Mirabelle Yang

Marcel Taminato

Annie Sheng

Erin Routon

Erin is a transplanted Texan at Cornell and is currently conducting field research in her home state.  She received her B.A. in English from the University of Hawai’i, Hilo, in 2006 and her M.A. in Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside in 2013. Her research interests include: im/migrant detention and incarceration; migrant aid work and legal activism; border studies; material culture; emotion and emotional labor; and gender.

Laura Menchaca

Tim McLellan

Tim’s PhD research investigates the work of agri-environmental scientists at The Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in Southwest China. Pressure from donors, as well as from IFF’s senior management, mean that scientists at IFF are increasingly adopting novel management tools like ‘theory of change’ and ‘outcomes mapping’ that allow scientists to design impactful research, as well as to measure the achievement of planned-for impacts. These are tools that are increasingly prevalent in a broad…

Eudes Prado Lopes

Eudes is a cultural anthropology PhD student at Cornell University and holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and public policy at Princeton University. His research interests focus on the cultural relevance of economic thought and its embeddedness in the financial markets. He localizes his research in Brazil where the conflicting knowledge demands of powerful public and private financial institutions make visible (in distinctive ways) shifting geopolitical paradigms. 
Eudes has been…

Pauline Limbu

Pauline Limbu is interested in conservation processes, human-environment relationships and history with a particular focus on Nepal and the Eastern Himalaya. Pauline’s academic interests also include social movements, gender and development.

Pauline has a Master’s degree in Anthropology from Tribhuvan University in Nepal. She has received funding from the Fulbright Foreign Student Graduate program and the Open Society Foundations Civil Society Scholar Awards. In 2013, she received the Dor…

Mariangela Mihai Jordan

Mariangela Mihai is an Anthropology and Film PhD Candidate at Cornell University. She received her BA in Anthropology from Emory University in Atlanta where she has also worked on issues of refugee political resettlement at the Emory Center for Ethics and the International Rescue Committee. 
Her current research looks at overlapping nationalisms, identity, and ethnicity in Mizoram (a Northeast Indian state bordering Burma). To gain a deeper understanding of how the Young Mizo Association — a…

Emily Hong

Emily Hong is a Seoul-born and New York-raised feminist anthropologist and filmmaker. She is an advanced doctoral candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Anthropology, with concentrations in Film & Video Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Emily’s research interests include political and legal anthropology, feminist and decolonial epistemology, indigenous media and ethnographic film. Emily’s research, films, and public engagements are largely rooted in…

Elena Guzman

Elena Guzman is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She did her undergraduate degree at CUNY Hunter College majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Africana Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. Her research interests include Caribbean dance and music, feminist and activist practice, blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, and ethnographic film. Her dissertation research focuses Haitian and Dominican history, relations, and identity on the border of…

John Gorczyk

John is a PhD candidate whose interests lie in the prehistory of southeastern Europe. He has worked on sites in present-day Bulgaria that range in time from the Early Neolithic (6200-5000 BC) to the late Roman period, although he focuses  on earlier prehistory and the spread and establishment of farming communities in southeastern Europe.
As a zooarchaeologist, he studies the varied roles that animals play in prehistoric societies.  This includes herding and hunting, animal mobility, animals as…

Aimee Douglas

Aimée is a sociocultural anthropologist of Sri Lanka with interests in identification and belonging, heritage politics, and neoliberal development processes. Her dissertation project stems from an abiding concern with the ways in which ethnicity, caste, nationalism and related identity categories are reproduced in daily life. It is grounded in long-term ethnographic research in two government-designated “traditional handicraft villages” transformed by the consequences of rural to urban…

Adam Dewbury

Adam is a sociocultural anthropologist who works on issues of political economy (and ecology), environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of development. He is especially interested in persistent social conflicts located in the relations between people, nature, and capital. His doctoral research probes the antinomies between wilderness preservation and economic development in New York State’s Adirondack Park -- the largest protected area in the continental United States.
Adam recently…

José Castañeda

José Castañeda is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. His dissertation research explores the ways in which an indigenous community in southwestern Mexico, organizes and implements autonomous governance projects in a larger context of ongoing state interventions. Through ethnographic fieldwork with key actors involved in community efforts, his research aims to show how forms of sociopolitical organization are reshaped and the expressions of autonomy that are created in the process…

Namgyal (Nanjie) Tsepak

Originally from northeastern Tibet, Namgyal graduated from Duke University (Durham, NC) with a B.A. in Anthropology. He spent a research and service-learning year at Seva Foundation (Berkeley, CA) as a Research Associate in from 2010-11.
Namgyal had managed community development grants including from the Canada Fund, the Davis Projects for Peace, and DukeEngage to implement solar energy projects in Tibetan and other ethnic minority areas in Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu provinces in western China…

Xisai Song

Trishna Senapaty

Trishna Senapaty is PhD candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University with a graduate minor in Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies.HerPhD project examines the politics of prison reform and the intersections of carceral and familial regimes in postcolonial India. She studies everyday engagements between prisoners and citizen collectives and the forms of care, strategies of governance and imaginations of safety in the city that they illuminate. Her community-engaged research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council. It contributes to dialogues in critical critical carceral studies, queer and feminist studies, law and society, and political and legal anthropology.

Samantha Sanft

I am an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of North American Indigenous groups and community-engaged research.

Simon Posner

Simon received his master’s degree from York University in Toronto, Canada, where he ethnographically explored the relations between people and the urban environment of Songdo, a free economic zone city on the western edge of South Korea. In line with his interests in the relations between people and technology, Simon’s doctoral research focuses on the socio-technical worlds of people crafting blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and communities in Seoul, South Korea. His research has been…

Jinglin Piao

Christos Panagiotopoulos

Rachel Odhner

Rachel’s research explores transborder water conflicts in rural communities along the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the US Student Fulbright program, and the National Geographic Society.

 

Natalie Nesvaderani

Amir Mohamed

Amir is a doctoral candidate whose dissertation addresses the ways young people living in Guatemalan cities reproduce and undermine entrenched power dynamics related to social difference. A multi-sited ethnography traversing both urban and digital spaces, his research focuses on lived experiences of movement, dwelling, violence, and sociality.
A short piece on Amir’s research appeared in Anthropology News: 
Ritualized Violence in Urban Guatemala April 30, 2019