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| Name (Year) | Region | Dissertation or Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVAREZ, Anthony (2) (Arch) | North America-California Southeast Asia-Philppines | Warfare/warrior cultures; Comparative Spanish Colonialism between Alta California and the Philippines; technology including GIS; Ethnoarchaeology; California Indians | archtony@uchicago.edu |
| AMARAL, Adela (1) (Arch) | Latin America-Mexico | Archaeology of the African Diaspora, identity, politics of culture, culture contact, colonialism | 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, globalization and state sovereignty-legitimacy, the rule of law, US lawyers, NGOs, Alien Tort Claims Act litigation | |
| ARELLANO, Emilia (2) | Latin America-Mexico-US |
Circulation and subjectivity, the semiotics of civic practices, social space; the investment of collective remittances in public works projects and the politics of long-distance membership in Zacatecas, Mexico |
earellan@uchicago.edu |
| ARKIN, Kimberly (4) | W Europe-France | "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) | Mexico US | Embodiment and marginalization, Female-to-Male transitioning; "Transitions: How Female-to-Male Experience and Practice vs Western Biomedical Embodiments of 'Manhood'" | jcbaker@uchicago.edu |
| BAKKE, Gretchen (4) | Europe-Slovenia | "Contemporary Slovene Art and Artifice" | bakke@uchicago.edu theory_heads@yahoo.com |
| BAUER, Andrew (3) (Arch) | South Asia-India | "Socializing Environments and Ecologizing Politics: Land Use and Social Differentiation in Iron Age South India" | bauer@uchicago.edu |
| BEASTER-JONES, Jayson (4+) | South Asia-India | "Selling Music in India: Commodity Genres, Performing Cosmopolitanism, Accounting for Taste" | jmbeaste@uchicago.edu |
| BECHTER, Frank (4) | US Deaf Culture | "Of Deaf Lives: Convert Culture and the Dialogic of ASL Storytelling" | fbechter@uchicago.edu |
| BECKETT, Greg (4) | Caribbean-Haiti | "The End of Haiti: History Under Conditions of Impossibility" | beckett@uchicago.edu |
| BHOLAT, David (2) | Americas | Marxism, sociology of money and finance, critiques of capitalism, political praxis | dbholat@uchicago.edu |
| BLANCHETTE, Alexander (2) | Southwest US/Texas Panhandle | American industrial agriculture/pork production; pastoral ideologies; migrant/undocumented labor; language and place/space; theories of value, political ecology | blanchet@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 |
| BOCAREJO, Diana (4) | Latin America-Colombia | "Reconfiguring the Political Landscape after the Multicultural Turn: Law, Politics, and the Spatialization of Difference in Colombia" | dbocarej@uchicago.edu |
| BONILLA, Yarimar (4) | Latin America-Caribbean | "A Striking Past: Labor Unions and the Politics of Memory in Postcolonial Guadeloupe" | ybonilla@uchicago.edu |
| BONNI, Joseph (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) | 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" | ffclb@uaf.edu |
| BRUMMEL, Elizabeth (1) | Kenya, Latin America-Guatemala | Linguistic Anthropology, language ideology and language socialization among bilingual children who gain their second language outside the home; Samburu of N. Kenya | 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 (2) | 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 | fcalvao@uchicago.edu |
| CASTOR, Nicole (4) | Caribbean-Trinidad | "Invoking the Spirit: Public Culture and the Politics of Nationhood in Trinidad" | n-castor@uchicago.edu |
| CHANCE, Kerry (2) | 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; "The Historical, Ritual and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochiri, Peru" | chase@uchicago.edu |
| CHOWDHURY, Nusrat (3/4) | South Asia-Bangladesh | Crime, politics, domesticity, middle class; "Crime, Publics, and Politics in Urban Bangladesh" | nusrat@uchicago.edu |
