PhD Students
Alexander MacNeil
Anthropology of design; sense, attention, and spectacle; technical systems and mediation; futures and temporal politics; capitalism; political rationalities and governance; Osaka, Japan.
Apoorva Malarvannan
Jolen Martinez
Interests:
U.S., Latin America – Feminist STS, temporality and narrativity, computer science, information theory, embodiment, cybernetics, extractivism, critical race theory, mysticism and sense.
William McCollum
Interests:
Historical/industrial archaeology, historical anthropology, labor history, racial capitalism, extraction, materiality, critical geography, US South.
Reed McConnell
Interests:
US Southwest (Imperial Valley, California): Environmental anthropology; new/historical materialisms, the desert, temporality/theories of the end of time, toxic threat, the body, waste, modern ruins, post-apocalyptic tourism, the Hollywood film industry, the Frankfurt School.
Marcus McGee
Interests:
Latin America - Mexico. Urban and semi-urban areas; violence, media, politics; crime and its mediations; gender and sexuality.
Alyssa Mendez
Interests:
Greece, Southern Europe, human geography, ‘green’ energy, extraction, infrastructure, multi-species worlds, future-making, anarchism
Nikhita Mendis
Spain - Andalusia / Al-Andalus; land, property, desertification; historicity, temporality, tradition; ethics, action, psychoanalysis; Islam in Europe; secularism and secularity.
Ashima Mittal
South Asia - India. Medical anthropology, STS, capitalism, globalization, global health; public-private partnerships, outsourced clinical trials in public health infrastructure.
Emily Mulford
Interests:
(Arch) Latin America - Argentina. Contemporary ethnoarchaeolgy, mortuary monuments, material sources and oral/textual counterparts, practices of resistance. Assemblages of memories curated by loved ones of those who were disappeared during Argentina's "Dirty War."
Kelly Mulvaney
Biopsychosocial theories of health and illness; gender and sexuality; responsibility. Europe/US.
Daniel Muras
Interests:
South Africa; New York City; homelessness; urban anthropology; the intersection of neoliberalism and decolonization; poverty and the welfare state; structural violence; socio-spatial and -temporal production through everyday practice; embodiment, intimacy, and the senses; phenomenology and (inter)subjectivities; collective urban political activism; human-animal studies