Gbemisola Abiola
Research Interests: post (post) colonial studies, African literature, African political thought, war studies, and critical terrorism studies
gabiola@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: post (post) colonial studies, African literature, African political thought, war studies, and critical terrorism studies
gabiola@g.harvard.edu
Marty Alexander
Research Interests: United States, Hong Kong, southern China; biomedical research and ethics; local laboratory practices; the production of biomedical discourses; and public understandings of science.
lalexand@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: United States, Hong Kong, southern China; biomedical research and ethics; local laboratory practices; the production of biomedical discourses; and public understandings of science.
lalexand@fas.harvard.edu
Aurora Allshouse
Archaeology
Myriam Amri
Research Interests: Tunisia, money, debt, urban ecologies, natural resources, subjectivities, political economy, postcolonialism
Ethan Balgley
Research Interests: United States, Los Angeles; medical anthropology; superutilizers, homelessness, discourses of healthcare policy and reform ethan_balgley@hms.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: United States, Los Angeles; medical anthropology; superutilizers, homelessness, discourses of healthcare policy and reform ethan_balgley@hms.harvard.edu | website
Margaretha Blignaut
Research Interests: Knowledge production, heritage politics, post-genomic era, Roma, Turkey
mblignaut@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Knowledge production, heritage politics, post-genomic era, Roma, Turkey
mblignaut@g.harvard.edu
Cynthia Browne
Research Interests: Germany: art, urbanism, and riparian landscapes; industrial nature and structural change; phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty), linguistic pragmatics.
cbrowne@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Germany: art, urbanism, and riparian landscapes; industrial nature and structural change; phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty), linguistic pragmatics.
cbrowne@fas.harvard.edu
Eda Cakmakci
Research Interests: social anthropology, cultural history, Turkey.
edacakmakci@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: social anthropology, cultural history, Turkey.
edacakmakci@g.harvard.edu
Wade Campbell
Research Interests: Southwest US, Navajo (Diné) archaeology; Spanish/indigenous colonial contacts; pericolonialism & borderland communities; ethnicity & migration; diet & subsistence practices; pastoralism; landscape archaeology; indigenous archaeology.
campbell01@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Southwest US, Navajo (Diné) archaeology; Spanish/indigenous colonial contacts; pericolonialism & borderland communities; ethnicity & migration; diet & subsistence practices; pastoralism; landscape archaeology; indigenous archaeology.
campbell01@g.harvard.edu
Vivien Chung
Research Interests: South Korea, design, gender and sexuality, fashion industry, marketing, language and politics.
vivienchung@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Korea, design, gender and sexuality, fashion industry, marketing, language and politics.
vivienchung@fas.harvard.edu
Paul Clarke
Research Interests: Gun violence in American & South African cities, race and biopolitics, materiality, urban anthropology, settler colonialism, private security.
paul_clarke@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Gun violence in American & South African cities, race and biopolitics, materiality, urban anthropology, settler colonialism, private security.
paul_clarke@g.harvard.edu
Jonathan Clindaniel
Research Interests: Computational Archaeology, Inka Khipus, semiotics.
jclindaniel@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Computational Archaeology, Inka Khipus, semiotics.
jclindaniel@fas.harvard.edu | website
Joe Cronin
Research Interests: Andean Archaeology, Agricultural Ritual, Political Authority, Production Infrastructure, Pre-Hispanic Economies.
jcronin@g.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Andean Archaeology, Agricultural Ritual, Political Authority, Production Infrastructure, Pre-Hispanic Economies.
jcronin@g.harvard.edu | website
Margaret Czerwienski
Research Interests: Nigeria, biopolitics; how do pharmaceutical treatment modalities link individual bodies and local communities to global political economic processes, and how do these networked interconnections shift local, national, and global histories, narratives, and experiences of mental anguish and suffering?
mczerwienski@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Nigeria, biopolitics; how do pharmaceutical treatment modalities link individual bodies and local communities to global political economic processes, and how do these networked interconnections shift local, national, and global histories, narratives, and experiences of mental anguish and suffering?
mczerwienski@g.harvard.edu
Aryo Danusiri
Research Interests: Indonesia, South East Asia; Visual Ethnography, Nexus of Borders, Fundamentalism, Mobility, Developmentalism, Humanitarianism, Decentralization.
