Department of Anthropology

Current Graduate Students

Pre-Field

• Matthew Bernius (email) Newspaper & blog-based journalism, reading, artificial intelligence, media, science and technology studies, digital ethnography, linguistic anthropology; USA.
• Charis Boke (email) Anthropology of time and resource, embodiment, activism, locating the local; North America, New England
• Nanjie Caihua (email)
• Can Dalyan
• Laura Cocora (email) Environmental and development policy and legislation, policy discourse, cultural heritage, bio-cultural diversity, sustainable agriculture, agro-food systems, water resources, landscapes, international organizations, FAO, global/local interactions, constructions of locality and culture in policy; ritual, performing arts, visual anthropology, Japanese religion, esoteric Buddhism; Japan, East Asia, the Andes, Ecuador.
• Jamila Crowther
• Aimee Douglas (email) Ritual, politics, healing, material culture, development; Sri Lanka
• Brandy Doyle (email) Media (especially community radio), knowledge, power, indigeneity (especially in North America), development, action research, public and popular anthropology, ethnographic writing
• Peregrine Gerard-Little (email) Archaeology, human-landscape interactions, North America, household archaeology, place and memory, archaeogeophysic
• Alexander Gordon
• Vinny Ialenti (email) Temporality, legal knowledge, foresight, epistemology, risk, environmental regulation
• Hayden Kantor (email) Agriculture, food, development,neoliberalism,    Bihar,India
• Emily Levitt (email) Contemporary and historic North America, Indigenous and settler relations, Native American law, wilderness, public land, agriculture, whiteness; USA
• Kianga Lucas (email) Native Americans of southern New England, indigenous cultural revitalization, museology, material and visual culture, traditional Native arts, identity politics, cultural appropriation/misappropriation; USA
• Tim Mclellan (email) Anthropology of law, technocracy, ethnoracial identity, constitutional theory, law and development, economic anthropology;
• Mariana Saavedra Espinosa
• Monica Salas-Landa (email) Materiality, tourism, museums,visual anthropology,historical and  political anthropology, agrarian studies, social and economic history of Mexico
• Annie Sheng (email) Food, consumption, global capitalism, identity and social meaning production, diaspora, transnationalism, popular culture; East Asia: Japan, China, Taiwan; USA
• Ashley Smith (email) Land, Place making, Performance of History and Memory, Indigenaity, Identity Politics; New England, USA.
• Scott Sorrell (email) Cities, migration, multi-ethnic community making, oral histories, identity and subjectivity formation, aesthetics and design
• Kathryn Weber (email) Archaeology, political authority, power and inequality, complexity, space and landscape, GIS; Eurasia.
• Ifan Wu (email) Media, exchange, religion, performance, the politics of language use, dance, healing and the body; Malaysia
• I-Fan Wu
• Mirabelle Yang (email) Gender, globalization, youth culture, popular media, love, friendship, the self, modernity, comparative ethics, psychological anthropology, the post(?)colonial. Southeast Asia; Cambodia, Singapore.

In-Field

• Michael Carpentier (email) Native American Languages, language ideologies, translation politics, orthography, semiotics; Ojibwe, USA/Canada.
  
• Kevin Carrico (email) Neo-traditionalism, patriotism, state ideology, ethnic relations, conspiracy theories; "Han-ness" and the Han Clothing Movement, traditional  education, the cult of the Yellow Emperor, "culture" in the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; China
• Dambar Chemjong (email)
  
• Claire Christensen (email) Neolithic Near East, gender, labor, symbolic use of animals, households and space, Neolithic Near East, gender, labor, symbolic use of animals, households and space
• Adam Dewbury (email) Political economy, environmentalism, place and identity, rural economic development, tourism, dialectics; The Adirondacks, United States
• Adi Grabiner-Keinan (email) Anthropology of the state, political anthropology, relations of rule, sovereignty, militarism, civil resistance; Israel
• Inga Gruss (email) Family, mobility, (transnational) labor migration, power, everyday material culture, (fictional) representations; Myanmar, Thailand, Southeast Asia
• Kate Harding (email) Media, aesthetics, security, metaphor, non-knowledge, South Asia, Nepal, Afghanistan, Vietnam.
• Heather Harrick (email) Immigrant culture, citizenship, belonging, Asian America,  Tibet
• Zachary Howlett (email) Practice, desire, meritocracy, the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (Gaokao); China.
• Nidhi Mahajan (email)
  
