PhD Students

Caribbean & Pacific Colombia. History and historicity; militarism, slavery, and accumulation; debility/capacity; political geography; science, reason, and technology.

(Arch) East Asia - Japan. Material aspects of Western interaction with early modern Japan (the Dutch at Dejima); Commodities and materiality, cultural property management and tourism; value and commensuration, feasting, early modern globalization and commerce, sociality of economic transactions, alterity. "Dejima: An Archaeology of Intercultural Commerce in Early Modern Japan."

Intuition; science and the human sensorium; technoscientific imaginaries; uncertainty and nonknowledge; governance; techniques of the body. United States.

Hydropower; critical geography; environmental politics; political anthropology; infrastructure; resource governance; technoscience; energy and extraction; settler colonialism; U.S. Southwest; Arizona.

Native North America (Northern Cheyenne Nation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes); legal anthropology, anthropology of water, settler-colonialism, tribal sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, extraction

South Asia - Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka.  Materiality and affect, history and historicities, aesthetics and politics, images and publics, Islam, the 'secular' and 'religious'.

Linguistic anthropology; image-texts, chronotope and qualia; romanticism and history of art, ekphrasis; everyday aesthetics, aesthetic communities, personhood, well-being. Europe, Greece/Athens.