danusiri@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Indonesia, South East Asia; Visual Ethnography, Nexus of Borders, Fundamentalism, Mobility, Developmentalism, Humanitarianism, Decentralization.
danusiri@fas.harvard.edu
Jessica Dickson
Research Interests: South Africa; media anthropology, cinema and the film industry, post-colonial science fiction and futurism, political economy, subjectivity, race and gender, tourism.
jessicadickson@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Africa; media anthropology, cinema and the film industry, post-colonial science fiction and futurism, political economy, subjectivity, race and gender, tourism.
jessicadickson@fas.harvard.edu
Jarrett Drake
Research Interests: United States (Rust Belt), archives, memory work, human rights, justice, accountability, state violence, policing, and incarceration.
Max Durayappah-Harrison
Research Interests: Japan; agriculture, impacts of globalization, collaborative visual anthropology.
harrison01@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Japan; agriculture, impacts of globalization, collaborative visual anthropology.
harrison01@fas.harvard.edu
Zoe Eddy
Research Interests: Supernatural belief systems, ritual and religion, animal studies, food studies, gender and identity, material culture, LARPing, collaborative anthropology, historical archaeology, cross-comparative analysis; Japan, the United Kingdom, island communities.
zeddy@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Supernatural belief systems, ritual and religion, animal studies, food studies, gender and identity, material culture, LARPing, collaborative anthropology, historical archaeology, cross-comparative analysis; Japan, the United Kingdom, island communities.
zeddy@fas.harvard.edu
Kanishka Elupula
Research Interests: India, U.S., political anthropology
kanishkaelupula@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: India, U.S., political anthropology
kanishkaelupula@fas.harvard.edu
Nakay R. Flotte
Research Interests: Mexico-Guatemala borderlands, migration, security, gender and sexuality.
rflotte@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Mexico-Guatemala borderlands, migration, security, gender and sexuality.
rflotte@fas.harvard.edu
Christian Free
Social Anthropology/AAAS
Shuang Lu Frost
Research Interests: Digital technology, sharing economy, urban infrastructure, governance, political economy, China.
shuanglu@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Digital technology, sharing economy, urban infrastructure, governance, political economy, China.
shuanglu@fas.harvard.edu | website
Aparna Gopalan
Research Interests: South Asia, global histories of capitalism, postcolonialism, agrarian studies, shifting discourses of poverty, economic expertise, (neo)liberalism, governmentality, anthropology of the state and ‘the economy’, legal anthropology
Dalyn Grindle
Archaeology
Alexis Hartford
Research Interests: Mesoamerica; ritual and religion, ceramics, residue analysis, community outreach.
ahartford@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Mesoamerica; ritual and religion, ceramics, residue analysis, community outreach.
ahartford@fas.harvard.edu
Parker Hatley
Research Interests: Political ecology; organized crime; political anthropology; visual anthropology; Central America
Samantha Hawkins
Research Interests: Visual anthropology, violence, inner city experience, social marginalization, memorialization, power structures, identity, material culture, and the United States.
shawkins@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Visual anthropology, violence, inner city experience, social marginalization, memorialization, power structures, identity, material culture, and the United States.
shawkins@g.harvard.edu
Annikki Herranen-Tabibi
Research Interests: Finland; The medical, political and historical anthropology of care in the Finnish Sámi region; European and Circumpolar anthropology; belonging, citizenship and sovereignty; welfare state transformations; demography.
herranen@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Finland; The medical, political and historical anthropology of care in the Finnish Sámi region; European and Circumpolar anthropology; belonging, citizenship and sovereignty; welfare state transformations; demography.
herranen@fas.harvard.edu
Reza Idria
Research Interests: Indonesia, the aftermath of disasters, Aceh, politics, truth and reconciliation, Sharia and cultural resistance.
rezaidria@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Indonesia, the aftermath of disasters, Aceh, politics, truth and reconciliation, Sharia and cultural resistance.
rezaidria@fas.harvard.edu
Yookyeong Im
Research Interests: South Korea, international law, human rights discourses and institutions, gender and sexuality.
yookyeong_im@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Korea, international law, human rights discourses and institutions, gender and sexuality.
yookyeong_im@g.harvard.edu
Bronwyn Isaacs
Research Interests: Consumer markets, labor and value, political anthropology, nationalism, religion, ethics and morality, food and consumption, the anthropology of performance, the body, gender, advertising, aesthetics, media, propaganda, visual anthropology, sensory ethnography, Thailand and South East Asia.
