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
Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, economy and value, gender, environment, American public culture, Indian gaming; United States, Native North America
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
