Ahmed Adam
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • aadam4@uci.edu
Tawfiq Alhamedi
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Lafayette College, 2017 

  • belonging, citizenship, memory, Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Arab diasporas, postcolonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, race

  • talhamed@uci.edu
Monique Azzara
Shannon Bae
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Irvine 
    M.A., Hanyang University 
    B.A., Millikin University 

  • family, kinship, (trans)national belonging, gender, and South Korea

  • shannon2@uci.edu
Alice Chen
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Rochester 

  • environmental anthropology and sts

  • alicc10@uci.edu
Upuli DeSilva
Nan Ding
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Irvine 

  • dingn1@uci.edu
Hanna Dosenko
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Visual and Media Anthropology, HMKW Berlin, 2022
    B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences (major in Religious Studies, Philosophy, Politics, minor in Psychology), University of Groningen, 2018

  • war, digital anthropology, STS, forensics, and multi-modal methods, Ukraine

  • gdosenko@uci.edu
  • Website
Nasim Fekrat
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020
    M.A., Religious Studies, University of Georgia, 2018
    B.A., Political Science, Dickinson College, 2013

  • nationalism; transnationalism and diaspora; colonial and postcolonial studies; genocide studies; wars, empires and refugees; surrveillence and militarism; global war on terror; Afghanistan, South Asia and the Middle east

  • nfekrat@uci.edu
Akil Finbar Fletcher
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., City College of New York 

  • virtual worlds, gaming, race, blackness, e-sports

  • affletch@uci.edu
Margaux Fisher
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., London School of Economics 
    B.A., Wheaton College 

  • margauxf@uci.edu
Diana Gamez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz 

  • gamezd@uci.edu
Vida Garcia
Sab Garduño De La Vega
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, New York University 
    B.S. Political Science, Colorado State University - Pueblo 

  • sabg1@uci.edu
Mridula Garg
  • Graduate Student
    M.S. MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sust, Ain Shams University 
    B. Arch., School of Planning and Architecture 

  • mridulag@uci.edu
Oviya Govindan
  • Graduate Student

  • law and property, politics of development, anthropology of the State, urban planning

  • ogovinda@uci.edu
Courtney Graves
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., New York University 
    B.A., University of Texas, Austin 
Athenas Viane Guerra
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara 
    B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • avguerra@uci.edu
Gina Hakim
Timothy Hartshorn
  • Graduate Student
Muneira Hoballah
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of London 
Tannya Amaris Islas
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Bard College 
    M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago Circle 

  • socio-cultural anthropology

  • tislas@uci.edu
Emily Jorgenson
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 
    B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 

  • eljorgen@uci.edu
Scott Jung
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., University of Chicago 

  • ability, work, care, order, autism, United States

  • sfjung@uci.edu
Anna Kamanzi
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Cal State Chico,  2016

  • medical anthropology, visual anthropology, violence, ethnicity, aesthetics, colonialism/post-colonialism, inequality, representation, Rwanda, central Africa

  • akamanzi@uci.edu
Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Legislative Studies, Queens University of Belfast, 2016 
    B.A. Anthropology and Law, Letters, and Society, University of Chicago, 2014

  • legal anthropology, political anthropology, legislation, Northern Ireland, post-conflict studies, human rights, social theory

  • ekaplank@uci.edu
  • Website
Christine Ji-Young Kim
Hae Seo Kim
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
    B.A., Vassar College 

  • heask@uci.edu
Inah Kim
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Seoul National University 
    M.A., Seoul National University 

  • science and technology, disaster, data performativity, environment, civil laboratories, post-Fukushima Japan

  • inahk@uci.edu
Mette A. E. Kim-Larsen
Ellen Kladky
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Chicago 
Orlando Lara
  • Graduate Student
    M.F.A., Creative Writing, Cornell University 
    Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University 
    B.A., Chicano/Latino Studies, Stanford University 

  • citizenship and non-citizenship, biometric identification, state violence, border and migration studies, social movement theory, chicanx/latinx studies, critical race and ethnic studies, multimodal anthropology

  • orlandl@uci.edu
  • Website
Juwon Lee
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, 2019
    B.A. Comparative Studies (Specialization in Comparative Ethnic and American Studies), Ohio State University, 2012

