Student Directory
| ADCOCK, Sarah (2) adcock@uchicago.edu |
Near East - Iraq/Syria | Origins of social complexity, emergence of socio-political elites, origins of metallurgy, state formation, urbanism, zooarchaeology, the Ubaid |
| AHMED, Omer (1) ahmedo@uchicago.edu |
US/Islamic World | Anthropology of Islam, immigration studies, media, subaltern studies |
| AMARAL, Adela (3) amaral@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Mexico | African Diaspora and historical archaeology in Mexico; Colonial civility, architecture and space, construction of colonial subjects; architecture and household archaeology. "The Archaeology of Maroon Reducción: Constructing Colonial Subjects in late 18th Century Vera Cruz" |
| ANDERSON, Maureen (4) manders@uchicago.edu |
Africa - Cote d'Ivoire | Imagined Democracies and Nocturnal Communities: The State of Civil Society in Cote d'Ivoire |
| ARELLANO, Emilia (2) earellan@uchicago.edu |
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" |
| AUGUSTINE, Jonah (3) jmaugustine@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia/Andes | Titicaca Basin; materials, materiality, aesthetics, critical theory, political economy, ceramic analysis. "The Aesthetic Constitution of Polity: Ceramic Production and Material Politics in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100" |
| AURIN, Marcus (4) mpaurin@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-Germany | Science and Cultures: Eastern Germany's Second Scientific Culture |
| AUTRY, William (4) woautry@uchicago.edu |
Latin America Mexico | Depopulation and the Transformation of Mixteca Society in the Early Colonial Period, 1500-1700: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Approach |
| BAKER, J. Ckristafer (4) jcbaker@uchicago.edu |
US urban-San Francisco | Cultural processes of marginalization, with a focus on gender, sex, sexuality, race, age, and (dis)ability; Female-to-Male transitioning, embodiment and semiotics in the San Francisco Bay area |
| BHOLAT, David (4) dbholat@uchicago.edu |
W Europe - Britain | Global culture of capitalism; commercial banking, monetary theory, interest as an institution; "Rebuilding Society: Northern Rock in Constructing Global Economic Crisis" |
| BLANCHETTE, Alexander (4) blanchet@uchicago.edu |
Southwest US/Texas Panhandle | American agribusiness ["factory" hog farms], farm labor and organization; political ecology, cultural and historical studies of capitalism, industrial history. "The Industrialization of Life, Capitalist Natures, and the American Factory Farm" |
| BLOECHL, Christopher (2) cbloechl@uchicago.edu |
Central America - Highland Guatemala & Yucatan | Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages; social-semiotic approaches to language and culture; language ideologies, standardization, mediation and media technologies. The Pan Maya imaginary -- Maya community radio in Peto, Yucatan |
| BONNI, Joe (2) joebonni@uchicago.edu |
Mediterranean - Syria/Doura Europos | Ritual, religion, empires; household archaeology, architecture; Roman empire/Christianity. "Religious Pluralism, Persecution and Power on the Roman Frontier [Doura Europos - the oldest extant Christian worship space in the world]" |
| BROWN, Caroline (4) brownie@mosquitonet.com |
Native No America-Alaska | 'A Most Vital Resource': Legal Practice, Child Welfare, and Alaska Native Identity |
| BRUMMEL, Elizabeth (3) ebrummel@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Western Kenya | Ethnicity, subjectivity, and the nation state; communicative practices and the emergence of social categories; language ideologies; identities/social relations; anthropology of youth. "Language and the Emergence of Identity among Youth in Kisumu, Kenya" |
| BUSH, Eleanor (2) ejbush@uchicago.edu |
Native North America | Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation; gender, sovereignty, historical anthropology, postcolonialism |
| BUTLER, Ella (2) ellabutler@uchicago.edu |
US | Food, mass production, science, the body, taste, class |
| CABATINGAN, Lee (2) leecab@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Cuba | The socialist/post-socialist world; law and legality; nations, states and revolution; Socialist Law in a Post-Soviet Society (Cuba) |
| CAMPISI, Christina (2) ccampisi@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Chile, Brazil | Nature/culture, bodies and machines, violence, performance, ethics, subjectivity and truth; political economy, |
| CARBY-DENNING, Nicholas (2) ncarbyde@uchicago.edu |
Haiti, South Africa, Cambodia | NGOs, Problems of subjectivity and citizenship in civil society advocacy and governance |
| CHASE, Zachary (4) chase@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Andes/Peru; Hawaii | Ethnohistory, landscape, historical archaeology, religion; "Performing the Past in the Ritual, Historical, and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochiri, Peru, ca AD 1400-1700" |
| CHAZIN, Hannah (2) hannahc@uchicago.edu |
Eurasia/South Caucasus | Zooarchaeology |
| CHEN, Chen (2) chch@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Contemporary China: kinship, gender, marriage, guanxi; intimacy, romantic love and Capitalism; ritual theories. "Intimate Life in Transformation: Romantic Love and Consumption in Post-Mao China" |
| CHOWDHURY, Nusrat (4) nusrat@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-Bangladesh | Anthropology of wealth and value, energy security, violence, postcolonial democracy, political communication; South Asia, Bangladesh. "The Phulbari Movement: Value and Violence in Bangladeshi Democracy" |
| CHUDAKOVA, Tatiana (4) tatiana@uchicago.edu |
Russia-Siberia/Buryatia/Mongolia | Medical anthropology, Buryat medical practices/Tibetan medicine, conceptions of the body and health, Integrative Medicine, disease chronicity and restorative medicine in Russian health care, traditiional medicine, Buryatia. "Integrating Tibetan Medicine in Buryatia: Local Konwledge, Expertise, and Biocosmopolitan Flows" |
| COYLE, Lauren (3) lcoyle@uchicago.edu |
West Africa-Ghana | Histories and ethnographies of the Gold Coast (Asante); Capitalist modernity (history, subjectivity, sovereignty, aesthetics); Mining and social transformation in Africa; "Dual Sovereignties in the Golden Twilight: Law, Land, and Labor in Ghana" |
| CUNNINGHAM, Molly (2) mollyc@uchicago.edu |
