Student Research Interests
Following is a list of current students and their research areas. Click on each student's name for their contact information.
Personhood, gender and sexuality, kinship and the home, power, political anthropology, person-centered ethnography and the everyday; India, South Asia
Religious cosmology, evangelical Christianity, race and multiculturalism after apartheid, scientific and evolutionary discourse, cross-cultural epistemology, social theory; South Africa
Literature and its relation to the formation of ethnic identities, the use of pedagogical narratives; US, Israel, Palestine
Mobility, precarity, belonging, coherence & differentiation, the nation, memory, the everyday, narratives & discourse; Middle East, GCC, UAE
Nationalism, race, ethnicity, identity and belonging, political anthropology, kinship, adolescence, Eritrean families in Tel Aviv
Palestine and the diaspora, alternative temporalities, queer theory, visual art
Guanggun (Chinese bachelors), masculinity, media representation, cross-border marriages, oral history, visual and graphic anthropology
Race, property rights, farmland conversion, agriculture, environmental anthropology, visual anthropology and multimodal ethnography; US
Medical anthropology; temporalities of health, illness, and suffering; stories of the body; medical technologies; death and mortality; narratives of cancer; genetic counseling; United States
Archaeology, ancient political economies, market and exchange networks, architecture, settlement and landscape archaeology, archaeology of complex societies, GIS, digital modelling; Mesoamerica, Maya
Humanitarianism, displacement, secularism and religious minorities, ethnicity and race
Anthropology and philosophy of the state, ethics and politics of representation, visual anthropology (ethnofiction, ethnopoetics, sensory ethnography)
Archaeology, social interpretation of funerary practice, infant container burials, cultural/archaeological heritage management, gendered interpretation of domestic space and material culture, Mediterranean studies, GIS, historical archaeology, cultural interaction and exchange between Greece and the ancient Near East, the Aegean Bronze and Iron Ages; Israel, Greece
Archaeology, ancient economies, household archaeology, household production, urbanism, ceramic analysis, landscape archaeology, settlement analysis; Mesoamerica, Maya
Digital technology, the anthropology of money and finance, economic anthropology, blockchain development, cryptocurrency; Brazil, Latin America
Visual anthropology, disposable migrant laborers, global capitalist system, silence, education, China, Colombia, U.S