Ali Atef Abdelkader

Arab World - Egypt. Anthropology of ethics, rural-urban migration, ethnographic film, mediation and visualization of cinema.

Sarah Adcock

Near East - Turkey. Archaeology/anthropology of societal collapse, rural-urban interactions, animal economies, zooarchaeology, Hittites, Late Bronze/Iron Age, Anatolia. "After the End: Animal Economies, Collapse, and Continuity in Hittite and Post-Hittite Anatolia."

Omer Ahmed

Spain/US/Islamic World. 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.

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.

Erin Atwell

(joint w/NELC) Middle East - Turkey/Egypt. Hadith literature, ethical self-fashioning, Islamic practice, anthropology of religion, styles of reasoning, historical poiesis, humanitarianism, migration and displacement.

Jonah Augustine

(Arch) Latin America - Bolivia/Andes. Titicaca Basin; materials, materiality, aesthetics, critical theory, political economy, ceramic analysis. "Expedient Objects: Style, Aesthetics and Material Politics in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100."

 

Alejandra Azuero Quijano

Latin America - Colombia. Political anthropology and anthropology of law, STS; political economy, accountability, and violence; forensics, criminal justice/responsibility; corporations, corporate power, capital; law and aesthetics. "Criminal Enterprise: Forensics and the Reproduction of Corporate Power as Crime in Colombia." Previous Project (SJD dissertation Harvard Law School): "Conviction by Design: Remaking Criminal Responsibility at the Nuremberg Trials."

Joshua Babcock

SE Asia - Singapore. Nation branding (Singapore), nationalism, national identity; statecraft, governance, and audience; semiotics of image; linguistic anthropology; visualization, modeling, cartography, urban planning, and design.

Hadeel Badarni

Middle East - Palestine. Political economy, critical social theory, STS; renewable electrification of Palestine.

Blair Bainbridge

(joint w/CHSS) USA - Sci/Tech. Science/Technology, astronomy and the geosciences; long-term development of new space telescopes to find and image habitable planets; STS, planetary science, the Anthropocene, climate crisis, the posthuman/nonhuman/unhuman, the military-industrial complex, science fiction, metaphysics and new materialism.

J. Ckristafer Baker

USA urban - San Francisco. Cultural processes of marginalization, with a focus on gender, sex, sexuality, race, age, and (dis)ability; "The Semiotics of Subjectivities in Transit: An Ethnographic Study of Female-to-Male Transmen's Embodied Gender Practices."

Abhishek Bhattacharyya

(joint w/SALC) South Asia - India. South Asia: Social and political movements, Marxist theory and India; questions of epistemology and translations of Marxism; the Naxalite movement in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, 1967-1991, the shifting contours of "culture" and "politics" in that context. "Revolutionary, or Practical-Critical Activity: Leftist Organising in India, 1967-1992."

Kelly Wilcox Black

(Arch) South Asia - India. Neolithic/Iron Age/Early Historic South India; human-animal relations/human-environmental relations, power and political ecology, historical ecology, animal husbandry and landscape histories, faunal and dental microwear analysis. "Excavating the Deep History of Degradation: Animal Husbandry and the Environmental Impacts of Livestock Grazing in Pre- and Early Historic South India."

Christopher Bloechl

Central America - Yucatan, Highland Guatemala. Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages and culture, language use and media technologies, Maya community radio in Peto, Yucatan. "Voicing the Maya: Media Technologies and the Politics of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Yucatan."

Emily Bock

USA. Performance and embodiment, blackness and the diaspora, American fantasy, queer theory. "Ordinary Queens: Blackness, Queerness, and the Search for the Good Life."

Joe Bonni

(Arch) Mediterranean - Syria/Dura-Europos. Ritual, religion & counter-cultures; archaeology of colonialism; Roman Empire and early Christianity. "Everything is Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empires" [Analysis of Dura-Europos excavation field notes and materials held at Yale & École Normale Supérieure, Paris].

Claire Bowman

(Arch) USA. Archaeology of the contemporary, urban abandonment and reuse; Detroit. "Race, Historicity and the Built Environment in Detroit."

Damien Bright

Australia/Oceania/Great Barrier Reef. Ecologies of technoscience; economies of re-production, politics of care. "Life Support Through Extinction: Non-Indifferent Expertise and the Reassembly of Australia's Great Barrier Reef."