US: Bay Area and Washington, DC | US Progressive Political Networks, American political action, grassroots and global; campaign finance and philanthropy; "Clean Elections, Clean Energy: Money, Politics, the Environment and the Problem of American Democracy" |
| CZARNECKI, Natalja (2) czarnecki@uchicago.edu |
Central & Eastern Europe - Poland and Georgia | Mass mediation and media theory; language; marketing and advertising; politics of "the everyday," public culture, mass publics; Soviet and post-Soviet political economies of production, consumption, and distribution; the creation of consumer audiences in the Republic of Georgia |
| DAS ACEVEDO, Deepa (4) ndd@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - South India/Kerala | Law/courts, religion/secularism, forms of personhood. "Religion, Law and the Making of a Liberal Indian State" |
| DAS, Suchismita (1) suchismita@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India, Sikkim | Ecotourism in Sikkim, India; environment, sustainable development, indigeneity, post-coloniality |
| De QUINTAL, Denene (4) dadequin@uchicago.edu |
Native North America | Race, Face, and American Indian Nations: Native American Identity in the Northeast (Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut) |
| DINGLEY, Zebulon (2) zdingley@uchicago.edu |
Africa - Kenya/Swahili Coast | Kinship, spirit possession, divination, joking relationships, Marxism, psychoanalysis, semiotics; "Of Bond and Boundary: Kinship, Capital and the Occult on the South Coast of Kenya" |
| DOUGHAN, Yazan (3) yazan@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Jordan | Language ideologies, enregisterment and social relations; Arabic language and sociolinguistics; social scientific approaches to the study of the nation state with a focus on the Middle East. "Language Practice and the Production of Locality in Amman's Urban Development" |
| DOWDY, Sean (2/3) sdowdy@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India/Assam | Moral economy, alterity, market speculation as cultural practice, Marwari joint-family firms in contemporary Assam; polity, patronage, value production; stranger merchants and kinship capitalists. "Unparalleled Strangers: Kinship, Capital and Political Belonging at the Limits of India" |
| DUBBELD, Bernard (4) bdubbeld@uchicago.edu |
Africa-South Africa | Becoming Homeless: Superfluity, State Weakness and the Anxiety of Belonging in Glendale, South Africa |
| EDWARDS, Megan (3/4) megane@uchicago.edu |
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: Drink Cultures and Colonialism in the Early Modern World" |
| ENRIQUEZ, Falina (3/4) lafalina@uchicago.edu |
Northeast Brazil, Recife | Linguistic anthropology/semiotics, genre, entextualization, identity, race/ethnicity, popular music, regionalism vs nationalism. "Maracatu and Mangue Beat: The Semiotics of Northeastern Identity in Brazilian Music" |
| FAGAN, Elizabeth (4) egafagan@uchicago.edu |
Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia | Culture contact, imperial influences; architecture, building techniques; material culture. "Inscribed on the Landscape: Strategies of Legitimation and the Constitution of Authority in the Armenian Highland, ca 300 BC - 300 AD" |
| FEENEY, William (3) wfeeney@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Interaction, interdiscursivity and institutionality; visions of violence/violence and mass mediation; theories of Japanese society. "Violence in Japanese Comedy" |
| FEINBERG, Joseph Grim (3/4) feinberg@uchicago.edu |
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'" |
| FELICE, Angelica (2) afelice@uchicago.edu |
US | Linguistic Anthropology: popular music, criticism as a written genre; expertise |
| FESER, Ali (2/3) feser@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Lebanon | Media and mobility; affect and intimacy; liberalism and the public sphere; urban activism, new media technology, urban/online intimate counterpublics in post-Civil War Beirut |
| FLAM, Danielle (2/3) dflam@uchicago.edu |
China, Medical anthropology | Biomedicine, psychology, trauma, volunteerism/empathy, history/memory, citizenship. |
| FORD, Andrea (2) alillyf@uchicago.edu |
West Africa-Ghana/Togo | Value systems/world views -- how social value (morality, community, knowledge) is involved with the circulation of money/commodities |
| FRANKLIN, Kathryn (3- Arch) kathrynjane@uchicago.edu |
Armenia & the Caucasus, Russia and Eastern Europe/Eurasia | Trade and exchange, mobility, landscape, value and materiality, markets and trade routes. "Political Economy at the Crossroads: Trade and Authority in the Late Medieval Armenian Highlands, AD 500-1400" |
| FRIERSON, Karma (2) kfrierson@uchicago.edu |
Afro-Atlantic World - Mexico, Brazil, US | Public history/memory politics; identity and race/ethnicity |
| FURLONG, Matthew (2) mfurlong@uchicago.edu |
US Southwest & Northern Mexico | The engagement between continental philosophy and anthropology; anthropology of religion; relationship between aesthetics and politics |
| GARRETT de LIÉVANO, Maria (4) mcgarret@uchicago.edu |
Europe-Germany, Thailand | Immigration, marriage, citizenship, family law, human trafficking. "Imported Intimacies: Citizenship, the State and the Labor of Love in Thai Marriage Migration to Germany" |
| GASTROW, Claudia (3) cgastrow@uchicago.edu |
Southern Africa, Angola | Citizenship, the nation-state, economics, urban development, aesthetics."Grounding Citizenship: The Politics of Property in Post-Conflict Luanda, Angola" |
| GERAGHTY, Mark (4) geraghty@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Rwanda | An ethnographic investigation of Genocide Ideology in Rwanda |
| GHAZAL, Royal (4) omar1@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Oman; Indian Ocean Rim | Citizenship, the nation-state, economics, urban development, aesthetics."Grounding Citizenship: The Politics of Property in Post-Conflict Luanda, Angola" |
| GODBOUT, Geneviève (2) ggodbout@uchicago.edu |
Caribbean, British colonial settlements (Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua) | Immigration, marriage, citizenship, family law, human trafficking. "Imported Intimacies: Citizenship, the State and the Labor of Love in Thai Marriage Migration to Germany" |
| GOLDFARB, Kathryn (4) kgold@uchicago.edu |
