Gray Abarca
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Anthropology and Philosophy, University Of California, Berkeley
    M.A., Anthropology, University Of California, Irvine

  •  SST 633

  • abarcag@uci.edu
James Adams
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of North Texas 

  • latin america; anthropology of space; migration studies; border crossing; material culture; livelihood practices; vulnerability; subject formation

  • jradams1@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
Nandita Badami
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Delhi, 2008
    M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2010 
    M.Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2012

  • renewable energy; cultures of repair; circular economies; noncapital; India

  •  SBSG 3547

  • nbadami@uci.edu
  • Website
Shannon Bae
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Millikin University 
    M.A., Hanyang University 

  • sociocultural anthropology

  • shannon2@uci.edu
Nataly Bautista
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Los Angeles,  2015

  • transnationalism, migration, indigenous identity and belonging, hometown associations, Oaxaca, "Oaxacalifornia"

  • nbautis1@uci.edu
Melissa Jannette Begey
  • Graduate Student
     B.A., University of California, Los Angeles  
    M.A., California State University, Long Beach 

  • anthropology of design, sustainable fashion

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

  • environmental anthropology and sts

  • alicc10@uci.edu
Nathan Coben
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University Of California, Berkeley

  • ncoben@uci.edu
Evan Conaway
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  University of Georgia,  2013

  • digital cultures, video games, memory, digital media preservation, data geography, infrastructure, materiality, intellectual property

  • econaway@uci.edu
  • Website
Benjamin Cox
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University Of Virginia, 2005 | M.A.

  • counter/piracy, east africa, indian ocean, rule of law, security

  • bcox1@uci.edu
  • CV
Kathryn Cox
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

  • medical anthropology, science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, cancer, environmental justice

  • kecox@uci.edu
Charlie Curtis
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Bowdoin College 

  • queer studies, feminism, safety and belonging, place and history, American Midwest

  • cecurtis@uci.edu
Ann Elizabeth DeLuca
  • B.A., Michigan State University, 2006 | M.A. University of Chicago

  • aging, dementia, caretaking, health care, turkey, neuroscience

  •  SST 637

  • aedeluca@uci.edu
Cheryl Deutsch
  • B.A., George Washington University, 2006

  • urban planning, markets, mobilities, futures, India, grant writing

  • cdeutsch@uci.edu
Emily T. A. Earl
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Saint John's College 2008; M.A., Catholic University 2013

  • incarceration, written word, mass media, united states, appalachia, ethnography

  •  SST 637

  • traeger@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Raymond Fang
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Chicago, 2017 

  • medical anthropology, science and technology studies, Asian-American studies, Chinatown, Chinese medicine, gentrification, United States, race, gender, class, postcolonial transnational feminism

  • raymonf2@uci.edu
  • Website
Akil Finbar Fletcher
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., City College of New York 

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

  • affletch@uci.edu
Colin Ford
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  Rice University, 2014

  • data workers, gaming industry, corporate narratives, calculation, professional aesthetics, north america

  • cford1@uci.edu
Diana Gamez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz 
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 
Mariel Edith Gruszko
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Brandeis University, 2010
    M.A., University of Chicago, 2011

  • architecture, democracy, design, Spain

  • mgruszko@uci.edu
Gina Hakim
Timothy Hartshorn
  • Graduate Student
Forest Haven
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  University of Alaska Southeast, 2013 

  • food sovereignty, subsistence, Alaska Native studies, anthropology of the senses, settler colonialism, anthropology of the state, Indigenous studies, Alaska, U.S.

  • fhaven@uci.edu
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
Scott Jung
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., University of Chicago 
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
Hea Sue Kim
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
    B.A., Vassar College 
Inah Kim
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Seoul National University 
    M.A., Seoul National University 

  • sociocultural anthropology

  • inahk@uci.edu
Ellen Kladky
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Chicago 
Gregory Kohler
  • BACHLR, University Of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2013

  • italy, corporations, bureaucracy, accounting, linguistic anthropology, power and authority, value, identity

  • gkohler@uci.edu
Yimin Lai
  • Graduate Student
    A.B. Economics. Anthropology. Minor: Visual Studies, Cornell University, 2004 | M. International Affairs

  • ethnographies of schooling, capitalist cultural processes, dreams, business, transnationalism, identity, popular culture

  • ylai5@uci.edu
Orlando Lara
  • Graduate Student
    M.F.A., Cornell University 
    B.A., Stanford University 
Janelle Olivia Levy
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Central Florida (Florida Tech University) 

  • immigration

  • jolevy@uci.edu
Danica Loucks
  • Graduate Student
    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
  • Website
Guilberly Louissaint
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Lawrence University 

  • blackness, migration, queer theory

  • glouissa@uci.edu
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
  • M.A., Tulane University 
    B.A., University of Washington 

  • marine anthropology, Caribbean, health, human-nonhuman relations, environment, fishing, ethnographic methods

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

  • late industrial decay, urban exploration, aesthetics, american southwest, new media, multimodal anthropology

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
  • Website
Colin Mclaughlin-alcock
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Long Island University, 2002

  • Art, Politics, Public Space, Urban Anthropology, Middle East Studies, Media, Aesthetics, Migration, Postcoloniality, Ethnographic Methods.