| CHUMLEY, Lily (3) | 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 | "Politics Otherwise: Intercultural Interstices and Gender Gaps in Italy's Neo-Liberal Turn" | alcst36@uchicago.edu |
| DAS, Nitya Deepa (1) | South Asia | Politics, Hinduism, ethnomusicology, religious movements, diaspora, public sphere | 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, art worlds, museums, UNESCO/World Heritage sites | digiovim@uchicago.edu |
| DOUGHAN, Yazan (2) | Middle East-Jordan | Anthropology of media; urban regeneration in Amman; theorizing space and time; the relation between media and space; semiotics, phenomenology | yazan@uchicago.edu |
| DUBBELD, Bernard (3/4) (Jt. w/ History | Africa-South Africa | "Inhabiting 'Respectable Pasts': Wage Work, Masculinities and the Dynamics of Belonging in Neo-Liberal South Africa" | 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 | megane@uchicago.edu |
| ENRIQUEZ, Falina (2) | US and Brazil | Body ideals/aesthetics, plastic surgery, discourse, Foucauldian bio-power, media, medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology; metaphor in Hopi ritual song | lafalina@uchicago.edu |
| FAGAN, Elizabeth (1) (Arch) (Jt w/History) | Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia | Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture | 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 (1) | East Asia - Japan | Linguistic anthropology, semiotic methods, violence, media, language ideology, nationalism, genre, intertextuality, discourse analysis, culture change | wfeeney@uchicago.edu |
| FEINBERG, Joseph Grim (2) | East/Central Europe Slovakia; Polynesia | "Valleys of Hunger, Cities of Shine: An Investigation into the Possibility of Folklore and Democracy at the 'End of History'" | feinberg@uchicago.edu |
| FENNELL, Catherine (4) | US urban - Chicago | "Civic Concerns: Intimacy and Risk in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing" | ckf@uchicago.edu |
| FESER, Ali (2) | International; Middle East-Qatar | International conflict; mediation, war, the internet as a site of state power and its opposition, media and technology, American military bases (Qatar), the Iraq war | feser@uchicago.edu |
| FLAM, Danielle (1) | East Asia-China | Citizenship, state, modernity, fear/anxiety, law, marginality, death. Mao-era fears/anxieties playing out in village/countryside; current plight of the peasantry | dflam@uchicago.edu |
| FRANCE, Phoebe (2) (Arch) | Latin America-Brazil; New Mexico | Ethnobotany, Geoarchaeology, GIS, ecology, Spanish and/or Portuguese contact and presence in the Americas | pfrance@uchicago.edu |
| FRANKLIN, Kathryn (2) (Arch) | Caucasus, Asia Minor, Eurasia | Archaeology of long distance mobility, trade and pilgrimage, bioarchaeology, intersection of archaeology, history and folklore, relation between archaeology and museums, early medieval settlement archaeology of Armenia | kathrynjane@uchicago.edu |
| GARRETT, 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 (1) | Southern Africa, Angola | Portuguese empire, colonialism, urban anthropology, space and memory, empire, transnational approaches, migration, visual anthropology | cgastrow@uchicago.edu |
| GERAGHTY, Mark (3) | Africa-Rwanda | An ethnographic investigation of Genocide Ideology in Rwanda | geraghty@uchicago.edu |
| GHAZAL, Royal (3/4) (Arch) | Middle East-Oman | "Craft and Trade in Bronze Age Oman from the Perspective of the Coastal Ja'alaan Region" | omar1@uchicago.edu |
| GILBERT, Andrew (4) | SE Europe-Bosnia | "State-Making/State Breaking: Returning Refugees, NGOs and the Political Geography of Bosnia/ Herzegovina" | acgilber@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 | kgold@uchicago.edu |
| GOLDSMITH, Trevor (4) | Europe-Spain | "The Quality of City Life: The Battle for Legitimacy in the Transformation of Barcelona" | tagoldsm@uchicago.edu |
| GONÇALVES, João Felipe (3) | Latin America and the Caribbean Cuba/Brazil |
"Nationalism and the City: Havana and Miami as Capitals of the Cuban Revolution and Exile" |
