Haoqian Chen

Dusti Bridges

Dusti joined the Anthropology Department as a Ph.D. student having earned her B.S. in Anthropology and Physical Geography from Texas State University and her M.A. in Archaeology from Cornell. As an archaeologist, her interests lie primarily in 17th and 18th century Indigenous communities in Northeastern North America, particularly those of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).
Her research focuses on migrations and community restructurings following European exploration, trade, and colonization.…

Amy Sky

Amy Sky came to Cornell after receiving her B.A. with a double major in Anthropology and Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of British Columbia. She is a paleoethnobotanist, interested in material culture in Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean contexts during the Bronze Age. Her research focuses on employing paleobotanical and biochemical methods to detect beer, wine, oil, and perfume in ceramic vessels, and examines the production, exchange, and consumption of botanical products.…

Liam Murphy

Joshua Mitchell

Laura Leddy

Annapaola Passerini

Annapaola is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology concentrating in Archaeology. She holds a BA and an MA in Archaeology from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). In addition, she received training in archaeological science at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel), for which she received a 9-month fellowship sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her field experience includes archaeological excavations in Italy, France, Bulgaria, Canada, UK, Georgia, and Armenia. She…

Laura Leddy

Daniel Ferman-Leon

Daniel holds a BA in Economics from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, where his undergraduate training centered around Political Economy, History of Economic Thought, and Socio-cultural Anthropology. He is interested in exploring the relationship between finance, temporality, imagination and subjectivity. Specifically, his graduate research aims to analyze the role of financial concepts, calculative devices and economic theories in comprehending and imagining the future. His research…

Bruno Seraphin

Bruno Seraphin is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology with a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous studies. His research focuses on environmental and climate justice movements in the U.S. west, imperialism and militarism, and film methodologies. His dissertation examines the politics of wildfire and prescribed burning in Karuk aboriginal territory in the unsettled colonial present.

A settler scholar originally from occupied Nipmuc land in eastern Massachusetts, Bruno…

Beth Ryan

Xinyu Guan

Xinyu examines how state-constructed housing shapes notions and practices of citizenship in Singapore. He is especially interested in how forms of coloniality and unevenness in the wider region are folded into the everyday affective landscapes of life in the housing estates. His research interrogates the forms of racialization and sexual discipline in the built environment, and explores the possibility for a queer decolonial anthropology of Singapore.
Xinyu has a BA in Comparative Literature…

Ting Lau

Ting Hui Lau is a Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology. Her research interests include trauma and social change, death and dreaming, mobility and identity, history and memory, and China and Southeast Asia. She is currently conducting her dissertation fieldwork in Southwest China with support from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Lau’s Ph.D. research, which is supervised by Professor Magnus Fiskesjӧ, examines the life world of the Lisu, an ethnic and…

Hong Thuy Thi Bui

Ifan (Sophie) Wu

Sophie is a sociocultural anthropologist of Malaysia and China. She is interested in how people develop their potential and personality authentically to function productively in the society.  She won the Young Scholar Award from China Times Cultural Foundation in 2016. 
Sophie has been visiting and conducting anthropological research in Penang, Malaysia since 2005.  She started her research in Hong Kong and Shen Zhen in 2016.  She is currently writing her dissertation in Ithaca, New York, on…

Kathryn Weber

Ashley Smith

Emiko Stock

Emiko Stock is a PhD candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Her work with Cham Sayyids responds to recent reformulations of Alid piety – a devotion to the Prophet’s Family and Imam Ali – somewhere between Sunnism and Shi'ism. She follows those traces from Cambodia to Iran where she joins professional photographers and amateur "selfiers" as a videographer. Taking this visual experience as a pathway into the silenced social memory underlying those trajectories of conversion, she looks at how…

Juliana Duque Mahecha

Emily Levitt

Emily Levitt’s research investigates the symbolic dimensions of taxation in a small town in upstate New York. In Seneca Falls (less than an hour’s drive from Cornell’s Ithaca campus), the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York (CIN) is currently attempting to rebuild a reservation that the nation lost possession of hundreds of years ago. Most recently, this has taken on the form of buying property that sits within the old reservation’s borders and also within modern-day state and municipal…

Vincent Ialenti

 

Vincent Ialenti is an anthropologist who studies the culture of nuclear energy and weapons waste organizations. He currently works at the U.S. Department of Energy, advising senior leadership on efforts to implement more democratic, environmentally just, consent-based approaches to siting nuclear waste facilities. His recent book, Deep Time Reckoning (MIT Press), is an ethnographic study of how Finland’s nuclear waste repository “safety case” experts grappled with distant future ecosystems…

Alexander Gordon

Peregrine Gerard-Little

Peregrine Gerard-Little is a PhD candidate in Anthropological Archaeology with a concentration in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. She holds a BA from Columbia University, where she majored in Archaeology and Environmental Science, and a MA from Cornell’s Archaeology Program. Her research focuses on the dynamics of human-landscape interactions in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) territory in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. More broadly, she is interested in interdisciplinary…

Karlie Fox - Knudtsen

Mariana Saavedra Espinosa