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| Name (Year) | Region | Dissertation or Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADCOCK, Sarah (1) (Arch) | Near East - Iraq/Turkey | Origins of social complexity, emergence of socio-political elites, origins of metallurgy, state formation, the Ubaid | adcock@uchicago.edu |
| ALVAREZ, Anthony (2) (Arch) |
North America-California |
Spanish colonial and Native American archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, warrior cultures, archaeology of religion | archtony@uchicago.edu |
| AMARAL, Adela (2) (Arch) | Latin America-Mexico | Historical Anthropology and Archaeology, colonialism, Maroonage, identity politics, nationalism. "The Archaeology of Maroon Reducción: Making Citizens in 18th Century Vera Cruz" | amaral@uchicago.edu |
| ANDERSON, Maureen (4) | Africa - Cote d'Ivoire | "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 |
| 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. "Material and Spatial Production of Political Relations and Subjectivities within the Tiwanaku Valley, Bolivia (AD 500-1100)" | 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 (3) | 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: The Production of Nature and Social Differentiation in Iron Age Northern Karnataka" | bauer@uchicago.edu |
| BHOLAT, David (3) | W Europe - Britain | Global culture of capitalism; commercial banking, monetary theory, interest as an institution; "Rebuilding Society: Northern Rock in the Construction of Alienated England" | dbholat@uchicago.edu |
| BLANCHETTE, Alexander (3) | Southwest US/Texas Panhandle | American agribusiness ["factory" hog farms], farm labor and organization; political ecology, cultural studies of capitalism, industrial history. "The Industrialization of Life, Capitalist Natures, and the American Factory Farm" | blanchet@uchicago.edu |
| BLOECHL, Christopher (2) | Central & South America - Guatemala | Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages; language use and the construction of spatiality/locality; language ideologies; media technologies (radio and the Internet) and mediation; circulation and publics; theorizing "emergence" and "scale" in social and linguistic processes | cbloechl@uchicago.edu |
| BLUNT, Robert (4) | Africa-Kenya | "Fake Mau Maus and Ambiguous States: Oathing, Criminality and History in Contemporary Kenya" (about the Kikuyu ritual practice known as "oathing" and the minting of money) | 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; ritual theory | joebonni@uchicago.edu |
| BRADA, Betsey (4) | Africa-Botswana | "Uncertain Futures, Experimental Lives: The Politics of Knowledge in Botswana's AIDS Epidemic" | 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-Western Kenya | (Re)production of ethnolinguistic identity, language ideology, language socialization, ethnicity, identity | ebrummel@uchicago.edu |
| BUSH, Eleanor (1) | Native North America | Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation; gender, postcolonialism, political and legal anthropology, ethnohistory | ejbush@uchicago.edu |
| BUTLER, Ella (1) | US | Conservative Protestants; media, technology and aesthetics, anthropology of religion, secularity, American public culture | ellabutler@uchicago.edu |
| CABATINGAN, Lee (1) | Latin America - Cuba | Legal anthropology, anthropology of socialist/late socialist states | leecab@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 (2) | Latin America - Chile | Citizenship; science studies; media and communication; globalization; responsibility; neoliberalism; public culture; space and time; value; violence; the body; "Constituting Communities: Water, Development and Imagined Futures in the Pascua Lama Mine, Chile" | ccampisi@uchicago.edu |
| CHANCE, Kerry (3) | Africa-South Africa | "Living Politics: Practices and Protests of 'the Poor' in Democratic South Africa." | chance@uchicago.edu |
| CHASE, Zachary (3) (Arch) Jt.w/ History | Latin America-Andes/Peru; Hawaii | Ethnohistory, landscape, historical archaeology, religion; "The Historical, Ritual and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochiri, Peru, ca AD 1400-1700" | chase@uchicago.edu |
| CHAZIN, Hannah (1) (Arch) | Andes, Eurasia | Archaeology of multiethnic communities, zooarchaeology, human remains | hannahc@uchicago.edu |
