Graduate Students

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

Sociocultural Anthropology of the Maghreb & its Diaspora, North Africa & the Middle East; Postcolonialism, Social Movements, Sport & Society, State Violence, Youth & Identity; Soccer Fandom, Ultras & Supporter Groups, Graffiti, Music (Gnawa, Raï, Shaabi), Subculture

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

Bioarchaeology, Ancient Maya, Gender and Identity, Dental Anthropology, Human Osteology, Mortuary Studies

Visual Anthropology, Historical Photography, Digital Heritage, Heritage Tourism, Ancestry, Ethnography, Semiotic Landscapes, Geospatial Technologies, Augmented Reality

Indonesia, State Violence, Forced Migration, Islam in Southeast Asia, Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Religious and Political Radicalism, Conflict Trauma

Medical Anthropology, Integrative Medical Systems, Acupuncture, China and the Chinese Diaspora, Public Health, Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, Physician-Patient Relationships, Health Systems Science

Medical Anthropology, Political Economy, Drug Policy, Medicalization

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

Transnational Asian Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Critical Adoption Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Social Media Ethnography, Photovoice

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

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

Forensic Anthropology, Human Variation, Macromorphoscopic Traits, Population Affinity, Human Rights, Sexual Dimorphism

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

Medical Anthropology; Environmental Anthropology; Anthropology of Water; State Violence

linguistic anthropology, educational anthropology, dialect discrimination, second-language learning, linguistic and cultural preservation, early elementary education, early childhood communication

Ancestry Estimation, Age Assessment, Bioarchaeology, Commingled Remains, Evolutionary Patterns, Forensic Anthropology, Human Rights, Mass Disasters, Sex Estimation, Taphonomic Agents

Bioarchaeology, Skeletal biology, Ancient Maya, Microbotanicals, Prehistoric health, Photogrammetry, Digital cultural heritage

environmental, alpine, and desert archaeology, Ice Age archaeology, the Anthropocene, historical ecology, feminist methods and theories, isotopes & baselines, radiocarbon chronologies, spatial datasets, the Wes Anderson R palette, museum collections research

Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology, Ancestry, Personal Identification

Digital archaeology, Native American Boarding Schools, Community engaged digital heritage, Memory and memorialization, Preservation and access, 3D models (photogrammetry and structured light)

Peacebuilding, memory politics, identity, politics of representation, expertise, the State, ideology, democracy, social movements, digital humanities

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

I am interested is in exploring how communities live on the land, and maintains relationship with the landscape. My research focuses on the human/non-human interactions by centering it around the resource use and resource management patterns.

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

Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Biology, Skeletal Trauma Biomechanics, Skeletal Histology

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

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