Student Directory
| TRIANTAFILLOU, Eric (1) etriantafillou@uchicago.edu |
North America | Art historical semiotics, material and visual culture, social theory; socially engaged aesthetic production and politics |
| STEWART, Haeden (Arch) (1) haedenstewart@uchicago.edu |
North America - Western Canada | Archaeology of the contemporary past, archaeology of homelessness; indigenous studies, post-colonial studies, GIS, survey methodology, urban geography |
| SIMMONS, Kristen (1) kls1@uchicago.edu |
Native North America | Contemporary Native American law and politics, material culture, museums, NAGPRA, impact on Native Americas of the development of solar energy in the Southwest; Southern Paiute politics, self-determination; land management, cultural landscape theory |
| SHELDON, Zachary (1) zdsheldon@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Iraq / US | The Arab world, Iraq, Arab-Americans, US military; anthropology of the state, critique of neo-liberalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, civilian contractors, translation and linguistics |
| SAHA ROY, Sayantan (1) sayantan@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India | Legal and political anthropology (the question of life as instituted in the domain of law and the Constitution of India); the insurgency movement in Manipur (NE India) |
| POLAN, Lake (1) lpolan@uchicago.edu |
US | Science and technology studies, including contemporary life science research, law and finance |
| PARK, Heangjin (1) heangjinpark@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Markets and international trade, globalization from below, transnational capitalism, food production and consumption; Chinese rural villages, peasant economy, material culture, actor-network theory |
| PAPE, Stacy (1) pape@uchicago.edu |
France (Marseilles)/Morocco/Algeria/Tunisia | Semiotic and performance theory, supranationalism and the EU, post-colonialism, subaltern and borderland regions and linguistic ideologies; Maghrebi migrants in France |
| PACYGA, Johanna (Arch) (1) jpacyga@uchicago.edu |
French Caribbean/Southeast US, French West Africa | Historical archaeology, paleoethnobotany, foodways, anthropology of cuisine |
| MULLEE, John (“Jack”) (1) jmullee@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Argentina/Brazil | Anthropology of the state; space, place and political economy; urban infrastructures, techno-politics; media and mediations of urban space; mobility and subjectivity; economic informality and illegality; Buenos Aires subway (el Subte). |
| McMAHAN, Hilary (Jt. w/Linguistics) (1) hilary.mcmahan@gmail.com |
Native North America | Deixis, linguistic structure and sociocultural interaction, semiotics, language and cognition |
| McELGUNN, Hannah (1) mcelgunn@uchicago.edu |
North America - Acadia, French Atlantic | Linguistic anthropology; semiotics, intangible heritage, bi/multilingualism, register formation, ethnolinguistic differentiation, ritual |
| MAOZ, Eilat (1) maoz@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Israel/Palestine | Policing, border check points; colonialism, post-colonialism, ethnography, anthropology of law, anthropology of the state, welfare/security |
| KINDSTRAND, Love (1) lovekindstrand@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Activism, production of subjectivity, precarity, capitalism; festive street politics in Japan |
| JAMES, Mallory (1) mgjames@uchicago.edu |
US, Australia | Science and technology studies; health, energy, and environmental technologies; engineering ethics; medical anthropology, carbon capture and storge; pharmaceuticals; advertising/science communication |
| ENOS, Jason (Arch) (1) jmenos@uchicago.edu |
Caribbean | Archaeology of the African diaspora, landscape archaeology, spatial analysis; archaeology of power, inequality and resistance |
| CAMPOS TÉLLEZ, Jorge (1) jcampost@uchicago.edu |
Africa - Somalia (Hargeisa) | Urban governance and the state, urban bureaucracies, 'failed' states, NGOs (UN-Habitat) |
| BOCK, Emily (1) erbock@uchicago.edu |
US | Media, information technologies, gender and race; embodiment, semiotcs, consumption; drag performers within African-American popular culture |
| ATEF, Ali (1) aatef@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Egypt | Anthropology of the state, sovereignty, mobility and migration, rural studies |
| CALVÃO, Filipe (4) fcalvao@uchicago.edu |
Africa - Angola | "The Rough and the Cut: Law, Value, and Fetish in a Postcolonial Diamond Enclave" |
| McLACHLAN, Amy (2/3) amclachlan@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Colombia, Brazil, Peru tri-border area | Semiotic theory, botanical economies, plant ecologies and garden aesthetics, personhood, kinship, gender, migration, politics of the sensory, knowledge production. "Cultivating Futures: Botanical Economies, Knowledge Ecologies and the Politics of Plant Life in Colombian Amazonia" |
