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Akua A. Agyen
Sexual violence; healthcare disparities; forensic medicine; social constructions of victimhood/survivorhood; Black women; critical race studies; Black feminist studies; queer theory
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Farzad Amoozegar-Fassie
Ethics and social suffering; trauma and children; violence and subjectivity; phenomenology of pain; Wittgenstein language theory
Subfield: Psychological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology. I am also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnomusicology..
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Izem Aral
Subfield: Psychological/Medical Anthropology
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Theresa Arriola
Militarization; colonialism; empire; indigenous Chamorro people; Mariana Islands; Pacific; Oceania
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Yael Assor
Ethics and morality; bureaucracy; anthropology of the state; policymaking; phenomenological anthropology; gender and women's studies; anthropology of science; medical anthropology; political anthropology
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Psychological Anthropology
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Amanda Jean Bailey
Narrative and healing; identity and place; urban indigenous communities; indigenous education; tribal colleges; North America; language revitalization; sign languages; gesture; visual anthropology
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Megan Baker
Critical Indigenous Studies; Indigenous politics; sovereignty; economic development; Indigenous feminisms; racial formations; settler colonialism; Oklahoma history
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Vincent M. Belletto
Comparative indigeneities; language endangerment and documentation; language ideologies; language and materiality; linguistic landscapes. Regions: Southwestern United States, Southeast Asia, Highland Philippines, Northern Europe.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Kerby Bennett
Language Ideologies; Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of Disability and Illness; chronic illness; type 1 diabetes; medical discourse
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Katelyn J. Bishop
Zooarchaeology, avian fauna, ritual, animal symbolism, new world domestication, feasting, social complexity, ethnoarchaeology, US Southwest, Mesoamerica, Maya archaeology, Pacific Coast of Mexico, collections-based research
Subfield: Archaeology
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Molly Josette Bloom
Disability; wheelchair athletes; supercrips; masculinity; the body; language; multimodality; conversation analysis; United States; Morocco
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Burcu Buğu
Psychoanalysis; affective geography; anthropology of hope; ethnography of art; border; Middle East; Kurdistan
Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology
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Bradley Cardozo
Climate justice; environmental justice; anthropology of climate change; sustainability & resilience; political & postcolonial ecology; race & ethnicity; gender & sexuality; religion; Southeast Asia; Philippines; Indonesia
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Hannah Carlan
Multilingualism; translation; impact of language ideologies on development practice; gender and women's empowerment; Hindi, Punjabi, Pahari (Kangri); Himachal Pradesh; India
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Courtney Cecale
Life amidst melting tropical glaciers in the Peruvian Andes, with special interest in visual methods, critical geography, and political ecology
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Spencer C. Chen
Language Ideologies; language attitudes; cultural production; creative industry; voice-acting; dubbing; trans-creation; perceptual dialectology; Taiwan Mandarin; Sinophone; East Asia (Taiwan, China, Japan)
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Addison Dickens
Political discourse; narrative; immigration; language and local government; raciolinguistics; sociolinguistics; anthropology of the US; the Midwest; Kansas.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Mercedes Douglass
Performance/verbal artistry; education and local governance systems; NGOs, participatory politics, and democracy; language socialization; multimodal communication; Latin America and the Caribbean
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
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Ulises Espinoza
Evolution of morality; social norms; human social behavior; theory of mind; evolutionary psychology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Devin Flaherty
Death and dying; the imagination; hospice; phenomenology; care; empathy; attention; sensorial anthropology; emotion; morality; narrative; language and interaction; place and the built environment; U.S. Virgin Islands
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Brittany Florkiewicz
Facial expressions; gestures; multimodal communication; language evolution; communicative flexibility; primate cognition and social behavior
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Eden Franz
Subfield: Archaeology
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Tlaoli Fuentes
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Amy Garey
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Lilit Ghazaryan
Multilingualism; peer language socialization among children; metalinguistic awareness; Armenian-American community in Los Angeles
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Devaka Gunawardena
Export Processing Zones (EPZs); transnational social movements; labor studies; Sri Lanka/South Asia
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Renée V. Hagen
Cultural evolution; human ecology; social learning; ritual behavior; hunter-gatherers
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Brian Holguin
Subfield: Archaeology
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Claudia Huang
Aging and the life course; retirement; post-socialism; friendship contemporary China
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Kotrina Kajokaite
Decision making; coalitionary aggression; social relationships; functional aspects of sociality; dispersal; male migration; white-faced capuchins; Costa Rica
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Jananie Kalyanaraman
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Sucharita Kanjilal
Anthropology of media; internet and new media technologies; food studies; gender and domestic cooking; cookbook archives; transnationalism; immigration; postcolonial studies; space and place; diaspora; India, South Asia
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Stephanie Keeney Parks
African Americans; African American literature; Black English; autism; disability; autism diagnosis;healthcare disparities; narrative; everyday family life; phenomenology; morality; United States
Subfield: Medical/Psychological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology
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Zia Khoshsirat
Language Ideology; Secrecy; Sociophonetics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation and Revitalization; Gilaki dialects (in Gilan, Mazandaran, Alborz, Qazvin, Semnan, Tehran, Golestan); Iran; Persian
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Kelsey Kim
Comfort women; gender; memorials; human rights movements; Asian American communities; Korean and Japanese relations
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Delaney Knorr
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Nicco La Mattina
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Queeny G. Lapeña
Zooarchaeology; anthropology of food, feasting, subsistence adaptation; prehistory, early contact; emergent complexity, hunter-gatherer and maritime adaptation, coastal and island archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Philippines, California
Subfield: Archaeology
