Graduate Students

• ANTOINE, KATJA - katja@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2009; B.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2007 ) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Race, Racism, Social Critique, Stand-up Comedy, Performance, USA
• BARCHAS-LICHTENSTEIN, JENA - jenali@ucla.edu (B.A., Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Chicago (2005) M.A., Anthropology, UCLA (2009)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language ideologies; language shift and revitalization; language socialization; indigenous communities in Mexico; documentary linguistics; Oaxaca; Jehovah's Witnesses
• BRITE, ELIZABETH BAKER - ebb@ucla.edu (M.A., UCLA (2006) B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2002)) Subfield: Archaeology - Political ecology, collapse and post-collapse, societies of Central and Inner Asia
• BRUNSON, KATHERINE - kbrunson@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, Harvard College, 2008) Subfield: Archaeology - Chinese archaeology, zooarchaeology
• CARTER, ELEANOR - edcarter@ucla.edu
• CONLEY, ROBIN - rhconley@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2007 B.A. Anthropology and Linguistics, NYU, 2002) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language and institutions; language and the law; juries; capital punishment; Texas.
• CONRAD, H. KEZIAH - keziah@ucla.edu (MA International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame 2008; BA Linguistics, University of Arizona 2000) Subfield: Psychocultural and linguistic anthropology - Violence, postwar societies, processes of healing and reconciliation; kinship and families of mixed ethnicity; psychodynamic theories of subjectivity and relationality; Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• CORWIN, ANNA I. - aicorwin [at] ucla [dot] edu (MA Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2007; BA French, Smith College 2003) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - prayer, language and experience, aging, end-of-life, social support, care, and well-being
• DAYSON, MISA - mdayson@ucla.edu (M.A., Anthropology, UCLA B.A., African American Studies and Film Studies, Wesleyan University) Subfield: Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology - Media and visual anthropology, Diaspora studies, German Studies, Gender Studies, cultural production, African diaspora, space race and memory
• DEEB, HADI NICHOLAS - hdeeb@ucla.edu (JD, Harvard Law School, 2003 BA Social Studies, Harvard College, 1999 ) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology; Legal Anthropology - Transformations in models of authorship, ownership, and intellectual property; legal interactions in appellate courts
• DEFELICE, LEISA - darwin@ucla.edu (Doctoral candidate (ABD) 2007; MA Anthropology 2004, UCLA; BA Anthropology 2001, UCLA) Subfield: Paleoanthropology - Fossil hominin cranial morphology and functional anatomy; Classificatory methodology; The quantification of complex biological shapes; Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution; The relationship between form and function
• DIXSON, BONNIE OLIVIA - brichard@ucla.edu (Doctoral Candidate, UCLA, 2011 MA Anthropology, George Washington University, 2007 BA Theology, Oral Roberts University, 2002 ) Subfield: Socio-cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology - Childhood, schooling, and families in Ladakh (northern India/Western Himalayas). Education, health, and well-being. Socio-economic change. Parenthood and autism in the U.S. and India. Museums and archives.
• ENGELKE, CHRISTOPHER (CRE) ROBERT - crengelke@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2005; B.A. Anthropology, Northern Arizona University 2001) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Communication, Design, and Disability
• ESTES, ANTHONY TODD - aestes@ucla.edu (M.A. Stanford, East Asian Stds; M.A. Northern Ill U, Philosophy; B.A. Gardner-Webb U, Psychology) Subfield: Psychocultural - Experience and reality within cross-cultural convergences; involving mindfulness, zen, grounding experiences, delocalization, "non-belief," individuality, publicness. Taiwan and North America. Research design is para-ethnographic, semiotic, psychological, and phenomenological.
• EVERHART, EDWIN KEELY - eke@ucla.edu Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language ideology; assumptions we make on the basis of accent & dialect; language endangerment & language loss; language rights; northern Japan.
• FISH, ADAM - rawbird@gmail.com (MA, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, 2007) Subfield: culture, technology, power - Adam Fish investigates how culture, power, and technology influence explicit political participation. His case studies are American television news networks attempting to engineer a public sphere within the context of neoliberalism.
