indigeneity, state/multicultural statecraft carlys@uchicago.edu
SCOTT, Patrick (4) (Arch) Latin America-Peruvian North Coast "Value and Foreignness in the Late Moche Period Jequetepeque Valley, Peru" pmscott@uchicago.edu
SHEKLIAN, Chrisopher (1) Armenia Religion, secularism, law, nationalism, agency, subject formation, identity politics, diaspora, visual anthropology, modernity sheklian@uchicago.edu
SHIH, Tien-Ann (4) Latin America-Peru, Iberia Historical anthropology; "Miracles and Ritual Transformation in the District of Vilcashuaman, Peru 1539-1670" tshih@uchicago.edu
SIMEONE, Lisa (2) International migration Senegal/France/US Globalization, international migration (Senegal to France to the US), mobility and membership beyond the postcolony, cultures of capitalism; citizenship and difference; "Looking Homeward: Africans Living Race, Place and Desire in Paris and Chicago" lsimeone@uchicago.edu
SKJON, Erik Lee (3) Africa-Mozambique Pemba and Mecúfi Districts (Shankan Makhuwa dialect area), Cabo Delgado Province, Northern Mozambique; tropes and morpho-syntax, ethno-regionalism, areal linguistics, value circuits; "The Regional Dynamics of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Mozambique: Its Figures and Grounds in Three Makhuwa Networks" eschoen@uchicago.edu
SLOTTA, James (3) (Jt. w/Ling) Oceania-Papu New Guinea, Canadian Arctic Historical linguistics, language change and variation, historical consciousness and historiography, ethnonationalist movements; "Dialect Register and the Big Man: The Social Organization of Sproadic Linguistic Innovations in the Yupno Valley, PNG"; "Language Change and Generational Politics in a Canadian Inuit Community" jslotta@uchicago.edu
SOSA, (Joseph) Jay (2) Latin America-Brazil Urban Brazil, global cities and the emergent middle class; Internet studies; queer thoery; anonymity, intimacy; queer consumerism and activism; the role of urban and communication technologies in the constitution of gender/sexuality jsosa@uchicago.edu
SPRINGER, Jenny (4) South Asia-India " 'Development' and Agricultural Practice in South India"  
STVAN, Jeffrey (3) (Arch) Latin America-Peru "Constructing Moche V: Architectural Practice and Socio-Spatiality in the Lower Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, AD 550-750" jastvan@uchicago.edu
SULLIVAN, LaShandra (2) Latin America-Brazil; Africa Biofuels, ethanol, sugarcane, plantations, labor, gender; "Labor, Gender and the New Ethanol Plantations in the Brazilian Countryside" lps@uchicicago.edu
TAMBAR, Kabir (4) MidEast-Turkey "Stones of Kerbela: Secularism, Ritual, and Sectarian Difference among the Alevi in Turkey" kabir@uchicago.edu
TCHOUDAKOVA, Tatiana (2) Russia-Siberia/Buryatia/Mongolia Medical anthropology, Russian healthcare system, Buryat medical practices/Tibetan medicine, conceptions of the body and health, death and dying; linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity; "The Institutionalization of Tibetan Medicine in Post-Soviet Buryatia" tatiana@uchicago.edu
THOMAS, Saul (4) Jt. w/History E Asia-China Capitalism, Liberalism and the Culture Concept; Orientalism; Intellectuals, 'Modernity' and 'Culture' in Post-Mao China; "Culture and Nation in the Post-Mao Historical Imagination" stthomas@uchicago.edu
THORKELSON, Eli (2) W Europe-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" eli@uchicago.edu
TORMEY, Anwen (4) W Europe-Ireland & the EU Asylum, political subjectivity, evidentiary logic and practice, law, (im)migration, citizenship;  "Discreditable Subjects: Migration and the Politics of Protection in Ireland" amtormey@uchicago.edu
TORRES, Joao Batista (4) Latin America-Brazil "Anthropology of Transnational Mass Media: An Ethnographic Incursion into Brazilian Cable TV" carneiro36@hotmail.com
TRIVEDI, Mudit (1) (Arch) South Asia - India Ganga Basin, early complex societies, urbanism, ceramics, geoarchaeology, lithics and the Paleolithic mudit@uchicago.edu
TUSINSKI, Gabriel (2) Indonesia-East Timor

Semiotic ideologies, materiality, architecture, kinship, nationalism, multi-lingualism. The political centrality of houses, broadly construed as physical and symbolic architectural structures and networks of descent and alliance based social relations in East Timor