Hannah Burnett

USA - Southern Louisiana Gulf Coast. Political ecology, science & technology studies, environment, water and rivers, geo-engineering, oyster farming, ecological restoration in southern Louisiana. "Making the Future Coast: Ecological Restoration on the Edge of Louisiana."

Ella Butler

USA. The senses and knowledge production, commodities and the body, anthropologies of corporations, food science, taste, class. "Producing Taste: The Senses in American Food Technology."

Jorge Campos Téllez

Africa - Somaliland (Hargeysa). Anthropology of the state and ethnography of urban bureaucracies; affect/emotion; economic anthropology: taxation, money, credit, debt, exchange; legal anthropology: sovereignty, liberalism, violence. "Taxation and the Future of the Nation: Aspiration among Fiscal Officials in Hargeysa, Somaliland."

Nicholas Carby-Denning

Latin America - Ecuador. The state, NGOs and social movements, the politics of translation, non-human ontologies and scientific objects, debate on drilling for oil in Yasuni National Park. "Re-Constituting the Nature of the Nation: Environmental NGOs, Biodiversity and the Defenders of the Rights of Nature in Ecuador."

Alexis Rolando Chavez

Europe/North Africa - France. Anthropology of Islam, anthropology of Europe, and anthropology of the body; political violence, national security culture, and the French suburbs (banlieues); ritual practices, urban studies and critical race theory.

Janet Connor

(joint w/ Linguistics) Europe/Scandinavia - Norway. Linguistic anthropology, qualia, sound, language ideology, migration, citizenship, social class. "The Poetics and Politics of 'Strangerhood' in an Oslo Neighborhood."

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.

Julien Cossette

West Africa - Senegal; Quebec Maritimes. Science & technology studies; ocean and coastal engineering, infrastructuring; temporality, planning, and speculation; imagined social, economic, and ecological futures; maritime economies and environments, ship transport.

James Countryman

(Arch) Southern Europe, Mediterranean; North America. Historical ecology, political ecology, domestication, agriculture, arboriculture, archaeobotany, rural communities, posthumanism.  "Cultivation Regimes: Political Ecologies of Domestication at Nadin-Gradina, Croatia, ca 500 BCE - 1700 CE."

Molly Kathleen Cunningham

USA - Detroit. Detroit bankruptcy, emergency management, municipal ethnography, genealogies of the American body politic, traditions of sacrifice and renwal, authority, embodiment, the ethical substance and grammatical partitioning of (whiteness), the speed of light.

Natalja Czarnecki

Central & Eastern Europe - Georgia & Poland. Post-socialist transformations; politics of market places, commodification, and consumerism; global and (trans)national regimes of safety regulation; anthropology of risk, security, and trust; gender, regimes of care, and the politics of the public/private divide. "The Problem of Trust: Food Safety Regulatory Reform and Emergent Ethical Authorities in Contemporary Tbilisi, Georgia."

Suchismita Das

South Asia - India, Sikkim. Politics of recognition, environmental stewardship, biodiversity, conservation, ethnopolitics, Himalayas, ecological nativism and cultural autochthony, frontiers and borders, tourist gaze, politics of belonging. "Green Citizenship on the Himalayan Frontier: Of Multivalent Diversities and the Politics of Bio-cultural Recognition."

Alice Diaz Chauvigne

(Arch) Latin America - Colombia. Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Tairona polity, human-animal interactions, transitions and transformation between the pre-Columbian and colonial periods.

Zebulon Dingley

(joint w/ History) Africa - Kenya/Swahili Coast. Classical theories of society and politics; moral and occult economies; Kenya as historical and anthropological object. "Kinship, Capital, and the Occult on the South Coast of Kenya."

Martin Doppelt

(Arch) Western Europe - Mediterranean prehistory (France). European and Mediterranean pre- and proto-history (Iron Age), material culture, ritual uses of the human body, embodiment, consumption and identity, political economy, food and cuisine, alcohol and feasting, colonialism, isotope analysis, landscape archaeology. "Severing Heads and Social Ties: A Biogeochemistry and Material Culture Approach to Contested Bodies in the Late Iron Age of Southern France."

Yazan Doughan

Middle East - Jordan. Anthropology of media, historical action, anthropology of the state, ethics and pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, public discourses on corruption. "Corruption, Authority and the Discursive Production of Reform and Revolution in Jordan."

Megan Edwards (Alvarez)

(Arch) Northern Ireland, British Colonial world. Early modern British expansion, historical archaeology, foodways, colonialism and modernization; history and material remains of "industrialized" whiskey distillation in post-medieval Ireland. "From Uisce Beatha to Whiskey: Colonialism, Commodification, and Transforming Drinkways in Early Modern Ireland, c1540-1800."

