PhD Students

(Arch) USA - Mid-Atlantic.  Urban archaeology, archaeology of diaspora, historical capitalisms, constructions of heritage, memory, public archaeology.

(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.

(Archaeology) Early medieval Scotland; northern Europe; archaeology of social identity/ethnicity; semiotics of landscape; archaeology and linguistics.

(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."

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.

Meteorology/weather stations/climate; mathematics, abstraction, and environmental justice; agriculture, temporality, and reparations; psychoanalysis and embodiment; aesthetics/perception; Central America - Caribbean.

U.S. South; modern property relations, property law, colonialism, racial capitalism, finance, cultures of risk, pollution, and climate change

Magical capitalism; commodification; cultural economy; political violence; collective political movement; rituals; occultism; shamanism; sorcery; magic; witchcraft; Indonesia

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.