THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PhD Students
Christopher Grant
(Arch) USA - Louisiana (New Orleans); French Caribbean - Haiti. Labor and subjectification, urban landscapes, built environment; material culture; craftsmanship, urban experience; loss, displacement, belonging. "Crafting Community: Race, Creative Labor, and Everyday Aesthetics in the Creole Faubourgs of New Orleans, 1790-1896."
Nicole (Nikki) Grigg
Interests:
(Arch) USA - Mid-Atlantic. Urban archaeology, archaeology of diaspora, historical capitalisms, constructions of heritage, memory, public archaeology.
Siyun Guo
Interests:
(Arch) Northwest China (Bronze Age). Cultural frontier regions (the Gansu/Hexi Corridor); a study of temporality from the perspective of subsistence practices - utilizing zooarchaeology & paleosoil records.
Daniel R. Hansen
(Archaeology) Early medieval Scotland; northern Europe; archaeology of social identity/ethnicity; semiotics of landscape; archaeology and linguistics.
Daniel R. Hansen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. His research explores landscape practices as semiotic media for the constructio...
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Debora Heard
Interests:
(Arch) Africa - Egypt/Nubia, Gebel Barkal, Sudan. State Power: ideology, religion and material culture; Archaeology of Ideology: iconography, landscape and ritual. "In the Houses of the Ram and the Lion: Religious Displays of Political Subjectivity in the Kushite Temples of Amun and Apedemak."
Debora Heard is a Ph.D. Candidate in anthropology, specializing in the archaeology of ancient Nubia. She has also studied ancient Egyptian history an...
Read MoreMarie Helmy
Interests:
Egypt, Coptic Christians (claim to pre-Arab/Islamic roots in Egypt). Racialization of Islam, empire and colonialism, transnational racial identity formations, crtical race theory; Coptic nationalism.
Jiyea Hong
Entextualization of culture; community/indigenous media; history of science.
My research explores the connections between the history of fieldwork in southwest China since the early 20th century and the contemporary “culture wr...
Read MoreRachel Howard
US; Arizona; race; politics; water; reproduction; homeownership; crisis.
Rachel Howard is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation examines the “good life” and its material and ideologi...
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Kenzell Huggins
Interests:
Southeast Asia-Singapore. Linguistic and cultural Anthropology; media, film and television production, gaming, subtitles; semiotics, animation, textuality; collaborative and virtual ethnography.
Kenzell Huggins is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His dissertation examines the production of film and television in Si...
Read MoreCarol Iglesias Otero
Meteorology/weather stations/climate; mathematics, abstraction, and environmental justice; agriculture, temporality, and reparations; psychoanalysis and embodiment; aesthetics/perception; Central America - Caribbean.
Carol Iglesias Otero is an PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation examines the imbrication of knowledge practices ...
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Ashley T.R. Jackson
Interests:
U.S. South; modern property relations, property law, colonialism, racial capitalism, finance, cultures of risk, pollution, and climate change
I am interested in how Blackness and Indigeneity surface in legal arguments about property and ownership. I plan to pursue this study in the greater M...
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Tackjin Jung
Interests:
Magical capitalism; commodification; cultural economy; political violence; collective political movement; rituals; occultism; shamanism; sorcery; magic; witchcraft; Indonesia
Tackjin Jung is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on exploring connections between ...
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