Graduate Students

• ALEXANDER, CATHERINE LEE - catherine.lee.alexander@gmail.com (MSC, Management Research, University of Oxford Said Business School, 2005; B.A., Political Science, UCLA, 2004) Subfield: Socio-cultural/Psychological/Medical Anthropology - Organizations, institutions, corporate cultures, transactions costs, Relational Models Theory, Cultural (grid-group) Theory; Northern California, Silicon Valley
• ALTSHTEYN, ILYA - altshteyn@ucla.edu
• 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
• ARRIOLA, THERESA (ISA) - tarriola@ucla.edu (B.A., Anthropology, Brown University (2010); M.A., Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (2012)) Subfield: Socio-cultural - Militarization, Colonialism, Empire, Indigenous Chamorro people, Mariana Islands, Pacific, Oceania
• 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; literacies; indigenous communities in Mexico; documentary linguistics; Oaxaca; Jehovah's Witnesses; Garifuna language; Quichua language
• BENNETT, KERBY - kerbybennett@gmail.com (B.A., Anthropology, UCLA (2011) M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago (2012)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language ideologies; language shift and revitalization; indigenous communities in Australia
• BISHOP, KATELYN JO - kjbishop@ucla.edu (B.A., Anthropology & French, University of Virginia, 2011) Subfield: Archaeology - Zooarchaeology; ritual; ideological exchange. Southwest US and Mesoamerica.
• 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
• BRYAN, ADRIENNE LEVESQUE - adriennelbryan@ucla.edu
• CARDOZO, BRADLEY - bcardozo@ucla.edu Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - sexuality, gender, nationalism, globalization, neoliberalism, race & ethnicity, religion, queer theology, electoral politics & party-list systems, citizenship, human rights, social justice, LGBTIQ social & political movements, the Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
• CARTER, ELEANOR - edcarter@ucla.edu
• CECALE, COURTNEY EVELYN - courtneycecale@gmail.com
• CLINT, EDWARD KING - eclint@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@ucla.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 (Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA 2012 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; cultural production; space,place, 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
• DOUGLASS, MERCEDES CAMILLE - mercedesdouglass@yahoo.com
• 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 - How people address reality in fleeting moments of barely knowable things; urban Taiwan, semi-professional people; osho, dance, and meditation groups; universalism; real life reflexivity.
• EVERHART, EDWIN KEELY - eke@ucla.edu Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - Language in social categorization and discrimination, Dialect/accent as a marker of region and social class, Language ideologies, Language politics and language planning, Language endangerment and revitalization, Ethics and human rights, Northern Japan.
• 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, identity, Ghana and the Ghanaian diaspora; socialization of gustatory taste.
• 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
• 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; Latin America; African Diaspora; Caribbean Diaspora; the anthropology of food; health care and the state; gender and womens studies; Race/Racism, Class, and Health Disparities; Ethics; Subjectivity; Social Justice; Social Movements
• GEORGE, RACHEL L - rgeorge@ucla.edu (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 M. - 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 emotions, social relationships, norms, contempt, hierarchy, psychopathy, 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 - female reproductive strategies in capuchin monkeys reproductive skew, kin recognition, inbreeding avoidance, birth seasonality, alloparenting, counterstrategies to infanticide
• GRATREAKS, RODNEY R. - rgratreaks@ucla.edu
• GUNAWARDENA, DEVAKA - dgunawardena@ucla.edu (BA 2009, Wesleyan University; MA 2012, UCLA) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Political economy; economic history; anthropology of the state; ethnicity; urban studies; Sri Lanka, South Asia
• HALBE, ADITI ANAND - aditihalbe@ucla.edu
• 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 (Doctoral Candidate, UCLA; M.A., Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2008) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - language ideologies; language shift; language socialization; language endangerment and revitalization; linguistic politics; bilingualism; indigenous communities; hunter-gatherers; South-American lowland cultures; 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, neuroanthropology, relationships, mixed methods, romance in Nepal, adult play at Burning Man (US)
• HOLVENSTOT, KAYLENE DIANNE - kholvenstot@ucla.edu (M.A. Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 2005 B.A. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2002) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology - Cross-cultural perceptions of mental illness, medical discourse, narrative and illness, phenomenology, the self
• 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
• 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
• KAJOKAITE, KOTRINA - kotrina@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2011) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - life history strategies; male migration; agent-based modeling; long-term relationships; white-faced capuchins; Costa Rica
• 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.
