Graduate Students

Bridget Alex
Research Interests: archaeological chemistry, dietary ecology, diagenesis, methods development, Paleolithic Europe.
balex [at] fas.harvard.edu
EPS

Lindsey Alexander
Research Interests: United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea; biomedical research and ethics; local laboratory practices; the production of biomedical discourses; and public understandings of science.
lalexand [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Karim Alizadeh
Research Interests: Iran, ancient Near East, material science, landscape.
alizadeh [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 57K

Sa’ed Adel Atshan
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Anthropology of development; politics of humanitarianism; medical anthropology; Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
atshan [at] fas.harvard.edu

Neal Akatsuka
Research Interests: Anthropology of science, science studies, ethics, aesthetics, biotechnology, human-plant relations, queer studies, globalization, Japan, and the United States.
akatsuka [at] fas.harvard.edu | www.nealakatsuka.net
WJH 307

Non Arkaraprasertkul
Research Interests: China; Shanghai; Urban anthropology, space planning
narkarap [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 303

Felicity Aulino
Research Interests: Southeast Asia; Public health.
aulino [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Cynthia Browne
cbrowne [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 337

Janis Calleja
Research Interests: North America; examining aspects of cultural change and identity in contact period prehistoric indigenous communities in Southwestern North America through theoretical perspectives involving practice, postcolonialism, and phenomenological perspectives on material culture.
jcalleja [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Ari Caramanica
Research Interests: Peru; inter- & intra-societal boundaries, transitions and points of discord through lens of landscape archaeology.
acaraman [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Philip Cartelli
Research Interests: Senegal; Media anthropology, political/economic anthropology
cartelli [at] fas.harvard.edu | http://pcartelli.com
WJH 303

Kristin Castillo
- MA Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: South Asia; India; complex processes through which social inequalities become manifest biologically as poor health.
kristin_castillo [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Shu Chang
Research Interests: China; Chinese rural society, socialism and post-socialist transformation, social mobilization.
shuchang [at] fas.harvard.edu

Dylan Clark
Research Interests: Maya coastal and port communities, social identity and power, intercultural interaction, household archaeology, public and community archaeology, Mesoamerica.
djclark [at] fas.harvard.edu

Lizzy Cooper-Davis
- Joint AAAS
davis5 [at] fas.harvard.edu

Bridget Corbett Hanna
bhanna [at] fas.harvard.edu

Noa Corcoran-Tadd
Research Interests: Andes, archaeology of the early colonial period, socioeconomic transformations, mining and monetization, rethinking social-material ontologies.
ncorcorantadd [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
Research Interests: China, Sichuan, Archaeobotany, Paleoethnobotany,
Agriculture, Starch Grain analysis.
jguedes [at] fas.harvard.edu | website
Vanserg 106

Aryo Danusiri
Research Interests: Indonesia, South East Asia; Visual Ethnography, Nexus of Borders, Fundamentalism, Mobility, Developmentalism, Humanitarianism, Decentralization.
danusiri [at] fas.harvard.edu

Dadi Darmadi
Research Interests: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Saudi Arabia; Anthropology of religion, Islam, pilgrimage, diaspora, transnational networks.
darmadi [at] fas.harvard.edu

Juana Davila
Research Interests: Latin America, in particular, Colombia and Venezuela; anthropology of power, legal discourse, illegality, policy, legislative processes and bureaucracy; agrarian reform, human-land ties, the Colombian armed conflict and armed action in general, internal forced displacement, and notions of memory, reparation and justice.
jdavila [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 375

Will Day
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Southeastern Turkey; displacement, dispossession, and resettlement; home; work; poverty reduction programs; political economy.
jwday [at] fas.harvard.edu

Ujala Dhaka
Research Interests: South Asia; Citizenship, Politics of Faith, Democracy, Community, Caste, Minority Claims, Governmentality, Sovereignty, Anthropology of the State,
Postcolonial Studies.
udhaka [at] fas.harvard.edu

Namita Dharia
ndharia [at] fas.harvard.edu
William James Hall 309

Jeffrey Dobereiner
Research Interests: Mesoamerica; Maya archaeology, political economy, complex society formation, etc...
jdober [at] fas.harvard.edu
Meso Lab