| CHEN, Chen (2) | East Asia - China | Chinese family firms and local society; capitalism and culture, kinship and local politics, economic anthropology, the dialectics of market and state, social networks; "State, Market and Family Networks: The Transition from Collectively Owned Village Business to Privately Owned Family Firm in China" | chch@uchicago.edu |
| CHOWDHURY, Nusrat (4) | South Asia-Bangladesh | Crime, politics, grassroots mobilization, middle class; "The Phulbari Anti-Mining Movement: Value and Violence in Bangladeshi Democracy" | nusrat@uchicago.edu |
| CHUMLEY, Lily (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 |
| COYLE, Lauren (2) | West Africa-Ghana | Marxism, capitalism, Frankfurt School, French structuralism (as aesthetic procedure), legal theory, historical ethnography, money and banking in postcolonial settings; desire, repulsion, domination, subjection. | lcoyle@uchicago.edu |
| CUNNINGHAM, Molly (1) | Southern Africa | Urban anthropology, human rights, NGOs and social movements, spatiality and power, citizenship | mollyc@uchicago.edu |
| CZARNECKI, Natalja (2) | Central & Eastern Europe - Poland and Georgia | Mass mediation and media theory; language; marketing and advertising; practice and ideology; "middle class"; Soviet and post-Soviet economies of production and consumption; (post) socialism; neoliberalism and spaces that lie outside its regimes of standardization and regulation; commodification in the Republic of Georgia | czarnecki@uchicago.edu |
| DAS, Nitya Deepa (2) | South Asia - South India | Law, religion, forms of personhood. "Legislating Hinduism -- Temple access and religious reform in contemporary Kerala" | 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 (3) | 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: Pilgrimage in the Land of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina" | digiovim@uchicago.edu |
| DINGLEY, Zebulon (2) | Africa - Kenya | Witchcraft/occultism, religion, violence, fetishism/misrecognition, capital, "African Independent Churches" | zdingley@uchicago.edu |
| DOUGHAN, Yazan (2) | Middle East-Jordan | Semiotic Regimes, Nationalism and Citizenship, Aesthetics. "Semiotic regimentation of urban space, urban development in Amman, Jordan" | yazan@uchicago.edu |
| DOWDY, Sean (2) | South Asia - India | Moral economy, fictive capital, epistemology, colonial lawgiving, the figure of the Indian "Money-Lender," caste, exchange and value theory, affect theory, Marxist critical theory, temporality, semiotics of money, anthropology of everyday life, historical anthropology. "Hindu Political Economy and the Accumulation of Finance Capital: An Historical Anthropology and Moral Economy of the 'Untimely Money-Lender' in Contemporary India" | sdowdy@uchicago.edu |
| DUBBELD, Bernard (4) (Jt. w/ History | Africa-South Africa | "Building a Respectable Home: The Problem of Dwelling 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) | Northern Ireland, British Colonial world | Early modern British expansion, historical archaeology, foodways, colonialism and modernization; history and material remains of "industrialized" whiskey distillation in post-medieval Ireland. "Distilling the Irish Spirit: Whisky and British Colonialism in Eastern Ulster, 1541-1800" | megane@uchicago.edu |
| ENRIQUEZ, Falina (2) | Northeast Brazil, Recife | Linguistic anthropology/semiotics, genre, entextualization, identity, race/ethnicity, popular music, regionalism vs nationalism. "Maracatu and Mangue Beat: Genre and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian Music" | lafalina@uchicago.edu |
| FAGAN, Elizabeth (2/3) (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" [the epigraphy of the Hellensitic and Roman period Armenian Highland in landscape context] | egafagan@uchicago.edu |
| FEENEY, William (2) | East Asia - Japan | Intertextuality, institutionality, violence, mass media, comedy, semiotic methods. "Violence in Japanese Comedy" | 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 |
| FELICE, Angelica | US | Sociolinguistics, English-speaking urban centers; race, gender, media | afelice@uchicago.edu |
| FESER, Ali (2) | Middle East-Lebanon; US-War on Terror | Political economy and the state; sexuality and kinship; Bodies in Transition (memory, violence, affect, gender, consumption, youth); language and aesthetics. "Insurgent Weddings: Political Affect and Civil Marriage in Post Civil-War Lebanon" [family law and the growing movement for civil marriage in Lebanon] | feser@uchicago.edu |
| FLAM, Danielle (2) | East Asia-China | Psychology, trauma, volunteerism/empathy, history/memory, citizenship. "Translating Trauma: China's turn to PTSD" | dflam@uchicago.edu |
