PhD Students

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).

U.S.; Latin America; Mexico; anthropology of science and medicine; feminist and postcolonial STS; microbiome; health and ecology.

Anthropology of design; sense, attention, and spectacle; technical systems and mediation; futures and temporal politics; capitalism; political rationalities and governance; Osaka, Japan.