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

Sexual violence; healthcare disparities; forensic medicine; social constructions of victimhood/survivorhood; Black women; critical race studies; Black feminist studies; queer theory

Sociocultural Anthropology

international students and study abroad, anthropology of education, tourism, raciolinguistics; United States, Kuwait

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

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.

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

palliative care; pastoral care; medical ethics; religion and healthcare; subjectivity; phenomenology; morality

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Substance use disorder (SUD); SUD treatment and recovery experiences; mental health/illness; trauma/PTSD; diagnostic labeling; psychotherapeutic and psychiatric interventions; peer-support running as therapeutic modality; endurance/long-distance running; sporting embodiment; U.S./Denmark.

Psychological and Medical Anthropology

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

Sociocultural Anthropology

Medieval Globalization; consumption; ceramics; medieval Caucasus; cultural heritage management

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

Emotions; morality; human cognition; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology; perceptions of privacy; digital privacy; digital communications

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

Linguistic Anthropology

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

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

Sociocultural Constructions of Magic and Madness, Spirit Possession, Psychosis, Hauntology, Healing, Phenomenology, 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

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

Sociocultural Anthropology

Critical global health; philanthropy and humanitarianism; effective altruism; consulting; sustainable finance; biopolitics; empathy

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 Anthropology

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

Immigration; violence; death; poverty; homelessness; workers rights; social inequality; anti-capitalist social movements

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

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

New Orleans and the Gulf South; Tourism; Racial Capitalism; Masculinity; Affect; Temporality; Ethnographic Theory and Method

Sociocultural Anthropology

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.

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

Biological Anthropology