Name and Description Email Address

Yakein Abdelmagid

YEAR:2

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neoliberalism and Immaterial Labor, Aesthetics and Politics, Precarity in Egypt.

Ronni Armstead
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: New Orleans at the Vanguard: Historical and Cultural Transformations in the post-Katrina Urban Landscape

Neta Bar
YEAR: 9 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Priviledge in California's Silicon Valley

Layla Brown
YEAR: 4 ABD

DISSERTATION TITLE: Raising Voices, Building History: Afro-Venezuelan Women as Test Case for the Promise of the Bolivarian Revolution

Jennifer Chien
YEAR: 6 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Without Our Culture, We Don't Have Our History; Without Our History, we Don't Have Our Future: Culture, Migrant Communities, and Corporate Social Responsibility in China.

Yasmin Cho
YEAR: 4 ABD

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Territoriality and transnationalism, everyday life of anthropology and space; China, Tibet, Northern India

Mackenzie Cramblit

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: State-implemented agricultural projects and the cultivation of the "modern" young farmer.

Jason Cross -- JD/PhD
YEAR: 10 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Metrics and Democratization: Law, Technology and Democratic Expertise in Postwar El Salvador
Dwayne E. Dixon
YEAR: 10 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Endless Question: Urban Japanese Kids and the Cruel/Cool Imaginary of Youth

Arianne Dorval
YEAR: 8 ABD

DISSERTATION TITLE: Reconfiguring the Common at the Border of the Nation: Life, Labor and Political Organizing of Sans Papiers Workers in the Port-City of Marseille

Jatin Dua
YEAR: 6 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection along the East African Coast.

Stephanie Friede

YEAR:2

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Globalization / Neoliberalism and Politics of Memory, Environmental Anthropology; Latin America, Spain               

Patrick Galbraith

YEAR: 2

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Alternative Forms of Intimacy Emerging in Contemporary Japanese Capitalism; Japan

Yidong Gong

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health commodity and care flows between China and Tanzania

Jay Hammond

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Oxycontin abuse, music, political economy of pharmaceuticals

Lia Haro
YEAR: 9 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: The End(s) of the End of Poverty: Ethnography in a Millennium Village

Nadia Hemady
YEAR: 3

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Popular culture, masculinity, Japan

Ana Huang

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: China, women and sexuality

June Hee Kwon
YEAR: 8 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Between Two Dreams: Multiple Dwellings, Multiple Departures of Korean Chinese in Yanbian , China

Ameem Lutfi
YEAR: 3

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Politics, local understandings, post-colonialism, Pakistan

Alyssa Miller
YEAR: 3

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Islam, migration, Iraq/Egypt

Lorien R. Olive
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: The Exceptional City: Guayaquileno Autonomy, Urban Regeneration and Political Subjectivity in Ecuador

Spencer Orey
YEAR: 3

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Media, humanitarianism, West Africa, Mali/Morocco

Erin D. Parish
YEAR: 5 ABD

DISSERTATION TITLE: Remaking Home: The Politics and Practice of Return in Colombia.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Space/place/power, anthropology and history, anthropology of the Americas

Samuel Shearer

YEAR:3

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Politics of Development, Urban Planning and Infrastructure Building; Central Africa

Ju Hyung Shim
YEAR: 8 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Brothers Reunion: Post-Cold War Nationalism and Post-Socialist Internationalism in the Borderland of Viet Nam
Tamar Shirinian
YEAR: 4 ABD
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural production, feminist theory, Armenia and Armenian Diaspora in Los Angeles

Brian Smithson

YEAR: 2

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mass Media, Pentecostal- Charismatic Christianity; West Africa

Elena Turevon

YEAR: 2

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Security, Cultural Politics, Violence; Middle East

Jason Woerner

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Working class motorcycle gangs in Bangkok

Louis Yako

YEAR: 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Iraqi gender dynamics and the wars in the region from the Iran-Iraq conflict to the present

Serkan Yolacan
YEAR: 3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Muslim networks; Empires and borderlands; Eurasia and the Middle East

Cagri Yoltar-Durukan
YEAR: 4 ABD

RESEARCH INTERESTS: State ethnography, theories on sovereignty, governmentality, subjectivity, post-colonial theory; Middle East/Turkey.

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    • June Hee Kwon studies migrant laborers among Korean Chinese.

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