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Graduate Students

Abidine, Karima

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012)

Middle East and North Africa, Youth, Performance Arts, Urban Space and Dance Studies.  karima@u.northwestern.edu

Adrover, Lauren

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

Commodification of culture, embodied practice, money and value, political economy, West Africa. ladrover@u.northwestern.edu

Aiello, Marco

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004)

Infectious disease; Growth and development; Nutrition; Amazonia. m-aiello@northwestern.edu

Bragg, Jared

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2009)

Cooperative breeding and the human life history, reproductive energetics, reproductive ecology, life history evolution and development, aging and reproductive senescence.  bragg@u.northwestern.edu

Bright, Bonnie

Medical Anthropology (Non-degree Student 2012)

Bump, Natalie

JD/PhD (PhD Candidate 2012)

Forest Preserve District of Cook County, IL; nature, preservation, and local natural resources law.

Butler, Noah

Cultural/ Africa Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004)

Anthropology of knowledge; economic anthropology; social organization; Islam; West Africa. n-butler@northwestern.edu

Catlin, Kathryn

Archaeology (Doctoral Student Fall 2012)

Archaeology of social-environmental interaction, economic anthropology, GIS/spatial analysis, archaeological survey and geophysics, Viking Age Iceland, medieval England, historical archaeology of the North Atlantic.  kathryncatlin2012@u.northwestern.edu

Dejene, Bethlehem

Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

East Africa, ritual healing, spirit healing, spirit possession, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church.   b-dejene@northwestern.edu

Diamond, Michael

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

michael-diamond@northwestern.edu

Eisenberg, Dan T. A.

Biological Anthropology, (PhD August 2012)

Escontrias, Pilar

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2010)

Fried, Ruby

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student Fall 2012)

Gettler, Lee

Biological Anthropology (PhD August 2012)

Glaser, Alana

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

Migration, labor, gender, political economy, New York, Francophone West Africa.

Harrington, Elizabeth

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student Fall 2012)

Sociocultural anthropology, politics of representation, Middle East, political economy, material and visual culture, gender.

eharrington@u.northwestern.edu

Harris, Khadene

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Hartman, Elizabeth

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Ethnomusicology; music, sound, and sexual commerce in the contemporary US; music, technology, and globalization; race, class, gender, and political economy; urban studies; sound studies; movement and dance studies. BethHartman@u.northwestern.edu

Hasnain, Sadaf

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Hernandez, Christopher

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2011)

The archeology of violence in the Maya area during the Postclassic period.  Clh@u.northwestern.edu

Hoke, Morgan

Medical Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2010)

Biocultural anthropology, reproductive health, growth and development, altitude studies, market integration, the Andes.  mkh2106@u.northwestern.edu

Jamil, Nurhaizatul

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2010)

Juarez, Santiago

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2011)

Kanne, Katherine

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2008)

Archaeology, human-animal relationships, Bronze Age Hungary, development of complex societies, political economy, cross-cultural analysis. k-kanne@northwestern.edu

Kares, Faith

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

Urban development and housing, transnational social movements, youth studies, volunteerism, NGOs and governmentality, citizenship and belonging, Filipino/Filipino Americans, Philippines and U.S.  FaithKares2013@u.northwestern.edu

Koycheva, Lora

Cultural Anthropology (PhD December 2012)

Lanari, Elisa

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student Fall 2012)

Landau, Kristin

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2012)

Community archaeology, social organization, anthropological theory, GIS/spatial analysis, ceramics, Maya region. kvlandau@u.northwestern.edu

Lash, Ryan

Archaeology (Doctoral Student Fall 2012)

Levy, Stephanie

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2010)

Adaptability, human energetics, circumpolar regions, developmental origins of health and disease. stephanie-levy@u.northwestern.edu

Marquez Jr., Arturo

Cultural/Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012) ArturoMarquez2013@u.northwestern.edu

Mauxion, Aurélien

Cultural Anthropology (PhD June 2012)

McCabe, Kimberly

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Human microbiome, symbiosis, microbial ecology and human biology, developmental origins of health and disease.  kim.mccabe@u.northwestern.edu

Miller, Aaron

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004)

Reproductive Ecology, Human Energetics, Nutrition. Lowland Bolivia. a-miller@northwestern.edu

Millhauser, John

Archaeology (PhD August 2012)

Miranda, Almita

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

Race/ethnicity, gender, political economy, immigrant rights, citizenship, transnationalism, social movements, family ideology, U.S. Latinos/as; U.S., Mexico.  AlmitaMiranda2007@u.northwestern.edu

Mumm, Jesse

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007)

Urban and Americanist anthropology, race, political economy, gentrification & local development, immigration, Latinos in the US, neighborhoods, landscape, space, Chicago.  j-mumm@northwestern.edu

Overholtzer, Lisa

Archaeology (PhD August 2012)

Özkan, Nazli

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Anthropology of media, anthropology of religion, political economy, Alevis, Turkey, and the Middle East. NazliOzkan2011@u.northwestern.edu

Pankonien, Dawn

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007)

Political economy of Mexico; community development, tourism, service production, and neoliberal capitalism; kinship and household organization; women's migration and marriage choices; single motherhood. d-pankonien@northwestern.edu

Peters, Melissa Minor
Cultural/Medical Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

Gender variance, sexualities, political economy, queer globalizations, health disparities, Africa, Uganda. m-minor@northwestern.edu

Phillippi, Bradley

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2010)

Polányi, Tamás

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2012) tamaspolanyi@u.northwestern.edu

Pouchet, Jessica

Linguistic Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2011)

Political ecology; protected lands; biodiversity conservation; nature tourism; international development; Tanzania. jpouchet@u.northwestern.edu

Preston-Werner, Theresa

Cultural Anthropology (PhD August 2012)

Seibel, Kimberly

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

Borders, the state, citizenship, identity, social networks, transnational mobility, space/place, refugees, Central Africa. KimberlySeibel2013@u.northwestern.edu

Shih, Chung-Yu

Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2002)

Slubowski, Lauren

Medical Anthropology (PhD/MPH Candidate 2011)

Social health disparities, obesity and nutritional health, psychosocial stress, childhood and adolescence. LaurenSlubowski2013@u.northwestern.edu

Steinmetz, Emily

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2005), e-steinmetz@northwestern.edu

Stubbs, Matilda

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012)

The anthropology of social work, foster youth, childhood, adolescence, the construction of family and home, psychological anthropology, narrative, autobiographical memory, the self and personhood, life stories, queer consciousness, documents and documentary practices.  MatildaStubbs2012@u.northwestern.edu

Tallman, Paula Skye

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012)

Culture change, stress, somatic symptoms, and physiological functioning in the Amazon. paulaskye@u.northwestern.edu

Taylor, Sarah R.

Biological and Medical Anthropology (PhD/MPH Candidate 2013)

Food, nutrition, and health inequalities; psychosocial stress; urban agriculture and community gardens in Chicago. sarah.r.taylor@u.northwestern.edu

Thayer, Zaneta

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2010)

Human biology, developmental epigenetics, evolutionary theory, human variation, psychosocial stress, race and racism. ZanetaThayer2014@u.northwestern.edu

Valles, Dario

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012), dariovalles2015@u.northwestern.edu

Vento, Melanie

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2008), m-vento@northwestern.edu

Wilhoit, Ella

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2012)

Agricultural communities, cooperation, privatization, and gender, highland Peru.

marywilhoit2016@u.northwestern.edu

Yount-André, Chelsie

Linguistic Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2010)

 

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