E Asia-Japan | Gender relations, nationalist discourses, medical anthropology, reproductive technology, science studies, kinship, gender and discourse; "Fragile Kinship: Blood Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan" |
| GOLSTON, Azara Aline (2) azara@uchicago.edu |
South India | Food/cuisine, aesthetics, decoration, presentation, semiotics, media, advertisement. Bakeries and Cafes in South India |
| GONÇALVES, João Felipe (4) joaofg@uchicago.edu |
Latin America and the Caribbean Cuba/Brazil | The Hero's Many Bodies: Monuments and Nationalism in Havana and Miami |
| GRAIF, Peter (4) pjgraif@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-Nepal | How to be understood when you speak: Difference, Intelligibility, and Activism in Deaf Nepal |
| GRANT, Christopher (2 - Arch) cgrant@uchicago.edu |
French Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique), Louisiana | Informal economy of the early Atlantic world, Buccaneer settlement and colonization in the French Caribbean/Southern US; Colonialism and sexuality; material culture and consumption; colonial ecology |
| GRAY, D. Ryan (3 - Arch) dryangray@uchicago.edu |
Southeastern US | Historical archaeology of New Orleans; urban 'slums' and informal development in cities; urban development and contested space; crime, criminality, and identity in the 19th century. "Effacing the 'Imagined Slum': Space, Subjectivity and Sociality in the Margins of New Orleans" |
| GREENE, Alan (4 - Arch) agreene@uchicago.edu |
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 |
| GUENGERICH, Anna (3 - Arch) guengeri@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Andes | NE Peru/Andes-Chachapoyas region; the household and community; the built environment/space and place; practice. "Stone Walls and Social Space: The Shaping of Residential Architecture and Society in Ancient Chachapoyas, Northeastern Peru" |
| HALVERSON, Colin (1) cmehalverson@uchicago.edu |
US Urban | Language ideology, honorification, 'swearing', (orders of) indexicality; use and interpretation of 'swearing' among African-American youth on the South Side of Chicago |
| HANLON, Julie (2 - Arch, Jt. w/SALC) jhanlon@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-India | Economic development and political organization in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, 5th century BC - 8th century AD; economic archaeology, textual archaeology, ceramic analysis. Spatial and statistical analysis of archaeo-historical materials (artifacts, coins, inscriptions), ancient sites and monuments using ArcGIS and SPSS. |
| HANNIG, Anita (4) ahannig@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Ethiopia | Biopolitics, biomedicine, social reproduction, health/healing, (post)colonialism, humanitarianism, witchcraft and ritual, governmentality. "The Social Worlds of Obstetric Fistula: Childbirth Injuries, Clinical Structures, and the Production of Reality in Ethopia" |
| HARA, Kristyn (2 - Arch) krishara@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Asia/Cambodia | Environmental archaeology (human-environment dynamics, paleoclimatic reconstruction), archaeobotany, landscape/spatial theory, urbanization, state formation, paleodemography. Human-environment dynamics within the Angkor region of Cambodia |
| HARTIKAINEN, Elina (4) elina@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | Linguistic Anthropology: language ideologies, register phenomena, indexicalities; Candomblé: Spirit possession, religion in the African diaspora, social types in national imaginaries. "Ritual Hierarchy, Secrecy and Public Discourse: Forming an African Religious Public in Brazil" |
| HARTLEY, Charles (4 - Arch) chartley@uchicago.edu |
EAsia-China | Early Chinese culture; technology and social systems; ceramic analysis. "Community, Pottery, and Political Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE" |
| HAYAT, Maira (2) maira@uchicago.edu |
South Asia: NW Pakistan, Afghanistan, India | Political, legal and historical anthropology, colonialism, South Asian colonial history, postcolonial states & politics, globalization, human displacement, new media, "civil society," political economy and differing notions of "tribal" society in Afghanistan, Pakistan & India |
| HEARD, Debora (3/4 - Arch) ddheard@uchicago.edu |
Africa Egypt/Nubia Gebel Barkal, Sudan | State Power: ideology, religion and material culture; Archaeology of Ideology: iconography, landscape and ritual. "In the Houses of the Ram and the Lion: Amun and Apedemak Temples as Sites of Ideological Negotiation in the Nubian-Kushite State" |
| HEINSCH, MaryFran (4 - Arch) mfheinsc@uchicago.edu |
Russia Caucasus | The Materiality of Mobility: Rethinking Migration as Explanation in the Kura-Araxes Period [Eastern Caucasus] |
| HIBBARD, Stephen (4 - Jt. w/ Linguistics) s-hibbard@uchicago.edu |
E Europe-Poland | Iconic Communities: Linguistic Practice, Cultural Performance, and Ideologies of Nationhood in the Polish Highlands |
| HICKMAN, Kristin (2) hickman@uchicago.edu |
Morocco; the EU | Morocco; Orality and Literacy; "The Politics of Writing Moroccan Arabic" |
| HILAL, Yaqub (2) yhilal@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Israel | Language ideology, practice and objectification, aesthetics and affect, value and commensuration; translation and commensuration |
| HIRSCH, Eric (2) erichirsch@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Peru & the Andes; Maldives | Development; progress and history; markets for the making and consumption of cultural authenticity; mass media, global public spheres, ethics, identity politics, global climate change, politics of knowledge |
| HITE, Emma (2 - Arch) emmahite@uchicago.edu |
Mongolia (Arkhangai & Bulgan Aimaqs), Eurasian Steppe | Human skeletal and faunal analysis; constructions of nature/culture through the lens of species boundaries. Relationship between humans and domesticated animals in the mortuary and ritual practices and contexts of the Xiongnu [terminal Iron Age] in Central Mongolia |
| HORNE, Brian (4) bhorne@uchicago.edu |
Russia | Mass media, aesthetics, audio technology, music; "'Save Our Souls': Russian Bards and the 'Sound' of State Transformation" |
| HUA, Jenny Miao (2) jmiaohua@gmail.com |
East Asia - China | Medical anthropology, body politics, Chinese medicine, cultivation of body and spirit, religion, ideology, everyday practice, critical theory |