| MA, Zhiying (Jt. w/Human Development) (2/3) zhiyingma@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Medical anthropology; disability studies; science studies; biopolitics, human rights and ethics of care; anthropology of kinship; gender studies; everyday life; post-socialism; China. "Intimate Governance: Chinese Psychiatry and Biopolitical Configurations of the Family" |
| DOPPELT, Martin (Arch) (2) mdoppelt@uchicago.edu |
W Europe - Mediterranean prehistory | European Iron Age; littoral between Catalonia and Northern Italy; Celticism past and present, ritual uses of the body, material culture, food, colonialism and colonization, use of food in the creation of shared identity |
| VILLARIAS-ROBLES, Juan (4) juanjose.villarias@cchs.csic.es |
Latin America-Inca | "The Inka Empire's Economic System and Civil War, 1527-1532" |
| WILSON, Brian (Arch) (3/4) bcwilson@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India/Goa | Portuguese colonialism, 16th to 19th centuries; urbanization and urban decline; historical anthropology/archaeology; archaeology of ethnicity, heritage landscapes. "Colonial Subjects, Colonial Space: The Production of Portuguese Colonial Society in Velha Goa, 1510-1700." |
| 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" |
| WILCOX, Kelly (Arch) (2) kellywilcox@uchicago.edu |
South Asia/India | Iron Age/Early Historic South India; zooarchaeology, political ecology, environmental history, human-animal relations, politics of animal use, stable isotope analysis |
| THOMAS, Saul (Jt. w/History) (4) 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" |
| 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" |
| YUAN, Xiao-bo (2/3) xyuan@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Religion and the state, religion and politics, anthropologies of Christianity; circulation, translation, transformation; Chinese cosmologies, ritual. "Constituting the Three-Self Church: Instituting a 'Chinese Christianity' " |
| SPRINGER, Jenny (4) |
South Asia-India | 'Development' and Agricultural Practice in South India |
| THORKELSON, Eli (4) eli@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-France, US | Universities and the relations of intellectual production, ideologies of the future, precarity and academic labor politics. "Hostile Futures: Radical French Philosophy and University Protest Politics in the Sarkozy Era" [About the philosophy department at Paris-VIII and the French university movement of 2009] |
| ZYCH, Lauren (Arch) (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" |
| 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" |
| WEISS, Joseph (0) weissj@uchicago.edu |
Native North America - British Columbia | First Peoples of Canada, the Haida Nation, sovereignty, indigeneity, difference, ethics, commissions of inquiry. "An Unsettling Co-Existence: Politics and Daily Life on Canada's Northwest Coast |
| 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" |
| YEUNG, Shirley (0) syeung@uchicago.edu |
W. Europe - Switzerland | Mulilingual nation-states, transnational citizenships and the migrant-other, 'culture' in therapy and therapeutic cultures. "A 'Difficult Apprenticiship': The Expertise of 'Integration' in Geneva." |
| WILLIAMS, Kaya (2) kayawilliams@uchicago.edu |
US / NYC, New Orleans | Government, politics and law, American criminal justice/reform, narratives of change and transformation |
| STVAN, Jeffrey (Arch) (0) jastvan@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Peru | Sociopolitical Integration and the Deployment of Architectural Knowledge in the Lower Jequetepeque Valley, La Libertad, Peru, AD 650-1476. |
| WEICHSELBRAUN, Anna (2/3) weichselbraun@uchicago.edu |
Europe, Vienna | Linguistic anthropology, bureacracy, technical and diplomatic language, authoritative discourse [knowledge production and translation in international regularoty science], "The Discursive Production of Technical Authority at the International Atomic Enegry Agency" |
| TORRES, Joao Batista (4) jtorres@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | "Anthropology of Transnational Mass Media: An Ethnographic Incursion into Brazilian Cable TV" |
| SULLIVAN, LaShandra (4) LPS@uchicicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil; Africa | Agribusiness, space, rural development, urban-rural frontiers, race, indigeneity, labor, biofuels. "'The Space to Be Ourselves': Agroindustry and Land Conflict in Center-West Brazil" |
| WOODROOFE, Hannah (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. "Inhabiting the Gap: Ferality, Fertility, and Frontierism on Youngstown's Wastelandscape" |
| TOMPKINS, Christien (2) cptompkins@uchicago.edu |
US/The Americas - New Orleans and Chicago | Education, politics of school privatization, political economy, difference, race and class |
| TUSINSKI, Gabriel (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: House Destruction, Construction and the Contestation of Timorese National Belonging, Dili, East Timor" |
| TRIVEDI, Mudit (Arch) (0) mudit@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - North India | Identity, urbanization, paleoenvironmental research, ceramic technology and trade. "The Place of Politics: The Materiality of Alterity in Medieval Mewat." |
