PhD Students

Ashir Mohamed Abdul Azeez

Interests:

South-Asia - India; Islam, ethical self-fashioning, religion and secular, popular politics and mass mobilizations, corporeality, performativity, aesthetics, semiotics and affect.

Amara Ahmed

Interests:

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.

Sabena Allen

seallen@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Native North America/Southeast Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian). Dispossession, climate change, place and storywork, sacred objects, oral history.

Aandaxjoon (Tlingit), whose English name is Sabena Allen, is a Gaanaxteidí Raven and a child of the Kaagwaantaan clan. Originally from Sitka, Alaska, ...

Jianghong An

anjianghong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

East Asia - China. Political and legal anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ideology, state, sovereignty, bureaucracy, urban space, infrastructure; migrant petitioners.

Stasha Arifin Wong

I study the politics and materiality of care for more-than-human worlds, engaging with ideas at the intersections of science and technology studies, m...

Zachary Arrington

zarrington@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Medical anthropology; psychedelics, drug studies and social studies of psychiatry; science and technology studies (STS); psychoanalysis/psychological anthropology; subjectivity; death, dying, and social formations of ‘threat’; the senses, sense making, and the body; aesthetics and politics; the U.S.

Krithika Ashok

kashok@uchicago.edu

Interests:

South Asia - India; political and legal anthropology; legal language; litigants and court practice; state and citizenship; political subjectivity.

Erin Atwell

PhD Candidate

atwell@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Egypt, Islamic preaching, ethical self-fashioning, embodiment, intimacy, humanitarian reason, anthropology of religion, textuality and materiality.

Erin Atwell is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Arabic Literature working on intersections of classical Islamic texts, contemporary Muslim practice...

Henry Bacha

bacha@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Historical anthropology; historical archaeology; ethnohistory; legal anthropology; Marxism; political economy; historiography and historical methods; social movements; colonialism; anthropology of religion and ritual; the Catholic Church; Christian theology; missions and mission Christianity; Latin America; the Andes; Amazonia; the Southern Cone; Iberia; the French Americas.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Henry Bacha graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 (B.A. with Honors, anthropology and Latin American and Caribb...

Hadeel Badarni

PhD Candidate

hbadarni@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Middle East - Palestine. Techno-scientific capitalism, geopolitics of energy production, political ecology, political economy; renewable electrification of Palestine.

Alexis Rolando Chavez

PhD Candidate

archavez@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Critical race theory, anthropology of religion, France.

Alexis’ research is situated in France and lies at the intersection of critical race theory and the anthropology of religion. He is a recipient of the...

Hazal Corak

hazal@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Historical anthropology of empires and imperialism, steel modernities, recycling, global flows of scrap metal, maritime anthropology, industrial labor, finance and financialization, materiality and metallurgy, Turkey, Britain, and the Mediterranean.