| HUMPHREYS, Laura-Zoe (4 - Jt. w/Cinema and Media Studies) laurazoe@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Cuba | Revolution from Within: Criticism and Ambivalence in Post-Soviet Cuban Cinema. Cuban and New Wave cinemas, anthropology of intellectuals, aesthetics and politics, semiotics, queer theory |
| HU, Cameron (1/2) cameronhu@uchicago.edu |
Middle East/East Africa-Red Sea | Anthropology of science, technology, law, and geopolitics; field science; energy prospecting and extraction; futures, forecasting & speculative economy; morphogenesis in infrastructure and architecture |
| INGEBRETSON, Britta (2) ingebretson@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Post-socialism, gender and publics, media and language, language ideology, language transformation. "The Persuasive State: Circulating Discourses and the All-China Women's Federation in the PRC." |
| JABLONER, Anna (3) annajabloner@uchicago.edu |
US - California | Race and genomics; feminism and science: knowledge, nature, bodies; archives, memory and classification. "Archiving Humanity: The Politics of Classification in US Gene Databases" |
| JAMISON, Kelda (4) keldaj@uchicago.edu |
Turkey | Making Kurdish Public(s): Language Politics and Practice in Kurdish Turkey |
| JENKINS, Andrea (2) aljenkins@uchicago.edu |
Americas/Native North America | Native North America; education; race/ethnicity/class; political anthropology and policy; urban issues. "The Struggle for Indigenous Control of Education in American and Canadian Cities" |
| JENNINGS, Robert (2) rmjennings@uchicago.edu |
Near East, the "Classical" world, medieval Europe | Identity, ritual, religion, state power, state formation, ideology, history/historiography |
| JHA, Shefali (2/3) shefalij@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India | South India; Power: sovereignty, authority, subjection; Democracy, politics, 'the people'; Contemporary society, minorities and political mobilization. "Political practice and the making of a community: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen of Hyderabad" |
| JOURNEY, Rebecca (1) journey@uchicago.edu |
Scandinavia/U.S. urban | Sovereignty; political alterities; critical theory; political ecology; visual culture |
| KAHN, Jeffrey (4) jskahn@uchicago.edu |
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" |
| KAUTZ, Sarah (2 - Arch) skautz@uchicago.edu |
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: Archaeologies of Value, Commerce and Material Practice in Edo Japan and the Dutch East India Company" |
| KETCHUM, Frederick (3 - Jt. w/MD-PhD) fketchum@uchicago.edu |
Western Europe-Germany; US | Medical anthropology, performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), biopolitics, subjectivity, ethics, affect. "Performance Enhancements in Germany" |
| KIM, Dongyoung (1) dkim.skyblue@gmail.com |
East Asia-Korea | Race, gender, sexuality; citizenship and migration in Asia; legal anthropology; North Korean settlers in South Korea and their participation in North Korean human rights activism |
| KIM, Kiho (2/3) kiho@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | Yantia, Shandong; Chinese wine industry. "New Vinyards in Old Villages: Farmers, Bureaucrats, Middle Class Consumers, Marketing" |
| KIM, Yongjin (3) kimyj@uchicago.edu |
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 State in North Bali, Indonesia" |
| KIVLAND, Chelsey (4) chelsey@uchicago.edu |
Caribbean - Haiti | Sovereignty, citizenship and difference, performance. " 'We Make the State': The Performace of Political Action in Port-au-Prince, Haiti" |
| KNISLEY, Matthew (1 - Arch) mck@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Tanzania | Historical archaeology of the Sandawe homeland, central highlands, Tanzania; postcolonialism, landscape |
| KOCHEMS, Lee (4) LMKochems@aol.com |
US Medical | Gay Culture: Identity and Assertive Symbolic Activity among Gay Men in America |
| KOHL, Owen (3/4) owenkohl@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Europe - Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia | Ethnomusicology, media, documentary film, visual anthropology, youth culture, hip hop studies; why hip hop resonates with young people in vastly different cultural contexts. "Were the Balkans 'Built for Rap?': Ideology within a Newly Transnational Hip Hop Imaginary" |
| KRAMER, Elise ((3/4)) elise@uchicago.edu |
US | Linguistic anthropology, gender, language ideologies, political discourse, identity. "Mutual Minorityhood: The Rhetoric of Victimhood in the American Free Speech/Political Correctness Debate" |
| KUTTY, Omar (4) okutty@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-India | Purifying Labor: Public Goods and the Politics of Sanitation in Delhi |
| LABENSKI, Edward (4) elabensk@uchicago.edu |
Canada-Native North America | The Politics of Reconciliation: Self-Government and Bureaucratic Normalization of Aboriginal-State Relations in Saskatchewan |
| LAGIA, Anna (4 - Phys) annalagia@googlemail.com |
Greece, Eastern Mediterranean | A Bioarchaeological Survey of Social Structure in the Polis of Athens during the Classical, Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods |
| LAKIER, Genevieve (4+) glakier@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-Nepal | The Spectacle of Politics: Protest, Violence and the Problem of Democracy in Nepal, 1990-2006 |
| LEAVITT, Nelly Samoukova (3) nelly@uchicago.edu |
Russia | Anthropology of the body, theories of the senses; medicine, science and knowledge production, post-socialist subjectivities. "Integration of Traditional Medicine into Mainstream Medical Practice in Contemporary Russia" |
| LEIGHTON, Mary (4) mtfl2@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia, Chile; North America | Understanding the Epistemic Culture of Transnational Field Sciences through an Ethnography of Archaeological Practice in the Americas |
| LELIEVRE, Michelle ((4 - Arch)) lelievma@uchicago.edu |
North America-Nova Scotia | Wijswin (You move from one place to another"): Mi'kmaw Mobility and the Negotiation of Modernity" |
| LESLIE, Averill (3) ajleslie@uchicago.edu |
US-Vermont | Kinship, government, democracy, citizenship; nature, place, landscape "Community Agendas and Civic Civilians: Democracy and Public Agency in a Vermont Town" |
