PhD Students
Ashir Mohamed Abdul Azeez
Interests:
South-Asia - India; Islam, ethical self-fashioning, religion and secular, popular politics and mass mobilizations, corporeality, performativity, aesthetics, semiotics and affect.
Amara Ahmed
Interests:
Anthropology of Islam, migration studies, policy studies, media, subaltern studies; tradition, diaspora studies, counterpublics; identity construction via Arabic language learning among descendants of Moroccan Muslim immigrants in Spain; Arabic language learning as ethical practice.
Sabena Allen
Interests:
Native North America/Southeast Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian). Dispossession, climate change, place and storywork, sacred objects, oral history.
Jianghong An
Interests:
East Asia - China. Political and legal anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ideology, state, sovereignty, bureaucracy, urban space, infrastructure; migrant petitioners.
Zachary Arrington
Interests:
Caribbean - Puerto Rico; Latin America - Mexico/Chile. Colonialism, statecraft, geography, boundary, global capitalism, social production of space and collective relationship to place, the aesthetics and politics of dispute.
Krithika Ashok
Interests:
South Asia - India; political and legal anthropology; legal language; litigants and court practice; state and citizenship; political subjectivity.
Andrew Katzenstein Atwell
Messianism and temporality, ethics, religion and the secular, Jewish Studies, Middle East, sensibility and embodiment, political theology, sovereignty and intervention, Israel/Palestine.
Erin Atwell
Egypt, Islamic preaching, ethical self-fashioning, embodiment, intimacy, humanitarian reason, anthropology of religion, textuality and materiality.
Henry Bacha
Interests:
Historical anthropology; historical archaeology; ethnohistory; legal anthropology; Marxism; political economy; historiography and historical methods; social movements; colonialism; anthropology of religion and ritual; the Catholic Church; Christian theology; missions and mission Christianity; Latin America; the Andes; Amazonia; the Southern Cone; Iberia; the French Americas.
Hadeel Badarni
Middle East - Palestine. Techno-scientific capitalism, geopolitics of energy production, political ecology, political economy; renewable electrification of Palestine.
Alexis Rolando Chavez
Critical race theory, anthropology of religion, France.