PhD Students

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.

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.