Affiliates
Sanghamitra Das
India; South Asia; race, caste and indigeneity; Dalit and Adivasi Studies; genetics; illness narratives; (bio)citizenship; political economy of health; environment; embodiment.
PhD, Arizona State University, 2023
Alireza Doostdar
Anthropology of religion; Islam; modernity and the supernatural in Iran; Islamic spiritual cinema; modernist universalist religious movements; state entanglements with sorcery; the decades-old project of Islamizing the sciences in Iran.
PhD, Harvard, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, 2012
Sean Dowdy
Kinship; Myth and Religion; Political Ritual; Psychoanalysis; Semiotics; Economic Anthropology; Social Theory; Northeast India.
PhD, University of Chicago, 2017