PhD Students

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

Black American spirituality, Hoodoo, divination, care

linguistic anthropology, comparison, multimodal expressivity, truth-telling, media and interaction, cosmopolitanism, postsecularism, World Englishes, art music, Serbia, North America

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.

Linguistic anthropology; narration and the structuring of reason; language preservation and revitalization; reflexive mediatization and metasemiotics. African Red Sea coast.

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.

(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.

Post-socialism, migration and mobility, political imagination after the Cold War; civic organizations, NGOs and funding agencies; ex-Yugoslavia/Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Sweden

West Africa, Mexico, Central America. Postcolonial archaeology, community-based research, activist research methods.

Middle East - Egypt. Identity/subjectivity, gender and sexuality, refugees and migrants, ethnography of queer subjectivities and marginalization in Egypt.

Europe - Germany/Austria/Czech Republic. Language and technology, semiotics, politics of the Internet, Pirate Parties, "Anonymous" and anonymity, "trolls" and trolling. "Engineering Contemporary Politics: Pirate Parties and Technical Work in the Czech Republic."

(MD/PhD) Horn of Africa/Indian Ocean. Landscape, borders, mobility.