| ROSENTHAL, Abigail (4) 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." |
| MATA, Karim (Arch) (4) kmata@uchicago.edu |
NW Europe - Netherlands | Iron Age and Roman period, colonialism, rural society, agency and material culture, archaeology of settlements and households. "Roman Colonialism and the Globalization of Local Communities: Exploring the Material Dimensions of Rural Lifeways in Transition along the Roman Rhineland Frontier" |
| GUENGERICH, Anna (Arch) (4) guengeri@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Andes | Peru-Chachapoyas region; household archaeology and everyday life; practice; the built environment, space and place, and residential architecture. "Monte Viudo: Residential Architecture and the Everyday Creation of Public and Private Spaces at a Chachapoya Village" |
| SARGENT, Adam (0) sargenta@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-India | Language and political economy, materiality, gender, culture of capitalism, construction workers in India; new class (vs. caste)-based forms of inequality. "Building Captial: Labor Ideologies and the Construction Industry in North India." |
| 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. |
| KNISLEY, Matthew (Arch) ( 2) mck@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Tanzania | Historical archaeology of the Sandawe homeland, central highlands, Tanzania; hunter-gatherer and development studies, landscape theory, exchange networks |
| FELICE, Angelica (2) afelice@uchicago.edu |
US | Sociolinguistics, race, gender, media, popular music; expertise |
| RUBIN, Jonah (4) jrubin@uchicago.edu |
Spain and Latin America | Collective memory, political anthropology, legal anthropology, forensic science. "Historical Memory and the Making of Liberal-Democratic Citizens in Castilian Spain" |
| NAHIGIAN, Jolie ((4+)) jnnahigi@uchicago.edu |
US urban | Making Culinary Worlds: Craft, Commodity and Cuisine in American Restaurants |
| KIM, Dongyoung (2) dongyoungkim@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-Korea | Political anthropology, migration and citizenship, "freedom," sovereignty, and law, North Korean human rights, feminist and queer theory. Animals in Asia. |
| FRANKLIN, Kathryn (Arch) (4) kathrynjane@uchicago.edu |
Armenia & the Caucasus, Russia and Eastern Europe/Eurasia | Archaeology of long distance mobility, trade and pilgrimage; bioarchaeology; early medieval settlement archaeology of Armenia. "Political Economy at the Crossroads: Trade and Politics in Late Medieval Armenian Highlands, AD 1200-1400" |
| JOURNEY, Rebecca (2) journey@uchicago.edu |
Scandinavia/U.S. urban | Spatiality, temporality, phenomenology; material culture, vernacular architecture, urban ecology; aesthetics and politics |
| AURIN, Marcus (4) mpaurin@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-Germany | Science and Cultures: Eastern Germany's Second Scientific Culture |
| HANLON, Julie (Arch) (Jt. w/SALC) (2) jhanlon@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-India | Economic development and political organization in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, 5th century BC - 8th century AD; economic archaeology, trade networks, ceramic analysis |
| HU, Cameron (2) cameronhu@uchicago.edu |
Indonesia / Middle EAst | Anthropology of science, technology, architecture, nature/culture, time, cosmology, aesthetics; Geoscience in Indonesia |
| SHEKLIAN, Chrisopher (0) sheklian@uchicago.edu |
Turkey, Armenia; Armenian diaspora communities | The confluence of religious, ethnic and national identities; law and citizenship; secularism; visual anthropology. "Theology and Community: The Armenian Minority, Tradition, and Secularism in Turkey." |
| 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" |
| BRUMMEL, Elizabeth (4) ebrummel@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Western Kenya | Linguistic anthropology, (Re)production of ethnolinguistic identity, language ideology, language socialization, ethnicity, identity. " 'It's not our language': Language and the Emergence of Identity in Kisumu, Kenya" |
| SIMEONE, Lisa (0) 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. "Eating the Past, Feeding the Future: The Politics of Integration among the New Africans in Chicago" |
| MALCOM, Christine (Phys) (4) cmm9@uchicago.edu |
Latin Amer - Andes | Human osteology; "Cultural Markers and Craniometric Variation in the Lower and Middle Osmore Valley, Peru: A Model-Bound, Population Genetics Perspective" |
| RICH, Matthew (4) bangla@uchicago.edu |
Northeast India/ Bangaldesh border | Language ideologies, standardization, indigeneity; ethics and politics of community. "The Foreignness of Indigeneity: Language and Locality among the Khasi of Northeastern Bangladesh" |
| BONNI, Joe (0) joebonni@uchicago.edu |
Mediterranean - Syria/Doura Europos | Ritual, religion & counter-cultures; archaeology of colonialism: Roman Empire and early Christianity. "Everything is Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empires" [Analysis of Dura Europos excavation field notes and materials held at Yale & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris] |
