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Omotayo Adekunle Adenugba
- oadenug3@jh.edu
- Research Interests: Anthropogenic activities, Crude oil mining in Southern Nigeria, Environmental disasters, Humanitarian interventions, Sustainability studies and Environmental policy.
Julia Alves da Costa
- PhD Student
- jalvesd3@jh.edu
- Research Interests: Brazil, environmental disasters, petroleum industry, human and non-human relationships, communication, cybernetics, climate change.
Rini Barman
- rbarman2@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Anthropology of traditional brews, North-East India, Assam, Folklore, Fermentation, Climate Change, Ecology and morphology of textiles, Gender and sexuality, Ornaments and totems, native literatures, Politics of ethnicity, South Asia.
Kaushal Bodwal
- kbodwal1@jh.edu
- Research Interests: working on inquiries of production, resistance, and breakdown of gender binary. Genealogically tracing the (gendered) development of medicine and medical care for intersex persons, both, in India and the US.
Yuyi Chen
- ychen491@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: mental illness, ethics, care, language and culture, media and technology, China
Sophie D’Anieri
- sdanier1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: violence, the household, death and dying, language and expression, gender, the everyday, ethics of care, political movements
Heba Islam
- hislam1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Militarization, securitization, urban socialities, War on Terror, urban infrastructure, South Asia, Pakistan.
Yida Jiao
- yjiao9@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Political economy, Development, Special Economic Zone, Post-socialism, Neoliberalism, Global capital, Belt and Road Initiative, Bureaucracy, Sovereignty, Labor, Economic imagination, Religion, Ethnographic film, Soviet Union, Central Asia, China.
Jonas Stark Johnson
- jjohn469@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Craft, Online Communities, Gun Ownership and Gunsmithing, Self Defense Subcultures, Political and Legal Anthropology, Race and Gender, Media Studies, United States (American South)
Kunal Joshi
- kjoshi8@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: anthropology of religion, historical anthropology, ritual, myth, memory, law, urbanization, informal economies, ordinary ethics, South Asia, India
Talia Katz
- tkatz1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: trauma, violence, subjectivity, history of psychiatry and psychodrama, ethics, aesthetics, gender, migration, medical humanities, Israel, Middle East
Sojung Kim
- sojungkim@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Violence, gender, ethics, everyday life, Partition of Korea, migration, anthropology of the state, anthropology and philosophy, East Asia.
Youjoung (Yuna) Kim
- ykim215@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Law, History, Kinship, Bureaucracy, Violence, Gender, Memory, Transitional Justice, Archive, Jeju 4.3, East Asia
Jiwon Kim
Sasha Kramer
- skrame27@jh.edu
- Research Interests: are human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, the green burial movement, death, mourning, memorialization, placemaking, conservation projects, religion and spirituality, USA.
Siwon Lee
- slee591@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Historical Anthropology, Anthropology of Art, Politics and Aesthetics, Korea
Perry Maddox
- cmaddox7@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: New agrarian movements, multispecies ethnography, the everyday, experimentation/improvisation, climate change, extractivism, North and Central America
Benita M. Menezes
- bmeneze1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: South Asia, India, infrastructure, political economy of land, sociology of law, moral economy, precarity.
Sina Mirzai
Sarah Roth
- sarahroth@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Narratives of Care, Gender and Sexuality, Ethnographic Writing, United States.
Alaa Amr Saad
- asaad6@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: political economy, historical anthropology, temporality, memory, infrastructure, museumification, labor economies, movement-making, improvisational practices, city-making, ethnography, archives, creative writing.
Anna Wherry
- awherry1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Legal anthropology, the Americas, Colombia, criminal law and policing, transitional justice, violence, political rebellion and militancy, kinship.