| FRANKLIN, Kathryn (2) (Arch) | Armenia & the Caucasus, Russia and Eastern Europe/Eurasia | Trade and exchange, mobility, landscape, value and materiality, markets and trade routes; "Local crossroads and stopping places: A scalar approach to trade and mobility in the archaeological landscape of the medieval Armenian highlands" | 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; aesthetics, heritage, postcolonial theory, historical anthropology, urban anthropology, anthropology of history, temporality, nationalism, citizenship, post-conflict societies, urban development and planning, space and place, the archive."Building History: Heritage and Urban Reconstruction in Luanda, Angola" | 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 |
| GODBOUT, Geneviève (2) (Arch) | Caribbean, British colonial settlements (Barbados, Jamaica, Nevis) | British colonialism in the Caribbean; historical archaeology; foodways; performance and spatiality; British Empire | ggodbout@uchicago.edu |
| GOLDFARB, Kathryn (3) | E Asia-Japan | Gender relations, nationalist discourses, medical anthropology, reproductive technology, science studies, kinship, gender and discourse; "National-Cultural Ideologies and Medical-Legal Practices: Infertility, Adoption, and Japanese Public Policy" | kgold@uchicago.edu |
| GONÇALVES, João Felipe (4) | Latin America and the Caribbean Cuba/Brazil |
"Nationalism and the City: The Production of Socialist Havana and Diasporic Miami" |
joaofg@uchicago.edu |
| GRAAN, Andrew (4) | SE Europe-Macedonia | "Watching the World Watch: 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: Public Archaeology, Consumption, and Tourism in Chicago's Jackson Park" | rsgraff@uchicago.edu |
| GRAIF, Peter (4) | 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 (4) (Arch) | Asia Minor / the Caucasus | "The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Late Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia" | agreene@uchicago.edu |
| GUENGERICH, Anna (2) (Arch) | Latin America - Andes | NE Peru/Andes-Chachapoyas region; the household and community; the built environment/space and place; practice. "House, community, and political organization in Chachapoyas, northeastern Peru" | 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 |
| HANDMAN, Courtney (4) (Jt. w/Linguistics) | Papua New Guinea | "Schism and Christianity: Bible Translation and the Social Organization of Denominationalism in the Waira Valley, Papua New Guinea" | cjhandma@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). Underwater archaeology of Sangam era [300 BC - AD 300] coastal sites in Tamil Nadu - trade with Greece, Rome, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. | jhanlon@uchicago.edu |
| HANNIG, Anita (2/3) | Africa-Ethiopia/Eritrea | Biopolitics, biomedicine, social reproduction, health/healing, (post)colonialism. "Repair and Return?: The Reintegration of Cured Fistula Patients into Their Communities in Rural Ethiopia" | ahannig@uchicago.edu |
| HARA, Kristyn (2) (Arch) | Oceania, Southeast Asia | Environmental archaeology (human-environment interactions, paleoclimatic reconstruction), spatial dynamics, configurations and ideologies; paleodemography, archaeobotany; Human-environment dynamics within the Angkor region of Cambodia | krishara@uchicago.edu |
| HARKNESS, Nicholas (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 (3/4) | 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 Religion" | elina@uchicago.edu |
| HARTLEY, Charles (3) (Arch) | EAsia-China | Early Chinese culture; technology and social systems; ceramic analysis. "Through Potters' Hands: Tracing the Development of Solidary and Political Culture 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 Gebel Barkal, Sudan | 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 | "The Materiality of Mobility: Rethinking Migration as Explanation in the Kura-Araxes Period [Eastern Caucasus]" | mfheinsc@uchicago.edu |
| HICKMAN, Kristin (1) | Morocco; the EU | Morocco and its relation with the EU and the Gulf; modernity, globalization, transnational collaborations, urban planning, infrastructural development, electronic technology, e-governance, social theory | hickman@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 (2) | Middle East | Subjectivity; gender, linguistics, semiotics | yhilal@uchicago.edu |