Inés Escobar González

Latin America - Mexico. Property, home ownership, and (developmental) housing policy; the financialization of social and political life; work, debt, and social relations; land and urbanization histories; political and moral economies. "'In Property We Trust': Making and Unmaking Home in the Mexican Urban Periphery."

William Feeney

East Asia - Japan. Linguistic anthropology, semiotic methods, violence, media, language ideology, nationalism, culture change. "Laughing Until It Hurts: Children, Mothers and Concerns about Comedic Television in Contemporary Japan."

Ali Feser

USA - Rochester, NY. Chemical photography, postindustrial ecology, obsolescence, American fantasy, nostalgia, the history of capitalism. "After Analog: Photochemical Life in the Imaging Capital of the World."

Kirsten Forsberg

(Arch) West Africa - Mali. Hidden inequalities of heterarchical societies in Iron Age West Africa, bioarchaeological analysis.

Karma Frierson

Mexico/Caribbean - Veracruz. Ethno-racial identity, public history/memory politics, blackness and diaspora; historical tourism, food, music, dance. "Possessing Blackness: The Presence and Potential of The African Root in Veracruz, Mexico."

Matthew Furlong

Mexican/US Borderlands - Tijuana. Northern Mexico: The making and unmaking of a region; cities, city-dwellers, and urbanity in ethnography; social decomposition. "Invasive Urbanity Across the Mexican Post-Post-Revolution."

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

(Arch) Africa. Archaeology/Ancient art; the rock art of East Africa; design/taste; symbolic meanings; art historical methods and theory, GIS, GPS, photography, rock art archiving.

Royal Ghazal

(Arch) Middle East - Oman; Indian Ocean Rim. Citizenship, the nation-state, economics, urban development, aesthetics. "Social Death of Things: Intercultural Encounters and Ritualized Consumption in Early Bronze Age Oman (3100-2000 B.C.)."

Emma Gilheany

(Arch) North America. Arctic/Sub-Arctic. Settler colonialism, ethics, epistemology, religion, landscapes/seascapes/icescapes, ecology, sovereignty, climate, futures.

Grigory Gorbun

Russia. Law, legal education, legal epistemologies, linguistic anthropology.

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."

Sonia Grant

USA - Southwest. Political ecologies of oil and gas production in the Four Corners region; settler colonialism; property and jurisdiction; geophysical sciences; atmospherics and air quality; toxicity; methane measurement and mitigation; climate change. "Managing a Geo-Relation: Atmospheres of Oil and Gas in New Mexico's San Juan Basin."

Nicole (Nikki) Grigg

(Arch) Mid-Atlantic USA - Washington, D.C. Urban archaeology, archaeology of immigration, archaeology of the African Diaspora, contemporary constructions of heritage, 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

Southeast Asia - Indonesia. Political discourse; language and gender; bureaucracy, development, and democracy. "Enregistering Democracy: Gender and Political Discourse in Eastern Indonesia."

Julie Hanlon

(Arch) (joint w/SALC) South India - Sri Lanka. Literary and archaeological history of pre-historic to medieval South India and Sri Lanka; Jainism in South India; economic anthropology/archaeology; ceramic analysis; geo-spatial analysis. "Jain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Tamil Nadu, South India c. 4th century BCE - 7th century CE."

Daniel Hansen

(Arch) Western Europe. European Celtic societies of the early Middle Ages, especially focusing on the Picts and their interaction with Goidelic-speaking groups. Materiality, material culture theory, semiotics, archaeology of ethnicity.

Charles Hartley

(Arch) East Asia - China. Early Chinese culture; technology and social systems; ceramic analysis. "Community, Pottery, and Political Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE."

Maira Hayat

South Asia - Pakistan. Water politics, agriculture, economics, environment. "Ecologies of Water Theft in Pakistan: The Colony, the Corporation and the Contemporary."

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."

Jenna Henderson

Middle East - Syria/Lebanon; Southern Italy. Human rights and humanitarianism, aesthetics, mass media, affect and ideology, ethics and the ordinary, migration.

Kristin Hickman

North Africa - Morocco. Language politics, self and subjectivity, linguistic modernity; sound, voice, cosmopolitan and vernacular, translation. "Révolution Darija? Vernacular Language and Cosmopolitan Aspiration in Contemporary Urban Morocco."

