Doctoral Students

Following is a list of current students and their research areas. Click on each student's name for their contact information.

Medha Asthana
Medha Asthana
Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Domestic spaces, kinship and the home, gendered personhood, mothers and daughters, queerness, person-centered ethnography and the everyday; North India, South Asia

Sarah Han
Sarah Han
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Aesthetics, adornments of the state, affect, infrastructures of citizenship, gender, belonging, temporality, mobility, urban spaces; Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, UAE

Skyler Inman
Skyler Inman
Pronouns: she/her

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.

Kalie Jamieson
Kalie Jamieson
Pronouns: she/her

Classical ballet in the U.S. and the process of professionalization; materiality and aesthetics; gender; embodiment; Dance and Performance Studies; Anthropology of the Body

Taha Kaleem
Taha Kaleem
he/him

Oil, gender and masculinity in Qatar. Taha is affiliated with the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.

kimcraig
kimcraig
Pronouns: she/her

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

Deniz Kizildag

Medical anthropology; temporalities of health, illness, and suffering; stories of the body; medical technologies; death and mortality; narratives of cancer; genetic counseling; United States

Van Kollias

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)

Gowthaman Ranganathan
Gowthaman Ranganathan
Pronouns: he/him

Gender, sexuality, caste, legal anthropology, human rights, South Asia

Sargam Sharma

Death and the dying process, medical anthropology, care ethics, ritual, mourning, South Asia

Sneha Visakha

Religion, women, spirituality, urban space, ecology, imagination, myth and folklore, South Asia

Hui Wen

Aging, Value Theory, Kinship, Senior Community, Social Transformation, China

Yura Yokoyama

Digital technology, the anthropology of money and finance, economic anthropology, blockchain development, cryptocurrency; El Salvador, Latin America

Changhong Zhang

Visual anthropology, disposable migrant laborers; global capitalist system, silence, education, China, Colombia, U.S

Iris Zhou

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