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Research/ Interests: Africana Studies, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Digital Culture, Influencer Economy, Internet Celebrity, Political Economy, Politics of Taste, Pop Culture, Power, Social Media, Technology.
Research/Interest: South India, New Jersey, rice, agriculture, seeds, diaspora, diabetes, metabolism, microbes, topology, science and technology studies, political economy, cultural studies
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, functional morphology, locomotion, primate and hominin evolution
Alia Ayman
Research/Interest: Filmmaking and curating; Arab cinema and media industries; state institutions and cultural production in Egypt; censorship; political Islam; Arab intellectual history; visual anthropology
Angelo Baca
Research/Interest: Indigenous American health and wellness, visual representation, educational film production, indigenous international repatriation, anthropology of media, indigenous food sovereignty.
Tierney Brown
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Science, Anthropology of Art, Materiality, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Museums, Repair and Conservation Work, Material Culture and Pigments, Tibet and the Himalayas.
Allison Casaly
Research/Interest: Upper Palaeolithic Europe, Palaeolithic art, Ivory manipulation; venus figurines; figural art
Paola Cerrito
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, Dental anthropology, Hard tissue histology
Anisha Chadha
Research/Interest: Anthropology of science, technology and medicine; feminist theory; media production; narrative, storytelling; US and India
Research/interests: lithic analysis, experimental archaeology, hunter-gatherer archaeology, projectile technology, Coastal Adaptations, High Altitude Adaptations, Human Behavioral Ecology, Cultural/Technological Evolution
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, hominin evolution, postcranial functional morphology, behavioral reconstruction
Research/Interests: Archaeology, Central Asia, lithic analysis, GIS, paleoenvironment
Research/Interest: Near East, Africa, zooarcheaology, hominin evolution, cognitive and sociological evolution, origins of food production, animal domestication, and early urbanization. I am also interested in the effects of diet on cognitive evolution and modern cultural phenomena.
Research/Interest: Currently I am interested in applying a background in epigenetics to the regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli in non-human and human primates, but also more broadly I am interested in genotype-phenotype correlations / genotype-environment interaction, and the genetic basis of adaptations, especially environmental
Research/Interest: Primate behavior, reproductive ecology, reproductive energetics, seasonality, nutrition, life history evolution, endocrinology
Research/Interest: Contemporary Art, Critical Race Studies, Environmental Anthropology, Experimental Film and Video, Indigenous American Arts and Cultural Reclamation, Indigenous Economies, Indigenous Land Rights, North American Wild Ginseng, Tourism Studies, Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film
Alexandra DeCasien
Research/Interest: Sexual dimorphism and mating systems, morphological markers of hormonal change, neuroendocrinology and the evolution of mental illness.
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, postcranial functional morphology, locomotion
Jennifer Eyre
Research/Interest: Postcranial functional morphology, hominin evolution, locomotion, obstetrics.
Elizabeth Fillion
Research/Interest: early hominin diets, dietary ecology, paleoenvironment reconstruction, application of geologic techniques to paleoanthropology
Research/Interest: Hominin palaeobiology; virtual anthropology; phylogenetics; hybridisation; philosophy of palaeoanthropology
Saudi Garcia
Research/Interest: race and health
Research/Interest:Spatio-temporal Modeling; Quantitative Analysis; Data Science
Interests: Paleoanthropology, Evolutionary morphology; Axial skeleton; Bipedalism
Research/Interests: sexual selection, reproductive strategies, sexual signaling, behavioral ecology
Research/Interests: Autism, Disability, France, United States, Medical Anthropology; Media Anthropology
Research/Interest: visual anthropology, political economy, Latin America, contemporary art, branding, national identity and mediation, commoditization, cultural and media production, consumption.
Research/Interest: South Asia; political anthropology; right-wing women; nationalism; feminist movements
Clare Kimock
Research/Interest: Quantitative genetics, sexual selection, dental morphology and development
Emma Kozitzky
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, comparative morphology, European Pleistocene, evolutionary theory
Maria Lechtarova
Research/Interest: Death, semiotic anthropology, nostalgia, commemoration practices, visual anthropology, public signage, consumption, media ethnography, globalization, and Eastern Europe.
