UW Anthropology Graduate Students

ARCHAEOLOGY

Brown, William

(MA Washington 2008) Hunter-gatherer social networks and demography; archaeological applications of sociobiology and practice theory; demographic and epidemiological transitions; high-latitudes hunter-gatherers
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Carlson, David R.

(BA Florida 2007) Plantation archaeology, colonialism, GIS and visiblity/accessibility, landscape archaeology, public archaeology, philosophy of archaeology; Southeast Asia (Indonesia)
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Casson, Aksel

(PhC Washington 2005) The prehistory of Europe and the Near East, with a focus on chronology development in these regions, using luminescence dating
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Cohen, Anna

(MA Washington 2011) Political economy, consumption; early urbanism; colonialism, politics and ethics of archaeology; survey methods; S and SE Asia, W Mexico
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Cowan, Andrew

(BA British Columbia 1987) Factors influencing the emergence of complex societies, social stratification, ceramic production and trade; human/environment interaction; survey design strategies; GIS and landscape archaeology; SE Asia
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Dailide, Ashley

(MA Washington 2008) Colonization of the Pacific, gender studies, and subsistence strategies; Oceania, Southeast Asia
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Deppen, Jacob

(MA Washington 2010) Zooarchaeology, historical ecology, landscape archaeology, GIS, issues of archaeological practice
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Flaming, Jay

(MA Washington 2008) Landscape, integrating digital techniques, climate change and cultural resource management, archaeology praxis in government
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Freeburg, Adam

(MA Washington 2007) Subsistence and mobility practices, environmental archaeology, GIS; Arctic and sub-Arctic
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Gjesfjeld, Erik

(PHC Washington 2011) Evolutionary theory, cultural transmission, quantitative methods, hunter-gatherers, ceramic production and technology; Russian Far East, Japan
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Giovas, Christina

(PhC Washington 2006) Zooarchaeology, island archaeology, anthropogenic environmental impacts in prehistory; Caribbean, Polynesia
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Haertel, Kirstie

(MA Washington 2003) Evolutionary ecology, nutritional ecology; Plateau, Snake River Plain, Northern Great Basin
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Huff, Jennifer

(PhC Washington 2010) Mobility patterns and lithic technology of Pleistocene and Holocene highland Papua New Guinea, colonization and migration in island Southeast Asia, computer modeling; Asia and Oceania
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Johnson, Jack A.

(PhC Washington 2008) Archaeometry, geoarchaeology, monumental architecture, climate change; Peru
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Jordan, Amy

(PhC Washington 2009) Faunal analysis, environmental archaeology, colonialism, feminist critique, ethics in archaeology; West Coast of America and Indonesia
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Kwak, Seungki

(MA Washington 2011) Transition from foragers to farmers, subsistence change, emergence of intensive rice agriculture in East Asia, organic geochemistry, ceramic analysis
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Louderback, Lisbeth

(MA Washington 2009) Archaeology and paleoecology of the arid west; palynology; archaeobotany; human-environment interactions
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Mabanag, Mark

(MA Washington 2010) Ethnohistory, culture contact, maritime trade, spread of Islam; Southeast Asia, Philippines
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Madsen, Mark

(MS Wisconsin, Madison 1990) Human landscape ecology, settlement, and land use, dual-transmission and signaling theory; Eastern North America and Oceania
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Malakie, Julie L.

(MS University College, London 2008) Advanced technology, GIS, GIS models of movement over land and sea; multi-scale framework for investigating the nature of exchange networks; evolutionary approaches; Iron Age SE Asia (Thai-Malay peninsula)
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Moore, Scotty B.

(PhC Washington 2004) Geoarchaeology, irrigation technology, lithic analysis; American Southwest and Pacific Rim
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Naumann, Aaron

(MA Washington 2009) Identity and boundary maintenance within the archaeological record; Western Great Lakes
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Odell, Molly

(PhC Washington 2010)Environmental archaeology, marine ecosystems, subsistence, shellfish; Kodiak Island and North Pacific
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Pan, Yi

(BA Sichuan 2011)Landscape archaeology, computational modeling and simulation, quantitative analysis; China, East Asia and Southeast Asia
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Peterson, Emily J.

(PhC Washington 2009) Faunal analysis, environmental archaeology, trade; Island Southeast Asia
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Slobodina, Natalia

(MA Washington 2010 )Northern adaptations; mobility and technology; lithic technology (chert and slate); geochemical sourcing; geoarchaeology; Ice-patch archaeology; Arctic and Subarctic regions; Beringia
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Solinis Casparius, Rodrigo

(MA Universidad de Salamanca 2008) Public, community and indigenous archaeology; archaeological ethnography, conservation; cultural heritage and ethics of archaeological practice; Mexico
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Taylor, Amanda K.