Yaqub Hilal

Middle East - Israel/Palestine. Semiotics; language practice and ideology; commensuration, translation and value; aesthetics and affect; liberalism. "Troubling Israeli Liberalism."

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."

Ji Yea Hong

East Asia - China. Southwest China (Yi people); ritual and religion, ethnicity, death and mortality, materiality, museum studies. Ritual uses of Bronze Funeral Drums in the highlands of Southwest China/Vietnam/Laos - relationship to social scientific knowledge production and commodification.

Rachel Howard

USA - Urban. Political and economic anthropology; linguistic anthropology; elder care and aging in the US; housing and demography.

LaShaya Howie

USA - Urban New York/Chicago. Contemporary death practices in the US; cultural histories of African American funerals and memorials; theories of Blackness and death; materiality, mourning and grief.

Cameron Hu

USA - Texas/Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin. Technoscience, liberalism & neo-liberalism, energy & environment, political economy, temporality & historicity, aesthetics. "Reinventing the Earth: The Global Shale Frontier and the Experimental Moment in Petrocapitalism."

Jenny Miao Hua

(MD/PhD) Medical education reform in China, translation of evidence-based medicine in the context of US involvement in Chinese healthcare, anthropology of technical ecologies, political economy of health and disease. "Embodying Integrated Medicine: Clinical Ideals in Reform-Era Chinese Health Care."

Kenzell Huggins

Southeast Asia - Singapore. Media, creativity, semiotics, materiality, globalization, textuality.

Raymond ("Sandy") Hunter

(Arch) Latin America - Andes, Southern and Central Peru. Cusco, the Inka, Spanish colonialism in the Andes; landscapes, agriculture, empire, cartography, environment, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany. "Households in Transition: Examining Material Change in Colonial Andean Domestic Economy and Ecology."

Britta Ingebretson

(joint w/Linguistics) East Asia - China. Gender, language ideology, language variation and change, post-socialism, the nation-state, social class, capitalism. "Curating Value: The Politics of Language and Leisure in Huangshan, China."

Mallory James

USA; Australia. Theories of technology and emergence, knowledge projects, energy, geographies of management and extraction, the engineering profession/ethics. "'Being Technical': Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Energy Engineering in Eastern Australia."

Mannat Johal

(Arch) South Asia - South India. Archaeology; time, temporality, memory and historicity; periodization, historical narratives and 'the medieval'; ceramic analysis. "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval (ca AD 500-1600) South India."

Rebecca Journey

Scandinavia - Denmark/Copenhagen. Anthropology of design; cultural politics of energy transition; ethics and aesthetics of green urbanism; political ecology of infrastructure; welfare statecraft; Denmark. "Infrastructure of a Well-Tempered Environment: Copenhagen, Eco-Metropolis."

Ayan Kassim

North America. Chicago; activism, urbanism, racial capitalism, neoliberalism.

Andrew Katzenstein

(joint w/ the Divinity School) Middle East - Israel/Palestine; USA. Religion and secularism, affect and embodiment, anthropology of Judaism, space and place, security, messianism and temporality.

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."

Kieran Kelley

USA; Ireland. Linguistic and Medical Anthropology; addiction studies, drug use and drug intervention; clinical interactions and pragmatics/metapragmatics of clinical knowledge production and translation. "Living with Drugs in the Republic of Ireland: Shifting Trends of Opiate Use and Intervention."

Marc Kelley

South Asia - India/Pakistan. Energy, environment, economy, geopolitics, security, sovereignty, development, postcolonialism, political anthropology, STS. "Geopolitics of Indian Energy Futures."

Hunter Kennedy

Native North America - Navajo. Visual/media anthropology, legal anthropology, environmental studies, contemporary archaeological theory, tribal legal histories, communities of artistic practice.

Menna Khalil

Middle East - Egypt, North Africa. Authority, violence, temporality, postcoloniality, labor, generations, semiotics, aesthetics. "An Eye for the Army: Fantasies and Realities of Military Authority in Egypt."

Do Dom Kim

East Asia - China. The Southern "Gate" cities of China: Xiamen, Shenzhen, Guangdong; law as manifested in everyday lives in China; migrants in cities -- who are neither fully legal nor illegal; practices and discourses around government issued ID papers; state/citizen relationships. "Documenting Uncertainties: Bureaucratic Problems, Reform Promises, and Everyday Documentation Practices in Southern China."