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Jeremy Levenson
Urban anthropology; political economy; critical medical anthropology
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Emily Lucitt
Social activism; historical experience; empathy; urban planning; morality; psychoanalysis; phenomenology; subjectivity; Ireland; post-colonialism; retail development; neoliberalism; New England; ghost stories
Subfield: Psychological Anthropology
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Abigail Mack
Habeas corpus; mental health law and psychiatry; therapeutic jurisprudence; morality/ethics; citizenship and personhood; empathy; narrative; language socialization; phenomenological approaches to anthropology
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Sita Mamidipudi
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Joshua L. Mayer
Race and ethnicity in Latin America; indigenous and Afrodescendant social movements; communal lands, territoriality, and sovereignty; neoliberalism, neo-extractivism, and postneoliberalism; political and legal anthropology; activist research methods
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Matthew McCoy
Belfast; commemoration; security infrastructure, ethics and morality, colonial and postcolonial theory; theories of violence; political anthropology; folklore; phenomenology and philosophical anthropology; Certificate in Experimental Critical Theory
Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Reem Mehdoui
Language ideologies; language socialization; youth language and culture; language and affect; language and political transformation; media and political movements; postcolonialism; the Middle East & North Africa; Tunisia; Arabic, French
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Eva Melstrom
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Carolyn Merritt
Well-being; care; mental health; democracy; social inclusion; migration; popular education; existential anthropology; Sweden; Scandinavia
Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology
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Teruko Vida Mitsuhara
Multilingualism; children's peer-group socialization; religious migration and language contact; Russian, Bengali, and Spanish in West Bengal; Guru English, religious code and language enchantment, conversion, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Hare Krishnas, India and U.S.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Zachary Mondesire
Regional connectivity and supranational political community; mobility; intellectual and political elites; racial formation in Africa; Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Charlotte Neary-Bremer
Subfield: Psychological/Medical
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Jaden Netwig
War; security; state; threats; violence; United States
Subfield: Sociocultural anthropology
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Molly Oringer
Anthropology of the state; citizenship; diasporic belonging; (post-) colonialism; spatial violence; Arab Jewish history; Lebanon; Israel/Palestine
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Agatha Palma
Refugees, migration and immigration; race and racism; construction of blackness and whiteness; colonialism and memory; state violence; mass incarceration; critical geography; Italy, South Italy and the Mediterranean
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Abdullah Puckett
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Sonya Rao
Language rights and access; access to interpreters in immigration courts; language ideologies; language policy; political economy and linguistic labor; privatization of State enterprise; life histories; oral histories
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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William Schlesinger
Social medicine; anthropology of the body; intersectionality; sexual health; HIV/AIDS; queer subjectivities; queer and trans* health care; epistemologies of science and medicine
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology
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R. J. Sinensky
Prehispanic archaeology of the US Southwest and northwestern Mexico; indigenous archaeology; early agriculture; low-level food producing societies; small scale societies; mobility; early village formation; agricultural demographic transitions; agricultural in marginal zones; anthropogenic ecology; paleoethnobotany; ground stone analysis; GIS, quantitative analysis; data visualization; Ancestral Puebloan; Kayenta; Tusayan; Hohokam; Mesoamerica; Late Archaic; Early Formative; cultural resource management; community archaeology
Subfield: Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany
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Eric Sinski
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Jonathan Sivan
Judgment and decision-making; inference and rationality; morality; religion; coalitional psychology; mind and culture; human cooperation
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Tyanna Slobe
Identity; socioeconomic mobility; education; embodiment; multimodality; Los Angeles, California; Santiago, Chile
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Andrew Marcus Smith
Language evolution; language development; gesture; communicative behavior; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Mindy Steinberg
Immigration; youth; family; Latin America; United States
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology; Psychological Anthropology
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Christopher Stephan
Intersubjectivity, empathy and the imagination; the built environment; models of health; reflections of value in design; folk and evidence based models of experience; transformative and healing experience
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Jessie Stoolman
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Anoush Suni
Historical memory; ritual; space and place; materiality; built environment; ruins; Turkey
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Gwyneth Talley
Evolution of equestrianism; women and gender in sports; leisure and sport; use of the body, cultural performance, spectacle, and display; intangible cultural heritage; falconry; human-animal relationships; visual anthropology; Morocco, Algeria, Libya
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Erin Thomason
Emotional sentiments with the family; reconfigurations of kinship; attachment theory and critiques; grandparenting; love and care; migration and left-behind populations; rurality; China
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
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Jaime Geronimo Vela
Phenomenology; storytelling; qualitative; quantitative; Indigenous populations; NAGPRA; indigenous rights; social justice; equality; public policy; narrative; indigenous education; indigenous health
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Anita Vukovic
Forced migration and refugees; citizenship and politics of belonging; border-zone regimes, policing, and militarization; space/place and memory; North Africa; Southeastern Europe
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Sasha Winkler
Primate social behavior; primate communication; the evolution of humor and play; social networks
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Madeleine Yakal
Southeast Asia; Philippines; colonialism; indigenous heritage; paleoethnobotany; landscape archaeology; human-environment relationships; bead production and trade
Subfield: Archaeology
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Haoyan Zhuang
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Madeleine L. Zoeller
Human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology perspectives; core cognition; intuitive biological knowledge; the animate monitoring hypothesis; life history theory and individual differences; female reproduction; social change
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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