Graduate Students

Anthropology of social movements; anthropology of the state; agricultural anthropology; anthropology of bureaucracy

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Transnational belonging; authenticity; race and ethnicity; heritage tourism; travel; anthropology of education; Muslim-American/BIPOC American teachers; Kuwait

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Psychological/Medical Anthropology

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

Critical Indigenous Studies; Indigenous politics; sovereignty; economic development; Indigenous feminisms; racial formations; settler colonialism; Oklahoma history

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology

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

Multilingualism; rural development; language and political economy; gender; the state; bureaucracy; NGOs; Himalayas; India

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

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

Human reproductive health; human biology; developmental plasticity; perceptions of mortality risk; life history theory; evolutionary psychology; Philippines

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Evolution of morality; social norms; human social behavior; theory of mind; evolutionary psychology

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Facial expressions; gestures; multimodal communication; language evolution; communicative flexibility; primate cognition and social behavior

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

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

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Cultural evolution; human ecology; social learning; ritual behavior; hunter-gatherers

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

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

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

Inter-Korea relations; DMZ; infrastructure; border; peace; violence; war; trauma; futurity; US empire; postcolonialism; neoliberalism

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Social support; cultural stress; pregnancy and (grand)motherhood; evolutionary medicine; health and human biology

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Asian American language and identity; language and race; bilingualism; heritage language use; language socialization; language ideologies

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Urban anthropology; political economy; critical medical anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

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

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

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology

Well-being; care; mental health; democracy; social inclusion; migration; popular education; existential anthropology; Sweden; Scandinavia

Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology

Regional connectivity and supranational political community; mobility; intellectual and political elites; racial formation in Africa; Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Psychological/Medical

Anthropology of the state; citizenship; diasporic belonging; (post-) colonialism; spatial violence; Arab Jewish history; Lebanon; Israel/Palestine

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Biomedicalization; chronic illness; evidence-based medicine; disability; risk; race/racism in medicine; Los Angeles; photoethnography

Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Central American migration

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

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

Law, finance, capitalism, and the state; media and transnational publics; 'offshore'

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Sikhs; nomadism; caste; carcerality; violence

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Judgment and decision-making; inference and rationality; morality; religion; coalitional psychology; mind and culture; human cooperation

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

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

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

Subfield: Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology

Primatology; behavioral ecology; primate behavior; ecology

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology

Phenomenology; storytelling; qualitative; quantitative; Indigenous populations; NAGPRA; indigenous rights; social justice; equality; public policy; narrative; indigenous education; indigenous health

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Primate social behavior; primate communication; the evolution of humor and play; social networks

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Southeast Asia; Philippines; colonialism; indigenous heritage; paleoethnobotany; landscape archaeology; human-environment relationships; bead production and trade

Subfield: Archaeology

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

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

Subfield: Biological Anthropology

Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology

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