Adam Clark Arcadi

The primary focus of my research has been the study of wild chimpanzee communication, both vocal and percussive, and its significance for understanding chimpanzee social organization and the origin of language. I have conducted fieldwork in the Kibale National Park, Uganda, and collaborate with field workers at other sites to explore regional differences in chimpanzee communicative behavior. I teach classes on primate behavior, human evolution, and wildlife conservation.

Jess Marie Newman

Visiting Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality StudiesVisiting Scholar in AnthropologyJess Marie Newman is a feminist medical anthropologist working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Dr. Newman is chiefly interested in reproduction, care provision, activism, media, post-coloniality, and the state. Dr. Newman's expertise includes anthropology of the MENA, gender and sexuality including feminist and queer theory, critical medical anthropology, and social movement research. Dr. Newman's work has focused on the dynamics of care seeking and activism surrounding stigmatized reproduction in Morocco, including single motherhood and abortion.

Yui Sasajima

Yui Sasajima

Chaoyu Mao

Chaoyu is a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology. His research interests include the anthropology of body and emotion, the cultural politics of nationalism, and decolonization. He is particularly interested in exploring the affective and somatic facets of contemporary Hindu nationalism.

Chaoyu holds a BA in Hindi from Peking University and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

Hannah Ali

Hannah Ali is a PhD student in Socio-cultural Anthropology. Her areas of interest intersect the Anthropology of addiction, harm-reduction, ethics, youth studies, and care. Hannah’s previous ethnography followed Somali-Canadian families’ embodiment of indigenous philosophies and laws in Toronto, Canada. In particular, she was interested in investigating how these indigenous forms of being served as alternative care and community support.

Her current work follows Toronto’s fentanyl epidemic…

Quinn Stickley

Quinn is a PhD student in Anthropology, concentrating in archaeology, whose research interests center around ancient conceptions of the human body and its relationship to personhood and identity. Their geographic and temporal focus is on Bronze Age North Africa and the Near East. Their MA thesis explored the iconography of Hatshepsut, approaching the issue of Hatshepsut’s gender from the perspective of her subjects (rather than as a question of how she herself identified) and seeking to develop robust methods for investigating ancient ontologies of identity through material culture. As analytical frameworks, Quinn is particularly interested in queer theory, practice theory, Peircean semeiotics, and archaeologies of technology and craft production.

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Samantha Sanft

As an anthropological archaeologist, I specialize in the archaeology of North American Indigenous groups and community-engaged research. My work analyzes the properties, timing, and distribution of nonlocal materials across the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Haudenosaunee homeland to reassess exchange networks and highlight the role of small group agency in the past. My teaching and research focus on centering Indigenous and Black histories and futures in New York State.

I am currently…