(PhC Washington 2008) Coastal archaeology; Northwest Coast; Channel Islands; lithic analysis
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Taylor, James

(PhC Washington 2010) Human migration, paleoecology, and technological change; Russian Far East and northwestern US and Canada (Beringia)
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Whittaker, Joss

(BA Brown 2006) Culture and environment, contact and exchange, trade, borders and frontiers; Southeast Asia
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Wopschall, Kayla

(MA Washington 2009) Vertebrate evol/paleoecology in conjunction with hominid ecol/paleoeology; North and South America, Mediterranean
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BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Bailey, Jeannie

(BS UC Berkeley 2008) Human and primate skeleton biomechanics, orthopaedic health
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Basu, Baishakhi

(MS Hans Raj College 2007) Female reproductive health and ecology, female fecundity in developing countries
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Bethancourt, Hilary

(BA New Mexico 2008) Global health, epidemiological and nutritional transitions, reproductive and behavioral ecology, child and adolescent growth and development; China, Latin America, US
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Chabot-Hanowell, Benjamin

(PhC Washington 2011) Human behavioral ecology of social inequality, kinship dynamics, remittance and migration patterns, human territorial strategies and Ancient Maya polities; Latin American and the Caribbean, Commonwealth of Dominica
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Grunspan, Daniel

(BS Texas A&M 2008) Human altruism and cooperation, religion, cultural transmission; Israel
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Gugsa, Salem

(MPH Washington 2008) Infectious diseases, vulnerability to infections, cultural influences, social support, decision making processes, adherence to treatment, and retention to care; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hayes Constant, Tara

(MA Washington 2012) Role of psychosocial stress in immune function; applied anthropology; global and public health; chronic disease development; migrant health, women's health; US and Latin America
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Kemmis, Sam

(MA Binghamton 2009) Modeling warfare in population genetics, with particular focus on multi-level selection and cultural group selection; US Sub-populations
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Kim, Jun Hong

(PhC Washington 2010) Large scale cooperation by cultural group selection; Evolutionary approaches to culture; Gene-Culture coevolution
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King, Mary

(BA UC Davis 2008) Human behavioral ecology, life history theory, fertility, family planning, gender roles; South Asia
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Lyle III, Henry F.

(PhC Washington 2009) Signaling theory, generosity, collective action, social support networks, human-computer interaction; Andean Peru, USA
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Ouchida, Misaki

(PhD Hiroshima 2010) Emergence of bipedalism; Ethiopia
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Pan, Tiffany

(BS Duke 2010) Human disease ecology, evolutionary medicine, human-environment interactions, One Health
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Trumble, Ben

(PhC Washington 2010) Reproductive endocrinology, human behavioral ecology, testosterone and costly signaling theory, men's health, extreme sports, biomarker development
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Wander, Katherine

(PhC Washington 2009) Growth and development, infectious disease; E. Africa
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ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Aldasoro Maya, Miriam

(PhC Washington 2005) Ethnobiology, Traditional Enviromental Knowledge in Transnational Settings, Political Ecology, Participatory research, Biocultural Education
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Eloheimo, Marja

(PhC Washington 2001) Pacific Northwest, India, U.S. Mainstream, ethnobotany, environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, community-based herbalism
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Huang, Yu

(PhC Washington 2007) Environmental anthropology, neo-librealism, aquaculture, Science and Technology Studies (STS); China
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LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Joyce

(PhC Washington 2010) Ethnoecology, political ecology, historical ecology, environmental history and ethnohistory. Language and traditional foods revitalization and food sovereignty movements in Coast Salish communities, non-timber forest resources, montane environments, and human relationships with fire. US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia
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Rivera, Rebeca

(PhC Washington 2004) Sustainable consumption, common property, intentional communities, urban ecology, natural resource conservation & sustainability; Pacific Northwest and Mexico
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Storm, Linda

(PhC Washington 2002) Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and traditional ecosystem management (TEM) with fire; anthropogenic prairies & oak woodlands; paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany and ethnoecology; origins of agriculture and contemporary agroecology (perennial polyculture)
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SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Allen, Robertson L.

