Anthropology Graduate Students
2009-10
Ashley, Jennifer
Latin America, especially Chile and Venezuela; urban segregation, media, and social movements.
Buswala, Bhawani
India; research interests include social stratification, identity formation, and social movements. The relation between language and power with its various social dimensions are also of a great interest.
Button, Emily
USA; Historical Archaeology, whaling industry and arctic.
Carter, Nicholas
Mesoamerican archaeology and language
Charest, Michelle
Historical Archaeology, material culture, cultural identity maintenance and social cohesion, community studies, public/communal spaces, landscape studies, ethnicity, comparative historical immigration studies, consumption and consumerism.
DeLair, Christy
Contemporary Native American culture; Taiwanese indigenous groups; international indigenous rights movements; individual and community identity formation; indigenous media and representation; tradition; indigeneity; networks; kinship and material culture studies.
Dias, Paula
Latin America, Brazil, and the Amazon; race and racism, especially among women; race, gender and ethnicity in traditional quilombola communities; cultural politics; the dynamics of race, ethnicity and poverty in land rights legislation in Brazil.
Epplin, Luke
Latin America; Chile and political ceremonies.
Doyle, James A.
Mesoamerican Archaeology: monumental architecture, settlement patterns, mortuary practices, human/environmental interaction, agriculture, landscape, Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Pre-Columbian Art History; Ethnohistory; Epigraphy; Paleography
Ellison, Susan
Latin America, especially Bolivia; political economy, political ecology, and political subjectivity; anthropology of development and U.S. foreign policy; “studying up” of aid organizations, particularly around democracy promotion and conflicts over natural resources; religiously-based social movements and development organizations.
Flores, Andrea
Central American and Mexican immigration to the U.S.; identity, transnationalism, and citizenship; new digital media and popular culture; adolescents
Gohacki, Brian
The colonial maritime world; long-distance exchange systems; industrialization and ideology; class identity formation; archaeological ethics; forensic archaeology.
Hoover, Elizabeth M.
Environmental anthropology, environmental justice, and environmental health in Native North America; subsistence revival and sustainable food production in Native American communities.
Judd, Maya
Demographic anthropology, Anthropology of Europe, infertility, low-fertility, gender, masculinity, Nigeria and Italy.
Kar, Sohini
India; anthropology of economy and finance; knowledge and expertise; politics of development; gender
Keefe, Sue Lynn
Anthropology and population studies, Medical Anthropology, fertility, family planning, reproduction, gender, marriage, divorce, family life, Tanzania and East Africa.
Koriouchkina, Elisaveta
Russia and the Former Soviet Union, migration, ethnicity and politics of identity, census and statistics, citizenship, nationalism.
Leykin, Inna
Russia and the former Soviet Union, anthropology and population studies, kinship and family formation, the lifecourse, demographic and kin policies, political anthropology, the anthropology of the gift, the history of demography and demographic policies in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, Israel and Jewish Diaspora
MacLeod, Josh P.
Latin America, especially Guatemala; Human Rights, with a focus on Indigenous Rights; Natural Resources and Social Movements; International jurisprudence and how national and local actors are working to enforce these international conventions.
Maldonado, Andrea
Latin America, especially Mexico; urban anthropology; new religious movements; politics of middle and upper-class values and identities
Mazzarino, Andrea
My research looks at how Russian women make decisions about sexual relationships, in a contemporary context of shifting gender ideals and socioeconomic changes.
Mesick, Cassandra
Mesoamerica, the Maya; lithics, architecture, carving and building technology, the archaeology of labor, theories of technology, epigraphy.
Millar, Kathleen
Latin America, Brazil; urban anthropology, the politics of the informal economy, class structure, marginalization, social movements and social change.
Newman, Sarah
Mesoamerican archaeology; maritime archaeology; Pre-Columbian art and architecture; epigraphy
Nuhrat, Yagmur
Turkey, urban anthropology, discourse about migration, nation-state formation and nationalism, claims-making.
Nye, Coleman
Intersections of disability, sexuality, subjectivity, and aesthetics, particularly at the site of the cancerous body; anthropology of medicine and science; psychoanalysis; illness narratives; performance studies; embodiment; mental illness; Latin American, especially Peru and Argentina; Tibetan medicine; North America.
Peters, Rebecca
Lusophone Africa; International Development, especially the cultures of non-governmental health organizations; Globalization; Medical Anthropology, especially the study of reproductive health; Anthropology of Science and Medicine.
Ponniah, Kendra Fehrer
Areas of Interest: Latin America, especially Argentina and Venezuela; development, political anthropology; urban anthropology; ethnography of the state.
Porter, Colin
North America, particularly New England; Historical Archaeology, ethnohistory, contact-period colonialism, trade, warfare and compromise.
Reiser, Christine
Historical Archaeology; ethnohistory; public humanities and museum anthropology; community studies; heritage; landscape, movement, and the social uses of space; memory; materiality; Native American studies; Northeastern North America.
Rhine, Kathryn
Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria), HIV/AIDS, Pharmaceuticals, Gender and the Life Course, Divorce and Widowhood, Anthropological Demography, Medical Anthropology.
Robertson, Molly
Advisory services to maternal mortality committees, and continue to work on issues of religion, health and social justice in the U.S. and Brazil.
Rosenmeier, Leah
Archaeology and ethnology of North America (particularly Northeastern Arctic and Sub-Arctic); First Nations and archaeology; community-based archaeology; museum and community development; and cultural resource management.
Savell, Stephanie
Brazil; social changes
Siravo, Bianca
Guyana; language and communication.
Skrabut, Kristin
Internal and transnational migration (primarily focusing on Latin America-Peru, and the United States); identity politics, and correlates to inequality and health; Anthropological Demography, Political Anthropology and Medical Anthropology particularly relating to conceptions of the body and self under changing health/disease regimes.
Solomon, Harris
India and South Asia; anthropology of science and medicine; political anthropology; public health debates (esp. obesity and HIV/AIDS); transnationalism; embodiment; gender; sexuality.
Vaughan-Smith, Maya
Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania) and the Chinese diaspora. Ethnography, anthropological demography, and developing socio-culturally appropriate bio-medical interventions in Africa and China.
Vanderhurst, Stacey
Cultural anthropology and demography, migration and transnationalism, refugees, Nigeria, Ireland
Vares, Laura
Europe, specifically Italy, ageing, anthropological demography; transnationalism and identity, migration, gender and family, eldercare.
Walker, Caitlin
Archaeology of Mesoamerica, especially the ancient Maya; ceramic analysis and production theory; art and iconography; settlement patterns
Wawire, Salome
Demography, HIV/AIDS, identity and identity formation, circumcision, adolescents and Africa.