Sabena Allen
Native North America/Southeast Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian). Dispossession, climate change, place and storywork, sacred objects, oral history.
Jianghong An
East Asia - China. Political and legal anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ideology, state, sovereignty, bureaucracy, urban space, infrastructure; migrant petitioners.
Zachary Arrington
Caribbean - Puerto Rico; Latin America - Mexico/Chile. Colonialism, statecraft, geography, boundary, global capitalism, social production of space and collective relationship to place, the aesthetics and politics of dispute.
Andrew Katzenstein Atwell
PhD Candidate
Messianism and temporality, ethics, religion and the secular, Jewish Studies, Middle East, sensibility and embodiment, political theology, sovereignty and intervention, Israel/Palestine.
Erin Atwell
PhD Candidate
Egypt, Islamic preaching, ethical self-fashioning, embodiment, intimacy, humanitarian reason, anthropology of religion, textuality and materiality.
Joshua Babcock
PhD Candidate
Race and racialization; decolonial theory; semiotics of image; audience and authority; language ideologies; media and mediatization; urban planning and design (Southeast Asia – Singapore).
Hadeel Badarni
Middle East - Palestine. Techno-scientific capitalism, geopolitics of energy production, political ecology, political economy; renewable electrification of Palestine.
Blair Bainbridge
(joint w/CHSS) USA - Sci/Tech. Astronomy and the geosciences; the search for habitable worlds; redefinitions of life and living amidst climate crisis; imaging practices; just futures; speculative fiction. Pronouns: she/hers.
Abhishek Bhattacharyya
PhD Candidate
Borderlands, Subaltern and Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Translation, Revolution, Knowledge, Social and Political Movements, Marxism, Performance, Literature - Bangla, Telugu, Hindi.
Kelly Wilcox Black
PhD Candidate
South Asian Archaeology, Human-Animal Relationships, Human-Environmental Interactions, Zooarchaeology, Dental Microwear Analysis, Paleoecology.
Christopher Bloechl
PhD Candidate
Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages and culture, language standardization, media, Yucatan, highland Guatemala.
Claire Bowman
(Arch) USA. Archaeology of the contemporary, urban abandonment and reuse; Detroit. "Race, Historicity and the Built Environment in Detroit."
Damien Bright
PhD Candidate
Planetary engineering, novel biologies, extinction, future oceans, Australia.
Hannah Eisler Burnett
PhD Candidate
United States, US South, political ecology, environmental justice, STS, multispecies ethnography, feminist anthropology, race and racism, water, coasts, fisheries, oysters, ecosystem restoration.
Janet Connor
PhD Candidate
Citizenship and Migration; Enregisterment; Ethics and Politics of Sustainability; Language and Society; Scale-making; Semiotics; Urban Studies; Welfare State; Europe (Scandinavia/Norway).
Hazal Corak
Middle East - Turkey (Izmir & Aliaga). Materiality, labor, bodies, toxicity, value-transformation, environmental justice. Specific focus on scrap metal recycling factories and their surrounding residential areas.
Jamie Countryman
PhD Candidate
Environmental history and historical ecology, ethnobotany and archaeobotany, colonialism, classical and modern empire, land relations, food systems, biodiversity, ferals.
Alice Diaz Chauvigné
PhD Candidate
(Archaeology) Latin America - Colombia. Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Tairona polity, human-animal interactions, transitions and transformation between the pre-Columbian and colonial periods.
Martin C. Doppelt
PhD Candidate
France; Western Europe; History, sociology, anthropology of European archaeology; Iron Age; Isotopic analyses; Assemblage Theory; Ontology; Value Theory.
E.M. Elshaikh
PhD Candidate
STS, semiotics, historical epistemology, anthropology of history, aesthetics, Arabness, Arabian Gulf.
Kirsten Forsberg
(Arch) West Africa - Mali. Hidden inequalities of heterarchical societies in Iron Age West Africa, bioarchaeological analysis.
Caressa Franklin
Germany & Central Europe, North Africa, Middle East. Perceptions of criminality and criminal embodiment viewed through a raciolinguistic lens. Music as signifying criminality in various languages; gendered politics of criminality -- what looks and sounds criminal in a given place.
