Social Anthropology Ph.D. Program Graduate Students


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 375

Andrea Allen
Research Interests: Brazil; Women, religion, medical anthropology, race, sexuality.
asallen [at] fas.harvard.edu

Sa’ed Atshan
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Middle East; Political anthropology of the Arab world, governance, nationalism.
atshan [at] fas.harvard.edu
Massachusetts Hall

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

Kambiz Behi
Research Interests: Middle East, Central Asia, Persian Gulf; Political violence, subjectivity, medical anthropology, psychiatry.
behi [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Research Interests: Mediterranean Europe, Middle East; Informal economies, maritime ethnography.
naorben [at] fas.harvard.edu
Weatherhead 219

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

Shu Chang
Research Interests: China; Chinese rural society, socialism and post-socialist transformation, social mobilization.
shuchang [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Joonhyun Michael Choi
Research Interests: Korea, USA, Religious Studies, Military Studies, Critical Theory, Visual Anthropology.
jhchoi [at] wjh.harvard.edu

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

Bridget Corbett Hanna
bhanna [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Aryo Danusiri
Research Interests: Indonesia, South East Asia; Visual Ethnography, Nexus of Borders, Fundamentalism, Mobility, Developmentalism, Humanitarianism, Decentralization.
danusiri [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 303

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

Shom Dasgupta
- AM Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Latin America, Mesoamerica
Political economy of health, critical medical anthropology, Mesoamerican indigenous peoples.
sndasgup [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
WJH 349

Ujala Dhaka
Research Interests: South Asia; Intersections of faith and modernity, governmentality, heritage conservation, science as a belief system.
udhaka [at] fas.harvard.edu

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

Alex Fattal
Research Interests: Colombia, guerrilla marketing, demobilization and reintegration, information warfare, humanitarianism, post conflict, counterinsurgenc.
fattal [at] fas.harvard.edu | website

Lyndon Gill
- Joint African and African-American Studies
Research Interests: Caribbean, Caribbean diasporas (New York, London, Toronto, etc.), Latin America; Racial formation and diaspora, the socio-scientific construction of sex and gender, sexuality as a category of cultural analysis, queer cultural production, ritual and corporality within performance genres, desire and the erotic, and post-coloniality.
gill [at] fas.harvard.edu

Paula Goldman
Research Interests: South Asia; Ethnic conflict, nationalism, violence, media, visual anthropology, human rights.
pgoldman [at] fas.harvard.edu

Garner Gollatz
Research Interests: Europe (France); the Middle East; healing in sacred and secular contexts; anthropology of Christianity; religion and science.
ggollatz [at] fas.harvard.edu

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

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

Edward Akintola Hubbard
Research Interests: Cape Verde; Narrativity and Aesthetics, Gothicicm and Monstrosity, Creolization in Language/Culture/Ideology.
hubbard [at] fas.harvard.edu

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 375

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

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

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

Megwen May Loveless
Research interests: Brazil, Latin America, Brazilian im/migration, popular culture, regional and national identity, music and dance performance, ethnomusicology, transnationalism, African diaspora, Portuguese language and pedagogy and media in the foreign language classroom.
loveless [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, Mongolia; religious epistemologies, Vajrayana Buddhism, political economy, development policy and social change, international and humanitarian law.
dmartin [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 305

Katherine Anne Mason
Research Interests: China; Medical anthropology, infectious disease control, bioethics, biopolitics, biobureaucracies, transnationalism, public health.
kamason [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 343

Jared McCormick
Research Interests: Lebanon, Syria; Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Tourism.
jmccorm [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 347

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
WJH 309

Muhammad Arafat Mohamad
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Middle East; Diaspora, ethnicity, transnational networks, history.
mohamad [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 347

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
WJH 347

Troy Montserrat-Gonzales
Research Interests: Native North America; Cultural and ethnic diversity in Indian country, gender, material culture, ethnohistory, museum studies.
montserr [at] fas.harvard.edu

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

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
WJH 309

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.
inorman5 [at] verizon.net

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

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
Weatherhead 226

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

Vipas Prachyaporn
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Laos; Artisanship, personhood, nationalism, post-socialist economic, material culture.
vprachy [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 303

Illiana Celia Quimbaya
Research Interests: Latin Amerca, Brazil; evangelicalism, Neo-Pentecostalism, intersections of financial and religious life, community building.
quimbaya [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 349

Ramyar Rossoukh
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Iran
rossoukh [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 318

Esra Gokce Sahin
egsahin [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 307

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
WJH 375

Kwame Zulu Shabazz
Research Interests: Ghana, West Africa; Globalization, Black Radical Thought, Diaspora, Political Economy.
kshabazz [at] fas.harvard.edu

Anthony Shenoda
- Joint CMES
Research Interests: Egypt, Middle East, USA; Anthropology of religion, materiality, mystery, memory, belief, diaspora, Coptic Orthodox Christianity.
shenoda [at] fas.harvard.edu | website

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

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

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
Sever 427

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

Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna
Research Interests: Japan; Environmental politics, food culture, political economy.
nsternsd [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 307

Kyoko Takehana
Research Interests: Japan, Vietnam, China; nationalism, neoliberalism, postsocialism, popular culture and media, youth culture, consumption.
takehana [at] fas.harvard.edu

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

Anand Vaidya
Research Interests: political ecology, legal anthropology, science studies.
avaidya [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 303

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
WJH 307

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
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
WJH 303

Qingyang Yuan
qyuan [at] fas.harvard.edu
WJH 375

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