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.
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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.
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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.
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Ghazal Asif
Research Interests: Intimacy, gender, religious identities, literatures, urban publics and humor, South Asia (Pakistan).
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Swayam Bagaria
Research Interests: South Asia, religion and violence, temple trust networks, labor service and servitude, critique in philosophy and anthropology.
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Mariam Banahi
Research Interests: Afghanistan and Germany, kinship and migration, war, trauma, death and the dead.
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Onder Celik
Research Interests: Treasure hunting, magic and the occult, archaeology of the contemporary, Turkey.
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Sruti Chaganti
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Mikaela Chase
Research Interests: South Asia, India, biopolitics, law, suicide, death and dying, palliative and end of life care, asceticism, Jainism, gender, secularity.
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Marios Falaris
Research Interests: Precarity, migration, home and homelessness, hospitality, violence, South Asia
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Zeynel Gul
Research Interests: Medical anthropology, law, occupational and environmental health, injury, labor, toxicity, work-place accidents, Turkey, Europe, Middle East
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Fouad Halbouni
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Gregoire Hervouet-Zeiber
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and medicine, biology, psychiatry, Russia and the Soviet Union, violence, PTSD.
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Heba Islam
Research Interests: Militarization, securitization, urban socialities, War on Terror, urban infrastructure, South Asia, Pakistan.
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Kunal Joshi
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Talia Katz
Research Interests: Sexuality and nationalism, forced displacement and migration, postcolonial and transnational feminist theory, gender studies, anthropology of the state, East Africa, Horn of Africa
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Sanaullah Khan
Research Interests: Non-human agency, landscape and temporality, memory, illness and disease, violence, ethics, everyday, silence, medical technologies and militarization.
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Sojung Kim
Research Interests: Violence, gender, ethics, everyday life, Partition of Korea, migration, anthropology of the state, anthropology and philosophy, East Asia.
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Paul Kohlbry
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine, settler colonialism, private property, capitalism, land registration, political economy.
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Victor Kumar
Research Interests: Healing practices, United States, acupuncture, diagnostics, touch, empathy, illness, the self, Chinese medicine.
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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.
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Emma McGlennen
Research Interests: West Africa and North Africa, anthropology of Islam, Sufism, pilgrimage economy, oral tradition, gender and sexuality, law, sovereignty, migration, ethics.
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Benita M. Menezes
Research Interests: South Asia, India, infrastructure, political economy of land, sociology of law, moral economy, precarity.
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Basab Mullik
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Sumin Myung
Research Interests: Ecological & environmental anthropology, anthropological STS, history of science and technology, the field sciences, ideas of nature, plant and forest, anthropogenic ecologies and landscapes, apprenticeship, philosophical anthropology, futurity, the two Koreas, East Asia.
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David Platzer
Research Interests: Autism, technology, social entrepreneurship, medical anthropology, philosophical anthropology.
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Sarah Roth
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Narratives of Care, Gender and Sexuality, Ethnographic Writing, United States.
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Arpan Roy
Research Interests: Kinship, structuralism/post-structuralism, Islam, psychoanalysis, language, Israel/Palestine, Romani people.
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Thomas Thornton
Research Interests: Christianity, incarceration and reentry, US studies (US South), the body and its practices, ethics, race, semiotics.
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Anna Wherry