Robert Gelles
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.
Rachel George
PhD Candidate
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.
Emma Gilheany
PhD Candidate
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.
Grigory Gorbun
PhD Candidate
Linguistic anthropology, law, profession, education and socialization, authority, Russia.
Lorenzo Granada
Latin America - Colombia (Amero). Materiality, landscapes, disaster, ruination and temporality.
Christopher Grant
(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."
Nicole (Nikki) Grigg
(Arch) USA - Mid-Atlantic. Urban archaeology, archaeology of diaspora, historical capitalisms, constructions of heritage, memory, public archaeology.
Siyun Guo
(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.
Rafadi Hakim
PhD Candidate
Linguistic anthropology; anthropology of NGOS; democracy; gender and sexuality; Indonesia; Southeast Asia.
Daniel R. Hansen
PhD Candidate
(Archaeology) Early medieval Scotland; northern Europe; archaeology of social identity/ethnicity; semiotics of landscape; archaeology and linguistics.
Debora Heard
(Arch) Africa - Egypt/Nubia, Gebel Barkal, Sudan. State Power: ideology, religion and material culture; Archaeology of Ideology: iconography, landscape and ritual. "In the Houses of the Ram and the Lion: Religious Displays of Political Subjectivity in the Kushite Temples of Amun and Apedemak."
Marie Helmy
Egypt, Coptic Christians (claim to pre-Arab/Islamic roots in Egypt). Racialization of Islam, empire and colonialism, transnational racial identity formations, crtical race theory; Coptic nationalism.
Jay M. Henderson
USA - Urban and suburban Chicago and virtual. Service dog training for U.S. vetrans; anthropology of ethics and the ordinary; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma.
Emma Hite
(Arch) Mongolia; Inner Asia. Prehistory of Mongolia and the eastern Eurasian steppe; the Xiongnu and steppe empires, mobile pastoralism, bioarchaeological and zooarchaeological methods and theory; multispecies ethnography, human-animal studies, materiality. "Imperial Body-Politic(s): Human-Animal Relationships of the Xiongnu Empire at Elst Ar, Central Mongolia."
Rachel Howard
PhD Candidate
US; Arizona; race; politics; water; reproduction; homeownership; crisis.
LaShaya Howie
PhD Candidate
Death, funeral practices, the body, Black/Africana Studies, history & materiality, museums, United States.
Kenzell Huggins
Southeast Asia - Singapore. Media, creativity, semiotics, materiality, globalization, textuality.
Carol Iglesias Otero
PhD Candidate
Meteorology/weather stations/climate; mathematics, abstraction, and environmental justice; agriculture, temporality, and reparations; psychoanalysis and embodiment; aesthetics/perception; Central America - Caribbean.
Mannat Johal
PhD Candidate
Historical archaeology; South Asia; ceramics; time, temporality and periodization; labour and craftwork; archaeological practices of classification.
Kasia Kalina
Latin America - Colombia. Ancestral and forensic genomics, anthropology of history and temporality, decolonial and postcolonial Science and Technology Studies, biopolitics, transitional justice and post-conflict development, genealogies of materialism.
Sarah Kautz
(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."
Marc Kelley
PhD Candidate
Intuition; science and the human sensorium; technoscientific imaginaries; uncertainty and nonknowledge; governance; techniques of the body. United States.
Hunter Kennedy
PhD Candidate
Political/legal anthropology, indigenous sovereignty, placemaking, environmental activism, knowledge production, public/street art, development, toxicity, history of social science, Navajo Nation, U.S. Southwest, Arizona.
Do Dom Kim
PhD Candidate
Documentation practice; migration and mobility; state and citizenship; legal identity; media; Southern China.
Matthew C. Knisley
PhD Candidate
Eastern Africa; Foraging & early food production; Political ecology; Colonialism; Race; Time & temporality; Landscape theory/methods (GIS, survey); Material analysis (ceramics, sourcing & trade, rock art).
Briel Kobak
PhD Candidate
Rural U.S., Midwest, anthropology of history, utopia/dystopia, race and racism, narrative, genre, consumption, materiality.