| LEVIN, Erik ((2 - Jt. w/ Linguistics)) ginlevin@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Amazonia | Constructions of Truths and Authority with Grammaticized Evidentiality in Amawaka Discourses |
| LIRON, Tal (2) tliron@uchicago.edu |
Inner Asia - Mongolia | Emotion and affect, nostalgia, post-socialism. "Love and Leviathans: Romantic Life Histories in Mongolia After 1990" |
| LIU, Xueting (1) xuetingliu@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | "Ethics and/in everyday life; theories of knowledge, the desire of knowing, translation; hope and utopia; socialism/post-socialism; management science and MBA institutions in China." |
| LOWRY, Kevin Bryce (2 - Arch) kblowry@uchicago.edu |
Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe | Space, landscape, Marxism, ritual, GIS, zooarchaeology, human osteology |
| LUDWIG, Kathryn (3) kateludwig@uchicago.edu |
US | Race and kinship in the US; international/ transracial adoption, whiteness, culture, multiculturalism, ethnicity. "Intimate Speculation: The Flows and Futures of Private Agency Adoption in Chicagoland" |
| LUDWIG, Kathryn (3) kateludwig@uchicago.edu |
US | Race and kinship in the US; international/ transracial adoption, whiteness, culture, multiculturalism, ethnicity. "Intimate Speculation: The Flows and Futures of Private Agency Adoption in Chicagoland" |
| LULEY, Banjamin ((4 - Arch)) bpluley@uchicago.edu |
Europe-France | Iron Age/Roman Western Europe, especially southern France; colonialism/imperialism; money and systems of value. "Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: Hegemony and the Roman State in Southern Gaul" |
| LULEY, Banjamin ((4 - Arch)) bpluley@uchicago.edu |
Europe-France | Iron Age/Roman Western Europe, especially southern France; colonialism/imperialism; money and systems of value. "Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: Hegemony and the Roman State in Southern Gaul" |
| LUNA, Sarah (4) luna@uchicago.edu |
US/Mexico border | Intersections of intimacy and economy; sex work and sex tourism; space, borders & nationalism; "Transforming Value(s) at the Border: Missionaries and Sex Workers in a Mexican Border City" |
| LUNA, Sarah (4) luna@uchicago.edu |
US/Mexico border | Intersections of intimacy and economy; sex work and sex tourism; space, borders & nationalism; "Transforming Value(s) at the Border: Missionaries and Sex Workers in a Mexican Border City" |
| MALCOM, Christine ((4 - Phys)) cmm9@uchicago.edu |
Osteology | Cultural Markers and Craniometric Variation in the Lower and Middle Osmore Valley, Peru: A Model-Bound, Population Genetics Perspective |
| MALCOM, Christine ((4 - Phys)) cmm9@uchicago.edu |
Osteology | Cultural Markers and Craniometric Variation in the Lower and Middle Osmore Valley, Peru: A Model-Bound, Population Genetics Perspective |
| MARSHALL, Maureen ((4 - Arch)) memarsh@uchicago.edu |
Eurasia, Caucasus | Bronze Age Southern Caucasus; mortuary analysis and social complexity, bioarchaeology; "Building Biographies of Subjects: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Life Experiences and Mortuary Practices in Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (1500-800 BC) Armenia" |
| MARSHALL, Maureen ((4 - Arch)) memarsh@uchicago.edu |
Eurasia, Caucasus | Bronze Age Southern Caucasus; mortuary analysis and social complexity, bioarchaeology; "Building Biographies of Subjects: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Life Experiences and Mortuary Practices in Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (1500-800 BC) Armenia" |
| MATA, Karim ((3 - Arch)) kmata@uchicago.edu |
NW Europe | Iron Age and Roman period, Colonialism, Rural Society, Agency and Material Culture, Archaeology of Settlements and Households. "Roman Colonialism and the Globalization of Rural Localities: Exploring the Material Dimensions of Rural Lifeways in Transition along the Roman Rhineland Frontier" |
| MATA, Karim ((3 - Arch)) kmata@uchicago.edu |
NW Europe | Iron Age and Roman period, Colonialism, Rural Society, Agency and Material Culture, Archaeology of Settlements and Households. "Roman Colonialism and the Globalization of Rural Localities: Exploring the Material Dimensions of Rural Lifeways in Transition along the Roman Rhineland Frontier" |
| MAY, Simon (4) sjmay@uchicago.edu |
Fiji and the Pacific; Britain | The Queen Still Has Mana: Ethnic Fijian Service in the British Army and the Production of Fijian Nationhood |
| MAY, Simon (4) sjmay@uchicago.edu |
Fiji and the Pacific; Britain | The Queen Still Has Mana: Ethnic Fijian Service in the British Army and the Production of Fijian Nationhood |
| McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (4) kathmcd@uchicago.edu |
South Africa | Genomics, Genealogy, Race. " 'Isolated Population': Afrikaners-as-Afrikaners after Apatheid" |
| McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (4) kathmcd@uchicago.edu |
South Africa | Genomics, Genealogy, Race. " 'Isolated Population': Afrikaners-as-Afrikaners after Apatheid" |
| McGONIGLE, Ian (1) mcgonigle@uchicago.edu |
Latin America | Medical anthropology, ethnopharmacology, science studies, intellectual property rights, post-colonial studies |
| McGUIRE, Meredith (4) mcguire@uchicago.edu |
South Asia and diaspora | Media, globalization, capitalism, public culture; "Embodying India's New Middle Class" |
| McHARRY, Kathryn (4) kmcharry@uchicago.edu |
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" |
| MCKAY, Francis ((2 Jt. w/HCSS)) francismckay@uchicago.edu |
Anthropology of Science Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science | Anthropology of science, science studies, continental philosophy of science, existential and phenomenological approaches to anthropology, science and religion in the US, sciences of well-being (Buddhim and mindfulness practice in relation to psychology and neuroscience) |
| McLEESTER, Madeleine ((3 - Arch)) maddie@uchicago.edu |
US-urban, Ecology | Political ecology, landscape theory, archaeobotanical analysis, human/environment interactions, historical archaeology; "Resurrecting the Calumet: Ecological Imaginations, Transformations, and Peril." |
| MEIU, George Paul (4) meiu@uchicago.edu |
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. "Samburu Ethno-Erotic Economies: Difference, Desire, and Social Regeneration in Postcolonial Kenya" |
| MENDOZA, Marcos (4) mendoza@uchicago.edu |
