Student Research Interests
Following is a list of current students and their research areas. Click on each student's name for their contact information.
Domestic spaces, kinship and the home, gendered personhood, mothers and daughters, queerness, person-centered ethnography and the everyday; North India, South Asia
Aesthetics, adornments of the state, affect, infrastructures of citizenship, gender, belonging, temporality, mobility, urban spaces; Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, UAE
Temporality; migration and exile; bureaucracy; nationalism, citizenship, and belonging; narrative, censorship, and silences; political and economic anthropology; anthropology of the state; migrant laborers, asylum seekers, and non-citizens; Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Eritrea. Skyler is affiliated with the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
Classical ballet in the U.S. and the process of professionalization; materiality and aesthetics; gender; embodiment; Dance and Performance Studies; Anthropology of the Body
Oil, gender and masculinity in Qatar. Taha is affiliated with the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
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; United States
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, political economy and exchange networks, frontiers, settlement and landscape archaeology, household archaeology, remote sensing, GIS, digital modeling and digital archaeology, cultural resource management and heritage education, Mesoamerica: Maya.
Anthropology and philosophy of the state, ethics and politics of representation, visual anthropology (ethnofiction, ethnopoetics, sensory ethnography)
Gender, sexuality, caste, legal anthropology, human rights, South Asia
Death and the dying process, medical anthropology, care ethics, ritual, mourning, South Asia
Religion, women, spirituality, urban space, ecology, imagination, myth and folklore, South Asia
Digital technology, the anthropology of money and finance, economic anthropology, blockchain development, cryptocurrency; El Salvador, Latin America
Visual anthropology, disposable migrant laborers; global capitalist system, silence, education, China, Colombia, U.S
Popular culture, intimacy, belonging, single women, feminist/queer/critical heterosexuality studies, affect theory, consumerism, economic anthropology, linguistic anthropology, digital ethnography; East Asia, China, South Korea