(PhC Washington 2007) The military entertainment complex; anthropologies of video games, technology, and the military; America's Army video game; nostalgia and hyperreality; cognitive labor; ethnomusicology; U.S. and Japan
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Bloom, Sarah

(MA Colorado-Boulder 2005) Comparative studies of museums; Middle East, Spain and China
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Brame, Roxanne

(PhC Washington 2009) Anthropology of place/space, Muslim Diaspora communities, material culture, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis; N. Africa, and the Middle East
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Byler, Darren

(MA Columbia 2009) Anthropology of place/space, anthropology of visual/expressive culture, material culture and built environment, human ecology, tourism and travel; China and Central Asia (Turkic/Han)
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Cannon, Cade

(PhC Washington 2011) Ufology, the extraterrestrial hypothesis, anthropology of the state, religion and knowledge production; Southwestern United States and Montreal, Quebec
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Capuder, Karen

(PhC Washington 2008) Community-Based Participatory Research, cultural landscapes, Indigenous anthropological theory, Kanienkehaka culture/politics/spirituality, cultural resources protection among Coast Salish peoples, Indigenous health and wellness
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Carrigan, Coleen

(PhC Washington 2010)Socio-economic politics of reproduction, sexual and racial divisions of labor, cultures of technology, political economic theory, critical race feminist theory, underrepresentation in science & engineering, unexamined bias, the value of women's labor in US & Brazil
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Carroll, Jennifer

(MA Central European University 2007) Medical anthropology, public health and epidemiology, addiction, drug use, psychology, epistemologies of health and healing, semiotics, morality, post-socialism; Ukraine
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Ceron, Alejandro

(PhC Washington 2010) Health inequalities in pluralistic medical systems, health as human right, anthropology of pharmaceuticals, socio-cultural epidemiology; social stratification in Guatemala, Latin American immigrants in the US. K'iche' language and culture
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Chang, Hsi-Wen

(MS National Taiwan University 2001) Medical anthropology and global health; Austronesia and Native North America
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Citrin, David

(PhC Washington 2009)Critical medical anthropologies, global health care chains, the social and political lives of medicines, "health camps" and forms of short-term medical (volun)tourism, humanitarian assemblages and interventions, NGOs, food aid and hunger; Nepal
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Cruz, Stephanie

(BA Stanford 2008) Medical anthropology, organ and tissue trade, ethical use of cadavers, whole body donation; US, India, and Latin America
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Erickson, Olivia Littles

(PhC Washington 2009) Racial identity and representation, African American history, collective memory, construction of place/space, critical discourse analysis, and museums; US
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Espinoza, Damarys

(PhC Washington 2010) Community-based participatory research, indigenous anthropological theory, intimate partner violence, gendered violence, health and wellness, women's autonomy, social movements; Peru, Latin America, U.S.-Mexico
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Figueroa Gray, Marlaine

(MA Maryland 2008) Child health, child subjectivity, illness narratives, resilience strategies, therapuetic art, hospital volunteers
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Fonoti, Rochelle

(PhC Washington 2010) Samoan Diaspora, youth culture, alter/native, indigenous anthropology, representations of cultural identity
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Garcia, Raul

(MA Washington 2010) Theoretical approaches to the study of culture, examining and exploring topics on the experiences of Chicanos/Latinos; Pacific Northwest
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Giles, Dave

(PhC Washington 2008) Trash, capital, surplus economies; homelessness, globalization and the state; social networks, grassroots globalization, and punk rock; mass media, popular culture; public space, consumption and homelessness; existentialism; counterdisciplinary research and pedagogy; Latin America, Australia, and the US
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Griffin, P. Joshua

(M.Div. Harvard Divinity School 2009) Environmental anthropology; environmental and climate justice; religion and ecology/nature; ethnographic study of lived religion; environmental ethics and philosophy; eco-theology; constructive theology; existential anthropology
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Hale, Matthew A.

(PhC Washington 2008) Development, social
movements, agrarian change, capitalism; China
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Holliday, Ava

(BA New York University 2007) White privilege, affective labor and climbers in the Pacific Northwest
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Jian, Ge (Gladys)

(PhC Washington 2010) Language ideology and politics, language and identity, language and power; political economy, modernity, nationalism, and transnationalism; the English languages and globalization; Ethnic studies; Translation studies and the cultural politics of translation; China, East Asia and Central Asia
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Kleisath, C. Michelle

(PhC Washington 2010) Development Studies/Transnational Development, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory; Tibet, China
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Lozano, Jessica

(MA San Jose State 2009) Transnational communities and families, globalization, Chicana/o Mexicana/o cultures, HIV/AIDS, transnational queer communities, cultural citizenship, ethnography, alter/native anthropology, Mexico, Honduras, and the United States
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Lynch, Emily

(MA Washington 2008) Labor studies, anarchism, social reproduction, information behavior; N. America, Pacific Northwest
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Maher, Stephanie

(BA Mount Holyoke 2008) Clandestine immigration and human smuggling; visual anthropology; West Africa
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Marshall, Michael

