PhD Students

Sam Robson

Interests:

Medical anthropology; illness narratives; dementia; mental illness; public health; disability studies.

Sam Robson is interested in what it means to listen to people with moderate to advanced dementia, and what happens when people “without dementia” imag...

Dinayuri Rodriguez

dinayuri@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Latin America, the Caribbean, Dominican Republic. Anarchism, Afro-latinidad and the politics of Afro-latinx identity; immigration, diaspora, and the politics of mobility; intersubjectivity, solidarity; representation in media and popular culture; independent media production; documentary film and ethnographic filmmaking; Performance Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Theory.

Kelsey Rooney

PhD Candidate

karooney@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Atlantic Trade; slave trade; senegal; senegambia; underwater archaeology; maritime archaeology; ports; harbors; ships.

Kelsey Rooney is a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, currently researching how the Atlantic trade – specifically the slave trade – shaped th...

Matthew Rossi

matthewrossi@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Forensics; crime and disorder; policing; urban security; moral panic; privacy; politics and policymaking; state epistemologies; science and technology studies; legal anthropology; American studies; U.S.

Sudeshna Saha Roy

Sarah Shaer

sshaer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Middle East - United Arab Emirates.

Tanima Sharma

PhD Candidate

tanima@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Caste and labour politics in North India; worker and farmer identities and movements; racial capitalism; the good life; social reproduction; Hindutva infrastructures.

Will Shine

willshine@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Eastern North America, Great Lakes, Landscape Studies, Indigenous Archaeologies, Archaeologies of Colonialism, Historiography, Archives and Archival Power

Shubham Shivang

shubhams@uchicago.edu

Interests:

(joint w/ Cinema Media Studies) South Asia - India. Linguistic anthropology & film studies. The Bhojpuri-speaking region of North India, the film industry, semiotics of film.

Kristen Simmons

PhD Candidate

kls1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Settler colonialism, indigenous STS, the American West.

My research interrogates the atmospherics of the U.S. settler state through several case studies in what is known as Nevada.

Wee Yang Soh

PhD Candidate

weeyangs@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Technology, Digital Media, STS, Semiotics, Politics of Culture, South Korea, Singapore.

Wee Yang Soh is a doctoral candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where his research focuses on the nexu...

Manuel Ariel Soldevila

manuelsoldevila@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Revitalization and Normalization- Standardization- Linguistic Territorialization- Myth- Ideology- Semiotics/Meta-Semiotics- Linguistic conflict- Independence Movements- Nationalism- Language Politics and Politics of Language- Slang- Immigration- Raciolinguistics- Language Imperialism- Colonization- Valencià- Québécois-Montréal Slang, Valencia and Québec