Student Research Interests
Following is a list of current students and their research areas. Click on each student's name for their contact information.
Person-centered ethnography, subjectivity and personhood, gender and sexuality, power and violence, kinship, political anthropology, postcolonialism, transnational feminism, South Asia, Latin America
Religious cosmology, evangelical Christianity, race and multiculturalism after apartheid, scientific and evolutionary discourse, cross-cultural epistemology, social theory; South Africa
Power and authority, policing, race and ethnicity, surveillance, activism, gender, economic inequality; North America
Kinship, gender, family planning policy, Guanggun, visual anthropology, graphic anthropology, China
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
Multispecies anthropology, wildlife conservation, care, race, touch, cuteness, postcoloniality, chimpanzees; West and Central Africa (Cameroon)
Narrative theory and visual anthropology, change across global communities, photography
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)
Medical and economic anthropology, science and technology studies, kinship, digital identity and representation; North America
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
Medical and economic anthropology, epistemology, causal models, phenomenology, language and power; Denmark
Economic, urban, and environmental anthropology, transportation, anthropology of finance and development, climate finance and green bonds; London, UK; anthropology blog and radio show: thisanthrolife.com
Surrogate industry, conceptualizations of class, gender, and reproduction; contemporary China