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Melissa Forbis

Melissa M. Forbis

Research Interest: Social movements and transnational solidarity; gender, race, and sexuality; feminist anthropology; indigenous rights and autonomy; Mexico and Latin America; sport, politics, and globalization; engaged and collaborative research methodologies

Email: mmf515@nyu.edu

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Malddonado

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo

Research Interest: Latin America and Latinx communities, Argentina, Identity, Memory, Ethnomusicology, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Literature, Visual & Popular Culture, Immigration/Transnationalism, Medical Ethics, Science, Difference, Human Rights, Resistance, Crisis, Neuroculture

Email: melmalsal@nyu.edu

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Carline M.

Caroline Merrifield

Research Interest: Environmental and political anthropology; food consumption, production, and transaction; urban and agrarian studies; environmental humanities; China. 

Email: cgm4395@nyu.edu

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Mitra Panahipour

Mitra Panahipour

Research Interest: landscape archaeology and anthropology, remote sensing techniques, geospatial analysis, environmental and land-use modeling, settlement patterns, sedentism and mobility, water management strategies, Near Eastern studies, and management of cultural heritage resources.

Email: mitra.panahipour@nyu.edu

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Dominic Pollard

Dominic Pollard

Research interests: Bronze Age and Iron Age Mediterranean; landscape; settlement and urbanism; mobility and connectivity.

Email: dominic.pollard@nyu.edu

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Pegi Vail

Pegi Vail

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Email: pegivail@nyu.edu

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