Graduate Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.070.616 (01)	Proseminar	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Khan, Naveeda	Mergenthaler 439	Spring 2026	Description: This course will consist of close reading of anthropological and philosophical texts to trace some important aspects of the underlying presuppositions of social theory. We will try to see how regions generate both data and theory; and also see how some abiding concerns around the relation between structural formations and formations of subjects are expressed in classical and current anthropological thought. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.618 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds - Graduate	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar explores the formation of Black Atlantic worlds through a selection of historical and ethnographic texts, material artifacts, and films. We will encounter familiar themes of slavery, revolution, commodity production, and imperial power recast in the minor key of the Black experience. Exploring major works by anthropologists, particularly key figures from Johns Hopkins, the course also examines how studies of transatlantic movements have reshaped our very understanding of history and culture, not simply as static or official forms but as fields of contention. This section is for graduate students in Anthropology. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/1 Tags: n/a
AS.070.632 (01)	Psychic Life and its Vicissitudes	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Han, Clara	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: In his war memoirs, Wilfred Bion attempts to find a form by which to describe psychic life amidst death, “I died there.” Here, questions of form, genre, subjectivity and the precariousness of reality are knotted together. In this seminar, we will seek to move our thinking outside of the hard and fast boundaries between “extreme violence” and “chronic violence”, or between catastrophic events and everyday life to instead explore the interconnections of voice, intelligibility, and volatility in selected anthropological texts, ethnography, paired with specific philosophical and psychoanalytic texts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/10 Tags: n/a
AS.070.698 (01)	Defining Region	T 10:00AM - 12:00PM	Han, Clara	Mergenthaler 439	Spring 2026	Description: This course is open to anthropology graduate students only and is to be run on a workshop model. It is to help those students writing their regional essay for the comprehensive exams to acquire expertise in regional debates and literature relevant to their field research. Our understanding of regions is one of cross-cutting concepts and questions rather than geographical framings alone. After identifying a concept or question, each student will create an annotated bibliography, trace the shape of arguments as they emerge within the readings, create an outline and work toward a draft of the final essay. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/8 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (02)	Dissertation Research		Lans, Aja Marie		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (03)	Dissertation Research		Angelini, Alessandro		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (05)	Dissertation Research		Khan, Naveeda		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (06)	Dissertation Research		Haeri, Niloofar		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (07)	Dissertation Research		Han, Clara		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.802 (08)	Dissertation Research		Pandian, Anand		Spring 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (01)	Exam Preparations		Han, Clara		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (02)	Exam Preparations		Pandian, Anand		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (03)	Exam Preparations		Khan, Naveeda		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (04)	Exam Preparations		Haeri, Niloofar		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (05)	Exam Preparations		Angelini, Alessandro		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (06)	Exam Preparations		Lans, Aja Marie		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (07)	Exam Preparations		MacLochlainn, Scott		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (08)	Exam Preparations		Mohamed, Sabine		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.804 (09)	Exam Preparations		Kim, Sujung		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students who have finished required coursework and are working on completing their qualifying exam essays in preparation of dissertation research. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.810 (01)	TA Practicum Anthropology		Han, Clara		Spring 2026	Description: Course for Anthropology graduate students who are TAing as part of their academic training. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (03)	Directed Readings and Research		Han, Clara		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (04)	Directed Readings and Research		MacLochlainn, Scott		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (05)	Directed Readings and Research		Lans, Aja Marie		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (06)	Directed Readings and Research		Angelini, Alessandro		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (07)	Directed Readings and Research		Kim, Sujung		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (08)	Directed Readings and Research		Khan, Naveeda		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.874 (09)	Directed Readings and Research		Pandian, Anand		Spring 2026	Description: Independent Study/Research Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (01)	Summer Research		Angelini, Alessandro		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (03)	Summer Research		Lans, Aja Marie		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (04)	Summer Research		Haeri, Niloofar		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (05)	Summer Research		Han, Clara		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (06)	Summer Research		Khan, Naveeda		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (07)	Summer Research		Mohamed, Sabine		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (08)	Summer Research		Pandian, Anand		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.803 (09)	Summer Research		MacLochlainn, Scott		Summer 2026	Description: Summer Research for doctoral students Credits: 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.617 (01)	Methods	M 11:00AM - 1:00PM	Han, Clara	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2026	Description: The seminar will offer a forum for students to reflect on preliminary field research and think further about problems of ethnographic method. We will proceed in the manner of a workshop for ongoing projects. Open to anthropology graduate students only. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/6 Tags: n/a
AS.070.634 (01)	Contemporary Anthropology	T 12:00PM - 1:30PM	Staff	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: Graduate students are encouraged to register for the departmental research colloquium in anthropology. The colloquium meets most (but not all) Tuesday afternoons during the semester. Credits: 2.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.646 (01)	Pollution	F 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Pandian, Anand	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: In this course, we will grapple with pollution as an existential predicament, a permissible effect, and an organizing problem. We will read ethnographic engagements with waste and waste infrastructure, industrial toxicity, fossil fuel production, environmental justice, and environmental health. We will consider pollution’s debt to capitalism and colonialism, and relations between environmental and moral pollution. Working in the manner of both a seminar and a collaborative workshop, we will seek to bring into focus the questions and lessons that arise from readings of diverse places and our own emergent field projects. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/8 Tags: CES-LE
AS.070.659 (01)	Proposal Writing	F 10:00AM - 12:00PM	Khan, Naveeda	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2026	Description: The seminar will offer a forum for students to discuss research projects, prepare grant proposals and think further about issues of ethnographic methodology and writing. Open to Anthropology graduate students only. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.070.801 (01)	Dissertation Research		Angelini, Alessandro		Fall 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.801 (03)	Dissertation Research		Kim, Sujung		Fall 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.801 (05)	Dissertation Research		Khan, Naveeda		Fall 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.801 (06)	Dissertation Research		Pandian, Anand		Fall 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.801 (07)	Dissertation Research		Han, Clara		Fall 2026	Description: Credits: 5.00 - 10.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.810 (01)	TA Practicum Anthropology		Han, Clara		Fall 2026	Description: Course for Anthropology graduate students who are TAing as part of their academic training. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: n/a
AS.070.810 (02)	TA Practicum Anthropology		Procupez, Valeria		Fall 2026	Description: Course for Anthropology graduate students who are TAing as part of their academic training. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/6 Tags: n/a
AS.070.867 (01)	Directed Reading & Research		Han, Clara		Fall 2026	Description: This independent study course is for graduate students to work alongside a faculty member on a directed list of readings, designed for a student's specific study & research goals. Requires faculty approval before registration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.867 (02)	Directed Reading and Research		Khan, Naveeda		Fall 2026	Description: This independent study course is for graduate students to work alongside a faculty member on a directed list of readings, designed for a student's specific study & research goals. Requires faculty approval before registration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.867 (04)	Directed Reading and Research		Pandian, Anand		Fall 2026	Description: This independent study course is for graduate students to work alongside a faculty member on a directed list of readings, designed for a student's specific study & research goals. Requires faculty approval before registration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.070.867 (05)	Directed Reading and Research		MacLochlainn, Scott		Fall 2026	Description: This independent study course is for graduate students to work alongside a faculty member on a directed list of readings, designed for a student's specific study & research goals. Requires faculty approval before registration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a