Yongjin Kim

Southeast Asia - Indonesia (Bali)/Malaysia. Culture and tourism, bureaucracy and state-driven development projects. "Culture, Tourism and the State in North Bali, Indonesia."

Love Kindstrand

East Asia - Japan. Social movements, ethics and aesthetics of public protest, modern formations of democratic governance and legitimacy; citizenship; anti-nuclear protests in post-Fukushima Japan. "Bodies that Shatter: Mobilization, Atomization, and the Crisis of Political Representation in Post-Disaster Japan."

Matthew Knisley

(Arch) Africa - Tanzania/Zambia. Historical archaeology of hunter-gatherers; historical archaeology; landscape archaeology, political ecology; colonialism and post-colonialism, landscape, political ecology, temporality, ethnobotany and archaeobotany. "An Archaeology of the 'Natural': Historical Landscapes of the Sandawe Homeland, Central Tanzania."

Briel Kobak

USA - Midwest/Upper South. Whiteness, consumption, commodities, historicity, rural/urban relations, utopia/dystopia. "Securing Utopia, or, The Place of Guns in Small Town America."

Lee Kochems

USA - Medical. Gay Culture: Identity and Assertive Symbolic Activity among Gay Men in America.

Owen Kohl

Southeast Europe - Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia. Linguistic anthropology, historical narrative, mass media, ethnomusicology, hip hop studies, post-socialist transformation, former Yugoslavia, documentary/ethnographic film. "Were the Balkans 'Built for Rap?': Semiotic Ideology within a Newly Transnational Hip Hop Imaginary."

Marshall Kramer

Southwest China/Myanmar/Laos border area. Southwest China/Myanmar border (Shan); Disturbance ecologies; supply-chain infrastructures, the Chinese medicine trade. "The Growing Wilds: Harvesting Chinese Medicines in Farthest Myanmar."

Hiroko Kumaki

East Asia - Japan. Medical anthropology, mental health, environmental disaster, ecology. "Mobilizing the 'Ecological': Disaster Mental Health in Post-2011 Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster in Japan."

Harini Kumar

South Asia - South India (Tamil Nadu). Anthropology of Islam, religion, sensory experience; tradition, embodiment, affect, temporality, forms of knowledge production, place-making.

Emily Kuret

Southeastern Europe - Greece/Athens. Aesthetics, ethics and health; the arts and culture sector of contemporary Greece; the modern role of the arts in producing a moral-aesthetic community.

Omar Kutty

South Asia - India. "Purifying Labor: Public Goods and the Politics of Sanitation in Delhi."

Edward Labenski

Canada; Native North America. "The Politics of Reconciliation: Self-Government and Bureaucratic Normalization of Aboriginal-State Relations in Saskatchewan."

Anna Lagia

(Phys) Greece, Eastern Mediterranean. "A Bioarchaeological Survey of Social Structure in the Polis of Athens during the Classical, Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods."

Hilary Leathem

(SocCultural/Arch) Latin America - Mexico/Oaxaca; Kenya. Histories of heritage; international legal orders (e.g., UNESCO, the ICC); sacredness, morality, and affect; time and temporality; materiality; endangerment and enchantment; philanthropy; experimental methods (film, drawing). "Oaxaca Set Apart: Cosmologies and Controversies over Heritage in the Emerald City."

Lauren Ledin

(Arch) East Asia/China (Anyang, late Shang). Bronze Age China, bioarchaeology; childhood; personhood and gender; sacrifice; stable isotope analysis; skeletal pathology and trauma; mortuary practice. "Revisiting Lineage: A Bioarchaeological Life Course Approach to Relatedness in the Late Shang Capital of Yinxu (c. 1200-1050 BCE)."

Myungji Lee

Middle East - Turkey. Religion and ethics (in Islam), circulation of ideas, translation, logics of comparison, temporality, media/mediatization, bureaucracy, documents, liberalism, language/semiotic ideology. The "Presidency of Religious Affairs" (Diyanet) in Turkey and its Media.

Averill Leslie

USA - Vermont. Participatory decision-making, town hall meetings, direct democracy, municipal government, U.S. publics. "The New England Town Meeting as Icon and Ethnogrpahic Object: New Perspectives on Participatory Democracy."

Erik Levin

(joint w/ Linguistics) Latin America - Amazonian Peru. Linguistic anthropology, semiotics; self and selves in Amazonia; techniques of knowledge in Amazonian cosmologies. "Amawaka Knowledge Practices and Uses of Grammaticized Epistemology."

