Graduate Students

Climate change, sustainability, entrepreneurship, technology, agriculture, scale, India

Sociocultural Anthropology

reproductive ecology; morality; cognitive development; life history theory; human behavioral ecology

Biological Anthropology

Black feminist anthropology, Black feminist theory, anthropology of violence and care, Black feminist healing arts, mental health care, social constructions of victimhood/survivorhood; United States

Sociocultural Anthropology

Language and the law; law, gender and power; Latin America; gender-sensitive judging; courtroom interaction and discourse; anthropology of expertise; judges and lawyers; legal institutions

Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology

Disability; chronicity; politics of care and well-being; work and employment; family; gender; moral values; Turkey

Medical Anthropology

Emergent social complexity; origins of inequality; materiality; identity; agency; craft production; political economies; ceramic analysis; social network theory; community archaeology; Bronze Age Europe

Archaeology

Black Feminist Archaeology; Postbellum American South; Archaeology of Consumption; African American Identity and Cultural Persistence;

Archaeology

Linguistic Anthropology

cosmopolitanism; queer theory; surveillance; creative economies; arts governance; national identity; Singapore

Sociocultural Anthropology

Linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; political economy; semiotics; Puerto Rico

Linguistic Anthropology

Affect; political life; queer/cuir theory; trans studies; homonationalism; anthropology of social movements; archival methods; phenomenology; precarity; gender; transnationalism; El Salvador; Central America

Sociocultural Anthropology; Psychological and Medical Anthropology

Critical global health; global mental health; governance of community mental health; science technology studies; Latin America

Primate communication and affect; infant interaction; conversation analysis; animal ethnography; philosophy of science; philosophy of animal minds; animal ethics; animal studies; the moral standing of animals; speciesism; conservation; multispecies justice; Asian colobines; Japanese primatology; illustration.

Biology

Language ideologies; the language of race, gender, and colonialism; transnationalism; identity; diplomacy; the anthropology of humor; experimental ethnography; Japanese diaspora; Asian American Studies; Interethnic Studies; East Asian Studies

Linguistic Anthropology

"Rez Metal"; contemporary Native American music & arts; sonic sounds and resistance; settler colonialism; photography of Native Americans, indigenous research methodologies; indigenous feminisms; photoethnography; indigenous political movements; NAGPRA; museum studies; Native American youth; Lakota language

Sociocultural Anthropology

neotropical primates; primate evolution; primate evolutionary behavior; genomics; computational genomics; bioinformatics; phylogenetics

Early modern Southeast Asia; Seascape; indigenous trade networks; Chinese porcelain; trade ceramics; archaeological ethnography; climate change; post- conflict archaeology, Mindanao studies

Archaeology

Biological Anthropology

Colonialism; Language Ideologies; Linguistic Landscape; Ryukyuan Languages; US Military & Okinawa

Multilingualism; language socialization; peer language socialization; metalinguistic awareness; language policies and practices, post-Soviet preschool education; Republic of Armenia

Linguistic Anthropology

end of life care; medical ethics; religion and healthcare; subjectivity; phenomenology; bureaucracy; disability; chaplains

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Substance use disorder (SUD); SUD treatment and recovery; coping and healing processes; trauma/PTSD; diagnostic labeling; psychotherapeutic and psychiatric interventions; running as therapeutic modality; sporting embodiment; endurance/long-distance running; U.S./Denmark.

Psychological and Medical Anthropology

Aging and elderly care; family, house, and home; urbanization and social change

Sociocultural Anthropology

Cultural Heritage, Islamic Heritage, The Medieval Caucasus, Medieval Ceramics

Archaeology

Black digital humanities, Caribbean heritage preservation, underwater archaeology, shipwreck archaeology, African Diaspora, digital archives

Anthropology of youth, development, and law; political anthropology; anthropology of human rights; anthropology of education; Southeast Asia

Identity management; disability studies; museum studies; American Sign Language and Deaf culture; semiotic theory; Caribbean studies; digital discourse

African Americans; African American literature; Black English; autism; disability; autism diagnosis;healthcare disparities; narrative; everyday family life; phenomenology; morality; United States

Medical/Psychological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology

Language ideologies, Semiotics, Discourse analysis, Theories of Affect, Iranian diaspora, Medieval Persian literature, Historical linguistics, Iranian languages (Caspian languages), Human-Computer Interaction, UXR.

Linguistic Anthropology

Political Economy; Militarism; South Korea; Border; Social Movement; Cold War.