| PFEIL, Gretchen (Jt/ w/Linguistics) (4) pfeil@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Senegal; US-based Evangelical missionary organizations | "Small Change, Big Changes: Religious Commitments and the High Stakes of Small Charitable Gifts in Dakar, Senegal" |
| 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" |
| ENRIQUEZ, Falina (4) lafalina@uchicago.edu |
Northeast Brazil, Recife | Linguistic anthropology/semiotics, genre, race/ethnicity, popular music, regionalism vs nationalism. "Composing Cultura: The Semiotics of Musical Locality in Northeastern Brazil" |
| RICCI, Giovanni (1) grg@uchicago.edu |
Germany/Austria/Czech Rep. | Language and technology, semiotics, urban anthropology, politics of space/place/the Internet, Pirate Parties, "Anonymous" and anonymity |
| DUBBELD, Bernard (4) bdubbeld@uchicago.edu |
Africa-South Africa | Becoming Homeless: Superfluity, State Weakness and the Anxiety of Belonging in Glendale, South Africa |
| DOUGHAN, Yazan (0) yazan@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Jordan | Anthropology of media, semiotic regimes, aesthetics, urban regeneration in Amman. "Language Practice and the Production of Locality in Amman's Urban Development" |
| ROSEN, Tracey (4) trosen@uchicago.edu |
Europe-Greece EAsia-China | "How 'Made in China' is Made in Greece: Chinese Capitalism at the EU Frontier" |
| CHUDAKOVA, Tatiana (4) tatiana@uchicago.edu |
Russia-Siberia/Buryatia/Mongolia | Medical anthropology, Russian healthcare system, Buryat medical practices/Tibetan medicine. "Recovering Health: Tibetan Medicine and Biocosmopolitics in Russia (Buryatia)" |
| BUSH, Eleanor (2) ejbush@uchicago.edu |
Native North America | Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation; sovereignty, citizenship, settler colonialism, feminist considerations of embodiment, gender |
| KOCHEMS, Lee (4) LMKochems@aol.com |
US Medical | Gay Culture: Identity and Assertive Symbolic Activity among Gay Men in America |
| BROWN, Caroline (4) brownie@mosquitonet.com |
Native No America-Alaska | 'A Most Vital Resource': Legal Practice, Child Welfare, and Alaska Native Identity |
| JENKINS, Andrea (2/3) aljenkins@uchicago.edu |
Americas/Native North America | Native North America; education; race/ethnicity/class; political anthropology and policy; urban issues. "Identity and Success in Urban Indigenous Education Studies in the US and Canada" |
| GASTROW, Claudia (4) cgastrow@uchicago.edu |
Southern Africa, Angola | Housing, aesthetics, the state, political subjectivity, political communities, "Negotiated Settlements: Housing and Citizenship in Luanda, Angola" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| MEIU, George Paul (4) meiu@uchicago.edu |
East Africa-Kenya | Gender, sexuality, ethnicity, postcolonial theory. "Ethno-Erotic Economies: Imagining Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya" |
| CAMPISI TURCOTTE, Christina (2) ccampisi@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Brazil | Violence, performance, the body, dance |
| 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: Sex Workers and Missionaries in a Mexican Border City" |
| LIU, Xueting (2) xuetingliu@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | Money and markets, anthropology of knowleldge and statecraft, domains of expertise in socialism/post-socialism, ethics and everyday life, translation; "Negtotiating Business Professionalism and Cultivating Consumers in Post-Socialist China" |
| KOHL, Owen (4) owenkohl@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Europe - Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia | Linguistic anthropology, historical narrative, mass media, ethnomusicology, hop hop studies, post-socialist transformation, former Yugoslavia, documentary/ethnographic film. "Were the Balkans 'Built for Rap?': Ideology within a Newly Transnational Hip Hop Imaginary" |
| ROBINSON, Jessica (0) jsr1@uchicago.edu |
W Europe-Britain and the British Caribbean, Bahamas | Britain and British ex-pat communities in the Anglophone Caribbean; political ecology. "(Re)claiming the Caribbean: The Politics of Environmental Stewardship in and of The Bahamas" |
| FORD, Andrea (2) alillyf@uchicago.edu |
US/California | Birth, breast milk banks, midwifery; childbearing and social reproduction, embodiment, affect, medical anthropology, food |
| FAGAN, Elizabeth (Arch) (Jt. w/History) (4) egafagan@uchicago.edu |
Armenia, Greece, Asia Minor | Epigraphy, coinage, built landscapes. "Inscribed on the Landscape: Strategies of Legitimation and the Constitution of Authority in the Armenian Highland, ca 200 BC - 300 AD" |
| AUGUSTINE, Jonah (Arch) (3/4) jmaugustine@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia/Andes | Titicaca Basin; materials, materiality, aesthetics, critical theory, political economy, ceramic analysis. "The Aesthetic Constitution of Polity: Visual Politics in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100" |