Kimberly Kolor
South Asia - Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka. Materiality and affect, history and historicities, aesthetics and politics, images and publics, Islam, the 'secular' and 'religious'.
Marshall Kramer
PhD Candidate
Ecological management/change, political economy of resources, medicine, China/Myanmar.
Harini Kumar
PhD Candidate
Anthropology of Islam, senses and embodiment, temporality, gender, forms of knowledge production, place-making, South India
Emily Kuret
PhD Candidate
Linguistic anthropology; image-texts, chronotope and qualia; romanticism and history of art, ekphrasis; everyday aesthetics, aesthetic communities, personhood, well-being. Europe, Greece/Athens.
Hilary Morgan V. Leathem
PhD Candidate
Critical heritage studies; politics of the past; material culture and art; affect; digital humanities and public anthropology; Mexico and Ireland.
Lauren Ledin
PhD Candidate
Bioarchaeology; Bronze Age China; mortuary theory; life course; kinship and relatedness; childhood; personhood; gender.
Myungji Lee
PhD Candidate
Authority, bureaucracy, the state, liberalism, secularism, religion, translation; Turkey.
Qi Li
(Arch) (joint w/ EALC) East Asia - China. Shang China, Erligang, agriculture.
Nicholas Lorenz
(jt w/Divinity/Anthropology and Sociology of Religions). Islam in Europe, knowledge transmission and reception, the relationship between faith and reason, anthropology and theology, transnational religion, secularism, imagination and the senses.
Taylor Lowe
PhD Candidate
Design anthropology; systems theories; cosmopolitics; political anthropology; theories affect and aesthetics; Thailand.
Dominik Lukas
PhD Candidate
Archaeology. Production of scientific knowledge and digital technology: digital applications in archaeology, fieldwork recording, systems of documentation - Ontology Gap and Living Archive(s).
Megan MacGregor
PhD Candidate
U.S.; Latin America; Mexico; anthropology of science and medicine; feminist and postcolonial STS; microbiome; health and ecology.
Alexander MacNeil
PhD Candidate
Anthropology of design; sense, attention, and spectacle; technical systems and mediation; futures and temporal politics; capitalism; political rationalities and governance; Osaka, Japan.
Eilat Maoz
Caribbean - Jamaica; Middle East - Israel/Palestine. Police and policing, colonial modernity, law and vengeance, state and kinship, consciousness. "Freedom Arrested: Policing after Slavery and the Promise of Abolition." Previous project: "Inappropriate Acts: Law and Violence on Israel's Colonial Frontier."
Jolen Martinez
PhD Candidate
Mexico - Southwest United States, Latin America. Digital colonialism, decolonial feminist STS, extractivism, Borderlands theory, historicity, narrativity, cybernetics, computer science, information, energetic flows, spirituality, ethics, embodiment and sense, mobilities.
William McCollum
PhD Candidate
Historical/industrial archaeology, historical anthropology, labor history, racial capitalism, extraction, materiality, critical geography, US South.
Reed McConnell
US Southwest (Imperial Valley, California): Environmental anthropology; new/historical materialisms, the desert, temporality/theories of the end of time, toxic threat, the body, waste, modern ruins, post-apocalyptic tourism, the Hollywood film industry, the Frankfurt School.
Marcus McGee
Latin America - Mexico. Urban and semi-urban areas; violence, media, politics; crime and its mediations; gender and sexuality.
Nikhita Mendis
PhD Candidate
Spain - Andalusia, North America. Moorish agricultural practices, STS, ecologies, historicity & temporality, ethics & aesthetics, form, language, the senses and embodiment, Islamic Traditionalism in Europe, trans-local Sufi networks, the secular.
Saadia Mirza
Western Europe; USA; Afghanistan. Landscape Studies; Media Studies; Architectural Theory; Remote Sensing; History of Cartography; History and Anthropology of Knowledge; History and Anthropology of Science and Technology.
Ashima Mittal
South Asia - India. Medical anthropology, STS, capitalism, globalization, global health; public-private partnerships, outsourced clinical trials in public health infrastructure.
Agnes Mondragón
PhD Candidate
Affect, ideology, state authority, politics of representation, criminality, gendered violence, warfare, drug war, Mexico, Latin America.