• FLAHERTY, DEVIN - devinflaherty [at] ucla [dot] edu (B.A., Anthropology and Philosophy, UC San Diego) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology - Clinical communication; biopolitics; neoliberalism and neoliberalistic discourse; biocommunicability; emotion/suffering; genetic counseling
• FLAMENBAUM, RACHEL N. - rnflame@ucla.edu (B.A., Anthropology & Linguistics, New York University, 2007; M.A., Anthropology, UCLA, 2011) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language ideologies, codeswitching, language and new media, transmigration, identity, Ghana and the Ghanaian diaspora; socialization of gustatory taste.
• FRANKENHUIS, WILLEM EDUARD - willem@frankenhuis.org (B.Sc. Psychology, M.Sc. Psychology, M.A. Philosophy. University of Amsterdam) Interface between evolution, development, functional specialization and plasticity in cognition
• FRAZIER, CAMILLE - c.frazier@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, Scripps College, 2009) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - India and South Asia; food and agriculture in relation to gender, morality, nationalism, development and urbanization
• FRIES, ERIC - ecfries@ucla.edu (BA, Anthropology, UC Berkeley 2001.) Subfield: Archaeology
• GAREY, AMY - amgarey@ucla.edu Subfield: Linguistic anthropology - * Poetics and performance * Humor * Russian and Kazakh language and linguistics * Language variation and register formation * Post-Soviet Central Asia
• GARTH, HANNA - hgarth@ucla.edu (PhD Candidate, UCLA 2010; MA, Anthropology, UCLA 2009; MPH, Boston University 2006; BA, Rice University 2005) Subfield: Socio-Cultural Anthropology, The Anthropology of Food, Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology - Cuba and the Caribbean, nutritional anthropology and the anthropology of food, global health, alternative and 'traditional' medicine, health care and the state, gender and womens studies
• GEORGE, RACHEL L - rachel.l.george@gmail.com (B.A. Anthropology, NYU, 2005 M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2009) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language socialization, political consciousness, youth culture, Serbian and Croatian languages, former Yugoslavia.
• GERVAIS, MATTHEW MICHEL - mgervais@ucla.edu (B.S. Psychobiology, Philosophy and Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton, 2006 M.A. Biological Anthropology, UCLA, 2008) Subfield: evolutionary anthropology, psychological anthropology, evolutionary psychology - social evaluation, social emotions, contempt, hierarchy, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), gene-culture coevolution, Fiji & Oceania
• GODOY, IRENE - godoy@ucla.edu (B.A. in Psychology and in Environmental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2005 M.A. in Anthropology, University of California - Los Angeles, 2010 ) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - mate choice, reproductive skew, kin recognition, female reproductive strategies, capuchin monkeys
• GUNAWARDENA, DEVAKA - dgunawardena@ucla.edu (BA 2009, Wesleyan University) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Political economy; anthropology of the state; anthropology of colonialism; nationalism; the left movement and the national question in Sri Lanka; South Asia
• GUZMAN, JENNIFER R. - jrguzman@ucla.edu (PhD candidate, UCLA; M.A. University of California, Davis (Linguistics); B.A. University of Notre Dame (Italian, English)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology - Interaction in biomedical and ethnomedical settings; illness and healing narratives; language socialization and health practices; 'medicina intercultural'; indigenous Latin America; Mapuche communities in Chile
• HALE, KATHRYN LAW - halek@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2010; B.A. Anthropology, Emory University, 2006) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology - Cross-cultural perception of mental illness and pharmaceutical medications; family care and coping; clinical trials; biomedicine; embodiment; narrative
• HAUCK, JAN DAVID - jan.d.hauck [at] ucla [dot] edu (M.A., Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2008) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - ​language ideologies; language shift and revitalization; linguistic politics; bilingualism; language socialization; indigenous communities; Paraguay
• HELLER, S. MEGAN - smheller@ucla.edu (B.A. in Anthropology, Cornell University; M.A. in Demography, U.C. Berkeley) Subfield: sociocultural and psychological anthropology - transformation, play, kinship and other relationships, mixed methods, romance in Nepal, adult play at Burning Man (US)
• HENDERSON, JESSICA CAMPBELL - jessica.c.henderson@gmail.com
• HOUSE, BAILEY ROGERS - bailey.house@gmail.com
• HUMPHREY, CLINTON DEAN - clintcatalina@ucla.edu (M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 2005; B.A. Anthropology, CSU Long Beach, 2001) Subfield: Psychological-Medical Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology
• ISHIZUKA, KAREN LEE - karenishizuka@hotmail.com
• JACKSON, BRITTANY L - bljackson@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2009) Subfield: Archaeology - Near Eastern Archaeology, Levant, prehistory, bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, anthropology of food, social complexity, identity
• KHEDHER, RAYED - rayed@ucla.edu
• KLINE, MICHELLE A. - skliner@gmail.com Subfield: evolutionary anthropology - Cultural transmission, the evolution of teaching; patterns of transmission as evidenced in the material culture record; demographic factors influencing cultural complexity; fieldwork in Fiji.