joaofg@uchicago.edu |
| GRAAN, Andrew (4) | SE Europe-Macedonia | "Watching the World Watch: The Politics of Media Authority in the Republic of Macedonia" | apgraan@uchicago.edu |
| GRAFF, Rebecca (3) (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 (1) (Arch) | Southeastern US | Historical archaeology of New Orleans; crime, criminality, and identity in the 19th century; housing policy, urban development, and contested spaces | 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 (1) (Arch) | Andes | Domestic settings, food and consumption, power relations | 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: Sta. Catarina Palopo, Guatemala" | rphamric@uchicago.edu |
| HANDMAN, Courtney (4) (Jt. w/Linguistics) | Papua New Guinea | "Translating Locality: Christian Denominationalism in the Wari Valley, Papua New Guinea" | cjhandma@uchicago.edu |
| HANKINS, Joseph (4) | E Asia-Japan | "Working through Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan" | doylej@uchicago.edu |
| HANLON, Julie (2) (Arch) | South Asia-India/Tamilnadu | Tamil Nadu and the Indian Ocean Rim; underwater archaeology, dynamics of trade, urbanization, state formation, material culture | jhanlon@uchicago.edu |
| HANNIG, Anita (2) | Africa-Ethiopia | Diaspora and homecoming; management of ethnic diversity and conflict (Awassa, Southern Nations, Nationalities & Peoples' State) | ahannig@uchicago.edu |
| HARKNESS, Nicholas (2/3) | E Asia-South Korea Germany | "The Voices of Seoul: A Study of Chronotopic Shift at the Phonic-Sonic Nexus" | hark@uchicago.edu |
| HARTIKAINEN, Elina (2) | Latin America-Brazil | Linguistic Anthropology: language ideologies, register phenomena, indexicalities; Candomblé: Spirit possession, religion in the African diaspora, social types in national imaginaries. "Talk by and about the spirits: language, community and spirit possession in Brazilian Candomblé" | elina@uchicago.edu |
| HARTLEY, Charles (2) (Arch) | EAsia-China | "Ceramic Production and Potting Communities in the Luoyang Basin (2500-1500 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 |
| 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 |
| HORNE, Brian (2) | 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 |
| JABLONER, Anna (1) | Science Studies | Science studies, laboratory studies, genetics, gender, ethnicity, 'race', science and technology, history of science, life sciences, queer studies | annajabloner@uchicago.edu |
| JAMISON, Kelda (4) | Turkey | "Inscribing Literacies: Standarizing Linguistic Practices and Publics in Kurdish Turkey" | keldaj@uchicago.edu |
| JASAREVIC, Larisa (3) | East Europe-Bosnia | "An Intimate Debt: Health, Wealth and the Making of a New Bosnian State" | larisa@uchicago.edu |
| JAUREGUI, Beatrice (4) | South Asia-India | "Shadows of the State, Subalterns of the State: Alternating Legitimacies and Contested Authorities of the Police in Contemporary India" | bea@uchicago.edu |
| JOHANSEN, Peter (4+) (Arch) | South Asia-India | "A Political Economy of Space: Spatial Production and Social Organization in Iron Age Period South India" | p-johansen@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 (1) (Arch) | East Asia-Japan | Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (Dutch at Dejima); Trajectories and interpretation of change within archaeological data sets; Archaeology of commodities | skautz@uchicago.edu |
| KEELER, Lauren (2) Jt. w/ History | East Asia-China | Translation, intellectuals, philology, historical anthropology; "Chinese Dialectologists and Their Relation to Earlier Chinese Philological Traditions" | lkeeler@uchicago.edu |
| KETCHUM, Frederick (1) (Jt MD/PhD) | Western Europe-Germany; US | Medical anthropology, performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), cognitive improvement, "cosmetic psychopharmacology"; nexus of enhancements, medicine and identity | fketchum@uchicago.edu |
