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
Transnational belonging; migration; tourism; anthropology of education; raciolinguistics; Kuwait
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: balfarhan@ucla.edu
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Email: stevammer@gmail.com
Psychological/Medical Anthropology
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Email: izemaral18@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@g.ucla.edu
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
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: jmebrewster@g.ucla.edu
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: 360 Haines Hall
Linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; political economy; semiotics; Puerto Rico
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: saraicastro@g.ucla.edu
Affect; political life; queer/cuir theory; trans studies; homonationalism; anthropology of social movements; archival methods; phenomenology; precarity; gender; transnationalism; El Salvador; Central America
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology; Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: nicolachavezc@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
"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
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: veagle@g.ucla.edu
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Email: brerickson@ucla.edu
Evolution of morality; social norms; human social behavior; theory of mind; evolutionary psychology
Subfield:Biological Anthropology
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Email: uespinoza@ucla.edu
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
Biological Anthropology
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Email: tlaolifuentes@gmail.com
Multilingualism; language socialization; peer language socialization; metalinguistic awareness; language policies and practices, post-Soviet preschool education; Republic of Armenia
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: 360 Haines Hall
Economic inequality; gender inequality; social cohesion; social norms and behavioral change; human behavioral ecology; bayesian statistics; predictive modeling; data visualization
Subfield:Biological Anthropology
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Email: reneehagen@ucla.edu
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Email: aditihalbe@ucla.edu
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: daniheffernan@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mhellmann@mednet.ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mhing312@gmail.com
Social suffering; violence and trauma; pain; mental health care and well-being; psychological and psychiatric treatment; U.S. and Denmark
Subfield:Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: emiliarose@g.ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jonese@g.ucla.edu
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Email: jjulien@ucla.edu
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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Inter-Korea relations; DMZ; infrastructure; border; peace; violence; war; trauma; futurity; US empire; postcolonialism; neoliberalism
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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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
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: lily.kohn@gmail.com
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: nalamattina@ucla.edu
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: allyrosen8@gmail.com
Asian American language and identity; language and race; bilingualism; heritage language use; language socialization; language ideologies
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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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
Biological Anthropology
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Email: sallyli@g.ucla.edu
Community, landscape and place, networks, craft production, state formation, settlement patterns, and affect theory; Survey archaeology, geoarchaeology, and ceramic analysis; Late Neolithic and Bronze Age China and monasticism in Europe and early America
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: amaciver@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mvsita@gmail.com
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: nataliemarshall@ucla.edu
Race and ethnicity in Latin America; Indigenous and Afrodescendant social movements; communal lands, territoriality, and sovereignty; settler colonialism; racial capitalism; 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
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: vanessa4@stanford.edu
Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: emelstrom@g.ucla.edu
Race and transnational diaspora networks, Black Americans, U.S. foreign policy in Africa, diplomatic statecraft, gender and intersectionality
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: namills@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
Psychological/Medical
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New World archaeology (Mesoamerica); paleoethnobotany; macrobotanical analysis; foodways; emergent social inequality; development of socio-political complexity; social identity; gender; discipline socio-politics; diversity; equity
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: vnewhall@ucla.edu
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
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
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: rcparnell@g.ucla.edu
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
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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
Law, finance, capitalism, and the state; media and transnational publics; 'offshore'
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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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; historical ecology; anthropogenic ecology; traditional ecological knowledge; land tenure; common property; common pool resources; niche construction; resilience; sustainability; socioenvironmental systems; mobility; mobile farmers; early agriculture; village formation; paleoethnobotany; ethnobotany; anthracology; ground stone analysis; chronometry; GIS, quantitative analysis; data visualization; Ancestral Pueblo; Kayenta; Tusayan; Hohokam; Mogollon; Mesoamerica; Late Archaic; Early Formative; cultural resource management; community archaeology
Subfield:Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany
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Email: rsinensky@ucla.edu
Sikhs; nomadism; caste; carcerality; violence
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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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
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jessiest@umich.edu
Multispecies ethnography; anthropology of the environment; semiotics; affect; cultural geography; embodiment; materiality
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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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
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: alexanderward@ucla.edu
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
Biological Anthropology
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Email: kitzhu@g.ucla.edu
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
