Student Research Interests
Islam and progressiveness, LGBT Muslim community, diaspora
Visual anthropological methods, oral history, ethics behind auto-ethnography, ghosts inside of biopolitics, queer and trans eclectic witchcraft
Aesthetics, fashion, materiality, embodiment, queer studies, marginalized/alternative sexualities, identity, U.S.
Aesthetics, fashion, materiality, embodiment, queer studies, marginalized/alternative sexualities, identity, U.S.
Palestinian diaspora, Latin America, forced migration, nationalism, borders and boundaries
Urban anthropology, education, archaeology, bioarchaeology
Archaeology, cross cultural art and aesthetics, metallurgy (copper in particular), metallic art of indigenous North America
Sociocultural Anthropology, religion, commodification, material culture, street culture, politics of public space, ethnographic methods; India, South Asia
Sociocultural anthropology, online communities and communication, linguistics, Asian American Studies, Korea, and digital ethnography
Medical and sociocultural anthropology, critical development studies, sexuality education, sexual and reproductive health, social stigma, East Africa
Sociocultural anthropology, gender and sexuality, queer theory, post-structuralism, liminal spaces, transnational feminism, transgender studies, and Enby identities
Bioarcheology, forensic anthropology, Mesoamerican archeology/bioarcheology, paleoethnobotany
Memorialization and tourism related to violent histories of the US South, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Gender and sexuality, online communities and communication, queer theory, digital anthropology, sociocultural anthropology
Death and dying, environmental anthropology, medical anthropology
Political economy, work, labor and labor movements, global capitalism, imperialism, mining, violence; Latin America, Bolivia, and Mexico
Religion, feminism, gender studies
Medical and economic anthropology, science and technology studies, migrant workers, beauty industry, gender, identity; China
Visual anthropology, disposable migrant laborers, global capitalist system, silence, education, China, Colombia, U.S