Postdoctoral Scholars

Kendra Calhoun

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Interests:

Language, race, and gender; language and power; multimodal discourse and interaction; digital communities and online communication; African American language and culture; DEI in U.S. higher education

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: kncalhoun@ucla.edu

Jacob Harris

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Interests:

Hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology, Cultural evolution, Archaeology, Bayesian modeling

Subfield:

Biological Anthropology and Archaeology 

Contact Information

Email: jacobharris1809@gmail.com

Jan David Hauck

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Interests:

Cross-cultural semantics; ethics and morality; child development; human–environment relations; language contact and shift; mixed languages; grammaticalization; multilingualism; language socialization; narrative construction of self

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology and Biological Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: jandavidhauck [at] protonmail [com]

Kelsey Jorgensen

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research interests:
Multispecies genetics and genomics, genotype-phenotype associations, computational biology, human and faunal osteology, forensic science, dietary adaptations

Subfield:

Biological Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: kcjorgensen@ucla.edu

Luis Sanchez-Lopez

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Interests:

Oaxaca, settler colonialism, statecraft, race, Indigenous movements, autonomy, customary law, critical Latinx Indigeneities

Subfield:

Sociocultural Anthropology 

Contact Information

Email: sanchezlopez.phd@gmail.com

Research Interests:

Human biology; fetal programming; embodiment; maternal-child health; gestational physiology; mental health; psychoneuroendocrinology; psychoneuroimmunology

Subfield:

Biological Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: kyleswiley@ucla.edu

Casey Philip Wong

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Interests:

Language, culture, and education; culturally sustaining pedagogies; Black Feminism and critical race feminisms; co-conspiracy, solidarity and social justice; language, power, and identities; language and race, racism and racialization (raciolinguistics); the language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally

Subfield:

Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: cwong587@ucla.edu