PhD Students

South-Asia - India; Islam, ethical self-fashioning, religion and secular, popular politics and mass mobilizations, corporeality, performativity, aesthetics, semiotics and affect.

Anthropology of Islam, migration studies, policy studies, media, subaltern studies; tradition, diaspora studies, counterpublics; identity construction via Arabic language learning among descendants of Moroccan Muslim immigrants in Spain; Arabic language learning as ethical practice.

Native North America/Southeast Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian). Dispossession, climate change, place and storywork, sacred objects, oral history.

East Asia - China. Political and legal anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ideology, state, sovereignty, bureaucracy, urban space, infrastructure; migrant petitioners.

Medical anthropology; psychedelics, drug studies and social studies of psychiatry; science and technology studies (STS); psychoanalysis/psychological anthropology; subjectivity; death, dying, and social formations of ‘threat’; the senses, sense making, and the body; aesthetics and politics; the U.S.

South Asia - India; political and legal anthropology; legal language; litigants and court practice; state and citizenship; political subjectivity.

Egypt, Islamic preaching, ethical self-fashioning, embodiment, intimacy, humanitarian reason, anthropology of religion, textuality and materiality.