• LANNOY, NICOLE - nlannoy@ucla.edu (BA Anthropology, Yale, 2006) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Consumption and production of nature & wilderness, work vs. play, space & place, indigenous communities, national parks, farming, urban gardening, material culture, settler colonialism, natural capital. North America.
• LEE, CATHERINE H - catherine.lee@ucla.edu (MSC, MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, SAÏD BUSINESS SCHOOL, 2005; BA, POLITICAL SCIENCE, UCLA, 2004 ) Subfield: Socio-cultural/Psychological/Medical Anthropology - Organizations, institutions, corporate cultures, transactions costs, Relational Models Theory, Cultural (grid-group) Theory. REGION: Northern California, Silicon Valley
• LEVINE, ABIGAIL RUTH - abigail.levine@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology, UCLA 2007; M.A. Anthropological Sciences, Stanford 2005; B.A. Anthropological Sciences, Stanford 2005) Subfield: Archaeology - highland Andean archaeology (Lake Titicaca basin), evolution of human cooperation and complex societies, ceramic analysis, geochemical characterization studies, multivariate statistics
• LOYD, HEATHER MICHELE - hloyd@ucla.edu (B.A. Sociology, UCLA, 1997, Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA 2011) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language socialization, moral discourse and problem-solving, conflict, risk and resilience, performance and aesthetics, gender and language, anthropology of childhood, urban anthropology, visual anthropology (Southern Italy)
• MALEK, AMY - amymalek@ucla.edu (BA, Emory University, 2003; MA, New York University, 2005; MA, UCLA, 2009) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology - media and visual anthropology, documentary photography, diaspora studies, cultural production, Iran/Iranian diaspora
• MARKOE, CASSANDRA SUMMER - cmarkoe@ucla.edu
• MARTI, F. ALETHEA - fmarti@ucla.edu (Doctoral Candidate (ABD) 2009; MA Anthropology, UCLA 2007; BA Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley 2002.) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language socialization, small entrepreneurs, economic morality, gender, youth, logic, peer socialization through gossip. Geographic regions: Zinacantec Maya, urban Chiapas, Mexico.
• MARTIN, LANA S. - lana.martin@ucla.edu (M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles B.A., Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin) Subfield: Archaeology - Human-environment relationships, sociopolitical organization of hunter-gatherers and chiefdoms, food and subsistence, adaptations to climate change, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology of North and South America (Texas, California, and Panamá), archaeological photography and illustration, cultural resource management, descendant community involvement
• MATHEW, SARAH - smathew@ucla.edu (A.B. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2003) Subfield: Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology - For more on my research, please visit my homepage: http://smathew.bol.ucla.edu
• MITSUHARA, TERUKO VIDA - tmitsuhara@ucla.edu (B.A. Linguistics & Anthropology, UCLA (2011)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - religion and language, disenchantment, empathy, morality, child development, language socialization, Hare Krishna devotees; US
• MOYA, CRISTINA - cmoya@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology and Psychology, UC Berkeley 2003; M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2006) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Social group categorization. Coalitional and ethnic psychology.
• MURILLO, LUIS FELIPE ROSADO - luisfelipe@ucla.edu (MA Social Anthropology, UFRGS, 2009.) Subfield: sociocultural anthropology; science and technology studies - anthropology of language, morality, technology and politics; gift economy; STS; computer hacking; intellectual property.
