Graduate Students
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Burge Abiral
Research Interests: Human-environment relations, multispecies ethonography, food studies, agriculture, land and labor, natural resource extraction, political mobilization, Turkey, Europe, Middle East.
Nathaniel Adams
nathanieljohnsonadams@gmail.com
Research Interests: South and Southeast Asia, anthropology of development, agrarian studies, human-environment interaction, knowledge systems, indigeniety, place and landscapes.
Elmirasadat Alihosseini
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Middle East, Iran, anthropology of gender and sexuality, anthropology of reproduction, population politics, demographic transition, Islamic bioethics, bio-politics, anthropology of the state.
Ghazal Asif
Research Interests: Intimacy, gender, religious identities, literatures, urban publics and humor, South Asia (Pakistan).
Swayam Bagaria
Research Interests: South Asia, religion and violence, temple trust networks, labor service and servitude, critique in philosophy and anthropology.
Mariam Banahi
Research Interests: Afghanistan and Germany, kinship and migration, war, trauma, death and the dead.
Caroline Block
Onder Celik
Research Interests: Treasure hunting, magic and the occult, archaeology of the contemporary, Turkey.
Sruti Chaganti
Mikaela Chase
Research Interests: Medical anthropology, South Asia, India, biopolitics, law, death and dying, palliative and end of life care, asceticism, Jainism, gender, secularity.
Marios Falaris
Research Interests: Precarity, migration, home and homelessness, hospitality, violence, South Asia
Fouad Halbouni
Gregoire Hervouet-Zeiber
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and medicine, biology, psychiatry, Russia and the Soviet Union, violence, PTSD.
Paul Kohlbry
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, settler colonialism, private property, capitalism, land registration, political economy.
Victor Kumar
Research Interests: Healing practices, United States, acupuncture, diagnostics, touch, empathy, illness, the self, Chinese medicine.
Bridget Kustin
Research Interests: Islamic finance, poor economics, development, economic risk, accounting, eschatology, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bay of Bengal nationalisms, religions, and borders.
Zeeshan Mahmud
Research Interests: Anthropology of literary philosophy and citizenship, gender and development, modern warfare, minority histories and rights, constitutional development, Pakistan, British India and the United States.
Emma McGlennen
Research Interests: West Africa and North Africa, anthropology of Islam, Sufism, pilgrimage economy, oral tradition, gender and sexuality, law, sovereignty, migration, ethics.
Benita M. Menezes
Research Interests: Urban governmentality, politics of indigeneity, India's urban transition, digital ethnography.
Juan Felipe Moreno
Research Interests: Anthropology of the state, economic anthropology, the war on drugs, agriculture, chemical pollution, southern Colombia.
Sumin Myung
Research Interests: Ecological & environmental Anthropology, moral ecology, forest, ideas of nature, politics and history of ideas, place, island, the two Koreas, East Asia.
David Platzer
Research Interests: Autism, technology, social entrepreneurship, medical anthropology, philosophical anthropology.
Maya Ratnam
Research Interests: Human-environment relationships, South Asia, anthropology and ecology. Indigeneity, landscapes, and place-making; the poligics of land and forest access; non-human ontologies; climate change and the anthropocene; ordinary ethics, aethetics and performance.
Erik W. Martinez Resly
Research Interests: Urban anthropology of religion, media and the creative arts, intimacy, identity, and subjectivity, the politics of multi-culturalism in North America.
Arpan Roy
Research Interests: Kinship, political community, structuralism/post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, language, literature, Israel/Palestine, Romani people.
Pooja Satyogi
Megha Sehdev
Mac Skelton
Research Interests: Iraq, Lebanon, Movement, War, Illness, Care, Palliation, Narrative, Pilgrimage.
Thomas Thornton
Research Interests: Christianity, incarceration and reentry, US studies (US South), the body and its practices, ethics, race, semiotics.
Gustavo Valdivia Corrales
Research Interests: Anthropocene, anthropology of knowledge/science, paleo-climatology, glacier retreat, contemporary environmental relations in post-colonial societies, sound ethnography, Andes, Peru.
Patricia Madariaga Villegas
Research Interests: Urban marginality, ordinary ethics, healthcare, gender, biopolitics.
Anna Wherry
Marieke Wilson