Latin America- S.Chile, S.Argentina, W.Mexico | Post-authoritarian Argentine politics; ecologies of capitalism; anthropology of environment; risk; " 'The Conductive Threads of Nature': Risk Culture and Environmental Capitalism in Patagonia [Parque Nacional los Glaciares]" |
| MORRIS, Meghan (2) mlmorris@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Cuba, Colombia | Law, science, agrarian reform, environmental history, agricultural economies, labor |
| MORTON, G. Duff ((3 - Jt. w/SSA)) duffmorton@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | Economic anthropology, ideas of equality, social services/anthropology of social work, development, social movements, "identites of deprivation," homelessness/ landlessness, household economies. New social services and new work processes in rural Northeast Brazil. "Earning the Future: Working on Investment in Brazil's Bolsa Familia Households (Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil)" |
| MULLA, Ayesha (2) ayeshamulla@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - Pakistan | New media, youth culture, television, regulation, the state, counterpublics, gender, religion |
| NAHIGIAN, Jolie ((4+)) jnnahigi@uchicago.edu |
US urban | Making Culinary Worlds: Craft, Commodity and Cuisine in American Restaurants |
| NGUYEN, Victoria (1) victorianguyen@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | Chinese religion, proliferation of sacred (Buddhist) sites in contemporary urban China |
| OLIPHANT, Elayne (4) elayne@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-France | Signs an Unmarked Faith: Visions of Race, Religion and the City in Paris |
| OLIVER, Chris (4) c-oliver@uchicago.edu |
E Asia-Japan | Occidentalist Imaginings and the Question of Encounter: 'Intercultural Communication' in Contemporary Japan |
| ONES, Jeremy (4) jayeljay@ycgicago.edu |
Africa-Zimbabwe | Youth, gender, temporality (specifically the future), the everyday, value and representation; "Youth in Zimbabwe's Kukiya-kiya Economy: Money, Ethics, and Informality in an Era of Hyperinflation" |
| PACIFICO, David ((4 - Arch)) dpacifico@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Andes | Urbanism, household archaeology, landscape; style and (sub) culture in the archaeological record; public interest archaeology; communities surrounding archaeological sites. "Integrating an Ancient Urban Neighborhood: Excavations at Sector B, El Purgatorio, Peru" |
| PANDYA, Mihir (4) mapandya@uchicago.edu |
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; "The Stealth Effect: Aerospace and Cold War Southern California" |
| PFEIL, Gretchen ((4 - Jt. w/Linguistics)) pfeil@uchicago.edu |
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 |
| PHOA, Yan (4) phoa@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia | The Anatomy of 'Participatory Developmnet': Aid Agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations and Local Communities in Bolivia |
| RAMASWAMI, Shankar (4) shankardelhi@yahoo.com |
South Asia-India | Souls in Kalyug: Migrant Workers' Lives and Struggles in Contemporary Delhi |
| RAMSEY, Jason ((4 - Arch)) jdramsey@uchicago.edu |
Mesoamerica-Yucatan | Ruin, Renovation, and Recuerdos: The Material Economies of Memory on an Ex-Hacienda, Yucatan, Mexico |
| RAN-RUBIN, Michal (3) ranm@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Israel | Politics, aesthetics and nautre; citizenship, civil society and political community; subject formation, pedagogy and embodiment. "Environmental Citizenship: Cultivating Political Subjects in Israel-Palestine" |
| RAYMOND-YAKOUBIAN, Brenden (3) brenden@uchicago.edu |
US, CircumPolar North | Psychological and medical anthropology, metaphilosophy, knowledge, cosmology, ethics, identity, discourse; "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Condition of the Condition (?)" |
| REDDY, Malavika (3) mreddy@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Asia-Thailand | Refugees, humanitarianism, visibility, legal recognition. "Legal Practice and the Production of Licit Belonging in Thailand" |
| RICART, ((Shana) Ender (2)) enderricart@uchicago.edu |
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. |
| RICCI, Giovanni (1) grg@uchicago.edu |
US - technology | Semiotics, anthropology of science, urban anthropology, politics of space and place, mass media, communication networks, language used in relation to technology; the ways in which technologies make possible new social relations and necessitate new ideas |
| RICH, Matthew (4) bangla@uchicago.edu |
Northeast India/ Bangaldesh border | Language ideologies, standardization, indigeneity; ethics and politics of community. "Translations of Indigeneity: Communicating Khasi Identity and Alterity in Bangladesh" |
| RIVERA, Gustavo (4) grivera@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | A New Home in the City: From Favela Shacks to Public Housing Buildings [Belo Horizonte] |
| ROBERTSON, Mary (2) mrobertson@uchicago.edu |
South Africa | Media/advertising, race, music; "Negotiating 'Race' in the Post-apartheid South African Advertising Industry" |
| ROBINSON, Jessica ((2/3)) jsr1@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-Britain and the British Caribbean, Bermuda | Britain and British ex-pat communities in the Anglophone Caribbean/Bermuda/Bahamas; colonialism / post-colonialism, citizenship, gender, constructions of Englishness, anthropology of sport, British cultural studies; "Environmental Stewardship in Bermuda" |
| ROBINSON, Kari (4) kmr@sugarloaf.net |
W Europe-Germany | Ja Zum Leben: Abortion Counseling in Reunified Germany |
| ROSENTHAL, Abigail (3) ajr@uchicago.edu |
North America - American deaf community | How a deaf community is constructed within American urban spaces. "Deaf Identity and Education: Closing the South Dakota School for the Deaf." |
| ROSENTHAL, Abigail (3) ajr@uchicago.edu |
North America - American deaf community | How a deaf community is constructed within American urban spaces. "Deaf Identity and Education: Closing the South Dakota School for the Deaf." |
| ROSENZWEIG, Melissa ((3/4 - Arch)) mrosenzw@uchicago.edu |
Turkey | 2nd and 1st millennium BCE southeastern Anatolia; Political economics, interregional interaction, subsistence production and consumption. "Imperial Environments: The Politics of Agricultural Practice at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey in the First Millennium BCE" |
