PhD Students

USA - Legal/political. American conservative public interest law, semiotics, historical conditions that make litigation possible, how public interest law may alter relations among law, the state and the public.

Keywords: Jurisdiction, Knowledge Practice, Semiotics, Conservative Legal Movement, US

East African Rock Art. African Great Lakes Region: Lake Victoria & Tanzanian Southern Highlands. Community archaeology; ethnography and oral history as evidence for interpreting rock art; contemporary ritual practices at rock art sites; community-based collaborative rock art interpretation; community-based rock art heritage management; rock art archiving practices.

Sub-Arctic/Arctic, landscapes/seascapes/icescapes, Inuit sovereignty, environmental anthropology, archaeology of the contemporary, settler colonialism, missionization, Cold War, collaborative and public archaeology, ethnographic/experimental film.

Indian Ocean; archaeology; islands – Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros, Réunion; material religion; Islam; commerce; osteology and mortuary practices; historiography; colonialism – French and British; indenture and enslavement; Silk Road; the Qur’ān; literature and literary theory; linguistics; East Africa; Oman; South Asia; Egyptology and hieroglyphs; archaeology of knowledge; Classical Arabic; ships; lascars and pirates; Palmyra; Palestine.

Linguistic anthropology, law, profession, education and socialization, authority, Russia.

Latin America - Colombia (Amero).  Materiality, landscapes, disaster, ruination and temporality.

(Arch) USA - Louisiana (New Orleans); French Caribbean - Haiti. Labor and subjectification, urban landscapes, built environment; material culture; craftsmanship, urban experience; loss, displacement, belonging. "Crafting Community: Race, Creative Labor, and Everyday Aesthetics in the Creole Faubourgs of New Orleans, 1790-1896."

(Arch) USA - Mid-Atlantic.  Urban archaeology, archaeology of diaspora, historical capitalisms, constructions of heritage, memory, public archaeology.

(Arch) Northwest China (Bronze Age). Cultural frontier regions (the Gansu/Hexi Corridor); a study of temporality from the perspective of subsistence practices - utilizing zooarchaeology & paleosoil records.