PhD Students

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."

Political economy; affect; mobility and migration; space; media; gender; labor; pop culture industry; East Asia - China.

Blockchain; financial market; semiotics; affect; platform; China

Political culture; social theory; migration; semiotics; Mayan languages and cultures; the Americas.