| HITE, Emma (2) (Arch) | Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe | Bronze and Iron Age; faunal analysis, bioarchaeology; relationship between humans and domesticated animals in the mortuary and ritual practices and contexts of the Xiongnu [terminal Iron Age] in Mongolia | 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 (3/4) (Jt.w/Cinema/Media Studies) | Latin America-Cuba | "Films that Make You Think: Cuban Cinema and the Crisis in Revolutionary Belief." Cuban and New Wave cinemas, anthropology of intellectuals, aesthetics and politics, semiotics, queer theory | laurazoe@uchicago.edu |
| INGEBRETSON, Britta (2) | 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) | Race and genomics, anthropology of science, feminist science studies; "Multicultural Technologies of 'Race': The Politics of Classification in US and German Gene Databases" | annajabloner@uchicago.edu |
| JAMISON, Kelda (4) | Turkey | "Inscribing Illiteracies: Standardizing Linguistic Practices and Publics in Kurdish Turkey" | keldaj@uchicago.edu |
| JASAREVIC, Larisa (4) | East Europe-Bosnia | "The Intimate Debt: Health, Wealth and Surviving the Postsocialist Bosnian Market" | larisa@uchicago.edu |
| JAUREGUI, Beatrice (4) | South Asia-India (Uttar Pradesh) | "Shadows of the State, Subalterns of the State: Police and 'Law and Order' in Postcolonial India" | bea@uchicago.edu |
| JENKINS, Andrea (2) | Americas | Indigenous peoples; education; de/colonization; race/ethnicity; multiple marginalizations; social movements; critical social theory. Policy narratives as they relate to Indigenous higher education in the US and Canada | aljenkins@uchicago.edu |
| JHA, Shefali (2) | South Asia - India | South India/Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh; the entwinded histories of minority religious identity and caste in India, particularly with respect to secularism; democratic practice and narratives of community and belonging in/as 'identity politics'; spaces of higher education such as universities in India; popular Hindi cinema; feminism in South Asia | shefalij@uchicago.edu |
| JOHNSON, Zada (4) |
US-New Orleans; Cuba |
"Still We March On: Race, Space and Remembrance in the African-American Street Parade Tradition of Post-Katrina New Orleans" | zjohnson@uchicago.edu |
| JONES, Jeremy (4) | Africa-Zimbabwe | Youth, gender, temporality (specifically the future), the everyday, value and representation; " 'This is Not Money': Cash, Hustling and Ethics Amongst Township Youth in Hyperinflationary Zimbabwe" | 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; "Cracking Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire" | jskahn@uchicago.edu |
| KAUTZ, Sarah (2) (Arch) | East Asia-Japan | Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (the Dutch at Dejima); Commodities and materiality, value and commensuration, feasting, early modern globalization and commerce, sociality of economic transactions, alterity. "Feasting on Porcelain: Commodities, Value and Social Creativity at Dejima; Dutch-style vs Japanese-style feasting as an attempt to mediate transactions, commensurate value, and mitigate risk. | skautz@uchicago.edu |
| KETCHUM, Frederick (2) (Jt MD/PhD) | Western Europe-Germany; US | Medical anthropology, performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), biopolitics, subjectivity, ethics, affect. "Performance Enhancements in Germany" | 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 (2/3) | Southeast Europe; former Yugoslavia | Ethnomusicology, media, documentary film, visual anthropology, youth culture, hip hop studies; why hip hop resonates with young people in vastly different cultural contexts. " 'People, the Balkans were Built for Rap': Hip Hop in Regional and Global Context" | 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, language ideologies, political discourse, humor, technology. "Ideologies of free speech in the US; the free speech/political correctness debate" | elise@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 (3) (Arch) | Latin America-Bolivia, Chile, Peru | Expert knowledge construction from material objects; archaeological field methods. "Expertise, Authority and Labour in South American Archaeological Research Communities [Tiwanaku, Bolivia & Tarapaca, Chile]" | mtfl2@uchicago.edu |
| LELIEVRE, Michelle (4) (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 | Kinship, government, democracy, citizenship; place, nature, landscape; eugenics. "Citizenship, Identity, and Recreation in a Northern Vermont Town" | 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 |
| 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 |