bronwynisaacs@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Consumer markets, labor and value, political anthropology, nationalism, religion, ethics and morality, food and consumption, the anthropology of performance, the body, gender, advertising, aesthetics, media, propaganda, visual anthropology, sensory ethnography, Thailand and South East Asia.
bronwynisaacs@fas.harvard.edu | website
Abbas Jaffer
Research Interests: South Asia, STS (science, technology, and society), digital sociality
jaffer@fas.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: South Asia, STS (science, technology, and society), digital sociality
jaffer@fas.harvard.edu | website
Eric Johnson
Research Interests: North Atlantic, Iceland, New England; Historical anthropology, archaeology of class in colonial contexts, political economy, materiality of mercantilism vs. liberalism, inter-household inequality, settlement landscapes, core sampling and survey archaeology.
ericjohnson@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: North Atlantic, Iceland, New England; Historical anthropology, archaeology of class in colonial contexts, political economy, materiality of mercantilism vs. liberalism, inter-household inequality, settlement landscapes, core sampling and survey archaeology.
ericjohnson@g.harvard.edu
George Karandinos
Research Interests: US inner cities, Puerto Rico, Colombia; violence, addiction, War on Drugs.
george_karandinos@hms.harvard.edu
Research Interests: US inner cities, Puerto Rico, Colombia; violence, addiction, War on Drugs.
george_karandinos@hms.harvard.edu
Damina Khaira
Research Interests: SouthEast Asia, Borneo; indigeneity, identity politics, heritage.
dkhaira@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: SouthEast Asia, Borneo; indigeneity, identity politics, heritage.
dkhaira@fas.harvard.edu
Bethany Kibler
Research Interests: U.S. & Middle East; U.S. Military, Gender and Sexuality.
bkibler@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: U.S. & Middle East; U.S. Military, Gender and Sexuality.
bkibler@fas.harvard.edu
Lilia Kilburn
Research Interests: Vocality and sound technologies, media and communication disorder, labor and capital, kinship and intimacy, Cameroon.
Alexander Mee-Woong Kim
Research Interests: Siberia, Central Asia, and North America; ancient DNA and population genomics; admixture, migration, and demography; hunter-gatherer mortuary behavior; “complex” foragers; ceramics without farming; caste systems and hereditary slavery
Research Interests: Siberia, Central Asia, and North America; ancient DNA and population genomics; admixture, migration, and demography; hunter-gatherer mortuary behavior; “complex” foragers; ceramics without farming; caste systems and hereditary slavery
Jada Ko
Research Interests: Western China; emergence of social hierarchies and complex societies; zooarchaeology; Media Anthropology.
wingtungjadako@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Western China; emergence of social hierarchies and complex societies; zooarchaeology; Media Anthropology.
wingtungjadako@fas.harvard.edu
Ekin Kurtic
Research Interests: anthropology of infrastructure, environmental history, political ecology, anthropology of bureaucracy, and Turkey.
ekinkurtic@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: anthropology of infrastructure, environmental history, political ecology, anthropology of bureaucracy, and Turkey.
ekinkurtic@fas.harvard.edu
Zachary Lentsch
Research Interests: Yemen; Red Sea mobilities, empire, development.
lentsch@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Yemen; Red Sea mobilities, empire, development.
lentsch@g.harvard.edu
Sara Loomis
Research Interests: Archaeology, Mesoamerica, West Mexico, Teotihuacan, Ceramics, Childhood
sloomis@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Archaeology, Mesoamerica, West Mexico, Teotihuacan, Ceramics, Childhood
sloomis@g.harvard.edu
Matthew Magnani
Research Interests: East Africa; Hunter-gatherer/pastoralist ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, indigeneity and (digital) cultural heritage.
matthewmagnani@g.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: East Africa; Hunter-gatherer/pastoralist ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, indigeneity and (digital) cultural heritage.
matthewmagnani@g.harvard.edu | website
Amulya Mandava
Research Interests: South Asia; marriage, caste, political economy.
amulya_mandava@mail.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Asia; marriage, caste, political economy.
amulya_mandava@mail.harvard.edu
Solsire Cusicanqui Marsano
Research Interests: Peru; Andean Archaeology, Cajamarca, Mochica, Peru; identity, technology, style; archaeology and heritage management.
