Graduate Student Contact List

Below is a list of current Ph.D. students who have volunteered their names, field, and research interests in order to foster communication amongst current and prospective students. Please note that, to reduce the amount of spam our grad students receive, the format of their email is such that username@domain.com becomes username [at] domain.com. When sending an email, please check to make sure you input their address correctly. If an e-mail is listed as [at] uclink. [at] uclink4., or [at] socrates., add berkeley.edu to the listed e-mail string (bear [at] uclink. becomes bear [at] uclink.berkeley.edu). See also A.G.O.R.A.'s open letter to prospective graduate students and the UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group, which many Anthropology Grad students are working on.

Beauchesne, Patrick, pbeauchesne [at] berkeley.edu (Archaeology, 2005). Bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, paleopathology, skeletal biology and osteology, paleohistology, study of osteoporosis.

Carter, Mitzi Uehara, mitzi321 [at] berkeley.(Socio-cultural, 2000) Okinawa; anthropology of militarism; cultural politics; nationalism, remapping "national security".

Chen, Kun, kunchen [at] berkeley.edu. (Socio-cultural, 2005). social engineering, zoning technology, high-tech development, transnationalism, nationalism, identity, globalization, modernity, race and ethnicity, gender, tourism, popular culture, visual anthropology, China and US

Chiang, Chih-hua, chihhua [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2000) Neolithic period in Taiwan, intrasite spatial analysis, household archaeology, house society.

Jenny Chio, jchio [at] berkeley. (Sociocultural, 2002) Tourism, China, contemporary Chinese media production (non-fiction), visual anthropology, ethnic identity ("official" identification policies/projects, performances of a cultural self/group), documentary image studies.

Choby, Alexandra, achoby [at] berkeley.edu. (Medical anthropology 1998) Epilepsy, United States, techno-science, diagnosis, modernity, imagined futures, history and culture of U.S. bio-medicine and psychiatry, functional disorders, neo-liberalism, ethics.

Christensen, Kim, kchristensen [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2004)
United States, historical archaeology, 19th century social reform movements and activism, gender, women’s history, feminist and practice theories, identity and material culture, public archaeology, household archaeology.

Coco, Linda, izadora [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2000) Anthropology of Law and Political Ecology.

Cohen, David, dcohen [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 1999) Southern Africa, Botswana; zooarchaeology, Middle/Late Stone Age, foragers/herders/agropastoralists, Iron Age, culture contact, fluidity of cultural identities, oral histories/traditions, poverty, slavery, food and culture, hip-hop, rural sociology.

Cuelenaere, Laurence lcuel [at] berkeley.edu Linguistic anthropology, cognitive sciences, phenomenology and history. Sites of specific inquiry include belief, language and the moving body. My work is grounded in the 20th century history of the Aymara from Bolivia's Central Highlands where I research not only how the activity of walking functions in the semantic system of Aymara, how it constitutes enonciation and territorial representation, but also how these are invoked in Bolivian political discourses.

Daehnke, Jon, daehnke [at] berkeley.edu. (Archaeology 2002): Research interests include archaeology and the law, cultural resource management, ownership of the past, Native American sovereignty and stewardship, survey strategy, landscape approaches to archaeology. Geographic area of interest is the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Working dissertation title is "Utilization of space and the politics of place: Chinookan conceptions of landscape in the Portland Basin".

Dumas, Nate, ndumas [at] berkeley. (Linguistic, 2004) Grammar of "stuttering," language ideology and power, translocality/transnationality, (meta)pragmatics, metalinguistic discourse, speech genres, media, ethnicity and speech, sociolinguistics, performance, language socialization; Field areas: US and Europe

Dyckman, William, wdyckman [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2002) China, Southeast Asia; international public health; suffering and the impulse to aid; the intersection of conflicting notions of sovereignty, modernity and the creation of the subject; health and human rights discourse; medicine and globalization.

Dzenovska, Dace, daced [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural 2002) Interests: Postsocialism, European Union, neoliberalism, development, governmentality, politics of difference, Latvia

Elhaik, Tarek, telhaik [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2000) Co-curator of the San Francisco Arab Film Festival (1998-2000) and film series curator at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley (2000-2003). Teaches "Arab Cinema: Histories and Aesthetics" at San Francisco State University.Research Interests: Mexico; Avant-garde Aesthetics; Visual Anthropology; Documentary film and Newsreels; Curatorial practice.

Eppinger, Monica, monica.eppinger [at] aya.yale.edu (Socio-cultural, 2003) Law and anthropology; Mali; Ukraine.