Emily Mulford
(Arch) Latin America - Argentina. Contemporary ethnoarchaeolgy, mortuary monuments, material sources and oral/textual counterparts, practices of resistance. Assemblages of memories curated by loved ones of those who were disappeared during Argentina's "Dirty War."
Ayesha Mulla
South Asia - Pakistan. Television news production, privatized media, democracy, mediation, sensationalism, South Asian public culture. "Sab Drama Hai/'It's all Drama': The Politics of Producing Publicity in Pakistan."
Jack Mullee
PhD Candidate
Technicity, Semiotics, STS, Infrastructure, Scale, State Spaces/Political Anthropology, Social Rights, Public Administration, Universal Health, Software Studies, Anthropology of Number; São Paulo/Brazil, Buenos Aires/Argentina.
Kelly Mulvaney
Caribbean - Puerto Rico; Europe - Germany. U.S. Politics of blockchain technology, decentralization and peer-to-peer economy movements; data, value, personhood, subjectivity, (non)sovereignty; geopolitics and geopoetics; theories of nature and evolution; political and economic anthropology, ethics, translation.
Kirah Nelson
USA - Urban. Social-media fueled activism; narratives of power/disempowerment generated by marginalized communities; politicized use of media, political activism, violence; Charleston, SC; Black Lives Matter.
William Ockendon
USA - South. Anthropology of time and historical consciousness, political anthropology especially nationalism and identity, the ontological turn, landscape and space, phenomenology, subjectivity, anthropology and history.
Johanna A. Pacyga
PhD Candidate
Missionization, Colonialism, Gender & Religion, West Africa, North America, French Empire, Human-Plant Relationships, Archives, Archaeology.
Nida Paracha
South Asia - Pakistan (Karachi). Legal anthropology, national law and its relation to marginalization and criminalization of ethnic identities; migrant experiences of the state and law in both rural and urban spaces; Karachi Central Prison, criminalizing rural migrants, socializing migrants into citizens.
Heangjin Park
PhD, University of Chicago, 2021; Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the College)
Manufacturing “Korea” in China: The Coproduction of Commodity Value and Nationalist Imaginaries in the Chinese Kimchi Industry
Emma Pask
PhD Candidate
(joint w/ CHSS) North American History and Anthropology; STS; Ecology and Climate Politics; State Violence and Militarism; Political Economy of Extraction; Borders and Boundaries; Territory and Sovereignty; Feminist and Queer Criticism.
Hanna Pickwell
urban China (Beijing); material culture; secondhand and used commodity exchange; consumption; aesthetics; oldness and usedness; popular religion; popular culture
Lake Polan
PhD Candidate
Privacy; technology and law; science studies; United States; securitization; economic and political anthropology.
Michal Ran-Rubin
Middle East - Israel. Political anthropology, critical geography, urban anthropology, refugee studies, post-conflict studies. "Blueprints of the Nation: Planning Space, Rights, and Refugee Return in Palestine-Israel."
Resham Tessa Redmond
West Africa, Mexico, Central America. Postcolonial archaeology, community-based research, activist research methods.
Anne-Sophie Reichert
PhD Candidate
Europe/Germany, Anthropology of the Body and the Senses, Anthropology of Art, Feminist Science and technology Studies, Philosophy of Science, Embodiment, Aesthetics, Skills, Expertise.
Fernando Revelo La Rotta
Middle East - Egypt. Identity/subjectivity, gender and sexuality, refugees and migrants, ethnography of queer subjectivities and marginalization in Egypt.
Sophia Rhee
Southeast Asia - Singapore. The Port of Singapore; logistics, security, surveillance, visual art, visual anthropology. Port facilities, terminals, management science and the practice of logistics, networked flows, emphasis on flows vs border and encounters.
Giovanni Ricci
Europe - Germany/Austria/Czech Republic. Language and technology, semiotics, politics of the Internet, Pirate Parties, "Anonymous" and anonymity, "trolls" and trolling. "Engineering Contemporary Politics: Pirate Parties and Technical Work in the Czech Republic."
Ellen Richmond
(MD/PhD) Horn of Africa/Indian Ocean. Landscape, borders, mobility.