• MYRICK, JUSTIN WILLIAM - justin.wmyrick@gmail.com
• NEWON, LISA - lisa.newon@gmail.com (MA Anthropology, University of Arizona 2008; BA Anthropology, UCLA 2006) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language and new media, youth culture, language and identity, visual anthropology, language socialization, performance, language and gender, heteroglossia, narrative.
• NISHIJIMA, RYOKO - ryokon@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, Film Studies; Stanford 2008) Subfield: Sociocultural - Japan, U.S., China, Taiwan, transnational/online media, tourism, Orientalism, nostalgia
• ORLANDO, ANGELA MARIE - angelamarie@ucla.edu (B.A. University of Arizona 2003 - Anthropology M.A. New Mexico State University 2006 - Anthropology ABD University of California 2010 - Anthropology) Subfield: Sociocultural anthropology and archaeology: Aesthetics, modern material culture, Los Angeles and Lime�o households, highland Peru and Lima, tourism, globalization, creativity, art and identity transmission, Quechua - Analysis of 32 Los Angeles and 16 Lima, Peruvian middle-class, dual-income families’ household aesthetic taste preferences (e.g., color choices, decorative objects, purchasing patterns) and related self-reported decision-making processes.
• PARK, REBEKAH - rebekahpark.gmail.com (Ph.D. Candidate UCLA 2005-present M.A. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2003 B.A. Northwestern University 2002) Subfield: Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology - Politics of memory, former political prisoners, aging, human rights, medical anthropology, reparations, violence, narrative, torture, social suffering, trauma, genocide, power, oral history, archives, social movements, race, health disparities; Argentina, post-conflict regions.
• PERREAULT, CHARLES - cperreault@ucla.edu (2011 PhD. in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2007 M.Sc. in Anthropology Universite de Montreal. 2004 B.Sc. in Anthropology Universite de Montreal. ) Subfield: Archaeology; Eurasian Paleolithic, Cultural Transmission and Evolution, Rates of evolution, mathematical modeling, computer simulations
• PETERS, JESSICA JULIA MCGILL - jmp89@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, Humboldt State University, 2010) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Media anthropology, transnational media flows (particularly television and film); cultural globalization; intercultural communication; global/local interactions, influences, and perceptions. U.S. and Latin America.
• PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER DALE - cdpeterson@ucla.edu (BA, Anthropology (University of Washington); BA, International Studies (UW); EdM, Cognitive Studies (Teachers College, Columbia University)) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychology, development, social learning, political and religious beliefs.
• PRITZKER, SONYA E. - pritzker@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology UCLA 2006 M.S. Oriental Medicine Meiji College 2002, B.S. Psychology UC Santa Cruz 1997) Subfield: psychocultural/medical, linguistic - Language socialization and translation ideologies in Chinese Medicine, Chinese medical treatment for emotional disorders, development of integrated medicine in U.S. and China
• REED, AMBER ROSE - amber.reed@ucla.edu (BA Anthropology, Barnard College, 2005) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - South Africa, youth activism, social movements, violence, media, AIDS/HIV prevention & education
• REISS, HANNAH GILPIN - hreiss@ucla.edu
• ROSENBAUM, STACY LYNN - sdukunde@ucla.edu (MA, Anthropology, UCLA 2010 BA, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2001) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Evolution of sociality, paternal kin discrimination and investment, intrasex relationships, physiological correlates of behavior, primate cognition
• ROTHENBERG, JANELL - jrothenberg@ucla.edu (BA, Hampshire College 2001; MA, Near Eastern Studies, New York University 2003) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - global ports and shipping; infrastructure, urban planning and development; economic anthropology; space, place and the environment; science and technology studies; gender; the Middle East and North Africa.
• SANDOVAL ZAVALA, ZANNIE VANESSA - zsandov@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2002; A.B. Anthropology, Harvard University 1998) Subfield: Archaeology - Pre-modern empires, mortuary analysis, sociopolitical evolution; Andean South America. Dissertation: Inca Administration of the Peruvian North Coast. A View from Cerro Colorado.
• SEALE-FELDMAN, AIDAN - aidansf@ucla.edu (B.A. Sarah Lawrence College 2009) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology - Phenomenology and existential anthropology, psychoanalysis, dreaming, liminality, the anthropology of imagination, subjectivity, migration, Nepal, New York City.