Research/Interest: linguistic and medical anthropology, semiotics, anthropology of science and technology; translation, transformation, knowledge production; Korean herbal medicinhanyak), Traditional Korean Medicine(hanuihak), South Korea
Melissa Lefkowitz
Research/Interest: China, Africa, infrastructure, media, postcolonial studies, power, representation, visual ethnography
Research/Interest: Aging, Robotics, Care, Ordinary Ethics, China
Elissa M Ludeman
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology and primate evolution, dental evolution and development, deciduous dentition, life history evolution, evolution of hearing and cochlear morphology.
Ximena Málaga Sabogal
Research/Interest: Political and visual anthropology, regional history, memory and violence, policies for indigenous peoples, Andes, South America.
Teresa Martinez-Chavez
Research/Interest: Medical Anthropology, Indigeneity, Indigenous health practices, Latin America, women political representation, public health.
Research/Interest: medical anthropology, reproduction, maternal care, racial inequalities, embodiment, subjectivity, ethnographic film, USA.
Research/Interest: Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, human-soil relations, infrastructure, nature and value, climate change, The Netherlands
Research/Interest: China, capitalism, rural-urban relations, political economy, media production, temporary work, urbanization, agricultural labor
Research/Interest: The focus of my doctoral thesis is how contextual factors (environmental barriers and personal factors) affect the assessment of disability, which according to the Brazilian Inclusion Law must be biopsychosocial.
Research/Interest: linguistic anthropology, Iranian diaspora, nationalism, language use and identity in diaspora, youth culture, social media, linguistics of race formation, culture and media.
Laura Murray
Research/Interest: India, colonial and postcolonial studies, food systems, globalization, political economy, social and environmental movements, agriculture and livestock development, biotechnology, human-animal relations, embodied life and aesthesis, personhood, science and rationality
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, primate behavior and the evolution of social behaviors, endocrinology, and genetics.
Research/Interests: Visual anthropology; representation of minorities in media; popular culture; graphic narratives; race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; Afro-Caribbean religions; post-colonial studies, intersectional feminist theory, queer movements; Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Research/Interest: Puerto Rico, fourth industrial revolution technologies, blockchain, social good, democratic governance, diaspora, social movements, urban development.
Megan Petersdorf
Research/Interest: Primate behavior, sexual selection, sexual signals, reproductive strategies, conservation
Rachel Petersen
Research/Interest: Primate communication, sexual strategies, endocrinology, and conservation
Christopher Rainwater
Research/Interest: Human skeletal biology
Research/Interests: Hawaiʻi; indigeneity; cultural revival; land movements; indigenous economies and organizations; neoliberalism; citizenship; settler colonialism and postcoloniality; semiotics
Eliana Ritts
Research/Interest: Visual anthropology, digital media and methodologies, indigenous media, museums and source communities, material culture, sensory ethnography, cinema studies and the overlap between fiction and ethnographic film, animation, Taiwan, China
Research/Interests: Archaeology, paleolithic, use-wear analysis, stone tools, experimentations, cognition evolution, Human evolution
Marcel Salas
Research/Interest: Race, representation and identity, culture industries, epistemology of American marketing, advertising
Research/Interest: Political and Linguistic Anthropology; Mediation and publics; Law; Evidence; Senses; Semiotics; Popular Sovereignty; Culture and Media; India, South Asia
Zeynep Sertbulut
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Media, Media Industries, Anthropology of Law, Human Rights, Cultural History and Politics, Middle East, Turkey
Alyse Takayesu
Research/Interest: Anthropology of science, conservation biology, extinction, ecology and temporalities, interspecies relationships, biological heritage projects, landscape histories and memory, place/space, islands, histories of botanical and zoological collection; Hawaiian Islands
Sujit Thomas
Research/Interest: Medical anthropology, science and technology studies, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals, prosthetics
Augusta Thomson
Research/Interest: Nomadic tribes/societies across Asia, new media technologies, visual anthropology, anthropology of media, materiality, museum anthropology, personhood, consumption, globalization
Amber Trujillo
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, evolutionary genetics, genotypic expression of phenotypic characteristics, early hominin phenotype.
