Anthropology Graduate Students
2011-12
Blankenship, Kate
My research is in Maya archaeology and epigraphy. I focus on ancient Maya conceptions of childhood, as well as the social roles of elite Maya children.
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
19th century historical archaeology; anthropological approaches to food and drink; material culture; diaspora studies; cultural identity maintenance and social cohesion; community studies; public/communal spaces; historical geography/landscape studies; comparative historical immigration studies; consumption and consumerism, museum studies, GIS and digital archaeologies. Ireland & Irish America.
Cormier McSwiggin, Chelsea
African diasporic religions and antiretroviral therapy; health practitioner-client relationships; gender, ethnicity, sexuality; ideas of healthy bodies, dis-ease, and subjectivity; Haiti and Haitian immigration to/communities in the U.S.
de Carteret, Alyce
Mesoamerican archaeology; the Maya; the body (in conception and practice); ethnicity and identity; pre-Columbian iconography and epigraphy; ethnography
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.
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
Political anthropology including anthropological approaches to governance, democracy, crime, conflict and its resolution, the politics of nature, and political subjectivity; the anthropology of aid and non-profit organizations; urban anthropology. Latin America, especially Bolivia.
Fehrer, Kendra C.
Areas of Interest: Latin America, especially Argentina and Venezuela; development, political anthropology; urban anthropology; ethnography of the state.
Flores, Andrea
Central American and Mexican immigration to the U.S.; identity, transnationalism, and citizenship; new digital media and popular culture; adolescents
Hansen, Magnus Pharao
Mesoamerica and anthropological linguistics. The Nahuatl and Otomi languages of central Mexico. The social use of language. Language and worldview, spatial cognition and social indexicality and classification. Ethnosyntax: the relation between grammar and culture. Endangered language documentation. Ethnohistory and colonial grammars of indigenous languages.
Jorge, Karen
Reproduction, fertility and infertility, globalization of assisted reproductive technologies, gender and masculinities, HIV/AIDS, science and technology studies, anthropological demography, Nigeria.
Kar, Sohini
India; anthropology of economy and finance; knowledge and expertise; politics of development; gender
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; medical anthropology; global health; public health; extra-medical technologies; discourses and practices of self-care; urban anthropology; institutions; social class.
Marsh, Katharine
Diasporas and transnationalism; gender; the links between migration, conflict and social transformation; East and North Africa.
Mesick, Cassandra
Mesoamerica, the Maya; lithics, architecture, carving and building technology, the archaeology of labor, theories of technology, epigraphy.
Mesola, 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.
Newman, Sarah
Mesoamerican archaeology; maritime archaeology; Pre-Columbian art and architecture; epigraphy
Nuhrat, Yagmur
Turkey, anthropology of sports, football (soccer) fandom, fairness and masculinity in soccer, urban anthropology. Also: nation-state formation and nationalism, migration.
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.
Porter, Colin
North America, particularly New England; Historical Archaeology, ethnohistory, contact-period colonialism, trade, warfare and compromise.
Rafiq, Mohamed Yunus
Public health, mediation and mediatization, religion, contemporary
Islamic cultural and religious movements, post-socialist African
states. Area: Tanzania, East Africa
Sheridan, Derek
I am most immediately interested in the American presence (in all its forms: military bases, aid projects, overt and covert networks...) in East Asia, particularly Taiwan, during the Cold War, as these relate to our understandings of the history of decolonization. I am also interested in the relationship between memory, experience and political consciousness. Most broadly, I am concerned with how geopolitics are interpreted, negotiated and produced in vernacular transborder settings.
Stainova, Yana
Latin America; artistic expression and poetry in Chile.
Savell, Stephanie
Brazil; social changes
Siravo, Bianca
Guyana; language and communication.
Skrabut, Kristin
Peru and Latin America; governance and transnational law; urban studies; anthropology of population e.g. kinship, life-course, migration, and the politics of numbers; subjectivity and the production of social difference.
Srinivasan, Rama
Honor killings; Gender and sexuality in India; Bollywood and queer sexualities
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.