Department of Anthropology

Indigenous perspectives on gender and sexuality, non-binaristic gender identities, sexual behavior, politics of belonging and identity, geographical focus on Mexico

Near Eastern archaeology, mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeology, and non-invasive archaeological techniques

Game studies, virtual worlds and identities, virtual/actual personhood, intimacy, online communities, gender representations in popular culture, labor and consumption, East Asia, China

Bioarchaeology, osteology, forensic anthropology, modern human skeletal variation, human evolution, Mesoamerican archaeology, material culture, conservation, preservation

Queer anthropology, intimacy and intimate practises, liminal spaces, personhood, affect and emotions, embodiment

Mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeology and osteology, relationship between linguistic portrayals of death/mourning and the archaeological record, Mediterranean archaeology and Classical studies

Self and person, biocitizenship, identity, migration and transnationalism, US, South Korea

Medical anthropology, substance use, the U.S, (de)colonization, subjectivity, oral history, illness narratives, psychiatric anthropology, anthropology of institutionalization

Archaeology, material culture, aesthetics, adornment and ornamentation, group identity, mortuary culture and practices; Mesoamerica

Queer anthropology, queer and feminist theory, Sinophone and diaspora studies, fandom and imaginary media culture, elite studies, education inequality, East Asia, China, Japan