PhD Students

Caribbean & Pacific Colombia. History and historicity; militarism, slavery, and accumulation; debility/capacity; political geography; science, reason, and technology.

(Arch) East Asia - Japan. Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (the Dutch at Dejima); Commodities and materiality, cultural property management and tourism; value and commensuration, feasting, early modern globalization and commerce, sociality of economic transactions, alterity. "Dejima: An Archaeology of Intercultural Commerce in Early Modern Japan."

Intuition; science and the human sensorium; technoscientific imaginaries; uncertainty and nonknowledge; governance; techniques of the body. United States.

Hydropower; critical geography; environmental politics; political anthropology; infrastructure; resource governance; technoscience; energy and extraction; settler colonialism; U.S. Southwest; Arizona.

Native North America (Northern Cheyenne Nation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes); legal anthropology, anthropology of water, settler-colonialism, tribal sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, extraction

South Asia - Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka.  Materiality and affect, history and historicities, aesthetics and politics, images and publics, Islam, the 'secular' and 'religious'.

Linguistic anthropology; image-texts, chronotope and qualia; romanticism and history of art, ekphrasis; everyday aesthetics, aesthetic communities, personhood, well-being. Europe, Greece/Athens.

Bioarchaeology; Bronze Age China; mortuary theory; life course; kinship and relatedness; childhood; personhood; gender.

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

(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.

(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.

Archaeology. Production of scientific knowledge and digital technology: digital applications in archaeology, fieldwork recording, systems of documentation - Ontology Gap and Living Archive(s).