Erickson, Brad, bre [at] berkeley.edu. (Socio-cultural, 2002) Anthropology of the senses; politics of difference; migration and the European Union folklore; Catalonia, Spain.

Farfán, Elizabeth Farfan [at] berkeley.edu (Medical Anthropology, 2005). Latin America, Brazil; health and illness; international ‘development’ and ‘under-development;’ poverty; gender; African-Diaspora studies and Afro-identities; paradoxes of invisibility and hyper-visibility of black bodies in Latin America; Anthropology of the body.

Flexner, James, jamesflexner [at] berkeley.edu (Archaeology, 2005) Polynesia, The Hawai'ian Kingdom, Identity and Landscape Change in the Historic Period, Culture Contact, World System Expansion, Post-Colonial Politics.

Friedner, Michele (Medical, 2005): India, disability movements, specifically, deaf movements in the developing world, disability movements framed as rights based discourses, deaf womens' empowerment, philosophies of rehabilitation, religion-based/influenced health care and rehabilitation

Gillette, Donna, dgillett [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2002) California Coastal Ranges, rock art studies, landscape.

Gonzalez, Sara gonzalsa [at] berkeley.edu. Research interests include indigenous archaeology, decolonization, historical archaeology, the archaeology of colonialism, social archaeology, feminist archaeology, visual anthropology, and public outreach and interpretation. Dissertation research focuses on the archaeology of colonialism and the development of the Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail at Fort Ross State Historic Park.

Goodwin, Marc, mgoodwin [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2003) United States and Europe; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - in both children and adults, patient groups, clinical psychology and psychiatry, psychopharmacology, discourses of education, race, and merit in post-welfare US.

Green, Mara emaragreen [at] berkeley.edu. (sociocultural & linguistic, 2005). Formation of deaf communities, signed languages; linguistic isolation of rural deaf people; extra-linguistic discourse; queer & liberation theories. Nepal.

Hao, Andrew andyhao [at] berkeley.edu. Research Interests: Contemporary China, Ethnography of Business, Globalizing forms of knowledge, Intimacy

Harris, Shana, shana.harris [at] ucsf.edu (Medical, 2004) Argentina; drug use and culture; harm reduction; health and social movements; international health and interventions.

Hensman, Derrick Michael, awake [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2002) Biopower in relation to immunity, toxicity, genetics, and nervous systems; Othering in relation to place making, particularly in anthropological as compared to immunological discourses; the role of overt and symbolic violence in structuring coalitions; the role of ethnography in identifying candidate environmental factors for quantitative analysis in complex autoimmune disorders, such as systemic lupus erythematosus.

Heo, Angie, angieheo [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2003) Egypt; Coptic Orthodoxy and Islam; religion, political theology; linguistic anthropology, hermeneutics, icons; postcolonialism.

Hickler, Benjamin, bhickler [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2002) Europe, United States, Latin America. Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. I am concerned with contemporary technical practices related to risk, security, and the piecemeal embrace of systems theory and operations research throughout the industrialized world. Key words: actuarial risk assessment, neoliberalism, citizenship, biopolitics, exclusion, and globalization

Holm, Lisa A, laholm_gsi [at] yahoo. (Archaeology) Polynesia; cultural landscapes; geographic information systems (GIS) in archaeology; faunal (shell) analysis; power; social memory; and frontiers, boundaries, or 'marginal' territories.

Holmes, Seth, smholm [at] berkeley. (Medical, MD/PhD, 2000) Latin America, rural and urban U.S.; medical anthropology, the violence continuum, symbolic power, migration and diaspora, social suffering. 

Huang, Cindy, cindyh [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2003) China, Central Asia; Uyghur language and culture, traditional medicine, market transition.

Husman, Daniel, danielh [at] berkeley. (Socio-Cultural, 2004) China; memory, nostalgia, political ideology and communication, and the experience of social change; the intersection of the end of Maoism and the advent of Capitalism in China; sociological theory.

Jarosz, Monika, lemcia [at] berkeley. Mexico, Social/Indigenous Movements, Politics of Identity, Ethnicity, The Social Production of Historical Consciousness, Collective Memories, Religion, and Syncretism.

Jenks, Angela, acjenks [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2000) Urban ethnography; race, identity, and politics of difference; anthropology of science and knowledge; "cultural competency" in contemporary health care.

Kloos, Stephan, skloos [at] berkeley.edu. (Medical Anthropology 2004) Himalayas, India, and various sites of Tibetan medicine and pharmaceuticals worldwide; Ethics, truth, and modernity as global assemblages; Anthropology of science.