  • urban ecologies, rivers, modernity, South Korea, Asia, multispecies ethnography, feminist anthropology

  • juwonl5@uci.edu
Janelle Olivia Levy
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Central Florida (Florida Tech University) 

  • creolization, anti-blackness, anglophone Caribbean, colonial nostalgia, postcolonial elites

  • jolevy@uci.edu
Neak Loucks
  • PhD Candidate and Senior Pedagogical Fellow
    M.A., University of California, Irvine,  2017
    B.A., Bowdoin College 

  • environment, land and property ideologies, knowledge production and claims-making, social constructions of wilderness and other landscapes

  • dloucks@uci.edu
Guilberly Louissaint
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Lawrence University 

  • STS, Colonial, and Post Colonial Health Studies, Haiti, Race, Gender, Diaspora; Western / Afro-Eco Epistemologies, Non-humans /Spectral others, Geography, and Cities

  • glouissa@uci.edu
Xue Ma
  • Graduate Student
    M.S. Anthropology, Illinois State University 
    B.S. Finance, Beijing International Studies University 

  • xuem5@uci.edu
Syeda Mahmood
Adan Martinez Ordaz
Emily Matteson
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. , Scripps College 
Maeve McAllister
Andrew James McGrath
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Cincinnati 
    M.A., University of Cincinnati 

  • southern California, new media, identity, aesthetics, semiology, simulation, hegemonic change, and radical theory

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
  • Website
Rojelio Muñoz
Preetika Nanda
Arlette Cruz Perez
Kaitlyn Rabach
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., SOAS, University of London, 2017
    B.A., Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, 2015

  • krabach@uci.edu
Tariq Rahman
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 

  • capitalism, finance, and assets; big data, e-governance, and social media; experts and expertise; religion and the everyday; migration, diaspora, and citizenship; critical urban studies; ethnographic methods

  • tlrahman@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Maria Liliana Ramirez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Riverside 

  • mlramir1@uci.edu
Muhammad Raqib
Darwin Rodriguez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. Anthropology, Kalamazoo College, 2013

  • queer anthropology, sexuality, Latinx studies, queer theory, identity, state-making, non-profits

  • darwinr@uci.edu
Camille Samuels
Leah Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills 
Linda E. Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., San Diego State University 
    B.A., San Diego State University 

  • immigration, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and unaccompanied minors

  • lindaes@uci.edu
Rosie Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 

  • labor, health and safety, disasters, environmental justice in greater Los Angeles

  • rosies@uci.edu
Tim Schuetz
  • Graduate Student
    Graduate Student, Goethe University, Frankfurt at Main 
    B.A., University of Bremen 

  • science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, data ethnography, knowledge infrastructures, multimodal anthropology

  • tschuetz@uci.edu
  • Website
Taylor Silverman
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Brown University 
Jessica Slattery
Isabelle Soifer
  • Graduate Student

  • legal and political anthropology, human rights, urban studies, race, public policy (education, housing, policing), natural disasters, United States, South Africa

  • isoifer@uci.edu
Prerna Srigyan
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. in Environment & Development, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University at Delhi 
    B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Delhi 

  • environmental governance, air pollution and health, urban environments, South Asia

  • psrigyan@uci.edu
Sarah Stanley
Danielle Tassara
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  The College of William & Mary,  2015

  • migration, refugees, politics of belonging, (il)legality, citizenship, North and South Korea, South America

  • dtassara@uci.edu
  • Website
Margaret Louise Tebbe
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Sociology, University of California, Irvine 
    B.A. Sociology, University of Pennsylvania 

  • mtebbe@uci.edu
Yvette Raquel Vasquez
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., Duke University 

  • U.S.-Mexico borderlands, legal narrative analysis, knowledge production/pedagogical practice “in the social sciences”

  • yrvasque@uci.edu
Syed Mir Waleed
Tenzing Wangdak
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., New York University 
    B.A., Hindu College 
Alex Wolff
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

  • gender and sexuality, temporality, precarity, queer student activism, South Korea

  • amwolff@uci.edu
Margaret Woodruff
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Rutgers University 

  • environmental governance; citizenship; disability; global climate change; outer space; legal anthropology; science, technology, and society; engaged research

  • woodruff@uci.edu
  • Website
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