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Doctoral Students
Research/ Interests: Mexico, volcanoes, materiality, contemporary art, museums, curatorial work, cultural heritage, collecting practices, circulation of culture, critical Indigenous studies.
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.
Gabriela Bortolamedi
Research/Interest: Experimental ethnography, urban anthropology, Puerto Rico, performance
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
Adela Cebeiro Munin
Research/Interest: Analysis of lithic technology, primate behavioral ecology, anatomical and cognitive diversity of early hominins, evolutionary theory, experimental archaeology, field archaeology.
Research/Interests: China, Hong Kong, visual anthropology, cultural production, arts institutions, urbanization, politics, postcolonial studies, citizenship, globalization, archives and memory
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/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
Research/Interest: Hominin Bipedalism, Biomechanics, Appendicular Skeletal Function, Human Fossil Record, Ancient Pathology/Injury, Bioarchaeology, Skeletal Morphology
Research/Interests: Transnationalism, Black Feminism, diaspora studies, cultural studies, film festival studies
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, postcranial functional morphology, locomotion
Elizabeth Fillion
Entered Fall 2016
BA Northwestern University, Anthropology, Earth & Planetary Sciences
BM Northwestern University, Wind & Percussion Instruments: Clarinet
Rubén Flores
Research/Interest: Media Anthropology, Critical Latinx Indigeneities, Linguistics Anthropology, coloniality, raciolinguistics, the Americas, the U.S. midwest, radio, critical discourse analysis, the state
Saudi Garcia
Research/Interest: Socialization and cultural heritage of second generation immigrant youth, Latinos (Dominicans) in the United States, psychological impact of migration on youth and families, diaspora social theory
Julia Galway-Witham
Research/Interest: Hominin palaeobiology; virtual anthropology; phylogenetics; hybridisation; philosophy of palaeoanthropology
Research/Interests: Disability, Autism, North America, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography
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.
Hyemin Lee
Research/Interest: Linguistic and medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and semiotics; translation, scientization of traditional medicine(s), and medical/pharmaceutical branding;
traditional Korean Medicine (hanŭihak), Traditional Korean medicinal ingredients (hanyakchae), and Korean ginseng (insam) and deer antler (nokyong); East Asia/South Korea
Melissa Lefkowitz
Research/Interest: China, Africa, infrastructure, media, postcolonial studies, power, representation, visual ethnography
Research/Interest: Aging, Robotics, Care, Ordinary Ethics, China
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.
Nadia Mbonde
Research/Interest: medical anthropology, reproduction, maternal care, racial inequalities, embodiment, subjectivity, ethnographic film, USA.
Research/Interest: Environmental Anthropology, Soils, Biodiversity, Science and Technology Studies, Ecology, Religion, the Netherlands, Europe
Research/Interest: China, capitalism, rural-urban relations, political economy, media production, temporary work, urbanization, agricultural labor
Research/Interest: linguistic anthropology, Iranian diaspora, nationalism, language use and identity in diaspora, youth culture, social media, linguistics of race formation, culture and media.
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
Stacy-Anne Parke
Research/Interests: Primate growth and development, life history patterns, genomics and epigenetics, endocrinology, primate osteology, reproductive ecology, applied anthropology
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
Stephanie Reyes
Research/Interest: Modern human skeletal variation, the transition to anatomically modern humans, forensic anthropology, zooarchaeology
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
Zeynep Sertbulut
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Media, Media Industries, Anthropology of Law, Human Rights, Cultural History and Politics, Middle East, Turkey
Jeffrey Spear
Research/Interest: Comparative paleomorphology of primates, primate evolution, evolutionary transitions, and functional morphology
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
Dallas Taylor
Research/Interests: United States, Philadelphia, media, race, counter-hegemonic social movements, community media, capitalism
Sujit Thomas
Research/Interest: Medical anthropology, science and technology studies, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals, prosthetics
Augusta Thomson
Research/Interest: Spain, Europe, Christianity, Catholicism, pilgrimage, privilege, mobility regimes, tourism, sustainability, visual anthropology, theopolitics, neoliberalism, political theology, digital anthropology, material culture, sensory ethnography, imagination, care, healing, walking, pedagogy, infrastructures.
Amber Trujillo
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, evolutionary genetics, genotypic expression of phenotypic characteristics, early hominin phenotype.
Research/Interest: Human evolution, comparative anatomy, functional morphology
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.