Patrick Lewis

Middle East; Turkey/Kurdistan. The politics of language within the Kurdish movement, language ideologies, nationalism studies, language and politics, post-colonialism. "Publics of Value: Youth, Language, and Higher Education in Turkey."

Qi Li

(Arch) (joint w/ EALC) East Asia - China. Shang China, Erligang, agriculture.

Tal Liron

Inner Asia - Mongolia. Cultural heritage and nationalism; affect and embodiment; modernities; value and circulation. "Mongolia's Telescopic Nationalism."

Taylor Lowe

Southeast Asia - Thailand. Anthropology of architecture and designed objects; theories of affect; embodiment and experience; cosmologies and spatial order. "Designing Cosmopolitics: An Ethnography of Design Activism and the New Thai Parliament."

Kevin Bryce Lowry

(Arch) Mongolia, Eurasian Steppe. Landscape/space/place, pastoralism and mobility; ritual; GIS, regional survey, mortuary archaeology, human osteology, lithics; Bronze Age/Iron Age subsistence shift in West-Central Mongolia. "Tracing a Transition: Political Economies of the Bronze and Iron Ages of Mongolia."

Alexander MacNeil

East Asia - Japan. Aesthetics, politics, art, media, social movements (two activist collectives in Osaka and Tokyo, speech performance, art expression, marginality, social change).

Christine Malcom

(Phys) Latin America - Andes. Human osteology. "Cultural Markers and Craniometric Variation in the Lower and Middle Osmore Valley, Peru: A Model-Bound, Population Genetics Perspective."

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."

William McCollum

(Arch) Latin America - Peru. Inka Empire to Spanish Colonialism in the southern highlands of Peru; historical archaeology, postcolonial theory, indigeneity, religion, bureaucracy, state building.

Hannah McElgunn

(joint w/ Linguistics) North America. Semiotics, language revitalization, intellectual property, Hopi. "Translating Hopi: Knowledge, Property, and Language Revitalization."

Kathryn McHarry

Africa - Senegal, Francophone West Africa. Anthropology of Age: childhood, inter-generational relations, work and play, lifecourse. Anthropology of Medicine and Science: care, biopolitics, embodiment, technocracy, epistemology. Anthropology of Development: political economy, value, materiality, urbanism, policy. "Entrepreneurs of the Future: Speculative Care and Early Childhood Education in Senegal."

Amy McLachlan

Latin America - Colombia (Amazon). Colombia, ethnobotany of the Uitoto diaspora, displacement and migration, magic and trauma, personhood and interspecies adoption, gender and generativity, epistemology and divination, politics of the sensory, post-natural forms of life, militarized ecologies; semiotic theory, critical theory, queer theory, decolonial theory, STS. "Cultivating Futures: Botanical Economies and Knowledge Ecologies in Colombian Amazonia."

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 Celis-Ochoa

Latin America - Mexico. Violence, sovereignty & national historical imagination; moral economies; secrecy/spectacle, fiction; mass mediation, affect.

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."

John ("Jack") Mullee

Latin America - Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dissertation title: "Approximations: Technics and Territory in Sao Paulo Health." Interests include sociotechnical objects, numeracy, scale, mathematics, computation and public reason in social life, especially "state-administrative life". Dissertation explores these themes by scrutinizing health systems and the pursuit of "universal health" in Greater Sao Paulo. Findings will contribute to anthropologies of public policy, health, bureaucracy, data science, ethnomathematics and STS.

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.

Victoria Nguyen

East Asia - China. Urban development/renewal, urban policy planning, architecture, governance, aesthetics and materiality, political ecology. "Urban Interrupted: Rethinking Urbanization and Development in Contemporary China."

Rachel (Ray) Noll

(joint w/ Political Science) USA - Chicago. Prisons, incarceration, imprisonment, movement, stasis, vitality, ontology, race, queer theory. "Cook County Jail/Ethics and Vitalism."

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 Pacyga

(Arch) West Africa - Senegal. Historical archaeology and anthropology of West Africa, specifically Senegal; archaeology of gender and education, domestic archaeology, religion & conversion, food studies, missionization, practice theory, historical ecology, humna/plant relationships, archaeobotany. "Cultivating Catholicism: Practice, Gender, and the 'Civilizing Mission' in Colonial Senegal (ca 1860-1939)."

