Graduate Students
Anthropology of social movements; anthropology of the state; agricultural anthropology; anthropology of bureaucracy
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: nikhit@ucla.edu
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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Email: akua.agyen@ucla.edu
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Email: stevammer@gmail.com
Subfield: Psychological/Medical Anthropology
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Email: izemaral18@ucla.edu
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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Email: ajbailey@ucla.edu
Critical Indigenous Studies; Indigenous politics; sovereignty; economic development; Indigenous feminisms; racial formations; settler colonialism; Oklahoma history
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: meganabaker91@gmail.com
Comparative indigeneity; [post-]colonialism; cultural ecology; ecology of language; globalism; historical consciousness; linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; language and materiality; language and genetics; language and identity; language and culture; Melanesia, Northern Europe, Oceania, Southwestern United States
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: vmbelletto@ucla.edu
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Email: marisaberwald@gmail.com
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: jmebrewster@g.ucla.edu
Psychoanalysis; affective geography; anthropology of hope; ethnography of art; border; Middle East; Kurdistan
Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology
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Email: burcu.bugu@gmail.com
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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Email: bcardozo@ucla.edu
Office: Haines 360
Multilingualism; rural development; language and political economy; gender; the state; bureaucracy; NGOs; Himalayas; India
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: hannahcarlan@ucla.edu
Linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; political economy; semiotics; Puerto Rico
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: saraicastro@g.ucla.edu
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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Email: scchen0918@gmail.com
Human reproductive health; human biology; developmental plasticity; perceptions of mortality risk; life history theory; evolutionary psychology; Philippines
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: kchua1110@ucla.edu
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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Email: mercedesdouglass@gmail.com
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: viki.eagle@gmail.com
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Email: brerickson@ucla.edu
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Email: alejandro.erut@gmail.com
Evolution of morality; social norms; human social behavior; theory of mind; evolutionary psychology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: uespinoza@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Facial expressions; gestures; multimodal communication; language evolution; communicative flexibility; primate cognition and social behavior
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: florkie@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: tlaolifuentes@gmail.com
Multilingualism; peer language socialization among children; metalinguistic awareness; Armenian-American community in Los Angeles
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: ghazaryanl@ucla.edu
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Email: yaninagori@gmail.com
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Email: rgratreaks@ucla.edu
Office: Haines 360
Cultural evolution; human ecology; social learning; ritual behavior; hunter-gatherers
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: reneehagen@ucla.edu
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Email: aditihalbe@ucla.edu
Anthropology of the state; anthropology of bureaucracy; anthropology of organizations; techno-politics; south Asia; India; writing and orality; STS; network ethnography; critical data studies; govTech; smart cities; public policy, gender and bureaucracy; land records management
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: nafishasan@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mhellmann@mednet.ucla.edu
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Email: mhing312@gmail.com
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Email: emiliarose@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jonese@g.ucla.edu
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Email: jjulien@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jananie@ucla.edu
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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Email: sucharita@ucla.edu
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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Email: skeeneyparks@ucla.edu
Language Ideologies; Sociolinguistic; Historical Linguistics (Iran); Language Documentation and Revitalization; Gilaki dialects (in Gilan, Mazandaran, Alborz, Qazvin, Semnan, Tehran, Golestan); Iranian diaspora in California.
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: ziaoddin@ucla.edu
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Email: yejookim@ucla.edu
Social support; cultural stress; pregnancy and (grand)motherhood; evolutionary medicine; health and human biology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: d.knorr@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: lily.kohn@gmail.com
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: nalamattina@ucla.edu
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: allyrosen8@gmail.com
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Email: cherylsjlee@g.ucla.edu
Urban anthropology; political economy; critical medical anthropology
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jdlevenson@ucla.edu
Power and inequalities; social change; landscape, space, and place; production and trade; knowledge production and transmission; affect and assemblages; state formation, alliances, and sociopolitical transitions; ritual; and networks of interaction; systematic survey, pottery analysis, geoarchaeology, social network analysis, GIS, mortuary analysis, quantitative analysis, and machine learning; late Neolithic and Bronze Age China; monasticism and the anthropology and archaeology of silence and the sacred
Subfield: Archaeology
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Email: amaciver@ucla.edu
Involuntary mental healthcare; mental health law; psychiatry; patient's rights; public health; criminal justice; morality/ethics; political economy; narrative theory; critical race and disability studies
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: ajanemack@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mvsita@gmail.com
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Email: nataliemarshall@ucla.edu
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Email: tanyamatthan@gmail.com
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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Email: joshuamayer@ucla.edu
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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Email: reemmehdoui@yahoo.com
Anthropology of religion; monasticism; everyday life; asceticism; ritual; labor; urban anthropology; Christianity; Greek Orthodoxy; the Balkans; Greece
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: pmelas93@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: vanessa4@stanford.edu
Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: emelstrom@g.ucla.edu
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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Email: cmerritt@g.ucla.edu
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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Email: zcpmondesire@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Psychological/Medical
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Anthropology of the state; citizenship; diasporic belonging; (post-) colonialism; spatial violence; Arab Jewish history; Lebanon; Israel/Palestine
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mtoringer@ucla.edu
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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Email: aepalma@ucla.edu
Biomedicalization; chronic illness; evidence-based medicine; disability; risk; race/racism in medicine; Los Angeles; photoethnography
Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Email: parks.rachel.e@gmail.com
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Email: rcparnell@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: hpuckett@g.ucla.edu
Central American migration
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: wquinta95@ucla.edu
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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Email: sonyarao@ucla.edu
Office: Haines 360
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Email: hreiss@ucla.edu
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Email: biancaromagnoli@ucla.edu
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Email: theo.samore@gmail.com
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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Email: schlesingerwill@ucla.edu
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Email: mschneider1@g.ucla.edu
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Email: saliem.shehadeh@gmail.com
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 Pueblo; Kayenta; Tusayan; Hohokam; Mesoamerica; Late Archaic; Early Formative; cultural resource management; community archaeology
Subfield: Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany
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Email: rsinensky@ucla.edu
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Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: esinski01@gmail.com
Judgment and decision-making; inference and rationality; morality; religion; coalitional psychology; mind and culture; human cooperation
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: asivan@ucla.edu
Linguistic variation and identity; embodiment; prosody; interaction in institutions; language and gender; adolescence; high schools; youth political participation; Santiago, Chile; Los Angeles, CA
Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology; Visual Anthropology
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Email: tyanna@ucla.edu
Language evolution; language development; gesture; communicative behavior; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: andrewmsmith@ucla.edu
Primatology; behavioral ecology; primate behavior; ecology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: dlsteinb@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jessiest@umich.edu
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Email: dogatekin@g.ucla.edu
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Email: laurentextor@gmail.com
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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Email: jvela@ucla.edu
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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Email: avukovic@ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: donghyoun.we@gmail.com
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Email: weswilson@ucla.edu
Primate social behavior; primate communication; the evolution of humor and play; social networks
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: sashawinkler@ucla.edu
Southeast Asia; Philippines; colonialism; indigenous heritage; paleoethnobotany; landscape archaeology; human-environment relationships; bead production and trade
Subfield: Archaeology
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Email: madeleineyakal@gmail.com
Office: Fowler A190A
“Development”; globalization; migration; nationalism; citizenship; borders; big data; photo/video-ethnography; multi-species ethnography; Bhutan
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: youngb41@ucla.edu
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
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Email: kitzhu@g.ucla.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: zhuanghy1991@163.COM
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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Email: mlzzoeller@gmail.com
