Affiliates

Genevieve Lakier



Professor, University of Chicago Law School
glakier@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Law and society; liberalism and the ideology of freedom of speech; public and private censorship; the digital public sphere.

PhD, University of Chicago, 2014

María Cecilia (Nené) Lozada



Senior Lecturer in RLL; Research Associate, Anthropology
mclozada@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Mortuary archaeology; bioarchaeology; human osteology; paleopathology; human body.

PhD, University of Chicago, 1998

John Lucy



William Benton Professor Emeritus, Department of Comparative Human Development
jlucy@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Linguistic anthropology; psychological anthropology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; social theory; Mayan language and culture.

PhD, University of Chicago, 1987

Callie Maidhof



Assistant Senior Instructional Professor; Associate Director, Global Studies Program
cmaidhof@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Sociocultural anthropology; the state; middle-class cultural politics; religion and secularism; settler colonialism; Israel and the West Bank.

PhD, UC Berkeley 2016

Elham Mireshghi



Lecturer, Social Sciences Division and the Divinity School
emireshghi@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Anthropology of public policy; medical anthropology; economic anthropology and the anthropology of morality; bioethics and Islamic law; Iran and the Middle East.

PhD, UC Irvine, 2016

Saadia Mirza



Teaching Fellow
saadiamirza@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Western Europe; USA; Afghanistan. Landscape Studies; Media Studies; Architectural Theory; Remote Sensing; History of Cartography; History and Anthropology of Knowledge; History and Anthropology of Science and Technology.

PhD, University of Chicago, 2024

Emily Lynn Osborn



Associate Professor, History
eosborn1@uchicago.edu
Interests:

African history; Francophone Africa; gender in Africa; colonialism; technology transfer and diffusion.

PhD, Stanford, 2000

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Hanna Pickwell



Teaching Fellow
hpickwell@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Urban China (Beijing); material culture; secondhand and used commodity exchange; consumption; time and temporality; disposability and endurance; aesthetics; affect; belonging; popular culture.

PhD, University of Chicago, 2024

Lake Polan

Lake Polan



Teaching Fellow

Eugene Raikhel



Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development
eraikhel@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Cultural and medical anthropology, with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia.

PhD, Princeton, 2006

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Eléonore Rimbault



Harper-Schmidt Fellow; Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Collegiate Assistant Professor
erimbault@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Life of cultural forms and categories; ideologies of childhood and animality; dynamics of stigmatization; techniques of the body; visual culture and non-textual archives; memory and identity; historical anthropology; ethnographic methods; contemporary India; history of Southern India.

PhD, University of Chicago, 2022

Michael Rossi



Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of History
michaelrossi@uchicago.edu
Interests:

History of medicine and science in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present; historical and cultural metaphysics of the body: how different people at different times understood questions of beauty, truth, falsehood, pain, pleasure, goodness, and reality vis-à-vis their corporeal selves and those of others.

PhD MIT, History and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Society, 2011