ph.d. program

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

  •  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
Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Cambridge University, 2007

  • mongolia, los angeles, post-socialism, mobility and migration, placemaking, recognition

  •  SST 639 | 949-331-7853

  • canyadik@uci.edu
Nandita Badami
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Delhi, 2008
    M.A., Jawaharla Nehru University, 2010 
    M.Phil, Jawaharla Nehru University, 2012

  • technologies and politics of renewability; the material production of alternatives; sunlight and solar energy; energopolitics; cultures of repair; circular economies; climate change; noncapital; India

  •  SST 643

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

  • sociocultural anthropology

  • shannon2@uci.edu
Joseph Barnett
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Anthropology, Princeton University

  • south asia, village relocationdiaspora networks, transnationalism, hindi cinema

  • joseph.barnett@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
Luzilda Carrillo
  • M.A., University of California, Irvine

  • diversity management, corporate anthropology, knowledge production, feminism and race studies

  •  SST 639

  • lucy.carrillo@uci.edu
  • Website
Alice Chen
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Rochester 

  • environmental anthropology and sts

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

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

  • virtual worlds, memory and nostalgia, infrastructures and environments, queer studies, digital media preservation, United States

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

  • 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
Nathan Dobson
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. London School Of Economics & Pol.science, 2005 | M.Sc. University of Sussex, 2011

  • Claims, Security, Money, Publics

  •  SBSG 3343

  • ndobson@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
Colin Ford
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  Rice University, 2014

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

  • cford1@uci.edu
Abram Nicholas Gastelum
  • Graduate Student
    B.S., University of California, Riverside 

  • artificial intelligence, skills and knowledge, collaboration, design, interaction, united states, rust belt, science and technology

  • angastel@uci.edu
Oviya Govindan
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ogovinda@uci.edu
Mariel Edith Gruszko
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Brandeis University, 2010
    M.A., University of Chicago, 2011

  • architecture, democracy, design, Spain

  • mgruszko@uci.edu
Timothy Hartshorn
  • Graduate Student
    B.S. Subject, University Name, Year
Rebecca Hasselbeck (Richart)
  • B.A. Anthropology, History, and Spanish, Michigan State University, 2012

  • labor and work, immigration, human-animal relations, united states, horse racing

  • rshassel@uci.edu
  • CV
Forest Haven
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  University of Alaska Southeast, 2013 

  • alaska, indigeneity, food sovereignty, subsistence, alaska native studies, anthropology of food and the senses, settler colonialism, anthropology of knowledge

  • 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
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
Eleanor Kaplan-Kelly
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Queens University of Belfast 
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
Matthew Riley Lane
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., English (Magna Cum Laude) University Of Florida, 1999 B.A.

  • commodity forms; recycling; scrapping; scrappers; green economies; chicago, los angeles and mumbai, india

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

  • immigration

  • jolevy@uci.edu
Danica Loucks
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Bowdoin College 

  • anthropology of science; production of knowledge; abrupt climate change; social constructions of wilderness; cultural performance; narrative

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

  • blackness, migration, queer theory

  • glouissa@uci.edu
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
Emily Matteson
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. , Scripps College 
Andrew James McGrath
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Cincinnati 
    M.A., University of Cincinnati 

  • environmental, multispecies, visual methods

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
Colin Mclaughlin-alcock
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., (unknown School - New York), 2002

  • anthropology of news media and news production, public spheres, politics of representation, egypt, middle east

  • 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 

  • mohamedt@uci.edu
Alberto Eduardo Morales
Megan Neal
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

  • latino studies, andean studies, anthropology of mormonism, secrecy, spirituality, religion, migration, borderlands

  • palmerjc@uci.edu
  • CV
Simone Alexandria Popperl
  • Graduate Student
    B.S., Georgetown University, 2009

  • sovereignty, tourism, commodity chains, environment, dead sea

  • spopperl@uci.edu
Farah Qureshi
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Oxford University 
Tariq Rahman
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Oregon 
Maria Liliana Ramirez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Riverside 

  • mlramir1@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
Daina Sanchez
  • Ph.D. Candidate
    M.A., University of California, Irvine 
    B.A., University of San Diego, 2011

  • children of immigrants, indigeneity, identity formation, transnationalism

  • dainas@uci.edu
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
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
Heather Thomas
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University Of California, Irvine

  • autism spectrum disorders, diagnosis and identity formation, social media, narrative

  •  SST 637

  • thomash@uci.edu
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
Josef N. Wieland
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Anthropology, Latin American Studies 2011

  • brazil, semiprecious gemstones, commodity chains, anthropology of markets

  • jwieland@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 

  • political participation, governance, citizenship, gender and sexuality, South Korea

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

  • environmental law, citizenship

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

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

  • mwrapp@uci.edu
  • CV
Nima Yolmo
Jennifer Zelnick
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2014

  • legality and migration; anthropology of medicine; cambodia and cambodian americans; refugee and diaspora studies; gender and masculinity; citizenship and belonging; 1.5 and 2 generation americans; multilingual families; identity politics

  • jzelnick@uci.edu

 

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