| ROSENZWEIG, Melissa ((3/4 - Arch)) mrosenzw@uchicago.edu |
Turkey | 2nd and 1st millennium BCE southeastern Anatolia; Political economics, interregional interaction, subsistence production and consumption. "Imperial Environments: The Politics of Agricultural Practice at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey in the First Millennium BCE" |
| ROSEN, Tracey (4) trosen@uchicago.edu |
Europe-Greece EAsia-China | How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: An Ethnography of Chinese Capitalism at the EU's Frontier |
| ROSEN, Tracey (4) trosen@uchicago.edu |
Europe-Greece EAsia-China | How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: An Ethnography of Chinese Capitalism at the EU's Frontier |
| ROSE, B. Theodore (2) btrose@uchicago.edu |
West Africa-Sierra Leone | Freedom and selfhood; legal coercion and political sovereignty, the Postcolonial state in Africa; economic and political democratization, free and unfree labor, post-slavery regimes. Problems/tensions of forced labor within economic and political democratization processes in Sierra Leone. |
| ROZO, Jennifer ((3 - Arch)) jlschaff@uchicago.edu |
US Southwest | Archaeology of New Mexico Pueblo groups under Spanish colonialism; landscape archaeology, land use changes in field systems, archaeobotany/pollen analysis. "Transforming Landscapes, Transforming Lives: People, Plants, Livestock, and the Landscape of Production in Spanish Colonial New Mexico" |
| ROZO, Jennifer ((3 - Arch)) jlschaff@uchicago.edu |
US Southwest | Archaeology of New Mexico Pueblo groups under Spanish colonialism; landscape archaeology, land use changes in field systems, archaeobotany/pollen analysis. "Transforming Landscapes, Transforming Lives: People, Plants, Livestock, and the Landscape of Production in Spanish Colonial New Mexico" |
| RUBIN, Jonah (3) jrubin@uchicago.edu |
Spain and Latin America | Historical memory, political anthropology, legal anthropology, forensic science. "Historical Memory and the Making of Liberal-Democratic Citizens in Spain" |
| RUBIN, Jonah (3) jrubin@uchicago.edu |
Spain and Latin America | Historical memory, political anthropology, legal anthropology, forensic science. "Historical Memory and the Making of Liberal-Democratic Citizens in Spain" |
| SABELLI, Alessandra (1) aless@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Anthropology of technology; human responses to robots |
| SABELLI, Alessandra (1) aless@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Anthropology of technology; human responses to robots |
| SARGENT, Adam (3) (Varanasi) |
South Asia-India | sargenta@uchicago.edu |
| SARGENT, Adam (3) (Varanasi) |
South Asia-India | sargenta@uchicago.edu |
| SCHUSTER, Caroline (4) carlys@uchicago.edu |
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. "Living on Credit: Microcredit Development NGOs and the Regulation of Debt and Repayment Relationships in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area [Ciudad del Este Free Trade Zone/ Fundacion Paraguaya]" |
| SCHUSTER, Caroline (4) carlys@uchicago.edu |
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. "Living on Credit: Microcredit Development NGOs and the Regulation of Debt and Repayment Relationships in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area [Ciudad del Este Free Trade Zone/ Fundacion Paraguaya]" |
| SCHUTTE, Jan (2) jschutte@uchicago.edu |
China, South Korea, South Africa, Zimbabwe | Translation, Mediation, Technology and the senses, Space-time and the work of the imagination. The confluence of media and language flows between East Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; semiotic analysis |
| SCHUTTE, Jan (2) jschutte@uchicago.edu |
China, South Korea, South Africa, Zimbabwe | Translation, Mediation, Technology and the senses, Space-time and the work of the imagination. The confluence of media and language flows between East Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; semiotic analysis |
| SHEKLIAN, Chrisopher (2) sheklian@uchicago.edu |
Armenia, Turkey; Armenian diaspora communities | Secularism and the public/private distinction, sovereignty, citizenship and the problem of minorities, Christians in the Ottoman World. "Religious Representation in a Secular State: Armenian Christians in the Republic of Turkey" |
| SHEKLIAN, Chrisopher (2) sheklian@uchicago.edu |
Armenia, Turkey; Armenian diaspora communities | Secularism and the public/private distinction, sovereignty, citizenship and the problem of minorities, Christians in the Ottoman World. "Religious Representation in a Secular State: Armenian Christians in the Republic of Turkey" |
| SHERWOOD, Amy ((2 - Arch)) aesherwood@uchicago.edu |
Western Europe, Celtic regions | Zooarchaeology of ceremonial sites, late prehistoric Europe |
| SHIH, Tien-Ann (4) tshih@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Peru, Iberia | Historical anthropology; "Strangers in Myth and Kings in History: Kin-Making, Myth and the Topos of the Stranger-King in the Highland Andes, 1531-1650 [District of Vilcashuaman, Peru]" |
| SIEGMAN, Jeremy ((2 - Jt. w/Political Science)) siegman@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Egypt, Israel-Palestine | Sovereignty, secularism, political economy, politics of knowledge and representation, postcolonial theory |
| SIMEONE, Lisa (3) lsimeone@uchicago.edu |
US/Francophone Africa/Europe | International migration, political economy, post-Cold War cultures of capitalism; legal anthropology of membership; global configurations of race and class Dissertation title: "Eating the Past, Feeding the Future: Value, Adjudication, and the Politics of Integration among African Immigrants in Chicago" |
| SKJON, Erik Lee (4) eschoen@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Mozambique | Pemba and Mec√∫fi Districts (Shankan Makhuwa dialect area), Cabo Delgado Province, Northern Mozambique; tropes and morpho-syntax, ethno-regionalism, areal linguistics, value circuits; "The Lingual-Cultural Region: Its Figures and Grounds in Makhuwa Networks, Media, and Discourse" |
| SLOTTA, James ((4 - Jt. w/Linguistics)) jslotta@uchicago.edu |