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

East Asia - China/Korea. Economic anthropology, global capitalism, transnational connections/translations (supply chain, commodity circulation), anthropology of food. "'Korean' Qualities, 'Chinese' Value: Translation and Brokerage in the Made-in-China Kimchi Trade."

Emma Pask

(joint w/ CHSS) US/Mexico. Environmental biology, philosophy, STS, impacts of climate change and human infrastructure on the ecosystem of the borderlands (US-Mexico), knowledge-making, public consciousness.

Sophie Peck

Europe - France/UK. Affect theory, migration, infrastructural citizenship, temporality, cities, globalization, media ethnography; (temporary) housing infrastructure; Calais encampments near the Tunnel: embedded precarity and dispossession; lives beyond the state, bricolage; documentary film.

Gretchen Pfeil

(joint w/ Linguistics) Africa - Senegal; US-based Evangelical missionary organizations. "Small Change, Big Changes: Religious Commitments and the High Stakes of Small Charitable Gifts in Dakar, Senegal."

Hannah Pickwell

East Asia - China. Urban China (Beijing, Kunming); home and domesticity, ontology/cosmology of material objects (especially used vs. new), second-hand consumption, aesthetics, nostalgia; fashion, decor, and style; material culture and materiality; creativity; value; popular religion.

Lake Polan

USA. Technology studies; legal and political anthropology; privacy, freedom, and security; the political economy of personal information. "The Techno-Politics of American Privacy: An Ethnography of Privacy Engineering in U.S. Web Browser Development."

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."

Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian

USA; Circumpolar North. Psychological and medical anthropology, being, understanding, knowledge, scepticism, analysis and analyticity. "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Condition of the Condition."

Anne-Sophie Reichert

Europe - Germany; USA. Body movement, body techniques and somatic culture in Germany, skills, expertise, habits, embodiment; anthropology of movement, anthropology of dance, anthroplogy of art; feminist STS, history and philosophy of science.

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."

Matthew Rich

Northeast India/Bangladesh border. Language ideologies, standardization, indigeneity; ethics and politics of community. "The Foreignness of Indigeneity: Language and Locality among the Khasi of Bangladesh."

Ellen Richmond

(MD/PhD) Horn of Africa/Indian Ocean - Somaliland. Landscape, borders, mobility, poetry.

Éleonore Rimbault

South Asia - South India. Classical theories of deviance / Youth and entertainment in South Asia. Socialization, childhood studies, class/caste and the consumption of entertainment. Human rights and legal regimes in practice. The position of children within Indian circuses. What constitutes child labor? "Life Trajectories of Animals and Children in South Indian Circuses -- and potentially other places of interspecies and intergenerational entertainment."

Mary Robertson

South Africa. Race, class and gender in advertising; branding; consumption; consumer-citizenship in South Africa; social difference; media and the body in marketing practice; sensory experience; anthropology of sound and image; music and the body. "Selling Aspiration, Recognizing Difference: Race, Class, and the Politics of Advertising in South Africa."

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."

Kelsey Rooney

(Arch) West Africa, Caribbean, Indian Ocean coast. Colonialism, maritime nautical archaeology, GIS, Atlantic slave trade.

Sayantan Saha Roy

South Asia - North East India (Manipur). Legal and political anthropology, intellectual history of Indian jurisprudence, the constitution of India. "Legal Lives in the Postcolony: Human Rights, Humanitarianism and the Rule of Law in India (Manipur, Imphal)."

Steven Schwartz

Latin America - Colombia. Resource extraction; renewable energy; political ecology, capitalism and value; indigeneity. "Life Worlds of Extraction: Renewable Energy and Indigeneity in the Guajira."

Alexander Shams

Middle East - Iran/Central Asia. Urban anthropology, pilgrimage and tourism, construction of religious identity, gender studies.

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.

Zachary Sheldon

Middle East - Jordan/Iraq; USA. Political anthropology of the Middle East; nation-states, nationality and nationalism; migration and mobility; urban life; genealogical and segmentary systems; labor and capital; American imperialism. "Guests in a 'Garden': An Ethnography of the National Present among Iraqi Residents of Amman, Jordan."

Shubham Shivang

(joint w/ Cinema Media Studies) South Asia - India. Linguistic anthropology & film studies. The Bhojpuri-speaking region of North India, the film industry, formation of a regional public sphere.

Lisa Simeone

USA; Francophone Africa/Europe. Political, legal, and affective economies of migration, political economy, post-Cold War cultures of capitalism; legal anthropology of membership; global configurations of race and class. "Making Do in the Promised Land: The Labor of Love Among Chicago's New Africans."