scusicanquimarsano@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Peru; Andean Archaeology, Cajamarca, Mochica, Peru; identity, technology, style; archaeology and heritage management.
scusicanquimarsano@g.harvard.edu
Jessica McNiel
Research Interests: paleoanthropology; lithic technology; experimental archaeology; archaeology of South Africa, East Africa, Sahul; human evolution; modern human origins and behavioral variability; Middle Stone Age technology; Middle to Later Stone Age transitions; raw materials properties; raw material sourcing
jlmcneil@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: paleoanthropology; lithic technology; experimental archaeology; archaeology of South Africa, East Africa, Sahul; human evolution; modern human origins and behavioral variability; Middle Stone Age technology; Middle to Later Stone Age transitions; raw materials properties; raw material sourcing
jlmcneil@g.harvard.edu
Tyler Michael
Research Interests: Southwest US, Contact and Colonialism, Religion, Political Economy, Gender, Materiality, Iconography, Landscape Archaeology, Revitalization Movements, Reflexive Archaeology, Collaborative Archaeology
Noha Mokhtar
Research Interests: Egypt, kinship, domesticity, architecture, design and art
Abigail Niebuhr
Research Interests: South Africa; xenophobia and the issue of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa
abigailniebuhr@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Africa; xenophobia and the issue of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa
abigailniebuhr@g.harvard.edu
Chiaki Nishijima
Research Interests: Tokyo, Japan; gender and sexuality, political economy, aging.
cnishij@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Tokyo, Japan; gender and sexuality, political economy, aging.
cnishij@fas.harvard.edu
Chrystel Oloukoï
Research Interests: African studies, Johannesburg, Lagos, night studies, the politics of leisure, sexuality, crime and security at night, neoliberalism, urban citizenship, infrastructure, urban anthropology
Katherine Peeler
Research Interests: Pediatric end-of-life care, the asylum experience, human trafficking, resilience, medical anthropology
Vipas Prachyaporn
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Laos; Artisanship, personhood, nationalism, post-socialism.
vprachy@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Laos; Artisanship, personhood, nationalism, post-socialism.
vprachy@fas.harvard.edu
Renugan Raidoo
Research Interests: South Africa; gated communities, histories of enclaving, urban anthropology, anthropology of space and place, crime and security, democracy and citizenship.
rraidoo@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Africa; gated communities, histories of enclaving, urban anthropology, anthropology of space and place, crime and security, democracy and citizenship.
rraidoo@g.harvard.edu
Kate Rose
Research Interests: Ancient Egypt and Near East; Urbanism and settlement design, spatial analysis, domestic ritual practice versus state religious ideology.
katherinerose@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Ancient Egypt and Near East; Urbanism and settlement design, spatial analysis, domestic ritual practice versus state religious ideology.
katherinerose@fas.harvard.edu
Daria Savchenko
Research interests: robots and robotics, China, education, digital technology, governmentality, nation building
Benjamin Shaffer
Research Interests: China; media/visual anthropology, art communities.
benny.shaffer@gmail.com
benny.shaffer@gmail.com
Miari Stephens
Research Interests: Afro-Latin American; Hispanic Caribbean; politics of beauty as they intersect with race, gender, and class; politics of hair; beauty as expression, art form.
miari@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Afro-Latin American; Hispanic Caribbean; politics of beauty as they intersect with race, gender, and class; politics of hair; beauty as expression, art form.
miari@g.harvard.edu
Galen Stolee
Research Interests: Indonesia, Silicon Valley, anthropology of media, popular culture, visual ethnography, masculinities, mind-machine interfaces, pornography, digital nomads, dogs
stolee@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Indonesia, Silicon Valley, anthropology of media, popular culture, visual ethnography, masculinities, mind-machine interfaces, pornography, digital nomads, dogs
stolee@g.harvard.edu
Adriaan Steyn
Social Anthropology/AAAS
Susan Taylor
Research Interests: Japan; urban markets, cultural geography, and virtual spaces. I am interested in configurations between knowledge and places, specifically constructions of nationalistic and bibliographic knowledge in used book districts in Tokyo and Seoul.
susanpaigetaylor@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Japan; urban markets, cultural geography, and virtual spaces. I am interested in configurations between knowledge and places, specifically constructions of nationalistic and bibliographic knowledge in used book districts in Tokyo and Seoul.
