Department of Anthropology

Indigenous perspectives on gender and sexuality, non-binaristic gender identities, sexual behavior, politics of belonging and identity, geographical focus on Mexico

Material analysis of archaeological remains from Mesoamerica to understand the variance of craft production

Anthropology of education, nationalism, development studies, China, East Asia

Mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeology and osteology, relationship between linguistic portrayals of death/mourning and the archaeological record, Mediterranean archaeology and Classical studies

Death and dying, medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, religion and ritual, forensic anthropology, intersectionality, deviance

Self and person, biocitizenship, identity, migration and transnationalism, US, South Korea

Medical anthropology, substance use, the U.S, (de)colonization, subjectivity, oral history, illness narratives, psychiatric anthropology, anthropology of institutionalization

Archaeology, material culture, aesthetics, adornment and ornamentation, group identity, mortuary culture and practices; Mesoamerica