Zoe Eddy
- Joint doctorate in Social Anthropology and Archaeology
Research Interests: supernatural belief systems, ritual and religion, animal studies, food studies, gender and identity, material culture, LARPing, collaborative anthropology, historical archaeology, cross-comparative analysis; Japan, the United Kingdom, island communities.
zeddy [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Nathaniel Erb-Satullo
Research Interests: Ancient pyrotechnology (glass, metals, ceramics), social contexts of technological change, environmental impacts of pyrotechnology, materials science, Near East.
nsatullo [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 57O

Alex Fattal
Research Interests: Demobilization of former combatants, propaganda, mass publicity, media events, Colombia, media anthropology, transnational insurgency and counterinsurgency. Newer media: Facebook, YouTube. Visual anthropology, Brazil. Iranian-American relations, international relations.
fattal [at] fas.harvard.edu

Molly Fierer-Donaldson
Research Interests: Ideology and religion.
fierer [at] fas.harvard.edu
Vanserg 106

Jesse Grayman
Research Interests: Indonesia; Medical Anthropology, humanitarianism.
grayman [at] fas.harvard.edu

Emily Hammer
Research Interests: Near Eastern landscape archaeology (on-going projects in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates); GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics on both regional and intra-site scales; pastoral nomadism; settlement patterns; ancient water-controlling technologies, including irrigation networks, cisterns, dams, and wells.
ehammer [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 59A

Hsuan-Ying Huang
Research Interests: Taiwan & Chine; counseling and psychotherapy in China, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, cultural encounter, Mental health policy.
hyhuang [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Yitzchak Jaffe
Research Interests: China; rise & impact of the Western Zhou State on ancient landscape and population.
yitzchakjaffe [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Abbas Jaffer
Research Interests: Pakistan; masculinity and bodily practices.
jaffer [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 309

Farrah Jarral
- MA Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: UK; US; cross-cultural psychiatry, transnationalism, urban anthropology and citizenship.
fjarral [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Sarah Kashani
Research Interests: Japan and Korea; ethnic entrepreneurialism, race and diversity in Japan.
kashani [at] fas.harvard.edu

Damina Khaira
Research Interests: SouthEast Asia, Borneo; indigeneity, identity politics, heritage.
dkhaira [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 347

Nancy A. Khalil
Research Interests: Muslims in America (particularly the 2nd and 3rd generation); Higher Education & Student Development; Religion, Religiosity, & Spirituality; Belief; Transnationalism.
nkhalil [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 337

Bethany Kibler
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Syria; sexuality and gender, narratives of self and subjectivity.
bkibler [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 309

Simeon Kimmel
- Joint MD/PhD
Research Interests: United States; Medical anthropology, urban anthropology; incarceration, health and human rights of prisoners, violence, drug use, stigma, race, power, and social inequality.
simeon_kimmel [at] hms.harvard.edu
WJH 347

Sharon Freda Kivenko
Research Interests: West Africa, African Diaspora; Performance, material culture, and national identity.
skivenko [at] fas.harvard.edu

Julie Kleinman
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Paris, Algiers; Trains and transportation, power and narrative in public spaces, political economy.
kleinm [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 349

Michele Koons
Research Interests: Andean complex societies; GIS regional settlement patterning, geophysical techniques into large database; public education.
mkoons [at] fas.harvard.edu
Vanserg 106

Veronika Kusumaryati
Research Interests: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, audiovisual technologies, circulation and production of images,anthropology of knowledge/science, and political changes.
kusumaryati [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 309

WengCheong Lam
wlam [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 57K

Toby Lee
Research Interests: Greece, Balkans, US; Film, media, art in society.
tobylee [at] fas.harvard.edu

Darryl Li
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Middle East, South Asia; Political theory, Islamic and other non-western universalisms, political violence, international law and imperialism, human rights and humanitarian law (practice and critique), Zionism.
darrylli [at] fas.harvard.edu

Wirun Limsawart
- MA Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Thailand and Malay Peninsula; ethnicity,
nationalism, border health, conflict and violence in pluralistic societies, medical culture and morality in changing world.
limsawar [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 347

Andrew Littlejohn
Research Interests: Japan; food studies, human-animal relationship.
andrewlittlejohn [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 307