susanpaigetaylor@g.harvard.edu
Keye Tersmette
Research Interests: Oman; Middle East politics; popular conceptions of the state; youth (un)employment
keyetersmette@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Oman; Middle East politics; popular conceptions of the state; youth (un)employment
keyetersmette@g.harvard.edu
Rachel Thompson
Research Interests: Indonesia, Netherlands; colonialism, trade, political ecology/economy
rthompson@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Indonesia, Netherlands; colonialism, trade, political ecology/economy
rthompson@fas.harvard.edu
Randa Wahbe
Research Interests: Palestine, expressions of sovereignty, settler-colonialism, necropolitics, body commodification
wahbe@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Palestine, expressions of sovereignty, settler-colonialism, necropolitics, body commodification
wahbe@g.harvard.edu
Alex Warburton
Research Interests: Kazakhstan and Turkic Central Asia; semiotic and linguistic anthropology; voice and the body; transnational infrastructure projects
warburton@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Kazakhstan and Turkic Central Asia; semiotic and linguistic anthropology; voice and the body; transnational infrastructure projects
warburton@g.harvard.edu
Sadie Weber
Research Interests: South America, Pastoralism, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany.
sweber@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South America, Pastoralism, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany.
sweber@fas.harvard.edu
Courtney T. Wittenkind
Research Interests: Spatial politics, landscape and the environment, materiality, visual and collaborative ethnography, Southeast Asia, Burma/Myanmar.
courtney_wittekind@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Spatial politics, landscape and the environment, materiality, visual and collaborative ethnography, Southeast Asia, Burma/Myanmar.
courtney_wittekind@g.harvard.edu
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Research Interests: Social and Urban Transformation and Contest, Biopolitics, City as “Spatial Palimpsest”, Architecture of Resistance, Anthropology of Knowledge, Cultural Intimacy, Memory and Identity Politics, “Homescapes”, TransnationalMigration, Turkey, Germany.
Research Interests: Social and Urban Transformation and Contest, Biopolitics, City as “Spatial Palimpsest”, Architecture of Resistance, Anthropology of Knowledge, Cultural Intimacy, Memory and Identity Politics, “Homescapes”, TransnationalMigration, Turkey, Germany.
Dilan Yildirim
Research Interests: Turkey; Kurdish political movements, structural violence & memory, marginality, landscape and subjectivity, politics of culture.
dyildir@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Turkey; Kurdish political movements, structural violence & memory, marginality, landscape and subjectivity, politics of culture.
dyildir@fas.harvard.edu
Armanc Yildiz
Research Interests: Germany and Europe; sexuality, race, labor, political economy, colonialism, migration, the anthropology of Europe.
Sara Zaia
Research Interests: Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, Predynastic Egypt, navigation and trades, ships and shipcraft, ancient technologies, Digital Humanities, computer graphics, 3D and virtual reconstruction, field archaeology, field survey, landscape archaeology; GIS,photogrammetry, web design, experimental archaeology.
sara_zaia@g.harvard.edu | website
Research Interests: Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, Predynastic Egypt, navigation and trades, ships and shipcraft, ancient technologies, Digital Humanities, computer graphics, 3D and virtual reconstruction, field archaeology, field survey, landscape archaeology; GIS,photogrammetry, web design, experimental archaeology.
sara_zaia@g.harvard.edu | website
Chengrui Zhang
Research Interests: Neolithic China, East Asia, regional cultural interactions and social development, human-animal relationship, stable isotope analysis, and environmental archaeology
Shanni Zhao
Research Interests: China, affective labor and capitalism, gender and sexuality, citizenship and belonging, post-socialism.
shannizhao@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: China, affective labor and capitalism, gender and sexuality, citizenship and belonging, post-socialism.
shannizhao@g.harvard.edu
Yevgeniy Zhuravel
Research Interests: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, post-socialism, transition to capitalism, class formation, race and class, race and colonialism in popular culture, modes of nationalism
zhuravel@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, post-socialism, transition to capitalism, class formation, race and class, race and colonialism in popular culture, modes of nationalism
zhuravel@g.harvard.edu
Kristen Zipperer
Research Interests: South Asia, borders, sovereignty, law, media
zipperer@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: South Asia, borders, sovereignty, law, media
zipperer@g.harvard.edu