Research/Interest: Human evolution, comparative anatomy, functional morphology
Research Interests: Fashion Work and Education; Circulation of Clothing Materials; South Asia / Global Markets; Resignification; Politics of Value.
Anna Weinreich
Research/Interest: Anthropology of art; visual anthropology; museums, archives and cultural centers; indigeneity; the production and circulation of culture; materiality; settler colonialism; indigenous rights; cultural activism; Aboriginal Australia
Research/Interest: First Nations and Indigenous Studies; Canada, Northwest Coast, museum practices and visual culture, indigenous peoples, intellectual property; Culture and Media.
To request updates to this page at any time please send to grad.anthro@nyu.edu.
Research/Interest: dental variations, dental evolution, facial growth and development, orthodontics and maxillary orthopedics, facial variations among human populations
Research/Interest: Morphology, primates, locomotion, functional anatomy
Research/Interest: paleoanthropology, pathology, dentition, cranial morphology, scientific illustration
Research/Interest: Human osteology, human morphology, and forensic osteology. I am specifically interested in the modern implications for disaster relief, providing biological profiles of the deceased to Law Enforcement, and genocide work.
Research/Interest: Bioarchaeology, paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, hominin evolution
Esther Choo
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, human rights, human skeletal biology
Research/Interest: Interested in trauma, biomechanics, ancestry, and growth of the human skeleton. Outside of these areas, I've done research on howler monkeys and
Research/ Interest: Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Trauma, Entheseal Changes, Activity Patterns, Forensic Anthropology
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, Sexual Dimorphism, Population Variation, Growth and Development, Stature, and Paleoanthropology.
Research/Interest: Currently I am interested in applying a background in epigenetics to the regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli in non-human and human primates, but also more broadly I am interested in genotype-phenotype correlations / genotype-environment interaction, and the genetic basis of adaptations, especially environmental
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, Lithics, Dentition, Neanderthals, Human Evolution
Research/Interest: My research interests are in physical anthropology with a concentration in skeletal biology. I am also interested in studying forensic anthropology and pathology/ trauma on the skeletal system.
Victoria Johnson
Research/Interest: Human skeletal biology, Forensic anthropology (Skeletal trauma, Human rights and political violence), Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Archaeology, Taphonomy.
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, human identification in mass disasters, human rights investigations, bone adaption, and bioarchaeology
Michelle Matsuura
Research/Interest: Skeletal biology, forensic anthropology and trauma analysis
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, bone biology, genetics, taphonomy
Research/Interest: Craniofacial functional morphology of early Homo and Paranthropus species to modern-day humans.
Research/Interest: Physical Anthropology, Human Osteology, Pathology, Forensic Anthropology, Evolution, Primates, Zooarchaeology
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Research/Interest: bioarchaeology; pathology; influences of gender and class on skeletal morphology; life history
Akaylia Rose
Research/Interest: Historical epidemiology, Health disparities, Population genetics, Osteology, Disease distribution
Research/Interests: Evolutionary medicine, Evolutionary mismatch, Genetics/Genomics, Ancient DNA, Ancient Medicine, Medical Anthropology.
Research/Interest: Osteology, Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology
Rsearch/interest: Forensic anthropology, osteology, cemetery exhumation, Bioarchaeology, sex and age determination using the ilium
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, Human Skeletal Biology, Biological Archaeology, Early Development of Genus Homo
Research/Interest: Prehistoric Archaeology; Bioarchaeology; Paleoanthropology; Rock art of Wallacea; Forensic anthropology, Disaster Victim Identification, hominin evolution in Island Southeast Asia
Research/Interest: forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, osteology, anatomy, genetics