PhD Students
Sarah Kautz
(Arch) East Asia - Japan. Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (the Dutch at Dejima); Commodities and materiality, cultural property management and tourism; value and commensuration, feasting, early modern globalization and commerce, sociality of economic transactions, alterity. "Dejima: An Archaeology of Intercultural Commerce in Early Modern Japan."
Marc Kelley
Intuition; science and the human sensorium; technoscientific imaginaries; uncertainty and nonknowledge; governance; techniques of the body. United States.
Hunter Kennedy
Hydropower; critical geography; environmental politics; political anthropology; infrastructure; resource governance; technoscience; energy and extraction; settler colonialism; U.S. Southwest; Arizona.
Daliyah Killsback
Interests:
Native North America (Northern Cheyenne Nation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes); legal anthropology, anthropology of water, settler-colonialism, tribal sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, extraction
Kimberly Kolor
Interests:
South Asia - Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka. Materiality and affect, history and historicities, aesthetics and politics, images and publics, Islam, the 'secular' and 'religious'.
Emily Kuret
Linguistic anthropology; image-texts, chronotope and qualia; romanticism and history of art, ekphrasis; everyday aesthetics, aesthetic communities, personhood, well-being. Europe, Greece/Athens.
Lauren Ledin
Bioarchaeology; Bronze Age China; mortuary theory; life course; kinship and relatedness; childhood; personhood; gender.
Myungji Lee
Social theory; political anthropology; anthropology of polarized worlds; religion, oppression, and generosity; Islam; the state and bureaucracy; interaction, discourse, and translation; semiotics; gender; family; misogyny; Turkey/Türkiye
Lucie Lollkova
Interests:
(Arch) Cloth and clothing; textile production; materiality and affect; human/non-human interactions; objects of personal adornment; mortuary archaeology; heritage and museums. East Asia – China, Japan, and Central Europe.
Nicholas Lorenz
Interests:
(jt w/Divinity/Anthropology and Sociology of Religions). Islam in Europe, knowledge transmission and reception, the relationship between faith and reason, anthropology and theology, transnational religion, secularism, imagination and the senses.
Dominik Lukas
Archaeology. Production of scientific knowledge and digital technology: digital applications in archaeology, fieldwork recording, systems of documentation - Ontology Gap and Living Archive(s).
Megan MacGregor
U.S.; Latin America; Mexico; anthropology of science and medicine; feminist and postcolonial STS; microbiome; health and ecology.