Eléonore Rimbault
PhD Candidate
Life of cultural forms and categories; ideologies of childhood and animality; dynamics of stigmatization; techniques of the body; visual culture and non-textual archives; memory and identity; historical anthropology; ethnographic methods; contemporary India; history of Southern India.
Jessica Robinson
Anglophone Caribbean (Bahamas); US. Anthropology of museums; animal studies; post-colonialism; exchange; political ecology; zoological instituions. "Moving Animals: Multi-species Curation and Environmental Stewardship in Bahamian Contexts."
Sam Robson
PhD Candidate
Medical anthropology; illness narratives; dementia; mental illness; public health; disability studies.
Dinayuri Rodriguez
Latin America, the Caribbean, Dominican Republic. Anarchism, Afro-latinidad and the politics of Afro-latinx identity; immigration, diaspora, and the politics of mobility; intersubjectivity, solidarity; representation in media and popular culture; independent media production; documentary film and ethnographic filmmaking; Performance Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Theory.
Kelsey Rooney
PhD Candidate
Atlantic Trade; slave trade; senegal; senegambia; underwater archaeology; maritime archaeology; ports; harbors; ships.
Steven Schwartz
PhD Candidate
Resource extraction, energy, climate governance, infrastructure, indigeneity, indigenous environmental politics, Colombia and Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sarah Shaer
Middle East - United Arab Emirates. Political legitimacy and authority; exchange relations; citizenship.
Alex Shams
PhD Candidate
Middle East – Iran, Iraq, Levant. South Asia. Urban and historical anthropology, heritage, sacred space, architecture, religious identity, Islamic modernity, Shia Islam, transnationalism, pilgrimage, tourism, political economy, petrocapitalism, urban renewal, gentrification.
Tanima Sharma
South Asia - India. History of labour and the left in South Asia: transnational borrowings, Marxisms; political economy; Dalit politics, theorizing caste, capital and state, ideology and performance.
Shubham Shivang
(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.
Wee Yang Soh
PhD Candidate
Technology, Digital Media, STS, Semiotics, Politics of Culture, South Korea, Singapore.
Lauren V. Sutherland
PhD Candidate
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.
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
PhD Candidate
Socio-cultural anthropology, gender and sexuality, religion and spirituality, subjectivity, ancestors, the politics of tradition, Christianity, land and landscapes. Southern Africa/Zimbabwe.
Eric Triantafillou
North America. Art activism and social movement cultural production, material and visual culture studies, aesthetic and social theory; political economy and creative labor. "'Be the Change You Want to See': New York City Art Activism and the Prefiguration of a Post-Capitalist World."
Jessica Urban
(Arch) Britain: Middle Ages/Early Modern. Circulation of affect through material form (especially architecture/small churces in the English countryside) repetition and replication of interaction and experience, aesthetics, sensory experience of space/spatial layout.
Estefania Vidal Montero
(Arch) Latin America - Chile. Archaeology of the South Central Andes; Atacama Desert (Chile); social landscapes; space and place; materiality, architecture; post humanism; technologies. "Transformative Architectures: An Archaeology of Building Practices in the Guatacondo Valley, Atacama Desert (ca 1000 BCE - 500 CE)."
Philip Watson
(Arch) Roman archaeology, economic anthropology, materiality, maritime archaeology, the Balkans.
Perry Wong
Central and North America. Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, American ethnology and linguistics. "Mayan in Cunén, El Quiché, Guatemala."
Hannah Woodroofe
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."
Feng Ye
China. Cultural and linguistic anthropology, translation, semiotic technology, media, nationalism and the state.
Alice Yeh
PhD Candidate
Anthropology of Christianity, text and intertextuality, register, semiotics, migration, transnational China.
Yukun Zeng
PhD Candidate
Value/Semiotics/Literacy and Reading/Education/Religion/Media and Journalism/China/East Asia/Sinophonic Societies.
Shuting Zhuang
Qinghai/Tibet, China. Multi-species ecology, body and landscape, mobilities, animal ethics, semiotic anthropology, Tibetan Buddhism. Production of scientific knowledge through multi-species investigation in China's first national park in Qinghai.