(BA De Paul 2010) China, urbanism, youthhood, ‘growing up’, punk and rock expressive forms, participatory culture, soundscapes, ‘opting out’ & alternative economies, power & marginality, music & communication, language hybridity, language politics, transnational community formation, social networks, the Internet, public scholarship, visual anthropology
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Robinson, Kenneth

(MA Washington 2012) Social ecology, environmental justice and racism, social justice, popular social movements; Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), Latin America
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Rhodes, Lauren

(PhC Washington 2010) Performance of ethnic, cultural and national identity, impact of EU integration and collapse of Soviet Union on identity politics,"visible" ethnic minorities/immigrants, individuals of black African descent; Latvia, Baltic States
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Ryker-Crawford, Jessie

(PhC Washington 2009) The indigenization of museums; Athapaskan artwork and culture; identity formation within contemporary Native American art; interior Alaska, British Columbia, US Southwest
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Savloff, Leyla

(MA New School for Social Research 2009) Subjectivity, culture and power, identity and representation, governmentality, gender and motherhood, neoliberalism in postcolonial societies, urban ethnography, violence; US, Latin America, South American (Argentina)
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Scherbinske, Shanna

(BA Gonzaga 2002) Refugees, security, intervention, humanitarian aid; Horn of Africa (Somalia, Kenya) and the United States
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Serrato, Claudia

(MA California State-Los Angeles 2009) Indigenous media and epistemology, AlterNative methodology, decolonial/anticolonial and Zapatismo Theory, critical ecologies, bodily memory of taste, indgenous womb ecology, Mesoamerican birthing, nursing and feeding traditions; underground feminisms, deep anthropology, baby food politics, and the medical industry
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Shapiro, Lily

(BA Amherst 2008) Medical anthropology, occupational health, labor, trauma, globalization of medical expertise and technologies; India
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Siscawati, Mia

(PhC Washington 2007) Culture and power, culture and development, gender, ethnicity, environment and development, social ecology; Indonesia, Southeast Asia
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Statz, Michele

(MA Washington 2010) Anthropology of law; anthropology of youth; transnational child migration; unaccompanied and separated youths' rights and representation; China
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Sutrisno, Evi

(PhC Washington 2010) Confucianism, politics of religion in Indonesia, historical trauma, Chinese-Indonesian ethnic identitie
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Tilland, Bonnie

(PhC Washington 2009) New kinship theory; anthropology of citizenship; new media and alternative media; family values and social change in South Korea, transmission and reception of South Korean television dramas; transnational East Asia
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Torres, Nicole

(PhC Washington 2009) medical anthropology, prisons, militarization, migration, borderlands, environmental justice; video games/virtual worlds; psychoanalysis and Marxism [email] [more info]

Tran, So Le

(PhC Washington 2007) Ethnicity, language education, globalization, identity, Mandarin Chinese; Asia, Vietnam and China
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Tseng, Hsun-Hui

(PhC Washington 2006) Transnational migration, postcolonialism and globalization; gender, ethnicity, and class; family and marriage; China and Taiwan
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Valle, Gabriel

(MA San Jose State 2009) Politcal ecology and economy, environmental anthropology, sustainability, social and political movements, immigration and anthropology of place/space, environmental justice and social equity; United States and Latin America
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Young, Tatiana

(MA U of Texas Austin 2011) Pacific Islander cultures, Pacific Islander Diaspora, colonialism in the Pacific (emphasis on Hawaii and Polynesia), Queer and transgender social movements, critical race theory, intersections of race, gender, sexuality and national identity, Feminist and Native anthropology, postcolonial feminist theory, autoethnography, tourism, queer theory, activist anthropology and social justice; Oceania
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Yum, Samuel

(PhC Washington 2006) Cultural policy, nationalism, material culture, museum studies, visual anthropology; Korea, Northeast Asia, North Pacific Rim
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Zogas, Anna

(PhC Washington 2012) Mild traumatic brain injury, United States military, disability, biomedicalism, institutional ethnography
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Zyskowski, Kathryn

(MS Pennsylvania 2011) Globalization, trans-national communication, identities and representation, nationalism, education, religion and language ideology; South Asia (India) [email] [more info]

VISITING GRADUATE STUDENTS

Dai, Qifu

(PhC Minzu University of China 2010) Natural Resources 'Exploitation and Minority Community's Development in China; PRC's Minzu Policy During Red Army's Long March; People's Two-way Migration in Yi's Areas; China
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Ruiz Marcos, Lorena

(PhC Complutense University of Madrid 2010) Memory, subjectivity, embodiment, care, ethnography, Alzheimer's disease
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Sun, Yue

(PhC Nanjing University 2010) Environmental Ethics and Environmental Anthropology
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