Graduate Students
Anthropology of social movements; anthropology of the state; agricultural anthropology; anthropology of bureaucracy
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: nikhit@ucla.edu
Sexual violence; healthcare disparities; forensic medicine; social constructions of victimhood/survivorhood; Black women; critical race studies; Black feminist studies; queer theory
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: akua.agyen@ucla.edu
international students and study abroad, anthropology of education, tourism, raciolinguistics; United States, Kuwait
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: balfarhan@ucla.edu
Language and the law; law, gender and power; Latin America; gender-sensitive judging; courtroom interaction and discourse; anthropology of expertise; judges and lawyers; legal institutions
Subfield:Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology
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Email: karimeparodi@ucla.edu
Psychological/Medical Anthropology
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Email: izemaral18@ucla.edu
Emergent social complexity; origins of inequality; materiality; identity; agency; craft production; political economies; ceramic analysis; social network theory; community archaeology; Bronze Age Europe
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Email: elarnold@ucla.edu
Black Feminist Archaeology; American South; Slavery; African American Identity and Cultural Persistence
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Email: madisonaubey@g.ucla.edu
Comparative indigeneity; [post-]colonialism; cultural ecology; ecology of language; globalism; historical consciousness; linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; language and materiality; language and genetics; language and identity; language and culture; Melanesia, Northern Europe, Oceania, Southwestern United States
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: vmbelletto@ucla.edu
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Email: marisaberwald@gmail.com
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: jmebrewster@g.ucla.edu
Sociocultural and Medical/Psychological Anthropology
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Email: burcu.bugu@gmail.com
Linguistic landscapes; language ideologies; political economy; semiotics; Puerto Rico
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: saraicastro@g.ucla.edu
Affect; political life; queer/cuir theory; trans studies; homonationalism; anthropology of social movements; archival methods; phenomenology; precarity; gender; transnationalism; El Salvador; Central America
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology; Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: nicolachavezc@ucla.edu
Critical global health; global mental health; governance of community mental health; science technology studies; Latin America
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Email: faithco@ucla.edu
Primate sociality, affect and communication; animal ethnography; empathy; care; infant interaction; philosophy of animal minds; the moral standing of animals; animal ethics; human-animal studies; critical animal studies; speciesism; anthropocentrism; compassionate conservation; Asian colobines; black crested macaques; primate life history; natural history; illustration
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Email: brendadegroot@ucla.edu
Performance/verbal artistry; education and local governance systems; NGOs, participatory politics, and democracy; language socialization; multimodal communication; Latin America and the Caribbean
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
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Email: mercedesdouglass@gmail.com
Language ideologies; the language of race, gender, and colonialism; transnationalism; identity; diplomacy; the anthropology of humor; experimental ethnography; Japanese diaspora; Asian American Studies; East Asian Studies
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Email: adzikowski@ucla.edu
"Rez Metal"; contemporary Native American music & arts; sonic sounds and resistance; settler colonialism; photography of Native Americans, indigenous research methodologies; indigenous feminisms; photoethnography; indigenous political movements; NAGPRA; museum studies; Native American youth; Lakota language
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: veagle@g.ucla.edu
neotropical primates; primate evolution; primate evolutionary behavior; genomics; computational genomics; bioinformatics; phylogenetics
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Email: nrfinneg@ucla.edu
Biological Anthropology
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Email: tlaolifuentes@gmail.com
Colonialism; Language Ideologies; Linguistic Landscape; Ryukyuan Languages; US Military & Okinawa
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Email: thomasggerz@gmail.com
Multilingualism; language socialization; peer language socialization; metalinguistic awareness; language policies and practices, post-Soviet preschool education; Republic of Armenia
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: ghazaryanl@ucla.edu
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: daniheffernan@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mhellmann@mednet.ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mhing312@gmail.com
Substance use/addictive experience and recovery; mental health/illness; trauma; diagnostic labeling; psychotherapeutic and psychiatric interventions; peer-support running as intervention; endurance/long-distance running; sporting embodiment; U.S./Denmark.
Subfield:Psychological and Medical Anthropology
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Email: emiliarose@g.ucla.edu
Anthropology of youth, development, and law; political anthropology; anthropology of human rights; anthropology of education; Southeast Asia
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Email: j2jonathan95278@gmail.com
Identity management; disability studies; museum studies; American Sign Language and Deaf culture; semiotic theory; Caribbean studies; digital discourse
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Email: briejmo@ucla.edu
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Email: jjulien@ucla.edu
African Americans; African American literature; Black English; autism; disability; autism diagnosis;healthcare disparities; narrative; everyday family life; phenomenology; morality; United States
Subfield:Medical/Psychological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: skeeneyparks@ucla.edu
Language ideologies, Semiotics, Discourse analysis, Theories of Affect, Iranian diaspora, Medieval Persian literature, Historical linguistics, Iranian languages (Caspian languages), Human-Computer Interaction, UXR.
