PhD Students

Medical anthropology; illness narratives; dementia; mental illness; public health; disability studies.

Latin America, the Caribbean, Dominican Republic. Anarchism, Afro-latinidad and the politics of Afro-latinx identity; immigration, diaspora, and the politics of mobility; intersubjectivity, solidarity; representation in media and popular culture; independent media production; documentary film and ethnographic filmmaking; Performance Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Theory.

Atlantic Trade; slave trade; senegal; senegambia; underwater archaeology; maritime archaeology; ports; harbors; ships.

Forensics; crime and disorder; policing; urban security; moral panic; privacy; politics and policymaking; state epistemologies; science and technology studies; legal anthropology; American studies; U.S.

Middle East - United Arab Emirates.  

Caste and labour politics in North India; worker and farmer identities and movements; racial capitalism; the good life; social reproduction; Hindutva infrastructures.

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

(joint w/ Cinema Media Studies) South Asia - India. Linguistic anthropology & film studies. The Bhojpuri-speaking region of North India, the film industry, semiotics of film.

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