• LUCITT, EMILY ANNE - elucitt@ucla.edu (B.A. Anthropology, University of California San Diego, 2011) Subfield: Psychological Anthropology
• 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
• 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, food production and sociopolitical organization, adaptations to climate change, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology of North and Central America (Texas, California, Panamá), archaeological photography and illustration, descendant community involvement, cultural resource management
• MCCOY, MATTHEW RICHARD - mcy@ucla.edu (M.A., University of California Berkeley, 2012 M.F.A., San Jose State, 2010 B.A., University of Washington, 2004) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Semiotics; Ireland, Irish Language and Literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Postmodern and Narrative Ethics; Theories of Violence; Embodiment and Amputation; Phenomenology; Heidegger
• MITSUHARA, TERUKO VIDA - tmitsuhara (at) ucla (dot) edu (B.A. Linguistics & Anthropology, UCLA (2011)) Subfield: Linguistic Anthropology - religion and language; disenchantment; morality; spiritual development; women's spiritual practices and experiences in Karnataka, India; migration; language socialization; new religious movements in the U.S; Guru Indian English; Hare Krishna devotees; U.S and South India
• 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
• PALMA, AGATHA EVANGELINE - aepalma@ucla.edu
• 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 (U of W); EdM, Cognition, Behavior and Developmental Analysis (Teachers College, Columbia University)) Subfield: Biological Anthropology - Cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychology, development, social learning, political and religious beliefs.
• POURBOHLOUL, ELIKA - elikapour@ucla.edu
• REED, AMBER ROSE - amber.reed@ucla.edu (BA Anthropology, Barnard College, 2005) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - South Africa, youth activism, discourses on democracy, generational relationships, NGOs
• REISS, HANNAH GILPIN - hreiss@ucla.edu
• RICHARD, 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.
• ROBERTSON, CLAYTON THOMAS - ctrobertson@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 (M.A. Anthropology UCLA, 2012 B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 2009 ) Subfield: Psychological and Medical Anthropology - Phenomenology, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, the anthropology of the imagination, "mass hysteria," teenage girls, somatization, migration, Nepal.
• 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
• SIYAT ULON, - siyat@mac.com (M.D. National Taiwan University, 2004)
• 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
• SORENSEN, PAGE LUNDY - psorensen@ucla.edu
• STEINBERG, MINDY - mindysteinberg@ucla.edu (Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology UCLA 2013; M.A. Latin American Studies UCLA 2009; B.A. Ethnic Studies & Spanish Language and Literature UC Berkeley 2006) Subfield: Sociocultural and Psychological Anthropology - Immigration, youth, family; 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; language and identity; bisexuality; ideologies on sexuality and sexual identity; political stance; masculinities and male bonding; multimodal communication; United States
• TOKUNAGA, ALICE IZUMI - aitokunaga@ucla.edu (B.S. Anthropology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Winter 2010) Subfield: Archaeology/Sociocultural Anthropology - Material culture, Tourist arts
• VARMA, MEHER - meherv@gmail.com
• 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
• WEEKS, SAMUEL - sweeks@ucla.edu (MA 2012, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lisbon BA 2006, Colby College ) Subfield: Sociocultural Anthropology - Cape Verde, Portugal, Lusofonia, West & Southern Africa, Urban Ethnography, Socio-Economy, Popular Culture, Immigration, Creole Languages, Portuguese, Socio-Linguistics, Social Geography, GIS, Intellectual and Political History
• 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: Evolutionary Anthropology - Keywords: Human friendship, Reciprocity, Social support, Social network Region: Rural Tibet (Qinghai TAP), College students in China (Beijing), US (Los Angeles) and Japan (Hokkaido)

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