PhD Students
Lauren Ledin
Bioarchaeology; Bronze Age China; mortuary theory; life course; kinship and relatedness; childhood; personhood; gender.
Lauren’s current research explores kinship and relatedness in Late Shang China (ca. 1200-1050 B.C.E) by using bioarchaeological and archaeological dat...
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Myungji Lee
Social theory; political anthropology; anthropology of polarized worlds; religion, oppression, and generosity; Islam; the state and bureaucracy; interaction, discourse, and translation; semiotics; gender; family; misogyny; Turkey/Türkiye
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. My research examines a central question arising in contentious times: How do peop...
Read MoreLucie Lollkova
Interests:
(Arch) Cloth and clothing; textile production; materiality and affect; human/non-human interactions; objects of personal adornment; mortuary archaeology; heritage and museums. East Asia – China, Japan, and Central Europe.
Nicholas Lorenz
Interests:
(jt w/Divinity/Anthropology and Sociology of Religions). Islam in Europe, knowledge transmission and reception, the relationship between faith and reason, anthropology and theology, transnational religion, secularism, imagination and the senses.

Dominik Lukas
Archaeology. Production of scientific knowledge and digital technology: digital applications in archaeology, fieldwork recording, systems of documentation - Ontology Gap and Living Archive(s).
I studied prehistoric archaeology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and at Université-Marc-Bloch (Strasbourg, France). In 2008 i c...
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