Kristen Simmons

Native North America - Arizona/New Mexico. Sovereignty and settler Colonialism; decolonial thought: technoscience & STS; affective/psychosocial worlds. "Exuberant Energies: Settler Colonialism and the Element of Whiteness."

Jonah Simpson

East Europe/Russia/Ukraine/Kazakhstan. Linguistic anthropology, socialism/post-socialism, infrastructure, semiotics, urban planning and reconstruction, Moscow.

Erik Lee Skjon

(joint w/ Linguistics) Africa - Mozambique. Shankan Makhuwa dialect area, Cabo Delgado Province, Northern Mozambique; tropes and morpho-syntax, ethno-regionalism, areal linguistics, value circuits. "The Lingual-Cultural Region: Its Figures and Grounds in Makhuwa Networks, Media, and Discourse."

Haeden Stewart

(Arch) North America - Western Canada. Archaeology of the contemporary, anthropology of mobile lives/homelessness/urban poverty; settler colonialism in Western Canada: history of indigenous-non indigenous relations, rise of the city, urban poverty. "Toxic Legacies of Mill Creek Ravine: Contested Landscapes of Industrialization and Colonialism in Western Canada" [Edmonton].

Moodjalin Sudcharoen

Southeast Asia - Thailand, Burma. Migration and mobility, politics of language and semiotics, identity and personhood, education and childhood, expertise, bureaucrats. "The Anticipatory Childhood: Language Socialization of Burmese Migrant Children and Imaginings of a Thai National Future."

Lauren Sutherland

USA/Mexico border region. Borders, national security, infrastructure, (neo)liberalism, global capital, commodity flows, migration, private security companies, policing, violence, mediation, virtuality, invasive species. Homeland Security; infrastructure/industry/enforcement, US-Mexico border.

Raffaella Taylor-Seymour

(joint w/ Comparative Human Development) Southern Africa - Zimbabwe. Gender and sexuality, fertility, reproductive politics, ancestry, land and landscape, settler colonialism, youth and futurity, media and publics, political discourse and subjectivity, morality, Pentecostalism/Christianity. "Living in a Dying World: Generativity, Ethical Personhood, and Pentecostalism in Post-Crisis Zimbabwe."

Saul Thomas

(joint w/ History) East Asia - China. Capitalism, Liberalism and the Culture Concept; Orientalism; Intellectuals, 'Modernity' and 'Culture' in Post-Mao China. "To Stand Tall in the Forest of Nations: Liberal Intellectuals and Nation in Post-Mao China."

Anwen Tormey

Western Europe - Ireland & the European Union. Asylum, political subjectivity, evidentiary logic and practice, law, (im)migration, citizenship. "'We Can't All Live on a Small Island': Truth, Difference and the Politics of Asylum in Ireland."

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."

Mudit Trivedi

(Arch) South Asia - North India. Identity, urbanization, paleoenvironmental research, ceramic technology and trade, geoarchaeology, lithics. "Tradition, Conversion and Place: The Khanzada of Mewat 1200-1950."

Kelsye Turner

USA Urban - Gary, IN. Urban space and development, ruin, labor, precarity, spaciality of race, toxicity and health.

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) Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa. Greek colonies on the Black Sea; maritime connectivity, trade networks, ancient economies. Blend of classical archaeology and maritime studies, nautical archaeology, ancient colonial activity.

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."

Alice Yeh

East Asia - China. Hangzhou; genre, narrativity, confession; metapragmatics of ritual, ideologies of public/private, China and the anthropology of Christianity. "Confession and Christian Subjectivity in Late Socialist China."

Shirley Yeung

Western Europe - Switzerland. Migrant integration policy, language ideologies, the semiotic construction of difference/civilization, ordinary ethics, hospitality, transnational/undocumented mobility, citizenship. "The Will to Welcome: The practice and policy of migrant integration in Geneva, Switzerland."

Yukun Zeng

East Asia - China. Linguistic anthropology, reading/literacy/textuality; value, ethics, cultivation; education, tradition, post-socialism. "The 'Dujing' (reading the Classics out loud) Movement in China: Value, Temporality and Textuality."

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.

Lauren Zych

Colonial USA - Southeast. Handmade earthenwares of probable Native American manufacture in French colonial sites in New Orleans. "Hybrid Objects and Intercultural Assemblages: Coarse Earthenware in Colonial Louisiana."