Second Year Cohort


Name Research Interests
Becks, Fanya Native American Archaeology, Craft Production, California history, ethics, intellectual property
Beggs, Emily Political ecology of working landscapes, science studies, and agriculture-as- conservation in the Americas
Brown, Madeline The intersections between human societies and the botanical world
Bykowski, Melissa Utilization of technological devices, in habitual and concrete practice, work as technologies of subjectification
Deloney, Marguerite Colonial archaeology of Latin America, culture contact studies, ethnogenesis, decolonization theory, agency and identity
Hagerty, Alexa Dead body as object and subject and the ways in which relationships between the living and the dead are continued, ruptured, and/or re-formed
Hsieh, Jennifer The relationship between sound as material fact and sound as signifying ideology
Lomio, Rita cultural property law, legal history, cultural resource management, history and memory, and human rights
Lu, Vivian class mobility, African merchants, travel, Global South economics, globalization and development discourse, incommensurability, intercultural transaction, imagined futures
Markkula, Johanna Maritime anthropology, human mobility, globalization, environmental displacement, intercultural relations, coastlines as frontlines
Mazza, Giulia time and temporality, modernity, identity and subjectivity, nationalism, Bhutan
Mickel, Allison The way archaeologists write archaeology, and in investigating what role this process and this product plays in the way archaeological interpretations are created
Takabvirwa, Kathryn The negotiation of power, meaning, and membership between individuals and the state; the notion of “representation” of the (post-colonial African) state; as well as resistance, identity and labeling – particularly in the governance of migration
Yapp, Lauren heritage, urban landscape, materiality, colonial and post-colonial networks, memory politics, critical geography, Southeast Asia