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: ziaoddin@ucla.edu
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Political Economy; Militarism; South Korea; Border; Social Movement; Cold War.
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: yejookim@ucla.edu
Emotions; morality; human cognition; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology; perceptions of privacy; digital privacy; digital communications
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Email: klitgaardsophie@gmail.com
Social support; cultural stress; pregnancy and (grand)motherhood; evolutionary medicine; health and human biology
Subfield:Biological Anthropology
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Email: d.knorr@ucla.edu
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: nalamattina@ucla.edu
Asian American language and identity; language and race; bilingualism; heritage language use; language socialization; language ideologies
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: cherylsjlee@g.ucla.edu
Urban anthropology; political economy; critical medical anthropology
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jdlevenson@ucla.edu
Freediving; breath; selfhood and embodiment; phenomenology; visual ethnography; neuroanthropology; mental health and wellbeing; human-environment interactions; Southeast Asia
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Email: suraiyaluecke@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mvsita@gmail.com
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: nataliemarshall@ucla.edu
Reggaeton; Hip-Hop; Latin Trap; Music; Latin America; Transnationalism; Race & Ethnicity; Black & Brown Coalition; Education
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Email: erickmatus@ucla.edu
Anthropology of religion; monasticism; everyday life; asceticism; ritual; labor; urban anthropology; Christianity; Greek Orthodoxy; the Balkans; Greece
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: pmelas93@g.ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: vanessa4@stanford.edu
Primate Behavioral Ecology; Stress Physiology; Pace-of-Life Syndromes; Behavioral Endocrinology
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Email: anm2186@g.ucla.edu
Office: Haines Hall 330A
American Empire; Industrial Archaeology; Historical Ecology; Remote Sensing
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Email: rsmeyerlorey@ucla.edu
Race and transnational diaspora networks, Black Americans, U.S. foreign policy in Africa, diplomatic statecraft, gender and intersectionality
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: namills@ucla.edu
Post-development and de-growth; Human mobility and autonomous migration; Black self-determination; Political disobedience and illegality
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Email: bethelsm@ucla.edu
New World archaeology (Mesoamerica); paleoethnobotany; macrobotanical analysis; foodways; emergent social inequality; development of socio-political complexity; social identity; gender; discipline socio-politics; diversity; equity
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: vnewhall@ucla.edu
Biomedicalization; chronic illness; evidence-based medicine; disability; risk; race/racism in medicine; Los Angeles; photoethnography
Subfield:Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology
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Email: parks.rachel.e@gmail.com
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: rcparnell@g.ucla.edu
Critical global health; philanthropy and humanitarianism; effective altruism; consulting; sustainable finance; biopolitics; empathy
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Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: hpuckett@g.ucla.edu
Central American migration
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: wquinta95@ucla.edu
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Email: hreiss@ucla.edu
Mutual aid; critical medical anthropology; arts-based methods; migration studies; space/place; Mexico and Central America
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Email: siennaruiz@g.ucla.edu
Immigration; violence; death; poverty; homelessness; workers rights; social inequality; anti-capitalist social movements
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Email: emorals@g.ucla.edu
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Email: kaseyschleper4@g.ucla.edu
Finance, climate change, energy transition; risk, value, efficacy; political economy; science and technology studies (STS); affect; London and Tokyo
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: mschneider1@g.ucla.edu
Sikhs; nomadism; caste; carcerality; violence
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: esinski01@gmail.com
Linguistic variation and identity; embodiment; prosody; interaction in institutions; language and gender; adolescence; high schools; youth political participation; Santiago, Chile; Los Angeles, CA
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology; Visual Anthropology
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Email: tyanna@ucla.edu
Language evolution; language development; gesture; communicative behavior; human social behavior; evolutionary psychology
Subfield:Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: andrewmsmith@ucla.edu
Archaeology of the contemporary; migration; climate change; human-environment interactions; borderlands; Latin America
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: nsmithh@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jessiest@umich.edu
Multispecies ethnography; anthropology of the environment; semiotics; affect; cultural geography; embodiment; materiality
Subfield:Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: dogatekin@g.ucla.edu
Phenomenology; storytelling; qualitative; quantitative; Indigenous populations; NAGPRA; indigenous rights; social justice; equality; public policy; narrative; indigenous education; indigenous health
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jvela@ucla.edu
Linguistic Anthropology
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Email: alexanderward@ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: donghyoun.we@gmail.com
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Email: weswilson@ucla.edu
Primate social behavior; animal communication; emotion and cognition; the evolution of humor and play
Subfield:Biological Anthropology
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Email: sashawinkler@g.ucla.edu
“Development”; globalization; migration; nationalism; citizenship; borders; big data; photo/video-ethnography; multi-species ethnography; Bhutan
Subfield:Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: youngb41@ucla.edu
Human evolution, high-altitude adaptation, developmental adaptation, population genetics, genetic selection, epigenetic modifications, transcriptomics.
Subfield:Biological Anthropology
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Email: kitzhu@g.ucla.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: zhuanghy1991@163.COM