Jennifer Mack
- Joint Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
Research Interests: Welfare states, Sweden, public space, publics and counterpublics, the built environment, immigration, diaspora, governmentality.
jmack [at] fas.harvard.edu

Carla Martin
- Joint African and African-American Studies
Research Interests: Cape Verde and Diaspora, Africa and Diaspora, Lusophonia, North America; Ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, “Creole” studies, visual anthropology, popular culture, race and gender studies, diaspora and transnationalism, education, development, human rights.
cdmartin [at] fas.harvard.edu

David Anthony Martinez
Research Interests: Bhutan, Tibet; legal and economic anthropology, comparative constitutional law, land law, agricultural policy, agrarian labor markets, rural exchange and finance.
dmartin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Zinovi Matskevich
Research Interests: Near East; Caucasus, Neolithic; Palaeolithic, lithic analysis; origins of hierarchical societies; rituals; settlement organization, specialization and trade; incorporation of agriculture and domestication.
matskev [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 57N

Jared McCormick
Research Interests: Lebanon, Syria; Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Tourism.
jmccorm [at] fas.harvard.edu

Andrew McDowell
Research Interests: South Asia; an anthropology of the body, intersections between phenomenology and political economy, the geographically distanced from a metropole, global public health, ideology, memory, infectious disease, and interventions.
mcdowell [at] fas.harvard.edu

Muhammad Arafat Mohamad
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Middle East; Diaspora, ethnicity, transnational networks, history.
mohamad [at] fas.harvard.edu

Alireza Mohammadi-Doostdar
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Iran; Magic, jinn possession, and the occult sciences; mystics and mystical biographies; Islamic philosophy; religious commodities; aesthetics of vulgarity and kitsch; notions of rationality and superstition; political economy; the relationship between all the above.
doostdar [at] fas.harvard.edu

Andrea Murray
Research Interests: Japan; Sustainable Tourism Development, Environmental Education and Climate Change in Okinawa.
aemurray [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 307

Aryeh Nakissa
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Arab Middle East. Law, religion, and epistemolgy in different cultrual contexts religion (esp. Islam); law (esp. Western, Islam & law and legal history); epistemology.
nakissa [at] fas.harvard.edu

Anh-Thu Ngo
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Viet Nam; urbanism, memory, identity politics, epistemologies, environment, art.
ango [at] fas.harvard.edu

Chiaki Nishijima
cnishij [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 307

Lisanne Norman
- Joint AAAS
Research Interests: United States, Nigeria, and Cuba; African-American practice of Yoruba religion from 1959 to present and the transnational cultural and religious exchanges that have taken place between the US, Cuba, and Nigeria.
lnorman918 [at] gmail [dot] com

Andrew Ong
Research Interests: Burma/SW China; violence, affective culture.
aong [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 303

Rheana (Juno) Parrenas
Research Interests: Malaysia, Island Southeast Asia, 'Greater Britain'; animal studies, post/colonial science studies, gender and sexuality studies.
parrenas [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 349

Federico Perez
Research Interests: Latin America (Colombia and Brazil), cities and citizenship, urban policy and planning, space, neoliberalism, development, technocracy and expertise.
perez2 [at] fas.harvard.edu

Sabrina Ana Peric
Research Interests: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Near East; primary resource extraction, imperial history, industrialization and intellectual production, political economy, labour and value.
peric [at] fas.harvard.edu

Tilsa Ponce
Research Interests: Peru; contemporary subjectivity, immigration from rural to urban areas.
tponce [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Vipas Prachyaporn
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Laos; Artisanship, personhood, nationalism, post-socialist economic, material culture.
vprachy [at] fas.harvard.edu

Devaka Premawardhana
- Joint Religious Studies (Ad Hoc)
Research Interests: Pentecostal and indigenous religion, rationality debates, hope and the imagination, rural-urban migration, Mozambique.
premawar [at] fas.harvard.edu

Max Price
Research Interests: Near East; Zooarchaeology, processes of domestication and how it reflected and created social and cultural structures.
maxprice [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 58A-B

Esra Gokce Sahin
egsahin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Amy Saltzman
Research interests include: medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, health care technologies/pharmaceuticals in low-resource settings, addiction, global mental health, and South Africa.
saltzman [at] fas.harvard.edu

Jasmine Samara
Research Interests: Greece; Greek Muslims, human rights, law, religion and the state, minorities, gender.
jlsamara [at] yahoo.com
WJH 305

