Tiana Hayden

PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology
Entered 2010

Tiana's research interests include the anthropology of law, critical urban theory, language and social interaction, the anthropology of food, and Mexican studies. Her doctoral research investigates the role of insecurity and illegality on the material and social infrastructures of food in Mexico City's central wholesale market. Her research has been funded by a the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, NYU's Annette B. Weiner Fellowship, and the Tinker Foundation.

Tiana serves as the section editor of Correspondences, a monthly feature of Cultural Anthropology online, and as an ethnographic consultant for The Public Theater in New York City. Prior to coming to NYU, she did research and published on the politics of abortion in the United States, and taught English and history in public high schools in New York City and Chicago. She received her B.A. (2004) from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. (2009) from the University of Chicago.

2015. Review of The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders (UC Press 2014) by Megan A. Carney in Food, Culture, and Society, Dec 2015.

2014. "Field Notes: Illegality." Fieldsights-Field Notes, Cultural Anthropology Online. September 1, 2014.

2014. "The Taste of Precarity: Language, Legitimacy, and Legality Among Mexican Street Food Vendors." Street Food: Culture, Economy, Health, and Policy. Marros, S. (ed). London: Routledge.

2013 “Cleaner Than Thou: Hygiene, Performance, and Contrastive Compliance Among Mexico City Street Food Vendors.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago.

2011 "Private Bleeding: Self-Induced Abortion in the Twenty-First Century United States." Gender Issues. 28(4).