| PACIFICO, David (Arch) (4) dpacifico@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Andes | History, community, identity; landscape and meaning, material culture, public interest archaeology, communities surrounding archaeological sites. "Integrating an Ancient Urban Neighborhood: Excavations at Sector B, El Purgatorio, Peru" |
| HARTLEY, Charles (Arch) (4) 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" |
| CUNNINGHAM, Molly (2) mollyc@uchicago.edu |
US: Bay Area and Washington, DC | American grassroots political action, political theory, liberalism, neoliberalism, social movements, ethics |
| LEAVITT, Nelly Samoukova (4) 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" |
| CARBY-DENNING, Nicholas (2) ncarbyde@uchicago.edu |
Haiti | NGOs and development/activism, role of the state, problems of citizenship, subjectivity, political representation, institutions; role of NGOs in governance and civil society representation in Haiti |
| SABELLI, Alessandra (2) aless@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Anthropology of science and technology; human responses to robots |
| KETCHUM, Frederick (MD/PhD) (0) fketchum@uchicago.edu |
Western Europe-Germany; US | Medical anthropology, performance enhancing drugs (sports, mood improvement, etc.), biopolitics, subjectivity, ethics, affect. "Re-designing Human Nature: An Anthropology of Enhancements Drugs in Germany" |
| AUTRY, William (Arch) (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 |
| ROBERTSON, Mary (2) mrobertson@uchicago.edu |
South Africa | Media/advertising, sound and image, popular culture and the market; "Negotiating 'Race' in the Post-apartheid South African Advertising Industry" |
| McLEESTER, Madeleine (Arch) (0) 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." |
| SOSA, (Joseph) Jay (0) jsosa@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Brazil | Media and mediated social life; sex politics and queer capitalism. "Sao Paulo has never been Pinker: Queer Visibilities and the Dilemmas of Publicity" |
| LOWRY, Kevin Bryce (Arch) (2) kblowry@uchicago.edu |
Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe | Landscape/space/place, pastoralism and mobility; GIS, regional survey, mortuary archaeology; Bronze Age/Iron Age subsistence shift |
| LAGIA, Anna (Phys) (4) 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" |
| INGEBRETSON, Britta (2/3) 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." |
| DAS, Suchismita (2) suchismita@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India, Sikkim | Ecotourism in Sikkim, India; environment, sustainable development, identity politics |
| RICART, Ender (2/3) enderricart@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Time reckoning, futurity, science and technology studies; Japanese high-tech institutions that research and develop products for the improved social and physical well-being of the elderly in Japan. |
| McHARRY, Kathryn (4) kmcharry@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Senegal, Francophone West Africa | Anthropology of age/lifecourse/embodiment; development; science and technology studies; " 'Building the Wealth of Nations': Age, Care and Development in Senegal." |
| McDOUGALL, Kathleen Lorne (4) kathmcd@uchicago.edu |
South Africa | "Cultural Destiny: Genealogy, Genetic Disease Science and Separatism among Afrikaners in Post-Apartheid Times" |
| MORTON, G. Duff (Jt. w/SSA) (0) 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. "The Household and Its Money: Making Investments and Remaking Families with Bolsa Familia (Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil)" |
| McGONIGLE, Ian (2) mcgonigle@uchicago.edu |
Amazonia and Israel | Ethnopharmacology research practices, subject-object relations, relationship between practice and knowledge; traditional healing practices; anthropology of sacred spaces |
| FEINBERG, Joseph Grim (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'" |
| ROSENZWEIG, Melissa (Arch) (4) 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" |
| PHOA, Yan (4) phoa@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia | "The Anatomy of 'Participatory Developmnet': Aid Agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations and Local Communities in Bolivia" |
| MULLA, Ayesha (2) ayeshamulla@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - Pakistan | New media, youth culture, television, regulation, the state, counterpublics, gender, religion |
| LEVIN, Erik (Jt. w/ Linguistics) (2/3) elevin@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Amazonian Peru | Linguistic anthropology, semiotics; self and selves in Amazonia; techniquest of knowledge in Amazonian cosmologies (Amawaka knowledge practices) |
| LESLIE, Averill (4) ajleslie@uchicago.edu |
US-Vermont | Kinship, government, democracy, citizenship; nature, place, landscape "Democratic Trust: Participatory Politics in Montgomery, Vermont" |
| LEIGHTON, Mary (SocCult/Arch) (4) mtfl2@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Bolivia, Chile; North America | "The Anxieties of a Little Science: Understanding the Epistemic Culture of Transnational Field Sciences through an Ethnography of Andeanist Archaeology" |