| KIM, Kiho (2) | East Asia-China/Korea | Concepts of 'science' and enterprise' in agricultural development projects of the Chinese government, models of 'nouveau riche farmers', local leadership, organic farming and the Chinese concept of 'nature', commercial farming and emergence of consumer bahaviors in China's countryside | kiho@uchicago.edu |
| KIM, Yongjin (2) | Southeast Asia - Indonesia/Malaysia | Ethnicity, nationalism and the modern nation-state; representation of ethnic/local culture (e.g., in the context of the tourism industry), museums and the politics of display, uses of history in identity politics | kimyj@uchicago.edu |
| KIVLAND, Chelsey (2) | Africa and Diaspora-Haiti | Historical consciousness, performance and narration of pasts, regimes of community; culture, value, nationhood, production; modern political orders; Carnival in Hacmel, 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, hip hop culture, politics of representation, anthropology of borders, ethnographic film; 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 Life, Labor, and Land during Inka Political Development (Cusco, Peru)" | kosiba@uchicago.edu |
| KRAMER, Elise (2) | US | Linguistics, semiotics, gender, sexuality, technology and communication, humor, medical anthropology | elise@uchicago.edu |
| KRIZANCIC, Catarina (4) | Oceania-Tahiti | "Tahiti Royale: The Rise of the House of Salmon 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 Paradox of Protest: Political Ritual and Contentious Politics in Nepal" | glakier@uchicago.edu |
| LEIGHTON, Mary (2) (Arch) | Latin America-Andes | The use and impact of archaeology -- especially the political, ideological and economic impact of archaeological tourism and foreign excavations on indigenous peoples | mtfl2@uchicago.edu |
| LELIEVRE, Michelle (3) (Arch) | North America-Nova Scotia | "Wijswin ('You move from one place to another'): Understanding Mi'kmaw Mobility in Post-Contact Nova Scotia" | lelievma@uchicago.edu |
| LESLIE, Averill (2) | US-Vermont | Community identities, citizenship, gender and sexuality, reproductive technologies, democracy, historical anthropology, anthropology of knowledge, Native North America; Missisquoi Abenaki and gays/lesbians in Vermont and discourses of "real" Vermonthood | 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 (3/4) (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 (2/3) | Northeast Asia Mongolia, Manchuria | Anthropology of affect, value and circulation, modernities; "Intimacy as Imagined Community in Post-Revolutionary Mongolia" | tliron@uchicago.edu |
| LULEY, Banjamin (2) (Arch) | Europe | Cross-cultural contact between Iron Age temperate Europe and the Mediterranean world during the Roman Iron Age; socio-political transformations | bpluley@uchicago.edu |
| LUNA, Sarah (3) | US/Mexico border | Space, migration and immigration; borders and nationalism; sex work and relational ties of intimacy and economy. "The Threat of the Gringo's Erotic Playground: Sex Work, Mexican Nationalism, and the US/Mexico Border" | luna@uchicago.edu |
| MAGANA, Rocio (4) | Latin America-Mexico | Mexico-US border (Arizona-Sonora); nation states, globalization, national security, landscapes, the body, violence, subjectivity, science studies; "Desert Interventions: Life, Death, and Soveriegnty along the Arizona-Mexico Border" | magana@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) | 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 (2) (Arch) | Eurasia, Caucasus | "Cemeteries and Citidels: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Late Bronze Age Society (1500-1200 BC) in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia: | memarsh@uchicago.edu |
| MATA, Karim (1) (Arch) | NW Europe, Western Mediterranean | Iron Age, Roman Period, identity, martiality, socio-economic affiliation, survey methodology | kmata@uchicago.edu |
| MAY, Simon (2) | Fiji and the Pacific; Britain | "The Queen Still Has Mana: The Neo-Colonial Recruitment of Fijians into the British Army" | sjmay@uchicago.edu |
| McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (2/3) | South Africa | Genomics, Genealogy, Race. "Isolated Population?: The Production of Afrikaanerness in Post-Apartheid South Africa" | kathmcd@uchicago.edu |
| McGILL, Kenneth (4+) | W Europe-Germany | "Bist du was: State, Labor and Everyday Culture on the Edge of Berlin" | kbmcgill@uchicago.edu |
| McGUIRE, Meredith (2) | 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 |
| McGURN CENTELLAS, Katherine (4) | Latin America-Science studies | "For Love of Land and Laboratory: Bioscience and Nation-Building in Bolivia" | kmcgurn@uchicago.edu |
| McHARRY, Kathryn (2) | Africa-Senegal | Theorizing childhood, bodies, health, and intervention; biomedical thechnology in humanitarian aid/development; the humanitarian aid/development economy. "Pediatric growth monitoring and conceptions of children and childhood in Senegal's La Case de Tout Petits Program" | kmcharry@uchicago.edu |
| McLEESTER, Madeleine (2) (Arch) | Latin America-Mexico/Oaxaca | Political ecology and land use strategies, ethnographies of agricultural strategies and plant processing strategies | maddie@uchicago.edu |
| MEIU, George Paul (1) | East Africa-Kenya | Sexuality, the body, masculinities, aesthetics, tourism, nationalism, postcolonialism, historicity | meiu@uchicago.edu |
| MENDOZA, Marcos (2) | Latin America- S.Chile, S.Argentina, W.Mexico | Capitalism, ecology, risk; law, security and the state in the Southern Cone; "Patagonia, Risk Capital: Representation and Value in a Hazardous Ecology" | mendoza@uchicago.edu |
| MIKHAYLOVA, Marina (3) | East Europe-Lithuania Western Russia | "Nation-State and the Politics of Youth in Contemporary Lithuania" | marinam@uchicago.edu |
| MITCHELL, Sean (4+) | Latin America-Brazil | "Relaunching Alcântara: Space, Race, Technology and Inequality in Brazil" | seanm@uchicago.edu |
| MOHAMED, Kharnita (2) | South Africa | Anthropology of the senses, visual culture, media, disability; ethnography of the blind | kmohamed@uchicago.edu |
| MORGAN, Marston (4) | Melanesia (New Caledonia) Algeria (French colonies) | "Uncommon Origins: An Ethnography of Politics in the French South Pacific through a North African Settlement in New Caledonia" | 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 |
| MULLER, Deann (4) (Arch) | Iron Age Germany | "Relative Wealth?: Kinship, Mortuary Practice and Social Structure in the West Hallstatt Early Iron Age" | djmuller@uchicago.edu |
| NAHIGIAN, Jolie (3) | US urban |
"Making Culinary Worlds: Craft, Commodity and Cuisine in American Restaurants" |
jnnahigi@uchicago.edu |
| NAIR, Urmila (3/4) | Tibet/North India | "When the Sun's Rays are as Shadows: Protector Deity Rituals 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 (2) | W Europe-France | "Laïcité and Discreet Religiosity: Expereicnes of Catholicism in Secular France" | elayne@uchicago.edu |
| OLIVER, Chris (4) | E Asia-Japan | "Occidentalist Imaginings and the Question of Encournter: 'Intercultural Communication' in Contemporary Japan" | c-oliver@uchicago.edu |
| OSBURG, John (4) | E Asia-China | "Engendering Wealth: China's New Rich and the Rise of Elite Masculinity" | jlosburg@uchicago.edu |
| PACIFICO, David (2) (Arch) | Latin America-Andes | History and identity, landscape and meaning, material culture; community and identity; public interest archaeology; communities surrounding archaeological sites | dpacifico@uchicago.edu |
| PANDYA, Mihir (3) | US California | "The Aerospace Industry in Southern California, Past and Present" | mapandya@uchicago.edu |
| PAPPAS, Erin (2) | Russia-Ukraine/Crimea | Language ideology, code-switching, gay pride, activism, discourses about language; 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) (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 | "The Identity of Religion in Post-Soviet Buryatia" | jbuck@uchicago.edu |