Lauren Santini
Research Interests: Maya, settlement patterns, GIS, remote sensing.
lmsantin [at] fas.harvard.edu
Meso Lab

Benjamin Shaffer
Research Interests: China; media, art communities.
benny.shaffer [at] gmail.com
WJH 303

Jason Silverstein
Research Interests: DNA testing, ethnic proofs, and asylum politics in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
jbs351[at] mail.harvard.edu | website
WJH 303

John Paul Sniadecki
Research Interests: China; Social change, Media anthropology.
jpsniad [at] fas.harvard.edu

Marta Sobur
Research Interests: Near East, Mesopotamia, ancient Iran, ancient Arabia; South Asia; complex societies; steatite material, vessels, their style, composition, manufacture and trade; archaeometry; malacological arch.
msobur [at] fas.harvard.edu
Lowell House

Claudio Sopranzetti
Research Interests: Thailand, Southeast Asia; urban anthropology, mobility, politics of public space, informal economy.
sopranz [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 385

Stephanie Spray
Research Interests: Nepal; film and video, phenomenology, anthropology of religion, gender and sexuality, art and performance, media anthropology.
sspray [at] fas.harvard.edu

Maria Stalford
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Vietnam; Traditional medicine.
stalford [at] fas.harvard.edu

Adam Stack
Research Interests: Incan politics and cosmology, Andes, urbanism and cultural change, settlement patterns, colonial archaeology.
stack [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 59A

Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna
Research Interests: Japan; Environmental politics, food culture, political economy.
nsternsd [at] fas.harvard.edu

Kimberly Sue
- MD/PhD student
Research Interests: US, South Africa; medical anthropology, prisons, addiction/drug treatment, urban anthropology, discourses on crime and punishment, politics of health, structural violence.
kimberly_sue [at] hms.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Nawa Sugiyama
Research Interests: Ceremonial contexts, faunal collection from Pyramid of Moon; material remains.
nsugiyam [at] fas.harvard.edu
Vanserg 106

Kedron Thomas
Research Interests: Central America; fashion, piracy, indigeneity, international law, informal economies, entrepreneurship.
kthomas [at] fas.harvard.edu

Anand Vaidya
Research Interests: India; anthropology of the state; political ecology; legal anthropology; expertise.
avaidya [at] fas.harvard.edu

Nathaniel VanValkenburg
Research Interests: Peru; mobility, territoriality, urban space, political ecology, ethnohistory, the politics of indigeneity and heritage, indigenous historicities, GIS, Andes.
npvan [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 59A

Bastien Varoutsikos
Research Interests: Near Eastern Prehistory,Transition, Neolithic, Obsidian, Lithic Technology, Physico-chemical analysis (xrf), GIS, Process of Diffusion and Acquisition of Technology.
bvarouts [at] fas.harvard.edu
PM 57O

Grete Viddal
- Joint African and African-American Studies
Research Interests: Cuba, Haiti, West and Central Africa; Afro-Atlantic dance, ritual and performance, expressive culture and identity, transnationalism and migration, processes of "folkloricization".
gviddal [at] fas.harvard.edu

Fumitaka Wakamatsu
Research Interests: Japan; Environmentalism, science, food culture, whaling.
wakamats [at] fas.harvard.edu

Julia Yezbick
Research Interests: visual anthropology, phenomenology, embodiment, space/place, Catholic Charismatics, emplacement, "sense" of home, experience, Italy, India, Nepal.
yezbick [at] fas.harvard.edu | sensatejournal.com
WJH 337

Aylin Yildirim
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Migration, Informality, Home and Identity, Rapid Urbanization, Rural Development; Middle East.
ayildirim [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 337

Dilan Yildirim
Research Interests: Turkey; Kurdish political movements, structural violence & memory, marginality, landscape and subjectivity, politics of culture.
dyildir [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 337

Emrah Yildiz
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Europe/Middle East; Turkey, Germany, Iran; Political economy, neoliberal economic restructuring, trans-nationalism.
eyildiz [at] fas.harvard.edu

Qingyang Yuan
qyuan [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 347

Min Zhang
Research Interests: North and Southeast China; Social experiences of ordinary Chinese people, especially their political and religious life.
minzhang [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305