| HITE, Emma (Arch) (2) emmahite@uchicago.edu |
Mongolia (Baruun Mukhdag), 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 [Arkhangai and Bulgan aimaqs] |
| FESER, Ali (2/3) feser@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Lebanon | Secrecy, intimate publics, political affect; sex, gender, the state; media and mobility; post-Civil War Beirut |
| 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 Embodiment and Practice: An Ethnogrpahy of Gender as a Social Category in the US." |
| MARINER, Kathryn Ludwig (0) kateludwig@uchicago.edu |
US | Transracial/international adoption, race, multiracial families, mixed race, whiteness, white privilege, inequality. "Intimate Speculation: The Flows and Futures of Private Agency Adoption in Chicagoland" |
| HICKMAN, Kristin (2) hickman@uchicago.edu |
Morocco; the EU | Morocco; Orality and Literacy; "The Politics of Writing Moroccan Arabic" |
| HALVERSON, Colin (2) cmehalverson@uchicago.edu |
US Urban | Linguistics/semiotics, referentiality, object/ontology, expert/lay knowledge, vernacular expertise, genetics/genetic counseling (large Midwestern urban hospital) |
| DOWDY, Sean (0) 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. "How 'Strangers' Account: Exogeny, Polity and Particulate History in Assam" |
| JABLONER, Anna (0) annajabloner@uchicago.edu |
US - California | Gene databases, biopolitics, kinship, capitalism. "Archiving Humanitiy: The Politics of Classification in U.S. Gene Databases" |
| MENDOZA, Marcos (4) mendoza@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Argentina, Chile | Political ecology, capitalism and value, risk culture, globalization and the state. "Topographies of Risk: Social Practice and Environmental Capitalism in Patagonia" |
| MCKAY, Francis (Jt. w/ CHSS) (2/3) francismckay@uchicago.edu |
US,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) |
| HEINSCH, MaryFran (Arch) (4) mfheinsc@uchicago.edu |
Russia Caucasus | "The Materiality of Mobility: Rethinking Migration as Explanation in the Kura-Araxes Period [Eastern Caucasus]" |
| HARA, Kristyn (Arch) (0) 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. "From Consumption to Consummation: Sectarian Pluralism, Foodways, and Royal Authority at the Capital Āśramas of Angkor, Cambodia." |
| CHAZIN, Hannah (Arch) (2 ) hannahc@uchicago.edu |
Eurasia/South Caucasus | Zooarchaeology, pastoralism, Eurasia, political systems and complexity, stable isotope analysis, anthropology of food |
| SHIH, Tien-Ann (SocCult/Arch) (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]" |
| ROBINSON, Kari (4) kmr@sugarloaf.net |
W Europe-Germany | Ja Zum Leben: Abortion Counseling in Reunified Germany |
| GOLSTON, Azara Aline (2) azara@uchicago.edu |
South India | Food/cuisine, aesthetics, taste, presentation, ritual, decoration, media, advertising. Bakeries and Cafes in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu |
| GERAGHTY, Mark (4) geraghty@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Rwanda | An ethnographic investigation of Genocide Ideology in Rwanda |
| EDWARDS, Megan (Arch) (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" |
| DINGLEY, Zebulon (2/3) zdingley@uchicago.edu |
Africa - Kenya/Swahili Coast | Classical theories of society and politics; moral and occult economies; Kenya as historical and anthropological object; "Of Bond and Boundary: Kinship, Capital and the Occult on the South Coast of Kenya" |
| FLAM, Danielle (2/3) dflam@uchicago.edu |
China, Medical anthropology | Biomedicine, psychology, trauma, volunteerism/empathy, history/memory, citizenship. |
| RAN-RUBIN, Michal (0) ranm@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Israel | Politics, aesthetics and nature; citizenship, civil society and political community; subject formation. "Spatial Occupations: Transforming National Geographies in Israel-Palestine" |
| GREENE, Alan (Arch) (4 ) agreene@uchicago.edu |
Caucasus / Eurasia | Economic anthropology, anthropology of technology, material culture studies, archaeometry, Eurasian Bronze Age. "The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Ceramic Production, Exchange, and Consumpption in the Late Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia" |
| 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" |
| CZARNECKI, Natalja (2/3) czarnecki@uchicago.edu |
Central & Eastern Europe - Georgia & Poland | 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. "Food-Consumer Encounters: Trust, Uncertainty, and 'Transition' in Post-Socialist Georgia" |
| CHASE, Zachary (Arch) (Jt. w/History) (4) chase@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Andes/Peru; Hawaii | Ethnohistory, landscape, historical archaeology, religion; "Performing the Past in the Historical, Ritual, and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochiri, Peru, ca AD 1400-1700" |
| OLIVER, Chris (4) c-oliver@uchicago.edu |
E Asia-Japan | "Occidentalist Imaginings and the Question of Encounter: 'Intercultural Communication' in Contemporary Japan" |