| RALPH, Laurence (2) | US and the Caribbean |
Theories of domination and resistance, anthropological theories of value, semiotics, ethnography of gangs and rap music. "The Poetics and Parallel Economies of Crack Music" |
lralph@uchicago.edu |
| RAMASWAMI, Shankar (4) | South Asia-India | "Togethering in a Decivilizing Epoch: An Ethnography of Migrant Workers' Lives and Struggles in 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 (1) | West Africa-Senegal | Refugee studies, post-conflict African politics, humanitarianism, citizenship and national belonging, religion, psychological anthropology | ranm@uchicago.edu |
| RAYMOND-YAKOUBIAN, Brenden (2) | Europe, South and Southeast Asia, CircumPolar North | Limits of knowledge [skepticism and its problems, metaphysical uncertainty and doubt]; mental disorders, obsession, delusion, anxiety, insanity. Multi-sited research. East/West comparisons | brenden@uchicago.edu |
| REDDY, Malavika (2) | Southeast Asia-Thailand | Border areas with Burma and Malaysia; refugees, discourses of humanitarianism, anthropology of the state, visibility | mreddy@uchicago.edu |
| RICART, (Shana) Ender (1) | North America, France | Linguistic anthropology, religious movements, religious language, mass media, popular culture, consumerism, symbolic anthropology | EnderRicart@gmail.com |
| RICH, Matthew (2) | Northeast India/ Bangaldesh border | "The Language of Khasi Belonging: Interrogating Indigeneity in Bangladesh" | bangla@uchicago.edu |
| RIVERA, Gustavo (3) | Latin America-Brazil, US Latinos | "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 (1) | W Europe-England/Spain | Britain and British ex-pat communities in Trinidad and Spain; political anthropology, constructions of Englishness, public culture, 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 |
| RODRIGUES, Patricia (4) | Latin America-Brazil | "Otherness and Change in Central Brazil: The Javae and Their Interaction with Brazilian Society" | dituhe@hotmial.com |
| ROSA, Jonathan (3) | US | "Learning to Hear a Nation's Limits: Language Ideologies and the Fashioning of EthnoRacial Difference in a US High School" | jrosa1@uchicago.edu |
| ROSE, B. Theodore (2) | West Africa-Liberia, Sierra Leone | Postcoloniality and Liberia's post-war reconstruction; anthropology of development, the state, 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, Israel | Political economics, strategies of authority production, political aesthetics; ceramic analysis. 1st millennium BC. Zincirli, Turkey | mrosenzw@uchicago.edu |
| ROZO, Jennifer (2/3) (Arch) | US Southwest | Pueblo peoples and the early Spanish colonial period; pollen analysis, landscape | jlschaff@uchicago.edu |
| RUBIN, Jonah (1) | Latin America & the Caribbean - El Salvador | Political and legal anthropology, collective memory, anthropology of history, (neo)liberalism | jrubin@uchicago.edu |
| SAMMELLS, Clare (4) | Latin America-Andes/Bolivia | "Tourism and Capitalism in Tiwanaku, Bolivia" | casammel@uchicago.edu |
| SAMOUKOVA, Nelly (2) | US and Russia | Medical anthropology, authority, legitimacy, religion, popular culture, consumption and identity, politics of the body. "Chiropractic medicine as a case study of the construction of medical legitimacy in the US" | nelly@uchicago.edu |
| SARFATY, Galit (4) | World Bank Human Rights Issues | "The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank" | gsarfaty@uchicago.edu |
| SARGENT, Adam (2) | South Asia-India | Language and political economy, materiality, gender, culture of capitalism; construction workers in India; new class (vs caste)-based forms of inequality | 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, fungibility of legitimte money and the grey economy; indigeneity, state/multicultural statecraft, the figure of the terrorist | carlys@uchicago.edu |
| SCHWEGLER, Brian (4+) | E Europe-Slovakia | " 'Confronting the Devil': Europe, Nationalism, and Municipal Governance in Slovakia" | baschweg@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 |
