PhD Students
Megan MacGregor
U.S.; Latin America; Mexico; anthropology of science and medicine; feminist and postcolonial STS; microbiome; health and ecology.
I am a joint PhD student in Anthropology and Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (CHSS). My research is situated in the anthropology of scien...
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Anthropology of design; sense, attention, and spectacle; technical systems and mediation; futures and temporal politics; capitalism; political rationalities and governance; Osaka, Japan.
Alexander MacNeil is a third-year PhD student in the department. He received his bachelor's degree in anthropology and religious studies at Dalhousie ...
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Jolen A. Martinez
Interests:
Anticipation, Black Religion, Racial Capitalism, Finance, Housing, Law, Restorative Justice, Number and Enumeration, Aesthetics, Prophecy, Temporality, West-Side Chicago
Jolen A. Martinez is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research examines housing development and restorative justice p...
Read MoreWilliam McCollum
Interests:
Historical/industrial archaeology, historical anthropology, labor history, racial capitalism, extraction, materiality, critical geography, US South.
Will McCollum conducts historical, ethnographic and archaeological research in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is examining late nineteenth-century mini...
Read MoreReed McConnell
Interests:
US Southwest (Imperial Valley, California): Environmental anthropology; new/historical materialisms, the desert, temporality/theories of the end of time, toxic threat, the body, waste, modern ruins, post-apocalyptic tourism, the Hollywood film industry, the Frankfurt School.
Marcus McGee
Interests:
Latin America - Mexico. Urban and semi-urban areas; violence, media, politics; crime and its mediations; gender and sexuality.
Marcus McGee is a PhD candidate working on a dissertation about the social life of the most circulated and controversial genre of print journalism in ...
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Alyssa Mendez
Interests:
Greece, urbanism, infrastructure, energy, social movements
Alyssa Mendez is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She holds an International Master’s in South European Studies from the Un...
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Nikhita Mendis
Spain - Andalusia / Al-Andalus; land, property, desertification; historicity, temporality, tradition; ethics, action, psychoanalysis; Islam in Europe; secularism and secularity.
Nikhita Mendis is a dual PhD student in Anthropology and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago. She holds a BA in Middle East Studies from Brow...
Read MoreAshima Mittal
South Asia - India. Medical anthropology, STS, capitalism, globalization, global health; public-private partnerships, outsourced clinical trials in public health infrastructure.
Emily Mulford
Interests:
(Arch) Latin America - Argentina. Contemporary ethnoarchaeolgy, mortuary monuments, material sources and oral/textual counterparts, practices of resistance. Assemblages of memories curated by loved ones of those who were disappeared during Argentina's "Dirty War."
Kelly Mulvaney
Biopsychosocial theories of health and illness; gender and sexuality; responsibility. Europe/US.
My dissertation examines experiences of, treatments for, and research on cervical dysplasia (or “precancer”) through ethnographic research with affect...
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