Affiliates

Christopher Bloechl

Teaching Fellow

cbloechl@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Linguistic anthropology, Mayan languages and culture, language standardization, media, Yucatan, highland Guatemala.

PhD, University of Chicago, 2023

Andrew Brandel

Associate Instructional Professor of the Social Sciences

abrandel@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Anthropology of literature; politics of language; (mis)translation; anticolonialism; migration; ordinary language philosophy; South Asia; Germany

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2016

Damien Bright

Pronouns: he/him

Assistant Instructional Professor of Anthropology in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences

Office Hours: See link in bio

Office: 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 189

Phone: (773) 834-3926

damienbright@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Anthropology of science, technology and climate; oceans and planetary extremes; psychopolitics; crisis and the ordinary; styles of reasoning; multimodality; Australia and the Pacific

Yasmin Cho

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Instructional Professor of Anthropology in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences

Office Hours: See link in bio

Office: 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 187

Phone: (773) 834-3936

choy@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Materiality, infrastructure, technology, ethnic politics, migration, gender, and anthropology of religion; Buddhism in global context, especially China, Tibet, southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa

Jennifer Cole

Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development; Chair, Committee on African Studies

jcole@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Socio-cultural anthropology; anthropology of youth and generational change; memory and forgetting; historical anthropology; Christianity; migration, gender and sexuality; Madagascar, Africa, and France.

PhD, UC Berkeley, 1996

Molly Cunningham

Harper-Schmidt Fellow

mollyc@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Crisis; US; cities; finance; politics; structural racism; secular authority; science and technology; emergency management; municipal bankruptcy; Detroit; activism; ethnographic method; publics; embodiment; history; narrative; revelation.

PhD, University of Chicago 2019

Alireza Doostdar

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology of Religion, Divinity School

doostdar@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Anthropology of religion; Islam; modernity and the supernatural in Iran; Islamic spiritual cinema; modernist universalist religious movements; state entanglements with sorcery; the decades-old project of Islamizing the sciences in Iran.

PhD, Harvard, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, 2012

Renate Lellep Fernandez

Associate (non-faculty)

Interests:

Nutritional deficiency in Spain.

PhD Anthropology, Rutgers University, 1988

Michele Friedner

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

michelefriedner@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Category and experience of deafness and disability, particularly in urban India.

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2011

Rafadi Hakim

Teaching Fellow

hakimf@uchicago.edu

Jay M. Henderson

Teaching Fellow

jmhenderson@uchicago.edu

Interests:

USA – Chicago, Wisconsin, and virtual. Trauma, medical anthropology, U.S. military studies, ethics and the ordinary, human-animal relations. “Trust your Dog: Training Service Dogs for U.S. Veterans with Trauma.”

PhD, University of Chicago, 2024

Angie Heo

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Divinity School

heo@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Religion, media and economy; minority politics; global religious movements.

PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2008