| LOWRY, (Kevin) Bryce (1) (Arch) | Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe | Space, landscape, zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, GIS | kblowry@uchicago.edu |
| LUDWIG, Kathryn (2) | US |
Transracial/international adoption, race, multiracial families, mixed race, whiteness, white privilege, inequality, authenticity, issues of native anthropology, social reproduction, culture and racial identity, "passing." |
kateludwig@uchicago.edu |
| LULEY, Banjamin (3) (Arch) | Europe-France | Iron Age/Roman Western Europe, especially southern France; colonialism/imperialism; money and systems of value. "Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: The Impact of the Roman State in Southern Gaul" | bpluley@uchicago.edu |
| LUNA, Sarah (3/4) | 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" [Reynosa] | 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 (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 (4) (Arch) | Eurasia, Caucasus | Bronze Age Southern Caucasus; mortuary analysis and social complexity, bioarchaeology; "Burials and Bodies: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Mortuary Practices in Late Bronze-Age (1500-800 BC) Armenia" | 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 (3) | Fiji and the Pacific; Britain | "The Queen Still Has Mana: Ethnic Fijian Service in the British Army and the Production of Fijian Nationhood" | sjmay@uchicago.edu |
| McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (4) | South Africa | Genomics, Genealogy, Race. "Isolated Population?: Afrikaners in Post-Apartheid South Africa" | kathmcd@uchicago.edu |
| McGUIRE, Meredith (3) | South Asia and diaspora | Media, globalization, capitalism, public culture; "Good Service, American Service: Making the New Middle Class in Urban India" | mcguire@uchicago.edu |
| McHARRY, Kathryn (2/3) | 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 (2) (Jt. w/ CHSS) | History of Anthropology, Germany | Continental philosophy of social science, phenomenology and existentialism, anthropology of science, anthropology of experience, science studies. Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany | francismckay@uchicago.edu |
| McLACHLAN, Amy (2) | Amazonia - triborder region of Colombia, Brazil and Peru | Semiotic theory, personhood, gender, exchange, morality, embodiment, violence, military ecologies, language shift, botanical economies, interspecies boundary, performance | amclachlan@uchicago.edu |
| 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 | Anthropology of the body, sexuality and gender, politics of desire and difference, cultural tourism and the commodification of ethnicity, politics of culture among the Samburu of Northern Kenya | meiu@uchicago.edu |
| MENDOZA, Marcos (3/4) | Latin America- S.Chile, S.Argentina, W.Mexico | Post-authoritarian Argentine politics; ecologies of capitalism; anthropology of environment; risk; "New Habitations: Risk Cultures of Environmental Capitalism in a Patagonian Periphery [Parque Nacional los Glaciares]" | mendoza@uchicago.edu |
| MIKHAYLOVA, Marina (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 "Pedagogical Transformations of the Senses: Training the 'Blind' Body" | kmohamed@uchicago.edu |
| MORGAN, Marston (4) | Melanesia (New Caledonia) Algeria (French colonies) | "New Societies in the South Pacific: An Ethnography of French Sovereignty in New Caledonia" | marston@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 |
| MULLA, Ayesha (1) | South Asia | Media | ayeshamulla@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. . .': Religious and Other Utopias -- The Nechung Ritual in the Spectacular Politics of Tibetan Exile" | urmila@uchicago.edu |
| NOZAWA, Shunsuke (4) | East Asia-Japan | "The Advent of Readers: The Project(ion) of Remembering and the Semiotics of Writing in Japanese Personal Historiography" | snozawa@uchicago.edu |
| OLIPHANT, Elayne (3/4) | 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 | Socialisms and sexualities; normativity and pathology; identities and geographies; language, gender and indexicality. 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 Identity among Latin American Labor Migrants and their Children in Israel" | aipaz@uchicago.edu |
| PFEIL, Gretchen (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 Religion 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. " 'You Never Ever Hear about the Wheelchair': Violence, Debt and Disability in a Chicago Street Gang" |