• Juliana Duque Mahecha (email) Food, ethics, modernity: cuisine, identity, nationhood. Latin America, Colombia.
• Sabia McCoy-Torres (email)
• Elizabeth Phelps (email) Latino and Latina youth, immigration, transnational identities, language ideology, resistance, Latin America
• Beth Ryan (email) Historical archaeology of native communities, late 18th - early 19th century Iroquois
• David Rojas (email) Climate Change, Political Economy, Aesthetics, Science and Technology, Anthropological Theory, Brazilian Amazon.
• Marcel Taminato (email) Buddhism, Monarchy, Politics of Knowledge, Ethnographic Writing, Anthropology of the State, Corruption and Elites, Anthropological Theory, History of Anthropology, Linguistics, Thailand, Brazil
• Dede Tete-Rosenthal (email) Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sex & Gender in cross-cultural perspective, personhood, nationalism, feminist theories, social identity, popular culture and knowledge creation; Japan
• Blanca Torres (email) U.S./Mexico borderlands, indigenous diaspora, trans-border Mixtec and Zapotec communities, immigrant women, transnational identity, autonomy, and agency
  
• Lesley Turnbull
  
• Deniz Yonucu (email) Criminalization and racialization of poverty, state violence, anthropology of the state, citizenship, urban segregation, social exclusion; Turkey, France

Post-Field

• Michael Bobick (email) Post-Socialism, nationality policy, security, sovereignty, separatism and frozen conflicts, neoliberalism, criminality and governance; Moldova, Ex-USSR
• Valeria Bineva (email) Chalcolithic/Late and Final Neolithic Balkans; prehistoric figurines and body politics; mortuary practice in prehistoric South-East Europe; prehistoric textiles
• Alima Bissenova (email) Nationalism, nationalist ideologies, post-Socialism, post-modernism, neo-liberal development, construction boom, agencies of development, anthropology of state and business
• Bernardo Brown (email) Identities of Transnationalism. Cosmopolitanism and return migration. Narratives of travel. Social and cultural remittances. Sri Lanka
• Thi Thuy Hong Bui (email) Sustainable development, urban planning, poverty reduction, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
• Daniel Lee Costura (email)
  
• Maureen Costura (email) Historical and landscape archaeology, the Caribbean, and the archaeology of daily life
• Matthew S. Erie (email) Legal anthropology, Chinese law, Islamic law,  Chinese Muslims, Legal pluralism, autonomy, property, real estate, Sufism, cultural heritage, civil society
• Daena Funahashi (email) Europeanization and anxiety; healthcare and market forces; medicalization of "depression" and "burn out" in Finland; national fetishism; psychoanalysis
• Reighan Gillam (email) Race, media, nationalism; Brazil
• Felicia Giron
• Gokce Gunel (email) Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Eco-Cities, Higher Education, Temporality, Production of Space, the Arabian Gulf
• Olivia Hall (email) Food, traditional and regional food products, identity, EU, regionalism, Europe and Poland
• Timothy Haupt (email) Food, time, flexible labor, cookbooks of yore; Germany
• Marita Hyman
• Catherine Koehler (email) Anthropology of work; labor history and studies; critical prison studies; institutional ethnography; ethnography of the state; prison education; prison labor; race/ethnicity; inequality and marginality; applied, engaged and public anthropology; access and equity in higher education; the United States.
• Hongnan Ma
• Jonathan McIntyre - Vietnamese cultural studies, transnationalism, diaspora populations, and political economy
• Marcie Middlebrooks (email) Religion, Buddhism, Negotiation of Orthodoxy/Heterodoxy in Religious Practice and Identity, Anthropology of Time, New Religions, Translation Theory, Charisma, Colonial Modernity and Modernization, Korean Film. Korea, Japan
• Melissa Rosario (email) blurring genres, Caribbean Studies, intersectionality, social inequity, social movements, los bienes cmunes (the commons) Puerto Rico, and food sovereigty/ecological agriculture.
• Noni Session (email) East Africa, Western Institutional Configurations in East Africa
• Tina Shrestha (email) Immigration and humanitarianism; politics and practices of immigrant-integration; racialization and migrant labor; anthropology of/in the United States; narratives of suffering; subjectivity; Nepali Diaspora.
• Ivan Small (email) Globalization, Diaspora, Transnationalism, Gifting imaginaries, Remittance economies, Migration, Development, Displacement, Historical anthropology, Economic sociology, East/Southeast Asia, Viet Nam
• Stetefanus Suprajitno
• Saiba Varma (email) The anthropology of violence, medical anthropology, justice, healing, gender, South Asia, Kashmir
• Chika Watanabe (email) Japan, Burma/Myanmar, imperatives and practices of humanitarian work, development work, new religions, NGO
• Courtney Work (email) Cambodia and Southeast Asia; ritual, religion, politics, medicine and healing, social change, myth and discourse, modernization and development