• SHARP, ELLEN - ellensharp@ucla.edu (MA Anthropology, UCLA BA Women's Studies, Brown University) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Anthropology of Latin America, especially Central America and Guatemala; transnational migration; vigilante justice; lynching; alcohol; discourses and practices of responsibility
• SHEPARD, BEN - benshepard@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, UCLA 2010) Subfield: Archaeology - Social organization and social change in middle-range societies, political economy of ritual, mortuary archaeology, history of archaeology, international collaboration in archaeology, prehistory of the Eurasian steppe, Lake Baikal, California, Northwest Coast of North America
• SNYDER, JEFFREY KEITH - jksnyder@ucla.edu (MA - Wm & Mary, Experimental Psychology, 2003 BA - TAMU-CC, Psychology, 2001) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Human rank and conflict, women's mate preferences and reproductive health in varying environmnts
• STEINBERG, MINDY GAYLE - mindysteinberg@ucla.edu (M.A., Latin American Studies, UCLA, 2009; B.A., Ethnic Studies & Spanish Language and Literature, UC Berkeley, 2006) Subfield: Sociocultural and Psychological Anthropology - Migration, immigration, gender, family, transnationalism; Latin America, United States.
• STEPHAN, CHRISTOPHER SHAWN - c.stephan@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2011) Subfield: psychological anthropology/ phenomenology - Charismatic Christianity, charismata, embodiment, "the will", narrative construction of self, memory, socialization, interaction
• STRICKLAND, MICHAEL - mstrickland@ucla.edu Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Close interpersonal relationships, material and social support, youth studies, social change and political economy, China
• SUNELL, SCOTT DAVID - sunell@ucla.edu (B.A. Archaeology, Boston University, 2011) Subfield: Archaeology - Complex hunter-gatherers, household archaeology, craft production; California
• THOMASON, ERIN ELIZABETH - ethomason@ucla.edu (MA, CSULA; BA, Whitman College) Subfield: Socio-cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology - moral negotiations, maternity, family obligations, women working in the sex industry; China
• THORNE, LISA - thorne@ucla.edu (B.A. Sociocultural Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, 2010) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Sociocultural linguistics; discourse analysis; social interaction; language, gender, and sexuality; queer normativity; masculinities & male bonding; multimodal communication; discourse markers; U.S.
• TULBERT, EVE LOUISE - eve [dot] louise [dot] tulbert [at] gmail Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology / Literacy Studies - I am interested in literacy education and workforce development opportunities for child laborers, particularly in the U.S.-Mexico Border region. I hope to use applied research and participatory action research to build new schooling and training opportunities for child laborers, combining social enterprise education with literacy and numeracy development.
• VARMA, MEHER - meherv@gmail.com
• VERNON, MURIEL - murielv1@hotmail.com (B.A. Cultural Anthropology & minor degree LGBT Studies UCLA 2005; M.A.,UCSB 2007) Subfield: socio-cultural anthropology, medical anthropology - gender and sexuality, transgender studies, social construction of gender, social construction of medicine, Women's Studies, LGBT Studies,U.S.
• WALTON-WETZEL, JENNY - waltonwetzel@gmail.com (M.A. Social Science, University of Chicago 2007; B.A. English, Macalester College 2004) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
• WU, XIAOLEI - xlwu@ucla.edu Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - (MA Texas A&M Univ 2002) cultural globalization, transnational migration, family and kinship, Chinese society.
• XUE, MING - echoxue@ucla.edu (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UCLA, 2011; MA, Anthropology, UCLA, 2010; BS, Biological Science, Peking University, 2008) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Keywords: Human friendship, Reciprocity, Social support, Social network Region: Rural Tibet, College students in China, US and Japan
• YARRIS, KRISTIN ELIZABETH - keyarris@ucla.edu (PhD Candidate Anthropology UCLA 2009; MA Anthropology UCLA 2007; MPH, MA Latin American Studies UCLA 2004; BA Sociology & Anthropology Lewis & Clark College 1994.) Subfield: Sociocultural & Medical Anthropology - Women's Transnational Migration and Household Health; Gender, Family & Kinship; Intergenerational Caregiving and Extended Kinship; Health, Mental Health, Health Disparities; Health in Latin American and U.S. communities.

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