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-RUBIN, Michal (2) | West Africa-Senegal & the Gambia | Pedagogy and the anthropology of childhood, affect and emotion, Islam and ethics, family law, legal anthropology, kinship. "Polygamy, Family Law, and Islam in Senegal/Gambia" | 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 (2/3) | Southeast Asia-Thailand | Refugees, humanitarianism, visibility, legal recognition. "To See and Be Seen: Refugees and the Politics of Visibility in Thailand" | mreddy@uchicago.edu |
| RICART, (Shana) Ender (2) | East Asia - Japan | Time reckoning, futurity, science and technology studies, phenomenology; Japanese high-tech institutions that research and develop products for the improved social and physical well-being of the elderly in Japan. | enderricart@uchicago.edu |
| RICH, Matthew (3) | Northeast India/ Bangaldesh border | Language ideologies, standardization, indigeneity; ethics and politics of community. "Translations of Indigeneity: Communicating Khasi Identity and Alterity in Bangladesh" | bangla@uchicago.edu |
| RIVERA, Gustavo (3) | Latin America-Brazil | "Spatial Governance: The Negotiation of Slum-Upgrading Programs in Belo Horizonte, Brazil" | grivera@uchicago.edu |
| ROBERTSON, Mary (1) | South Africa | Intersections between music and commercial media; reproduction/transformation of understandings of 'race' | mrobertson@uchicago.edu |
| ROBINSON, Jessica (2/3) | W Europe-Britain and the British Caribbean, Bermuda | Britain and British ex-pat communities in the Anglophone Caribbean/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 (4) | US-Urban | "Spanglish-Only: Language Ideologies and the Fashioning of EthnoRacial Difference in a U.S. High School" | jrosa1@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 (3/4) | 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 (3) (Arch) | Turkey | 2nd and 1st millennium BCE southeastern Anatolia; Political economics, interregional interaction, subsistence production and consumption. "Imperial Environments: The Politics of Agricultural Practices at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey, in the First Millennium 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) | Spain and Latin America | Historical memory, political anthropology, legal anthropology, forensic science. "Exhumations and Historical Memory in Spain" | jrubin@uchicago.edu |
| SAMOUKOVA, Nelly (2) | Russia | Medical anthropology; anthropology of the body, theories of the senses, science and knowledge production, Soviet history, post-socialist subjectivities. "The Post-Soviet Body in Crisis: Healing and Medicine in Contemproary 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 (Varanasi) | Language and material practice: A Semiotic approach to political economy; Forms of alterity: caste, class and gender; The Urban turn and its discontents: Ideologies of Labor. "Building Capitalism: The Cultural Politics of Construction in Varanasi, India | 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 (3) | Latin America-Paraguay, Argentina, 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. "Making Good Money: Microcredit, Commercial Capitalism and Social Regulation in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area [Ciudad del Este Free Trade Zone/ Fundacion Paraguaya]" | carlys@uchicago.edu |
| SHEKLIAN, Chrisopher (2) | Armenia, Turkey; Armenian diaspora communities | The confluence of religious, ethnic, and national identities; law and citizenship; nationalism; agency; secularism; diaspora, visual anthropology | sheklian@uchicago.edu |
| SHIH, Tien-Ann (4) | Latin America-Peru, Iberia | Historical anthropology; "Miracles and Religious Transformation in the Central Andean Highlands 1539-1670 [District of Vilcashuaman, Peru]" | 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 (3/4) | 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 (3/4) (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 Kabwum District, PNG"; "Language Change and Generational Politics in a Canadian Inuit Community" | jslotta@uchicago.edu |
| SOSA, (Joseph) Jay (2) | Latin America-Brazil | Sex politics and queer capitalism, urban experience and methodology, anthropology of media: consumers and producers. "Urban and Online technologies and queer mediated subjectivites in Sao Paulo, Brazil. | 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 (3) | Latin America-Brazil; Africa | Biofuels, ethanol, sugarcane, plantations, labor, gender; " 'Green' Energy and Land Struggle: Kaiowa-Gurani Concepts of Identity, Family and Territory" [Mato Grosso do Sul] | lps@uchicicago.edu |
