Gray Abarca
James Adams
  • Graduate Student

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

  • jradams1@uci.edu
Tawfiq Alhamedi
  • Graduate Student

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

  • talhamed@uci.edu
Monique Azzara
Nandita Badami
  • Graduate Student

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

  •  SBSG 3547

  • nbadami@uci.edu
  • Website
Shannon Bae
Nataly Bautista
  • Graduate Student

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

  • nbautis1@uci.edu
Melissa Jannette Begey
  • Graduate Student

  • anthropology of design, sustainable fashion

  • mbegey@uci.edu
Alice Chen
Nathan Coben
Evan Conaway
  • Graduate Student

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

  • econaway@uci.edu
  • Website
Benjamin Cox
  • Graduate Student

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

  • bcox1@uci.edu
  • CV
Kathryn Cox
  • Graduate Student

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

  • kecox@uci.edu
Charlie Curtis
  • Graduate Student

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

  • cecurtis@uci.edu
Ann Elizabeth DeLuca

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

  •  SST 637

  • aedeluca@uci.edu
Cheryl Deutsch

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

  • cdeutsch@uci.edu
Emily T. A. Earl
  • Graduate Student

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

  •  SST 637

  • traeger@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Raymond Fang
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

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

  • affletch@uci.edu
Colin Ford
  • Graduate Student

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

  • cford1@uci.edu
Oviya Govindan
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ogovinda@uci.edu
Mariel Edith Gruszko
Gina Hakim
Timothy Hartshorn
  • Graduate Student
Forest Haven
  • Graduate Student

  • 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
Tannya Amaris Islas
Anna Kamanzi
  • Graduate Student

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

  • akamanzi@uci.edu
Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ekaplank@uci.edu
  • Website
Inah Kim
Ellen Kladky
  • Graduate Student
Gregory Kohler

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

  • gkohler@uci.edu
Yimin Lai
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ylai5@uci.edu
Janelle Olivia Levy
Danica Loucks
  • Graduate Student

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

  • dloucks@uci.edu
  • Website
Guilberly Louissaint
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

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

  • kmallona@uci.edu
Adan Martinez Ordaz
Emily Matteson
  • Graduate Student
Andrew James McGrath
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
  • Website
Colin Mclaughlin-alcock
  • Graduate Student

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

  • cmclaug1@uci.edu
Chandra L. Middleton
  • Graduate Student

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

  •  SBSG 3555

  • clmiddle@uci.edu
Tarek Moustafa Mohamed
  • Graduate Student

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

  • mohamedt@uci.edu
Alberto Eduardo Morales
  • Ph.D. Candidate

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

  • aemorale@uci.edu
Megan Neal
  • Ph.D. Candidate

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

  • mdneal@uci.edu
Angela Okune
  • Graduate Student

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

  • aokune@uci.edu
Jason Palmer
Farah Qureshi
  • Graduate Student
Kaitlyn Rabach
Tariq Rahman
Maria Liliana Ramirez
Rebecca Richart
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ehclark@uci.edu
Katherine Sacco
  • Graduate Student

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

  • ksacco@uci.edu
Daina Sanchez
  • Ph.D. Candidate

  • children of immigrants, indigeneity, identity formation, transnationalism

  • dainas@uci.edu
Leah Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
Linda Sanchez-Ovalle
Jessica Slattery
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

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

  • mtauberg@uci.edu
Sandy Wenger
  • Graduate Student

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

  • swenger@uci.edu
Annie K. Wilkinson
  • Graduate Student

  • gender, security, Latin America, social movement,

  • akwilkin@uci.edu
Alexander Wolff
  • Graduate Student

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

  • amwolff@uci.edu
Margaret Woodruff
  • Graduate Student

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

  • woodruff@uci.edu
  • Website
Melissa Wrapp
Nima Yolmo
Fei Yuan
Jennifer Zelnick
  • Ph.D. Candidate

  • 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

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

  • tschuetz@uci.edu
  • Website

 

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