| HORNE, Brian (4) bhorne@uchicago.edu |
Russia | Mass media, aesthetics, audio technology, music; "Russian Bards and the 'Sound' of State Transformation" |
| HIRSCH, Eric (2) erichirsch@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Peruvian Andes; Maldives | Investment and development; indigeniety, nationality, belonging, law/jurisprudence; public culture, mediated futures, globalization; climate change in the Maldives |
| MARSHALL, Maureen (Arch) (4) memarsh@uchicago.edu |
Eurasia, Caucasus | Bronze Age Southern Caucasus; mortuary analysis and social complexity, bioarchaeology; "Building Biographies of Subjects: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Lived Experiences and Mortuary Practices in Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Armenia, 1500-800 BCE" Armenia" |
| FEENEY, William (0) wfeeney@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - Japan | Linguistic anthropology, semiotic methods, violence, media, language ideology, nationalism, culture change. "Laughing Until it Hurts: Identifying 'Violence' in Japandse Comedic Variety Television" |
| REDDY, Malavika (4) mreddy@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Asia-Thailand | Refugees, discourses of humanitarianism, anthropology of the state, visibility. "Legal Aid and the Production of Licit Jurisdiction in Thailand" |
| RAYMOND-YAKOUBIAN, Brenden (3/4) brenden@uchicago.edu |
US, CircumPolar North | Psychological and medical anthropology, metaphilosophy, knowledge, cosmology, ethics, identity, discourse; "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Condition of the Condition (?)" |
| HAYAT, Maira (2) maira@uchicago.edu |
South & Southeast Asia | Political, legal and historical anthropology, state-citizen interaction; class, courts, policing |
| BLOECHL, Christopher (0) cbloechl@uchicago.edu |
Central America - Yucatan, Highland Guatemala | Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages and culture, language use and media technologies, Maya community radio in Peto, Yucatan |
| LIRON, Tal (2/3) tliron@uchicago.edu |
Inner Asia - Mongolia | Calligraphy and Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia; cultural heritage and nationalism; affect and embodiment. "Intimacy as Immagined Community in Post-REvolutionary Mongolia" |
| GHAZAL, Royal (Arch) (4) omar1@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Oman; Indian Ocean Rim | Citizenship, the nation-state, economics, urban development, aesthetics."Social Death of Things: Trade and the Politics of Solidarity in the Bronze Age, Oman" |
| KAUTZ, Sarah (Arch) (2 ) 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: Commodities, Value and Social CRetivity at Degima" |
| FURLONG, Matthew (2) mfurlong@uchicago.edu |
North America, southwest US | Natural theology (in context of anthropology of religion/secularism), biopolitics, long-term care services (in context of service economies), genealogies of affect, narration and biography as ethnographic concepts |
| MORRIS, Meghan (2) mlmorris@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Colombia, Cuba | Legal and political anthropology, property, sovereignty, agrarian reform and land restitution, science, environmental history, labor |
| HIBBARD, Stephen (Jt. w/ Linguistics) (4) s-hibbard@uchicago.edu |
E Europe-Poland | "Iconic Communities: Linguistic Practice, Cultural Performance, and Ideologies of Nationhood in the Polish Highlands" |
| SIEGMAN, Jeremy (Jt. w/ Political Science) (2) siegman@uchicago.edu |
Middle East - Egypt, Israel-Palestine | Sovereignty and the state, politics of space, commodity aesthetics, colonialism, settler colonialism and postcolonialism, politics of representation, race |
| HILAL, Yaqub (2) yhilal@uchicago.edu |
Middle East-Israel | Language ideology, practice and objectification, aesthetics and affect, value and commensuration |
| SKJON, Erik Lee (Jt. w/Linguistics) (4) eschoen@uchicago.edu |
Africa-Mozambique | 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" |
| SHERWOOD, Amy (Arch) (2) aesherwood@uchicago.edu |
Western Europe, France | Iron Age and Roman Gaul; ritual theory, ceremonial sites, zooarchaeology |
| KRAMER, Elise (4) elise@uchicago.edu |
US | Linguistic anthropology, gender, language ideologies, political discourse, humor, technology. "The Rhetoric of Victimhood: Free Speech Ideologies and the Free Speech/Political Correctness Debate in the US" |
| NGUYEN, Victoria (2) victorianguyen@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | Chinese religion, Buddhist temple restoration/rejuvenation and its importance for "modernization" in contemporary China, spatial theory, urban planning and design, urban renewal, monumental and vernacular architecture, the cultivation of "historical" architectural tastes, the branding of historical sites in Beijing |
| HUA, Jenny Miao (MD/PhD) (2) jmiaohua@gmail.com |
East Asia - China | Medical anthropology, Chinese medicine, embodiment, postcolonial critique |
| BUTLER, Ella (2) ellabutler@uchicago.edu |
US | Food, mass production, science, the body, taste, class; the US flavor industry |