| SCOTT, Stephen K. (4) | Latin America-Bolivia | "The Metrological Mountain: Tuberculosis Control and Technopolitics in Periurban Bolivia" | skscott@uchicago.edu |
| SHIH, Tien-Ann (3) (Arch) | Latin America-Peru, Iberia | "Miracles and Ritual Transformation in the District of Vilcashuaman, Peru 1593-1670" | tshih@uchicago.edu |
| SHOSHAN, Nitzan (4) | W Europe-Germany | "Violence, Space, and Visibility: Place Making and the Return of the Nation Among Right Extremists in East Berlin" | shoshan@uchicago.edu |
| SIMEONE, Lisa (2) | International migration France/Senegal | "Looking Homeward: Politics of Desire and the Riddle of African Integration in Contemporary France" | 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 (1) | Latin America-Brazil | Textual analysis of culture, sexual identity vs sexual practices, civil rights discourse, social movements, globalization | jsosa@uchicago.edu |
| SPRINGER, Jenny (4) | South Asia-India | " 'Development' and Agricultural Practice in South India" | |
| SPRUILL, Jennifer (4+) | So Africa | " 'When the Rainbow is Not Enough': Sexual Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South Africa" | spru@uchicago.edu |
| 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 |
| SUGANDHI, Namita (4+) (Arch) | South Asia-India | "Between the Patterns of History: Rethinking Mauryan Imperial Interaction in the Southern Deccan" | nssugand@uchicago.edu |
| SULLIVAN, LaShandra (2) | Latin America-Brazil, Africa | Petroleum wealth, mineral extraction; "Ethanol fuel production in Brazil's Southeast" | lps@uchicicago.edu |
| TAMBAR, Kabir (4) | MidEast-Turkey | "Stones of Kerbela: Sectarian Dimensions of Secularism in Turkey" [Alevism, Shiism, Secularism] | 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 | 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, linguistic anthropology. "Philosophy and institutional structure in Parisian universities" | eli@uchicago.edu |
| TORMEY, Anwen (4) | W Europe-Ireland | "Entering the Celtic Tiger: Migration and Nation-State 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 |
| TUSINSKI, Gabriel (2) | Indonesia-East Timor |
Linguistic ideologies, semiotics, architecture, kinship. 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 | "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 | 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 Neoliberal State: Islamism and Secularism among the Vakiflar 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; "Practice and Ideology in the West Bank Settlement Movement" | hadasw@uchicago.edu |
| WHITE, Benjamin (2) | North America | Christianity (megachurches), hegemony, elites, suburbia, spatiality | benjaminw@uchicago.edu |
| WILF, Eitan (3) | 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 (1) (Arch) | South Asia | Historical archaeology, colonialism, consumption, race and ethnicity, theory and method | bcwilson@uchicago.edu |
| WIMBLEY-BRODNAX, Erik (3/4) | Africa-Senegal | "Psychiatry in the Land of the Penc: Islamic Faith Healing, Biomedicine and Talcott Parsons' Living Systems Hierarchy at Clinique Moussa Diop in 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 |
| WU, YiChing (4+) | E Asia-China | "The Other Cultural Revolution: Politics and Practice of Class in the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-1969" | yw16@uchicago.edu |
| WYNNE, Lauren (3) | Latin America-Mexico/Yucatan | Anthropology of food and eating, embodiment and everyday life; "Bodies, Objects and Agency: Eating in Hunuku, Yucatan" | wynne@uchicago.edu |
| YEH, Rihan Wen Xin (4) | Latin America-Mexico | "Passing: An Ethnography of Status, Self, and Public Life in the Mexican Border Town of Tijuana" | rihan@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 | 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 |
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