  • cmclaug1@uci.edu
Chandra L. Middleton
  • Graduate Student
    A.B., Washington University, 1999 
    J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, 2004

  • environmental regulation, democracy, bureaucracy, ethnography, united states

  •  SBSG 3555

  • clmiddle@uci.edu
Tarek Moustafa Mohamed
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Cairo University 
    M.A., American University in Cairo, Feminist Anthropology, Gender & Sexuality, Social movements, Masculinity, Egypt and the Middle East

  • feminist anthropology, gender & sexuality, social movements, masculinity, Egypt and the Middle East

  • mohamedt@uci.edu
Alberto Eduardo Morales
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A., Medicine, Science & Technology Studies 
    B.A., University Of California, Irvine 

  • lab studies, interspecies relations, natural products research, procurement, Latin America

  • aemorale@uci.edu
Megan Neal
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A., Anthropology (emphasis in Latin American Studies and specialization in Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies), University of California, Irvine 
    B.S., Psychology (magna cum laude), University of California, Berkeley 
    B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 

  • Latin America, disability, activism, citizenship, medicine, expertise, knowledge production, the senses

  • mdneal@uci.edu
Angela Okune
  • Graduate Student
    B.S., Georgetown University 

  • anthropology of development research, science and technology studies, east africa, identity, power, collaborative research methods, knowledge production

  • aokune@uci.edu
Jason Palmer
  • Graduate Student
    M.Ed, Curriculum and Instruction, Weber State University

  • Sacred place, migration, lineage, Peru, Utah

  • palmerjc@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Arlette Cruz Perez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Texas, San Antonio 
Matthew Porter
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., The New School 
    B.A., University of North Texas 
Farah Qureshi
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Oxford University 
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., University of Oregon 

  • land, finance, cities, bureaucracy, diaspora, postcoloniality, Pakistan

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

  • mlramir1@uci.edu
Rebecca Richart
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, 2016
    B.A. Anthropology, History, and Spanish, Michigan State University, 2012

  • immigration, labor, human-animal relations

  • rrichart@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Darwin Rodriguez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Kalamazoo College 
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
  • Graduate Student
    B.S., Georgetown University 
    M.A., Georgetown University 

  • resistance and refusal, Korean Americans, immigrant rights activism, Asian American Studies, Latinx-Asian American-Black relations

  • ehclark@uci.edu
Katherine Sacco
  • Graduate Student
    AB, University of Chicago,  2014

  • political anthropology, globalizationm development, social movements, community arts, new media, latin america, colombia

  • ksacco@uci.edu
Richard Salazar Medina
  • Graduate Student
    M.S., Universita Degli Studi Di Bologa 
    B.S., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador 
Leah Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills 
Linda Sanchez-Ovalle
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., San Diego State University 
    B.A., San Diego State University 

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

  • science and technology studies, digital infrastructures, humanitarianism, forced migration

  • tschuetz@uci.edu
  • Website
Allison Taylor Silverman
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Brown University 
Jessica Slattery
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Beloit College, 2012

  • transnational migration; security; borders; legal anthropology, Mexico; Central America; U.S.

  • jqslatte@uci.edu
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
Danielle Tassara
Mindy Wynn Tauberg
  • B.A., Oberlin College, 2008 | M.A.

  • muslim/jewish interfaith activism, social movements, feminist epistemologies, narrative, emotion, cybersociality, united states

  • mtauberg@uci.edu
Yvette Raquel Vasquez
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., California Baptist University 
Sandy Wenger
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Stirling, 2007
    M.A., University of Kent, 2011

  • southeast asia, malaysia, gender & sexuality, human & sexual rights, ethnographic methods, visual studies

  • swenger@uci.edu
Annie K. Wilkinson
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Stanford University 
    M.A. , Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales 

  • gender, security, Latin America, social movement,

  • akwilkin@uci.edu
Alexander 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
Melissa Wrapp
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2013

  • urban design, housing, politics, inequality, race, south africa

  • mwrapp@uci.edu
  • Website
Nima Yolmo
Fei Yuan
Jennifer Zelnick
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2014
    M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Spring 2018

  • migration, deportation, refugees, citizenship, legality, bureaucracy, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, U.S.

  • jzelnick@uci.edu

 

MSTS Graduate Students

 

Crystal Jones
Seyoung Oh
Tim Schuetz
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Candidate, Goethe University, Frankfurt at Main 
    B.A., University of Bremen 

  • science and technology studies, digital infrastructures, humanitarianism, forced migration

  • tschuetz@uci.edu
  • Website

 

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