Adriana Guimaraes Abreu
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- agabreu@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural anthropology. Sustainable development, natural resource management, and traditional populations in the Brazilian Amazon.
Graduate Students
George Armstrong
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- geoarmst@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Environmental Anthropology and African Studies. Sustainable development and pharmaceuticals, Institutional Analysis, Pharming (medicinal plant farming), Ethnobotany, Collaborative and visual methods in Madagascar and East Africa.
Geographic Areas of Specialization: Madagascar and East Africa.
Nichole L. Ballard
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- nlballar@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Indigenous knowledge systems; myth and ritual, curatorship, North American archaeology; Native American religious traditions, religion as a system of knowledge, archaeology of religion; ethnoarchaeology, GIS and the humanities, NAGPRA, cultural heritage, material culture; and postcolonial theory.
Beatriz Barros
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- bgdamota@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology, cultural heritage, history of archaeology, gender, environmental anthropology, climate change, sustainability, political ecology, human rights, ethics.
Hayden A. Bernard
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- habernar@iu.edu
Geographic Areas of Specialization: Madagascar and East Africa.
Topical Interests: Archaeology. Zooarchaeology; Historical Ecology; Fisheries; Geographic Information Systems. Geographic Area of Interest: the Chesapeake Bay area.
C. Scott Cawthon
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- cscawtho@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Linguistic anthropology, Archaeology of language, language revitalization, linguistic intolerance, minority languages, language and gender, French-speaking cultures
Angelina Yajie Chen
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- yajchen@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Migration, Gender, (Im)Mobility, Transnationalism.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: China, Ecuador, the Americas.
Avanti Chhatre
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- achhatre@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology. Performance studies, anthropology of music, nationalism, social movements, popular media.
Joey Cleveland
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- jpclevel@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural anthropology and central eurasian studies
Jacqueline Cowan
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- jaccowan@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Zooarchaeology, Trade and Migration.
Geographical Interests: American Southwest.
Peyton Foti
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- peyfoti@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology. Zooarchaeology; Urban & Historical Archaeology; Sex Work & the Sex Trade; Food Studies & Food Culture; Socioeconomics; Race & Identity; Sexuality & Gender.
Geographic Areas of Specialization: New Orleans, Louisiana; North America.
Eliza Frenkel
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- efrenkel@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology. Post soviet's objects in migration and exile, commemoration, memorial sites, ecological humanities, visual anthropology.
Kennedy Fue
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- kfue00@gmail.com
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology. Black diaspora studies; blackness and indigeneity; race and identity politics; transnationalism; decolonization; political/social movements; resistance.
Geographic Area of Specialization: Australia and Melanesia.
Marian Gabani Gimenez
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- mgabani@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Anthropology of religion; language and religion; material religion; visual anthropology; Messianic Judaism
Ariana Gunderson
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- agunder@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural and Linguistic Anthropology. Food Studies, Meat, Performance, Recipes, Restaurants, Photography, Food Memory.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Europe, Germany, Greece.
Dulat Ilyassov
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- dilyass@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropolog
Kevin Laddapong
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- kevladda@iu.edu
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Sweden; East & Southeast Asia
Topical Interests: Linguistic Anthropology; creative industry; transnationalism; media production
Pamela Lara Tufiño
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- plaratuf@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology. Mesoamerican archaeology; underwater archaeology; religion and rituality; ritual waterscapes; ethnoarchaeology; iconography; traditional navigation.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico, Mesoamerica, Latin America and the Caribbean.
J.C. Lansche
Degree Program: PhD
- jlansche@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology, Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, ritual landscapes, agency, animism, frontiers, prehistoric sporting, altered states, fire archaeology and ecology, LiDAR, GIS.
Geographic Areas of Specialization: American Southwest/Mexican Northwest.
Beatriz Lima Ribeiro
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- blimarib@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Sociocultural anthropology. Environmental governance; political anthropology; institutional ethnography.
Yasmin Lord
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- ylord@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Biological Anthropology. Primatology; Nutritional Anthropology, Phytoestrogen Consumption; Animal Computer Interactions (ACI), Animal Informatics; Conservation.
Geographic Area of Specialization: Costa Rica.
Diganta Mandal
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- dmandal@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Bioanthropology. Primate genetics; epigenetics; chemical landscape; anthropogenic pressure and climate change.
Andrea Marañón Laguna
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- amaranon@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology. Material culture, museum anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnicity and indigeneity, cultural heritage, tourism, contemporary craft practices.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico and Latin America.
Gaya Morris
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- morrisgr@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural anthropology
Sarah Muckerheide
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- smmucker@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology. Underwater archaeology; Spanish colonialism; globalization; historic shipwrecks.
Emma Nelson
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- nelsem@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Bioanthropology. Primate social behavior; empathy; positive affect; theory of mind; comparative cognition; animal computer interactions (ACI).
Maire O'Malley
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- mkomalle@iu.edu ; maire.omalley03@gmail.com
Topical Interests: Bioanthropology.
Research interests: primate nutritional ecology, ethnoprimatology, anthropogenic pressures, detoxification.
Gbenga Oyelakin
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- ooyelaki@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Linguistic anthropology. Intersections of language, power, and politics; analysis of political discourse.
Research areas: Political discourse analysis; discourse pragmatics; stylistics; media discourse; sociolinguistics.
Tolga Ozata
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- tozata@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-Cultural Anthropology. Political Violence; Subjectivity; State Violence; Power and Sovereignty; Hunger Strikes; Disability Studies and Care.
Geographic Areas of Specialization: Turkey, Middle East.
Malia Piazza
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- malpiaz@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Biological Anthropology
Cristian Rene Ramirez
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- crrramir@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology. Archaeology of Jalisco; Ancient west Mexico; archaeological theory.
Jorge Rios Allier
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- jriosall@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Archaeology and Social Context. Cultural Heritage Management, Economic value of Archaeology, Cultural bureaucracy issues, Environmental & Cultural Anthropology in Cultural Heritage Management: Frameworks, Analysis, and Perspectives around the contemporary world.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Oaxaca, Mexico; Latin America.
Liliana León
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- lileon@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural anthropology; food studies; migration; motherhood.
Rachel Seymour
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- rseymou@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural Anthropology. Aging, care, and caregiving; [social] work; community-engaged research; visual anthropology.
Geographical Areas of Specialization: American Midwest, Post-industrial towns, U.S.
Shulan Sun
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- shulsun@iu.edu
Geographic Areas of Specialization: Southwest China.
Topical Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language and materiality, semiotics, scientific knowledge production, tea industry.
Dana Vanderburgh
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- dsvander@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Social-cultural anthropology. Specialization in dance and community arts education.
Maria Julia Fernandes Vincentin
Degree Program: PhD
- maju.vicentin@gmail.com
Topical Interests: Visual Anthropology, Museums, Archives, Race, Feminist Theory, Post Colonial Studies.
Ashlee Webb
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- webbash@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Biological anthropology
Nikolina Zenović
Degree Program: Ph.D.
- nzenovic@iu.edu
Topical Interests: Linguistic Anthropology. Circulation of discourses; semiotics; scale; materiality; sustainability; sound studies.
Geographic Areas of Specialization: Greece, the Balkans, Former Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean.
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