Graduate Students

anthropology of the Maghreb and its diaspora, North Africa and the Middle East, ethnography, performance, postcolonialism, social movements, sport and society, state violence, transnationalism and migration, youth & identity, soccer, fandom, ultras and supporter groups, graffiti, music

Historical Archaeology, Diasporic Identities & the Politics of Belonging, Transnationalism, Exclusion & Racialization, Subject Formation, Social Reproduction theory, Processes/History of Capitalism, Company Towns, Collective Agency and Resistance, Temperance and Prohibition, Collaborative and Emancipatory Archaeologies, Critical Cultural Heritage

Pregnancy and Birth, Reproductive Health, Medical Anthropology, Amish Health, Homebirth

War & Displacement, Applied & Public Anthropology, Anthropology of the Middle East, Ethnographic Methods, Migration, Humanitarianism, "Space" of Refuge, Transformations of the Self, War & Trauma, Collective Memory, Land & Sea Borders, Identity Politics, Refugee Ageing Population, "Space" of Death, Photovoice - art activism, Areas of interest: Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen, Syria, Greece

Medical Anthropology, Health Care Systems, Commercialization and Commodification of Health, Veteran Studies, Health Care Policy, Culture, Health, and Identity

Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, race in history, identity and power, collaborative and community archaeology, historiography

Visual Anthropology, Historical Photography, Identity, Digital Heritage, Heritage Tourism, Ancestry, Ethnography, Cultural Landscapes, Geospatial Technologies

Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Trauma, Personal Identification, Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Indigenous Studies

Medical Anthropology, Bioethics, Political Economy, Healthcare Policy, Drug Policy

Medical Anthropology, institutional ethnography, disability studies, mental health, Native American and Indigenous Studies, special education, and cultural competency

Forensic anthropology, Human variation, Ancestry estimation, Skeletal biology, Human rights

Medical anthropology, Applied anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Hospital culture, Health technologies, Chronic disease management, Access to healthcare, Digital modalities of healthcare, Knowledge production

Asian American Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Transnationalism, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Youth Studies, Chineseness, whiteness

Sociocultural anthropology, East Africa, Political economy, Identity, International development, Digital anthropology, Cultural heritage

Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Skeletal Trauma, Ancestry Estimation, Human Variation

Indigenous Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Zooarchaeology, Great Basin and California Archaeology, Archaeological Methods, Indigenous Stewardship, Nutritional Ecology, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction

Water Insecurity, Gender, Anthropology of Infrastructure, Environment and Development Studies, Urban Studies, Feminist Political Ecology, Structural Racism, Medical Anthropology, Power/Expertise/Knowledge Production

Sociocultural anthropology, Environmental anthropology, Gender, Water governance and water justice

forensic anthropology, human rights, paleopathology, human variation, ancestry estimation, personal identification, age estimation

Cultural Interaction, Social Use of Space, Oneota, Mississippian, Illinois River Valley

Bioarchaeology, Ancient Maya, Prehistoric health, Photogrammetry

environmental archaeology, alpine archaeology, high-altitude adaptation, the settlement of the Americas, stable isotopes, microscopy, GIS, digital curation and outreach

China, Latin America, Mexico, Chinese Diaspora, Transnationalism, State Formation, Construction of Scale, Identity, Globalization

Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Breastfeeding, Breast milk composition, Mother-child nutrition, Mexico, Indigeneity

Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Ancestry Estimation, Dental Anthropology, Human Variation

I am interested in the expert/intellectual agency on the construction of common sense, especially in political transition contexts where historical memory policy can be found. I am also interested in constructivism and its place in social theory.

Sociocultural Anthropology, Afghanistan, Anthropology of Emotions, Construction of Emotions, Migration and Transnationalism, Emotional Transnationality, Emotional Self, Transitions in Emotions, Refugee and Displacement, Diaspora Studies

Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Biology, Human Variation, Population Affinity Estimation, Postcranial Variation, Macromorphoscopic Traits, Cognitive Bias

Anthropology of South Asia, Anthropology of migration, Transnationalism, Diaspora studies, Post colonialism, Orientalism, Kinship, Personhood, Subjectivities, Consumerism, Individualism, Gender

Medical Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Health, Spirituality, Anthropology of Death, Dying and End of Life Care

Environmental anthropology, More-than-human political ecology, Visual anthropology, Interspecies relationships, Human-elephant conflict, Community-based conservation, Social & environmental justice, Activist art, Thailand, Cambodia

Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Identification, Paleopathology, Skeletal Trauma, Skeletal Biology

Medical Anthropology, United States healthcare system, Patient Activism, Online Biosocial Communities, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Long COVID-19