Kozakavich, Stacy, stacyk [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2001) North America, historical archaeology, utopian and sectarian intentional communities, Victorianism, consumer culture.

Kurtovic, Larisa, larisak [at] berkeley.edu (Socio-Cultural/Linguistic, 2005). Former Yugoslavia and diaspora. Post-socialism, time, memory, nostalgia.

Langlitz, Nicolas, langlitz [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2003) United States, Germany, Biomedicine, Neuropharmacology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Genetics, Biotechnology and privatization of science more generally.

Linford-Steinfeld, Joshua, jals [at] berkeley. (Medical, 1998) United States; anthropology of the body: eating, exercise, drinking (alcohol), and consumption; gender and sexuality (particularly men); discipline and regimentation, order and disorder, loss and excess, will, and aggression; psychiatry and psychoanalysis; military (particularly the Navy).

Liu, Jennifer, jaliu [at] berkeley.edu (Medical Anthropology 2002). Anthropology of Science and Technology; bioethics; biotechnology; stem-cell research, transnationalism, governance. Taiwan, China, U.S.

Mahiri, Jelani K. (Socio-cultural, 1997) Social Inequality; Folklore; Brazil, Latin America; Visual Anthropology (Photography, Video/Film, integration of text/word and image); Childhood and Life-cycle; Urban Anthropology.

Mamut, Tatyana, tmamut [at] berkeley.edu (Socio-cultural, 2000) Post-Soviet Russia / socialism and post-socialism. Marketing, advertising, and consumerism. Social change. Political economy. Economic anthropology. Interventions in the economics of transition and globalization theory. Needs, value, and economic behavior. Reason, rationality, and belief. Personhood and Individualism. Practice Theory. Anthropology of the Future. Dissertation title: "Persons in Transition: Perestroika, Marketing, and the Post-Soviet Future."

May, Shannon, (Socio-cultural, 2002) Research interests include systems of knowledge, in particular sustainability, science and environmentalism; discourses and practices of national and personal development; technologies of transformation; citizenship; and economics. Currently working in Huangbaiyu, China, with a focus on the promise and effects of a transnational project to create a “sustainable development demonstration village” that will modernize the countryside without environmental degradation.

McIntyre, Adrian, adrianmc [at] berkeley.edu (Socio-cultural, 1999) My current research interests include the anthropology of the contemporary, technologies of production, signification, power, and the self; international humanitarianism, civilian-military relations, private military and security companies, and the "Global War on Terror." I am writing a dissertation titled "States of Emergency: Humanitarianism, Politics, and the Market in Mercy" based on field research in Iraq and Sudan.

Mercado, Saul, saul [at] berkeley. (Linguistic, 2001) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Catalan, Castilian, Arabic; sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language endangerment, migration, language policy, media analysis, semiotics, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, theater and performance, opera, language contact, language change, language and power, language philosophy, minority languages.

Modzelewski, Darren, darren [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2003) Identity formation, race, ethnicity, contact, colonialism of New England, Native American Studies, ehtno-archaeology, public archaeology, consultation, NAGPRA, and the intersection of archaeology and the law.

Moore, Marcus marc_anth [at] berkeley.edu. (Socio-Cultural, 2005). United States; anthropology of education, political economy, neoliberalism, race and ethnicity, class mobility, politics of love

Morgan, Colleen, clmorgan [at] berkeley.edu (Archaeology, 2005)
Public archaeology, outreach, technology, media, gender, feminism, nationalism, popular culture; East Asia, California.

Morigerowsky, Freya

Morell-Hart, Shanti, shantimh [at] yahoo. (Archaeology, 2002) Paleoethnobotanical studies, foodways, practice theory, settlement, landscape, household archaeology, Mesoamerica. Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Naqvi, Tahir, tahirhasnain [at] yahoo. (Socio-cultural, 1996) Pakistan, anthropology of post-authoritarianism and democratic 'transition', anthropology of violence, urban anthropology.

Olson, Krisjon Rae, krisjon [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2000); Dissertation examines the role of young people in the aftermath of genocide. Areas of interest include: anthropology of violence, truth, humanitarianism, childhood, public policy. Guatemala, The Netherlands; Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia.

Ortiz, Beverly, bortiz [at] csuhayward. (Socio-cultural, 1993) North American Indians (field research in California); ethnoecology, ethnohistory, folklore, material culture, identity, life history, sacred geography, and tribal sovereignty.

Ordóñez, J. Thomas, jthordo [at] berkeley.edu (Medical 2004) Colombia; Latin America. Violence; internal displacement and refugees; social movements.