| TCHOUDAKOVA, Tatiana (3) | 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; "Biocosmopolitan Flows and Non-Exportable Experts: Institutionalizing Tibetan Medicine in Russia" | 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 (3) | 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. "The Future of the 'Knowledge Society': Philosophy and University Politics in Contemprary France" [The Philosophy Departments at Paris VIII and Aix-en-Provence] | 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 (2) (Arch) | South Asia - North India |
Ganga Basin; archaeologies of identity; social-evolutionism and archaeological explanation; urbanization as a theme and trope in archaeological explanation; paleo-environmental research; ceramic technology and trade |
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. "Violence Beyond the Body: Destruction, Construction and the Contestation of Timorese National Belonging [violence in the form of house burning], Dili, 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 (2/3) | Central Africa - Great Lakes region; DR Congo/East Kasai | Economic anthropology; children and youth; citizenship; sociality; street children; miners/mining; crisis. The kinds of sociality created among groups of marginalized children and youth in Mbuji Mayi (DR Congo) -- the creation of habitable sociocultural worlds in a context of long-term economic and political crisis | 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 |
| WEICHSELBRAUN, Anna (1) | Europe, North America | Language and symbolic value, language ideology and political economy, transnational circulation, language and disciplines | weichselbraun@uchicago.edu |
| WEISS, Joseph (2) | Native North America - British Columbia | First Peoples of Northwest Coast British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic/Sub-Arctic; violence, the construction of victimhood and victimization, sovereignty, subjectivity, territoriality and mobility, space, place, and emplacement. "Disappearance of First Nations women in British Columbia, particularly along a northern highway known as the "the Highway of Tears" | weissj@uchicago.edu |
| WHITE, Benjamin (2) | SE Europe-Albania | Post-socialist Europe; temporality and semiosis; forms of incorporation: sovereignty, agency and accountability. "Discursive traditions, the politics of development and the state in 'illegal' housing settlements outside of Tirana, Albania" | benjaminw@uchicago.edu |
| WILF, Eitan (4) | US | Meaning in music, racial ideologies, socialization, institutions and power; "Transcending the Jazz Standard: Post-Secondary Jazz Education and the Problem of Cultural Standardization" | ewilf@uchicago.edu |
| WILSON, Brian (2) (Arch) | South Asia | Colonialism/Colonial archaeology, political ecology, archaeobotanical analysis | bcwilson@uchicago.edu |
| WILLIAMS, Kaya (1) | US | Transgression, gender, race, criminal justice | kayawilliams@uchicago.edu |
| WOODROOFE, Hannah (2/3) | US Urban; Youngstown, OH | Local social implications of deindustrialization in Youngstown, Ohio -- emergent forms of work and related new kinds of social stratification and alignment | hwoodroo@uchicago.edu |
| WYNNE, Lauren (4) | Latin America-Mexico/Yucatan | Anthropology of food and eating, embodiment and everyday life; "Getting Food Right: Care, Pleasure, and Vulnerable Bodies in Rural Yucatan" | wynne@uchicago.edu |
| YEUNG, Shirley (2) | W. Europe - Switzerland | Migration, asylum and the figure of the 'foreigner' in Europe; multilingualism in the every day, and the multilingual nation-state; citizenship, race, identity, and modes of national inclusion and exclusion; ethnographic film and film-making; cinematic social inquiry | syeung@uchicago.edu |
| YUAN, Xiao-bo (2) | East Asia - China |
Religion, Christianity, Chinese "house churches," history of missionary encounters in China, church-state relationships, theories and politics of knowledge, embodiment, governmentality, post-socialist transformations; Emergent Forms of Christianity in Modern China |
xyuan@uchicago.edu |
| ZHAO, Cheng-Guang (3) | 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 Phenomena" | cgz@uchicago.edu |
| ZYCH, Lauren (2) (Arch) | Colonial US Southeast | Handmade earthenwares of probable Native American manufacture on French colonial sites in New Orleans | lzych@uchicago.edu |
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