Sociocultural Anthropology

digital privacy; privacy rights; mental models of information flow; cognitive science; digital communications; surveillance; evolutionary psychology; emotions; morality

homelessness; substance use; harm reduction; transnational migration; political theory; United States

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Healthcare institutions; community care; mental illness; structural violence; temporality; organizational moral and ethical codes; history of politics in care; aging

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Native American Indigenous Communities (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Belize), Middle East and North Africa (Post Arab-Spring) Maya Cultures, Maya Archeology, Ethnology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Illicit Antiquities Trade, Heritage Rights, Social Transformations in Indigenous Communities, Colonialism, Decolonization in Indigenous Communities, Conflict-Zone Archaeology, Cultural Commodification, Subsistence Looting, Museology, Environmental Anthropology, Effects of Water Scarcity

Social Cultural, Archeology, Legal Anthropology

Political anthropology; Linguistics; Postcolonial studies; Mediterranean studies; Libya; Italy, Sicily; Definitional struggles, commonsense, and hegemony; Nationalism; Identity; Affect; Semiotics; Far-right movements; Environmental and infrastructural change; Interactional analysis.

Linguistic Anthropology

Multilingualism; Asian American racialization and identity; language and race; language and media; affect; language play; heritage language; language socialization; linguistic anthropology of education; Taiwan

Linguistic Anthropology

Urban anthropology; political economy; critical medical anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Freediving; breath; selfhood and embodiment; critical phenomenology; multimodal ethnography; multispecies ethnography; mental health and wellbeing; Southeast Asia

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Urban Agriculture; Food and Food Justice; Genre; Narrative and Storytelling; Semiotics; Social Movements; United States

Linguistic Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Reggaeton; Hip-Hop; Latin Trap; Music; Latin America; Transnationalism; Race & Ethnicity; Black & Brown Coalition; Education

Legislation, Political Rhetoric, Social Rhetoric, Violence, American Politics, and Food and Power

Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropology of religion; monasticism; everyday life; asceticism; ritual; labor; urban anthropology; Christianity; Greek Orthodoxy; the Balkans; Greece

Sociocultural Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Primate Behavioral Ecology; Stress Physiology; Pace-of-Life Syndromes; Behavioral Endocrinology

American Empire; Industrial Archaeology; Historical Ecology; Remote Sensing

Post-development and de-growth; Human mobility and autonomous migration; Black self-determination; Political disobedience and illegality

Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Phenomenology, Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Madness, Voices, Visions, Magic, Spirit Possession, Shamanism, Hauntology, Healing, Vietnam

Psychocultural Medical Anthropology

New World archaeology (Mesoamerica); paleoethnobotany; macrobotanical analysis; foodways; emergent social inequality; development of socio-political complexity; social identity; gender; discipline socio-politics; diversity; equity

Archaeology

India; Urban Anthropology; Heritage; Nationalism(s); Affect; Space/Place Studies

Sociocultural Anthropology

Ifa/Orisha Religion; Ecology; Anthropology Beyond the Human; African and African diasporic religions; Multispecies Ethnography; Anthropology of Religion; Nigeria; Africa

Sociocultural Anthropology

Critical philanthropy studies; critical global health and development; ethics and morality; Effective Altruism and Rationality; Europe and North America

Psychological and Medical Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Central American migration

Sociocultural Anthropology

Latinx mental health, social determinants of health, culture, immigration, structural vulnerability, culturally responsive care, language competency, curanderismo.

Medical and Psychological Anthropology

Externalized borders; care & caregiving; critical medical anthropology; arts-based methods; mutual aid; space/place; Mexico & Central America

Urban and public anthropology; immigration and illegality; violence; death; poverty; homelessness; workers and tenants rights; social inequality; anti-capitalist social movements; housing and transportation

Sociocultural Anthropology

Female reproductive ecology; maternal and child health; social support; postpartum care; health disparities; maternal stress

Finance, climate change, energy transition; risk, value, efficacy; political economy; science and technology studies (STS); affect; London and Tokyo

Sociocultural Anthropology

Sikhs; nomadism; caste; carcerality; violence

Sociocultural Anthropology

sustainability, privilege, elitism, techno-utopianism, Silicon Valley, transnationalism

sociocultural

Sociocultural Anthropology

Language evolution; language development; gesture; communicative behavior; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology

Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology

Archaeology of the contemporary; migration; climate change; human-environment interactions; borderlands; Latin America

Archaeology

Pastoralism and ranching; biotechnology and life sciences; post/socialist development; food regimes; multi-species anthropology; historical anthropology; Central/Inner Asia.

Sociocultural Anthropology

Multispecies ethnography; anthropology of the environment; semiotics; affect; cultural geography; embodiment; materiality

Linguistic Anthropology

tourism; racial capitalism; affect & embodiment; temporality; New Orleans and the Gulf South

Sociocultural Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

political economy; prefiguration; harm reduction/mutual aid; racial capitalism; Los Angeles; central america; Guatemala

sociocultural anthropology

“Development”; globalization; migration; nationalism; citizenship; borders; big data; photo/video-ethnography; multi-species ethnography; Bhutan

Sociocultural Anthropology

Genetics and genomics, genotype-phenotype associations, environmental adaptations, metabolism and disease.

Intimacy, Reproduction, Marriage, Family, Gender, China

Social cultural anthropology; qualitative sociology

Human evolution, high-altitude adaptation, developmental adaptation, population genetics, genetic selection, epigenetic modifications, transcriptomics. 

Biological Anthropology