Cultural Anthropology

Clive Echague Alfaro

Clive Echague Alfaro

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Ulla D. Berg; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); Clive.echague@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Race, racism, racialization; affection; frontiers; gender and sexuality; memory; Neoliberal Capitalism; governmentality; State; Human rights; immigrant activism; ethnography; Whiteness; police & State violence.

Ankita Chanddranath

Ankita Chanddranath

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); ac2005@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Manohar Boda

Manohar Boda

Information: PhD Student; Advisor(s): Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); manohar.boda@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: State, Labor, Political Economy, City, Informality, Nomadism, Indigeneity, Adivasis, Caste, Class, Gender, Social Movements, Inequality; South Asia.

Chang-Hyun Choi

Chang-Hyun Choi

Information: PhD Student; Program: Human Evolutionary Sciences (HES); changhyun.choi@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Masculinity; Postcolonial Cold War; Feminist Activism; Korea; Asian American; Ethnographic Filmmaking

Gloria D'Alessio

Gloria D'Alessio

Information: PhD Student; Advisor(s): Ulla D. Berg; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); gloria.dalessio@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Transnational Migration; Darien Gap, Latin America, border studies

Reecha Das

Reecha Das

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); reecha.das@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Law, kinship, gender, violence, religion, courtroom discourse, North India

William Downey

William Downey

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); wpd21@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Cultures of Militarism and Militarization, Political Economy, Organizational Anthropology, Affect among agents of Empire, Mental Illness, the Violence (and magic) of everyday life.

Dalia Ibraheem

Dalia Ibraheem

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Zeynep Devrim Gürsel; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); dai34@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Anthropology of sports, leisure, pop culture; human rights

Mary Elizabeth Knipper (Bird)

Mary Elizabeth Knipper (Bird)

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); Mary.bird@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Perinatal Care; Immunization Practices; Maternal and Child Health (MCH); Maternal Embodiment; Anthropology of the Everyday

Joyce Lu

Joyce Lu

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); jl2295@rwjms.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: development, healthcare, infrastructure, political economy, governance, biopolitics, race, indigeneity, Latin America

Timothy McGhee

Timothy McGhee

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Christien Philmarc Tompkins; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); tm751@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Minny Lee

Minny Lee

Information: PhD Student; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); minny.lee@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: ecology, environment, sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge, heritage, value, religion, spirituality, gender, media, technology, aesthetics, food, embodiment, affect, multimodal anthropology

Haya Mortada

Haya Mortada

Information: PhD Student; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi | David M. Hughes; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); hm634@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Work, economic development, political economy, social change, urban anthropology, Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa

Zainab Najeeb

Zainab Najeeb

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi | Zeynep Devrim Gürsel; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); zainab.najeeb@rutgers.edu

Mahsun Oti

Mahsun Oti

Information: PhD Student; Advisor(s): David M. Hughes | Zeynep Devrim Gürsel; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); mahsun.oti@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: mobility and New Media, Food and identity, African Diaspora(s), digital infrastructures, border crossings, borderlands, Turkey, Iran.

Burcu Pehlivan

Burcu Pehlivan

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); bp506@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Raul Rodriguez-Arancibia

Raul Rodriguez-Arancibia

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Ulla D. Berg; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); rar265@anthropology.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Latin America, Indigeneity, Chinese Automotive Industry, Neoliberalism

Cierah Sargent

Cierah Sargent

Information: PhD Candidate; Advisor(s): Omar Dewachi | Zeynep Devrim Gürsel; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); cierah.sargent@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: caregiving, social justice movements, community, visual anthropology, aging, the American South, race, welfare retrenchment, medical anthropology, subjectivity, governmentality, disability, health, and care.

Sreemoyee Paul

Sreemoyee Paul

Information: Advisor(s): Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE); sp2482@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: Medical and Political Anthropology; death; biopolitics; rituals; the body; abandonment; disappearance; grief; Anthropology of Religion and Secularism; South Asia

Stassja Mrozinski

Stassja Mrozinski

Information: Advisor(s): Christien Philmarc Tompkins; Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)