PhD Students
Marcus McGee
Interests:
Latin America - Mexico. Urban and semi-urban areas; violence, media, politics; crime and its mediations; gender and sexuality.
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."
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
Max Nikol
Interests:
linguistic anthropology, comparison, multimodal expressivity, truth-telling, media and interaction, cosmopolitanism, postsecularism, World Englishes, art music, Serbia, North America
William Ockendon
Interests:
USA - South. Anthropology of time and historical consciousness, political anthropology especially nationalism and identity, the ontological turn, landscape and space, phenomenology, subjectivity, anthropology and history.
Bob Offer-Westort
Interests:
Linguistic anthropology; narration and the structuring of reason; language preservation and revitalization; reflexive mediatization and metasemiotics. African Red Sea coast.
Nida Paracha
Interests:
South Asia - Pakistan (Karachi). Legal anthropology, national law and its relation to marginalization and criminalization of ethnic identities; migrant experiences of the state and law in both rural and urban spaces; Karachi Central Prison, criminalizing rural migrants, socializing migrants into citizens.
Emma Pask
(joint w/ CHSS) North American History and Anthropology; STS; Ecology and Climate Politics; State Violence and Militarism; Political Economy of Extraction; Borders and Boundaries; Territory and Sovereignty; Feminist and Queer Criticism.