Panich, Lee,panich [at] berkeley.edu (Archaeology, 2002) Baja California, Alta California; historical archaeology of Latin America and the United States; culture contact, colonialism, cultural landscapes, public archaeology.

Papazoglou, Adelaide, juno [at] socrates.berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2002) Linguistic anthropology; philosophy of language; linguistics proper; performance and performativity; gender and sexuality; queer theory; critical studies in medicine and psychiatry; science studies.

Pohlman, Elizabeth, epohlman [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2002) United States; Aging, Dementia, Anthropology of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Policy, Governmentality, Memory.

Ponte, Maya, mponte [at] itsa.ucsf. (Medical) Disease management policy, science studies.

Ramsay, Amy E., aeramsay [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 1997) United States (California and the Northeast); Presidio of San Francisco; historical archaeology, urban archaeology, material culture, constructivist approaches to history, women and children in military history and history of the West; public education, outreach and interpretation; archaeology and education; popular culture, television.

Rawitscher, Peter, rawitsch [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2001) Columbia; Alternate regimes of identity and concepts of citizenship; globalized assemblages and histories of the present; processes of production of Urban Space and History, Indigenous communities and identity politics, the Environment, Human Rights, Violence and the body, Modernity and modern State formation.

Roddick, Andrew, aroddick_berkeley [at] yahoo. (Archaeology, 2002) Andes/Bolivia, South American prehistory, social (practice) theory, Marxist archaeologies, "complex" societies, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, sites of ritual, ceramic analysis, public/community archaeology and the politics of representation.

Roebuck, Chris, cwr [at] berkeley. (Medical, 2000) Urban ethnography; critical studies in science, medicine, and the body; gender and sexuality; feminist and queer theory; HIV/AIDS.

Russell, Matthew A., matthew_russell [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2005) California, North America; maritime archaeology; culture contact, colonialism, World System perspective

Sanchez-Allred, Alberto, (Socio-cultural, 2000) Mexico; medical and moral debates on the use of coffee, the fate of national character after import substitution, the national culture-industry, writing as method, object, and livelihood, the magazine as globalized artifact, processes of selection, and judgments of quality.

Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, thurka [at] berkeley. (Medical 2002) Anthropology of HIV/AIDS; Haitian and Haitian Americans, transnationalism, immigrant populations; racial/ethnic (risk) categorization in biomedicine and public health, health disparities, biomedicalization of society.

Sasser, Jade, sasserja [at] berkeley. (Med Anthro, 2005) Southern Africa (Madagascar), HIV, adolescent reproductive health, gender, contraception, abortion, media, transition from Socialism to Capitalism, international development, health policy

Sayre, Matthew, sayre [at] sscl.berkeley. (Archaeology, 2001) The Andes, Chavín de Huántar in Perú; Paleoethnobotany, human/plant interactions in the Andes.

Scherz, China, cscherz [at] itsa.ucsf. (Medical Anthropology, 2004) Decision making, subjectivity, ethics, medication adherence, child welfare, reproduction, Ireland, US minority populations.

Smith, Cheryl A., smithc [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2000) North America; historical archaeology, cultural contact, ethnicity, zooarchaeology.

Sumii , Kensuke, sumiik [at] berkeley. (Medical, 1998) Japan; Popular medical discourse, Modernity, Theory of Consumption.

Tanaka, Maki, makitnk [at] berkeley. (Socio-cultural, 2003) Cuba; Anthropology of Tourism, (Post-)Socialism, Development.

Tung, Burcu, burcu [at] berkeley. (Archaeology, 2002) Anatolian and Near Eastern Prehistory; geoarchaeology and micromorphology; ethnoarchaeology and vernacular building practices; prehistoric landscapes; the history of archaeology in Turkey.

Whitington, Jerome, fuse [at] berkeley.edu (Socio-Cultural, 2000); Laos, Southeast Asia; governmental form and subjectivation; global norms and forms of developmental governmentality; political ecology of hydropower investment; management practices, intractability, and security; the organization of expertise; developmental subjects, affect and the micro-practices of neoliberalism; the developmental state as object of reform.

Wilcox, Emily, eewilcox [at] socrates. (Medical, 2004) China, France, multi-sited urban ethnography, science studies, performance studies, contemporary forms of spiritual practice, discourses of biomedical knowledge, techniques of bodily cultivation, ritual and healing, postmodern dance.

Zheng, Lisia, lisiazheng [at] berkeley. (socio-cultural, 2005) East Asia, China; Development, urbanism, consumption, marketing and advertising, practice theory, visual culture.

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