| JHA, Shefali (0) shefalij@uchicago.edu |
South Asia - India | Minority identity and political subjectivity, secularism in South Asia; politics in/of community and the state. "Indian Secularism and Minority Politics: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen of Hyderabad" |
| 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" |
| GRAIF, Peter (4) pjgraif@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-Nepal | "How to be understood when you speak: Difference, Intelligibility, and Activism in Deaf Nepal" |
| COYLE, Lauren (0) lcoyle@uchicago.edu |
West Africa-Ghana | Legal/political anthropology; gold mining, land and labor conflicts, environmental politics; sovereigns and shadow sovereigns; moral economies of sacrifice/redemption; "cusotomary" v. state law; colonial legal legacies; historical ethnography of "native administration" and colonial courts in Gold Coast; critical social theory. "Dual Sovereigns in the Golden Twilight: Law, Land, and Sacrifical Labor in Ghana" |
| 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 |
| KUTTY, Omar (4) omarkutty@hotmail.com |
South Asia-India | "Purifying Labor: Public Goods and the Politics of Sanitation in Delhi" |
| KIM, Yongjin (4) kimyj@uchicago.edu |
Southeast Asia - Indonesia (Bali)/Malaysia | Culture and tourism,bureaucracy and state-driven development projects; "Culture, Tourism and the State in North Bali, Indonesia" |
| CABATINGAN, Lee (0) leecab@uchicago.edu |
Latin America - Trinidad & Barbados, Cuba | Legal anthropology, anthropology of socialist/late socialist states. "The Caribbean Court of Justice: International Pursuits and National Promises in a Regional Court" (First project was on Cuban law) |
| RAMSEY, Jason (SocCult/Arch) (4) jdramsey@uchicago.edu |
Mesoamerica-Yucatan | "Reckoning with Recuerdos: Material Economies of Memory on a Former Hacienda, Yucatan, Mexico" |
| McGUIRE, Meredith (4) mcguire@uchicago.edu |
South Asia and diaspora | Globalization, capitalism, public culture, space, bodily practice. "Embodying India's New Middle Class" |
| HEARD, Debora (Arch) (4) 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: Religious Displays of Royal Socio-Political Subjectivity in the Kushite Temples of Amun and Apedemak" |
| CHEN, Chen (0) chch@uchicago.edu |
East Asia - China | Everyday life, intimacy, capitalism, consumerism, mass culture and commodity aesthetics, weddings and ritual theory; "Making Couples: Intimacy and Materiality in Contemporary China" |
| ROZO, Jennifer (Arch) (4) 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" |
| LAKIER, Genevieve (4+) glakier@uchicago.edu |
South Asia-Nepal | The Spectacle of Politics: Protest, Violence and the Problem of Democracy in Nepal, 1990-2006 |
| KIM, Kiho (0) kiho@uchicago.edu |
East Asia-China | Yantia, Shandong/Beijing/Shanghai; Chinese wine industry. "Anxiety of Quality and Emergent Forms of Social Differentiation in Consumption and Production of Wine in Consumersit China" |
| GRANT, Christopher (Arch) (2) cgrant@uchicago.edu |
French Caribbean (Haiti), Louisiana | Informal economy of the early Atlantic world, Buccaneer settlement and colonization in the French Caribbean/Southern US; colonialism/postcolonialism, capitalism; gender, sexuality; material cultue; colonial ecology |
| FRIERSON, Karma (2) kfrierson@uchicago.edu |
Mexico/Caribbean, US | Ethno-racial identity, material culture and public history, blackness and diaspora; The Third Root [Afro-Mexican] Movement in Veracruz: historical tourism, food, music, dance |
| JENNINGS, Robert (Arch, Jt w/ NELC) (2) rmjennings@uchicago.edu |
Ancient Near East (Jordan) | State formation, political life, ideology and its material correlates, nationalist archaeologies and the politics of the past (Iron I Palestinian/Transjordanian Highlands, Ancient Levant/Near East) |
| BLANCHETTE, Alexander (4) blanchet@uchicago.edu |
Southwest US/Texas Panhandle | American industrial agriculture, pork production, migrant labor. "The Production of Life on the American Factory Farm." |
| JAMISON, Kelda (4) keldaj@uchicago.edu |
Turkey | Making Kurdish Public(s): Language Politics and Practice in Kurdish Turkey |
| GODBOUT, Geneviève (0) ggodbout@uchicago.edu |
British Caribbean (Antigua/Barbados) | British colonialism in the Caribbean, historial archaeology of the plantation; commensality and taste-making; foodways and performance. "Taste and Hospitality in Antiguan Plantations, ca 1700-1900." |
| AMARAL, Adela (Arch) (4) amaral@uchicago.edu |
Latin America-Mexico | Historical anthropology and archaeology, Afro-Atlantic world, colonialism, architecture and spatial practice, Mexico. “The Archaeology of a Maroon Reducción: Colonial Beginnings to Present day Ruination” |
| ADCOCK, Sarah (2) adcock@uchicago.edu |
Near East - Turkey | Late Chalcolithic/Cadir Hoyuk; zooarchaeology, household archaeology, complexity, early inequality |
| AHMED, Omer (2) ahmedo@uchicago.edu |
Spain/US/Islamic World | Anthropology of Islam, immigration studies, media, subaltern studies; Muslim (Punjabi or Moroccan) immigrants in Spain |