Doctoral Students
Following is a list of current students and their research areas. Click on each student's name for their contact information.
![Medha Asthana](../../images/graduate/medha-asthana.jpg)
Domestic spaces, kinship and the home, gendered personhood, mothers and daughters, queerness, person-centered ethnography and the everyday; North India, South Asia
![Sarah Han](../../images/graduate/han-sarah.jpg)
Aesthetics, adornments of the state, affect, infrastructures of citizenship, gender, belonging, temporality, mobility, urban spaces; Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, UAE
![Skyler Inman](../../images/graduate/inman-skyler-new.jpeg)
Temporality; migration and exile; bureaucracy; nationalism, citizenship, and belonging; narrative, censorship, and silences; political and economic anthropology; anthropology of the state; migrant laborers, asylum seekers, and non-citizens; Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Eritrea. Skyler is affiliated with the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
![Kalie Jamieson](../../images/graduate/jamieson-kalie.jpg)
Classical ballet in the U.S. and the process of professionalization; materiality and aesthetics; gender; embodiment; Dance and Performance Studies; Anthropology of the Body
![Taha Kaleem](../../images/graduate/kaleem-taha.jpg)
Oil, gender and masculinity in Qatar. Taha is affiliated with the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
![kimcraig](../../images/graduate/craig-kim.jpg)
Guanggun (Chinese bachelors), masculinity, media representation, cross-border marriages, oral history, visual and graphic anthropology
Race, property rights, farmland conversion, agriculture, environmental anthropology, visual anthropology and multimodal ethnography; United States
![Deniz Kizildag](../../images/graduate/kizildag-bdeis.jpg)
Medical anthropology; temporalities of health, illness, and suffering; stories of the body; medical technologies; death and mortality; narratives of cancer; genetic counseling; United States
![Van Kollias](../../images/graduate/kollias-map-block.jpg)
Archaeology, political economy and exchange networks, frontiers, settlement and landscape archaeology, household archaeology, remote sensing, GIS, digital modeling and digital archaeology, cultural resource management and heritage education, Mesoamerica: Maya.
Anthropology and philosophy of the state, ethics and politics of representation, visual anthropology (ethnofiction, ethnopoetics, sensory ethnography)
![Jay Ramteke](../../images/graduate/ramteke.jpg)
Medical anthropology, embodiment, Indigenous healing methods, traditional therapeutic tattooing, South Asia
![Gowthaman Ranganathan](../../images/graduate/ranganathan-gowthaman.jpg)
Gender, sexuality, caste, legal anthropology, human rights, South Asia
![Sargam Sharma](../../images/graduate/sharma-sargam.jpeg)
Death and the dying process, medical anthropology, care ethics, ritual, mourning, South Asia
![Sneha Visakha](../../images/graduate/visakha-sneha.jpg)
Religion, women, spirituality, urban space, ecology, imagination, myth and folklore, South Asia
![Yura Yokoyama](../../images/graduate/yokoyama-yura-4.jpg)
Digital technology, the anthropology of money and finance, economic anthropology, blockchain development, cryptocurrency; El Salvador, Latin America
![Changhong Zhang](../../images/graduate/hong-zhang.jpg)
Visual anthropology, disposable migrant laborers; global capitalist system, silence, education, China, Colombia, U.S
![Iris Zhou](../../images/graduate/zhou-iris-avatar.jpg)
Popular culture, intimacy, belonging, single women, feminist/queer/critical heterosexuality studies, affect theory, consumerism, economic anthropology, linguistic anthropology, digital ethnography; East Asia, China, South Korea