tusinski@uchicago.edu
VILLARIAS-ROBLES, Juan (4) Latin America-Inca "The Inka Economic System and Civil War, 1527-1532" villarias@filol.csic.es
WALKER, Christopher (4) E Asia-Tibet Anthropology of technology, history of science, computer and software engineering, non-profit sector, reading publics and literacy; "The Social Life of Open-Source Software in Tibet" cewalker@uchicago.edu
WALKER, Joshua (2) Africa-DR Congo/East Kasai History, politics, culture; moral economies - production and consumption practices of labor, commodities and value with regard to diamond mining and trade, modern political orders, state, law, policing; belief systems, religion, witchcraft, the occult.  "City, State, and Citizen in Mbuji Mayi (DR Congo): Citizenship and Sovereignty in a Congolese Diamond Mining Company Town" jdwalker@uchicago.edu
WALL, Daniel (4) Native North America "Language, Logic and Land-Use in the Courts of the Navajo Nation: An Ethnohistorical Approach to the Study of Reasoning" [Rhetorical Presentation of Cultural Nationalism among the Navajo] danielwall@earthlink.net
WALTON, Jeremy (4) MidEast-Turkey "Constructing Civic Virtue in a Secular State: Islam, Civil Society and Liberal Piety in Contemporary Turkey" jeremy@uchicago.edu
WEISS, Hadas (4) MidEast-Israel/ West Bank Critical theory, ideology, agency and subjectivity, practice and field theory, theories of space and time; "Ideology and Practice in the West Bank Settlement Movement" hadasw@uchicago.edu
WEISS, Joseph (1) North America - British Columbia First Peoples of northern British Columbia; marginalized peoples, space/place, legal anthropology, human rights, the Highway of Tears weissj@uchicago.edu
WHITE, Benjamin (2) SE Europe-Albania Balkans, Post-Socialist Europe, Ottoman Empire; Temporalities of 'religious' experience and expectation; nation, state, nation-state and nationalism; esoterica; Sufism, Bektashism;  Albania's Bektashi community benjaminw@uchicago.edu
WILF, Eitan (4) US Meaning in music, racial ideologies, socialization, institutions and power; "Socialization into Jazz Music in Professional Schools in the US" ewilf@uchicago.edu
WILSON, Brian (2) (Arch) South Asia Historical archaeology, British colonialism, colonial and pre-colonial economies, agricultural/land use changes; historical archaeology of plantations in South India bcwilson@uchicago.edu
WIMBLEY-BRODNAX, Erik (4) Africa-Senegal "Psychiatry in the Land of the Penc: Collectivist vs. Ego-Centered Therapies at Clinique Moussa Diop, Dakar, Senegal" ecbrodna@uchicago.edu
WOODROOFE, Hannah (2/3) US Urban Local social implications of deindustrialization in Youngstown, Ohio -- forms of work left in the wake of an industrial legacy; emergent function of private prison services hwoodroo@uchicago.edu
WYNNE, Lauren (3/4) Latin America-Mexico/Yucatan Anthropology of food and eating, embodiment and everyday life; "Getting It Right: Care, Balance, and Food in a Yucatec Maya Town" wynne@uchicago.edu
YEH, Rihan Wen Xin (4) Latin America-Mexico "Passing: An Ethnography of Status, Self, and Public Life in a Mexican Border City [Tijuana]" rihan@uchicago.edu
YEUNG, Shirley (1) W. Europe - Switzerland Transnationalism, gender, race, citizenship, Filipina migration, cross-border marriage, transnational families, government discourses on migrants, Asian migrants in Europe syeung@uchicago.edu
YUAN, Xiao-bo (1) East Asia - China Christian conversion, religious discourse, narrative analysis, study of public/private space xyuan@uchicago.edu
ZHAO, Cheng-Guang (2) E Asia-China; Tianjin & Beijing Theory of social action, anthropology of architecture, social production of the built environment, politics of uban everyday life, community-making at different scales of society; "Social Imaginations in Some Chinese Spatial-Architectural Phanomena" cgz@uchicago.edu
ZYCH, Lauren (2) (Arch) Protohistoric US Southeast Southeast North America in the Late prehistoric period, colonialism, "first encounters," ceramic analysis lzych@uchicago.edu