Oceania-Papu New Guinea, Canadian Arctic | Historical linguistics, language change and variation, historical consciousness and historiography, ethnonationalist movements; "Performative Anxiety and the Politics of Revelation in Post-Colonial Papua New Guinea"; "Language Change and Generational Politics in a Canadian Inuit Community" |
| SOSA, ((Joseph) Jay (3)) jsosa@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | Media and mediated social life; urbanism as everyday life; queer desire and political economy. "Sao Paulo has never been Pinker: Queer Visibilities and the Dilemmas of Publicity" |
| SPRINGER, Jenny (4) |
South Asia-India | 'Development' and Agricultural Practice in South India |
| STVAN, Jeffrey (3) jastvan@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Peru | Constructing Moche V: Architectural Practice and Socio-Spatiality in the Lower Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, AD 550-750 |
| SULLIVAN, LaShandra (4) lps@uchicicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil; Africa | Biofuels, ethanol, sugarcane, plantations, labor, gender; "'The Space to Be Ourselves': Ethnicity, Agroindustry and Land Conflict in Center-West Brazil." |
| THOMAS, Saul ((4 - Jt. w/History)) stthomas@uchicago.edu |
E Asia-China | Capitalism, Liberalism and the Culture Concept; Orientalism; Intellectuals, 'Modernity' and 'Culture' in Post-Mao China. "To Stand Tall in the Forest of Nations: Intellectuals, Liberalism, and Nationalism in 1980s China" |
| THORKELSON, Eli (4) eli@uchicago.edu |
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. "University Politics and the Future of Philosophy in Contemporary France" [The Philosophy Departments at Paris VIII and Aix-en-Provence] |
| TOMPKINS, Christien (2) cptompkins@uchicago.edu |
US/The Americas - New Orleans and Chicago | Education, inner city charter schools and school privatization, neoliberalism, political activism, race and class formation, the production and control of educational space |
| TORMEY, Anwen (4) amtormey@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-Ireland & the EU | Asylum, political subjectivity, evidentiary logic and practice, law, (im)migration, citizenship; " 'We Can't All Live on a Small Island': Truth, Difference and the Politics of Asylum in Ireland" |
| TORRES, Joao Batista (4) carneiro36@hotmail.com |
Latin America-Brazil | Anthropology of Transnational Mass Media: An Ethnographic Incursion into Brazilian Cable TV |
| TRIVEDI, Mudit ((2 - Arch)) mudit@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - North India | Rajasthan & Mewat; Politics and archaeology; landscapes and built environments; Genealogies of the 'Political in Indian history, Medieval Indian architecute and its study. Historical archaeology of the Meo of Mewat |
| TUSINSKI, Gabriel ((3/4)) tusinski@uchicago.edu |
Indonesia-East Timor | Kinship (descent and alliance, house societies); materiality and social life; violence; nations/nationalism; states and sovereignty. "Violence Beyond the Body: Destruction, Construction and the Contestation of Timorese National Belonging, Dili, East Timor" |
| VILLARIAS-ROBLES, Juan (4) villarias@filol.csic.es |
Latin America-Inca | The Inka Economic System and Civil War, 1527-1532 |
| WALKER, Christopher (4) cewalker@uchicago.edu |
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" |
| WALKER, Joshua (4) jdwalker@uchicago.edu |
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 "The End of Forever? Diamonds, Value, and Reproduction in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo" |
| WEICHSELBRAUN, Anna (2) weichselbraun@uchicago.edu |
Europe, North America | Linguistic anthropology, Regulatory knowledge, nuclear science/technology, semiotic ideologies, epistemic values; "The Production and Regulation of Nuclear Knowledge at the International Atomic Enegry Agency" |
| WEISS, Joseph (2) weissj@uchicago.edu |
Native North America - British Columbia | First Peoples of British Columbia (Haida); difference, indigeneity, sovereignty and the state, selfhoods and subjectivities, settler (post)-colonialism, human rights and rights claims, violence/victimization, commissions of inquiry. "An Unsettling Co-Existence: Political Community and the Everyday on Canada's Northwest Coast" |
| WILCOX, Kelly ((2 - Arch)) kellywilcox@uchicago.edu |
South Asia | Complex societies, early state formation, zooarchaeology, diet and subsistence economies, long-term trends in animal procurement and consumption, food access, emergence of social inequality; ecology |
| WILLIAMS, Kaya (2) kayawilliams@uchicago.edu |
US / NYC, New Orleans | Justice (criminal, resotrative, and otherwise), criminal justice reform projects, non-profits, temoprality (specifically futures), risk, race |
| WILSON, Brian ((3 - Arch)) bcwilson@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India/Goa | Urbanization/Urbanscapes, Portuguese Colonization; Historical archaeology, integration of archaeological and historical data. Portuguese colonialism in Goa, 16th-17th centures with focus on urban landscapes and identity. |
| WOODROOFE, Hannah ((3/4)) hwoodroo@uchicago.edu |
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. "Waste-Work in Youngstown: Fertile Ruins and Uncivil Service on a New American Frontier" |
| WYNNE, Lauren (4) wynne@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Mexico/Yucatan | Anthropology of food and eating, embodiment and everyday life; "Getting Food Right: Care, Pleasure, and Vulnerable Bodies in Rural Yucatan" |
| YEUNG, Shirley (2) syeung@uchicago.edu |
W. Europe - Switzerland | Alternative health and complementary medicine, language ideologies of alternative healing systems in contexts of multilingualism and the migrant-other. "Unsettled Foreigners: Language and the Nation in Swiss Ethnopsychiatry" |
| YUAN, Xiao-bo (2) xyuan@uchicago.edu |
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; "Constituting the Three-Self Church: Instituting a 'Chinese Christianity' " |
| ZHAO, Cheng-Guang (4) cgz@uchicago.edu |
E Asia-China; Tianjin & Beijing | Space, architecture, social action, semiotics, communities and publics, the state, everyday life, history; Tianjin. "Scales of Imagination, or the Spatial Culture of Public Life in Urban China" |
| ZYCH, Lauren (4) lzych@uchicago.edu |
Colonial US Southeast | Handmade earthenwares of probable Native American manufacture on French colonial sites in New Orleans. "Hybrid Objects and Intercultural Assemblages: Coarse Earthenware in Colonial Louisiana" |