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

  • aadam4@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

  • environmental anthropology/ economic anthropology/ political theory/ India and renewable energy

  •  SBSG 3547

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

  • sociocultural anthropology

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

  • environmental anthropology and sts

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

  • dingn1@uci.edu
Nasim Fekrat
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., U of North Carolina-Charlotte 
    B.A., Dickinson College 
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
Esther Garcia
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 
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
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 

  • jungs5@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
Hea Sue 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 
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., Creative Writing, Cornell University 
    M.A., Cultural Anthropology, New York University 
    B.A., Chicano/Latino Studies, Stanford University 

  • 4. critical race and ethnic studies, chicanx/latinx studies, immigrant rights and detention, social movement theory, literature and auto-ethnography, 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

  • race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, indigeneity, South Korea, Southeast Asia, East Asia, postcolonialism, transnationalism, feminist and queer anthropology, human-animal relations

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

  • immigration

  • 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
  • Website
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
Syeda Mahmood
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 

  • affect, labor, class, aesthetics, new media

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
  • Website
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
Rojelio Muñoz
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.A., Anthropology and Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 

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

  • mdneal@uci.edu
Angela Okune
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A., University of California, Irvine 
    B.S., Georgetown University 

  • data, Open Science, collaboration, research technologies and infrastructures, experimental ethnographic methods, STS, critical university studies, Kenya

  • 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
Matthew Porter
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., The New School 
    B.A., University of North Texas 

  • mporter2@uci.edu
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. Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 

  • 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
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
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

  • ehrubio@uci.edu
Richard Salazar Medina
  • Graduate Student
    M.S., Universita Degli Studi Di Bologa 
    B.S., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador 

  • rtsalaza@uci.edu
Camille Samuels
Leah Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills 
Rosie Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Berkeley 

  • 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
Linda E. Sánchez
  • 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
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
Yvette Raquel Vasquez
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., California Baptist University 

  • yrvasque@uci.edu
Tenzing Wangdak
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., New York University 
    B.A., Hindu College 
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
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    B.A. Human Biology, Stanford University, 2006
    M.A. Social Science , Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2012
    M.A. Anthropology, University of Califronia, Irvine, 2018

  • gender politics; anti-feminism; security culture; right-wing populisms; disinformation; transnational social movements; secularism; Latin America; Mexico; Ecuador

  • akwilkin@uci.edu
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
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

 

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