PhD Students
Jamie Countryman
Environmental history and historical ecology, ethnobotany and archaeobotany, colonialism, classical and modern empire, land relations, food systems, biodiversity, ferals.
I am an environmental anthropologist and archaeologist. My work centers the study of land history and long-term effects of colonial empires from the p...
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Hindolee Datta
Interests:
Adivasi languages and identity; linguistic anthropology; language shift; education; youth and mobility; ecology and climate change; extraction; politics of development; migration and displacement; people’s movements; India – South Asia.
Hindolee Datta is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Their research explores language shifts among Adivasi ...
Read MoreAlice Diaz Chauvigné
(Archaeology) Latin America - Colombia. Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Tairona polity, human-animal interactions, transitions and transformation between the pre-Columbian and colonial periods.
Martin C. Doppelt
France; Western Europe; History, sociology, anthropology of European archaeology; Iron Age; Isotopic analyses; Assemblage Theory; Ontology; Value Theory.
A Pennsylvania native, Martin completed undergraduate studies in anthropology, cogntive psychology, and English at the University of Pittsburgh. He gr...
Read MoreE.M. Elshaikh
Interests:
STS, semiotics, historical epistemology, anthropology of history, aesthetics, Arabness, Arabian Gulf.
My primary questions revolve around the politics and aesthetics of knowledge production, specifically historical and technoscientific knowledge.
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Caressa Franklin
Interests:
Germany & Central Europe, North Africa, Middle East. (the politics of) German gangsta rap; processes of racialization; citizenship and refugee "crisis(es)"; criminality; edges.
Robert Gelles
Interests:
USA - Legal/political. American conservative public interest law, semiotics, historical conditions that make litigation possible, how public interest law may alter relations among law, the state and the public.
Keywords: Jurisdiction, Knowledge Practice, Semiotics, Conservative Legal Movement, US
Rob Gelles is a PhD Candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research investigates the semiotic proces...
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Rachel George
East African Rock Art. African Great Lakes Region: Lake Victoria & Tanzanian Southern Highlands. Community archaeology; ethnography and oral history as evidence for interpreting rock art; contemporary ritual practices at rock art sites; community-based collaborative rock art interpretation; community-based rock art heritage management; rock art archiving practices.
Rachel George is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research examines the contemporary use of rock art sites to construct...
Read MoreEmma Gilheany
Sub-Arctic/Arctic, landscapes/seascapes/icescapes, Inuit sovereignty, environmental anthropology, archaeology of the contemporary, settler colonialism, missionization, Cold War, collaborative and public archaeology, ethnographic/experimental film.
Emma Gilheany is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation examines the recent history of Nunatsiavut and Labrado...
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Aqiil Gopee
Interests:
Indian Ocean; archaeology; islands – Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros, Réunion; material religion; Islam; commerce; osteology and mortuary practices; historiography; colonialism – French and British; indenture and enslavement; Silk Road; the Qur’ān; literature and literary theory; linguistics; East Africa; Oman; South Asia; Egyptology and hieroglyphs; archaeology of knowledge; Classical Arabic; ships; lascars and pirates; Palmyra; Palestine.
Aqiil Gopee is a PhD student from Mauritius interested in the intersections between archaeology and religion in the Indian Ocean, East African and Isl...
Read MoreGrigory Gorbun
Linguistic anthropology, law, profession, education and socialization, authority, Russia.
MA, 2015, Anthropology of Law, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. BA (Specialist), 2013, History, Moscow State University. My dissertation project looks...
Read MoreLorenzo Granada
Interests:
Latin America - Colombia (Amero). Materiality, landscapes, disaster, ruination and temporality.