Third Year Cohort


Name Research Interests
Auerbach, Jess Post-conflict societies, nation-building, Mozambique and Angola
Can, Samil The recent rise of informal economies among indigent migrant populations in the urban areas of Turkey and the Middle East
Der, Lindsay Social inequality and power relations, human-animal relationships, private property
Fernandini, Francesca The social and political aspects of Andes societies and the role ideology plays in the creation of social identities
Gilbert, David The environmental and social ramifications of the agribusiness and other extractive industries in the tropics
Greenleaf, Maron Market-making, land-use, politics, and social movements in Brazil
Grothaus, Leslie Ways that terminally ill patients in China receive emotional support during the dying process, both at home and in institutional settings
Howery, Cherkea The economic, political, and cultural impact of the heritage industry on communities and their necessary, invested interest in the archaeological environment.
Liuzza, Claudia Cultural diversity, the complexity of human communication and human behaviors, in relation with interdisciplinary topics such as a sense of heritage, heritage interpretation and cultural consciousness in different contexts of contemporary and ancient societies
McGrail, Richard How deeply personal affects—like “love” and “desire”—continually produce a constitutive outside of “the human” while regulating practices of identification and subjection
Milly, Andrea Historical archaeology focused on researching the ethnically diverse history of East Los Angeles
Ready, Elspeth Environmental anthropology and archaeology, subsistence, human behavioural ecology, zooarchaeology
Richlin, Johanna The chosenness among religious minorities in the Americas, and how these discourses reflect and respond to political realities
Wetsel, Amanda Narratives of identity, ethnicity, gender and art, and how those narratives are presented and contested in museums in Central Asia
Wilcox, Timothy Proto-historic period (1500-1750) of the Navajo or Dine’, an Athabaskan tribe of the Four Corners area