PhD Students
Apoorva Malarvannan
Jolen A. Martinez
Interests:
Anticipation, Black Religion, Racial Capitalism, Finance, Housing, Law, Restorative Justice, Number and Enumeration, Aesthetics, Prophecy, Temporality, West-Side Chicago
William McCollum
Interests:
Historical/industrial archaeology, historical anthropology, labor history, racial capitalism, extraction, materiality, critical geography, US South.
Reed 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.
Alyssa Mendez
Interests:
Greece, Southern Europe, human geography, ‘green’ energy, extraction, infrastructure, multi-species worlds, future-making, anarchism
Nikhita Mendis
Spain - Andalusia / Al-Andalus; land, property, desertification; historicity, temporality, tradition; ethics, action, psychoanalysis; Islam in Europe; secularism and secularity.
Ashima 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.
Daniel Muras
Interests:
South Africa; New York City; homelessness; urban anthropology; the intersection of neoliberalism and decolonization; poverty and the welfare state; structural violence; socio-spatial and -temporal production through everyday practice; embodiment, intimacy, and the senses; phenomenology and (inter)subjectivities; collective urban political activism; human-animal studies
Kirah Nelson
Black American spirituality, Hoodoo, divination, care