PhD Students

Middle East - United Arab Emirates.  

Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Eastern North America, Great Lakes, Landscape Studies, Indigenous Archaeologies, Archaeologies of Colonialism, Historiography, Archives and Archival Power

Settler colonialism, indigenous STS, the American West.

Technology, Digital Media, STS, Semiotics, Politics of Culture, South Korea, Singapore.

Revitalization and Normalization- Standardization- Linguistic Territorialization- Myth- Ideology- Semiotics/Meta-Semiotics- Linguistic conflict- Independence Movements- Nationalism- Language Politics and Politics of Language- Slang- Immigration- Raciolinguistics- Language Imperialism- Colonization- Valencià- Québécois-Montréal Slang, Valencia and Québec

India – South Asia, lived religion, human-divine interactions, Anthropocene, politics of development, logics of infrastructure, materiality, aesthetics

Borders, National security, Homeland security, Migration, Governance, Global capital and Commodity flows, Human Rights regimes, Policing, Infrastructure, Bureaucracy, Violence, Nationalism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Environment, Political Economy, Geography, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, U.S. and North America, Mexico.

(Arch) Ireland: Early Christian/medieval/contemporary, archaeology of standing structures, religious architecture/sacred space, pilgrimage, circulation and centers of attraction, saints’ cults, social relations and space, community formation and collective memory, aesthetics, Romanesque, Gothic, and revival architecture.

(Arch)  Roman archaeology, economic anthropology, materiality, maritime archaeology, the Balkans.

Sonoran borderlands, historical archaeology, settler colonialism & extractive industries, waste and toxicity, ecologial futures, landscape, GIS

Central and North America. Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, American ethnology and linguistics. "Mayan in Cunén, El Quiché, Guatemala."

USA Urban - Youngstown, OH. The Rustbelt; impoverishment and underclass traditions, waste-markets (scrap, junk, post-occupancy real estate), housing, infrastructural decay, post-waged work, sociality in the sagging city. "Feral Houses, Junk-Work, and Scrap Sociality: An Anthropology of Rustbelt Afterlife."