Sociocultural Anthropology
The anthropology of transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; Africa in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: happel@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 318E Haines Hall
West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria), African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), history of anthropology, social theory
Subfield:African History and World History
Contact Information
Email: aapter@history.ucla.edu
Office: 6265 Bunche Hall
Ethnic and religious minorities; Islam; anthropology of religion, history, youth, and festival; Holocaust; sociology of Morocco; historiography; Morocco; North Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: aboum@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 316B Haines Hall
The contemporary United States. Water and environment. Indigeneity and settler colonialism. The anthropology of citizenship, sovereignty, and nation. Feminist anthropology. The Florida Everglades. Money and value. Gender and family.
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 397 Haines Hall
Violence; materiality; Latino migration; forensic science; archaeology of the contemporary; photoethnography
Subfield:Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: jdeleon@ucla.edu
Office: 364 Haines Hall
Psychological anthropology, social theory, social relationships, social/moral emotions, methodology; Africa
Subfield:Psychological and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: afiske@ucla.edu
Office: 308 Haines Hall
Ethnography of information technology, the state and development, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, space and place, history of anthropology, applied anthropology; India and South Asia
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 324A Haines Hall
Laurie Kain Hart
Professor, Department Chair, & Co-Director of Center for European and Russian Studies
Civil war, violence, segregation, borders; urban anthropology; space, architecture, art, material and visual culture; medical and psychoanalytic anthropology; ethnicity and religion; kinship, gender and social theory; Greece, circum-Mediterranean area, inner-city US
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: lkainhart@ucla.edu
Office: 307 Haines Hall
Science and technology studies, specifically internet culture and history; intellectual property; the public sphere; free and open source software; public domains; commons; authorship and ownership; the history and philosophy of science and technology in the US, Europe and India
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: ckelty@socgen.ucla.edu
Office: 3318 Life Sciences Bldg (LSB)
Family and marriage; multi-species anthropology; pastoralism, sedenterization, and resettlement; political economy, development, and social change, gender; Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: nelevine@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 395 Haines Hall
Digital media studies, Big Data, IT, algorithms in social life; “Virtual” Anthropology; Theories of Affect; Film and Television Studies; Feminist Anthropology and Ethnography; Postcolonial and Women of Color feminism; Queer of Color Critique. South Asian America, South Asia
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: mankekar@ucla.edu
Office: 325 Haines Hall
Urban anthropology; Inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender); identity; migration/diaspora; transnational and global processes; social change and social movement; critical and multicultural theory; Korean/Asian American Community; Korean/Asian Diaspora; Koreans/Asians in Latin America
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: kpark@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 383 Haines Hall
Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: shorter@ucla.edu
Office: 130F Kaufman Hall
Gender; human rights; folklore and material culture; visual anthropology; Middle East and North Africa
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: ssly@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 312 Haines Hall
Legal anthropology; indigenous rights; human rights; indigenous migration; gender; neoliberalism, race and ethnicity; sovereignty/autonomy; activist research methodologies
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu
Office: 3220A Campbell Hall
Science, Medicine, and the Environment; Climate Change; Race; Design; Historical Anthropology; South Asia
Subfield:Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: bvenkat@ucla.edu
Social change and development, family and kinship, cultural globalization, morality, the individual and individualization
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: yan@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 366 Haines Hall
