Current Students (Areas of Interest - Contact Information)

  • Luciana Aenasoaie

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Eastern Europe: Formation of Post-Communist Roma; Role of State & Nationalismlucianab@umich.edu

  • Alatas_Ismail

    Ismail Alatas

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Southeast Asia/Middle East; Islamic Philosophy, Theology & Sufism, Indonesian Historyifalatas@umich.edu

  • Birchok_Dan

    Daniel Birchok

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Southeast Asia, Indonesia (Aceh), religion, Islam, place and intersubjectivity, historical narrative, oral historydbirchok@umich.edu

  • Adriana Chira

    Adriana Chira

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    slavery and emancipation; ideologies of race, freedom, and citizenship rights; African diaspora; 19th c. Cuba and the U.S. Southachira@umich.edu

  • Josh Coene

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Australia and the United States. History of punishment, capitalism, deindustrialization, the expansion of incarceration, prison construction, and punitiveness.jrcoene@umich.edu

  • Robyn d'Avignon

    Robyn d'Avignon

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    Francophone West Africa, Guinea, 20th and 21st centuries, infrastructure, technology, livelihoods, political cultures, Mande and Fulfulde languagesrobdavig@umich.edu

  • Haydar Darici

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    Middle & Near East; Turkey; 20th Century – present; Kurdish issuehdarici@umich.edu

  • Tara Dosuma Diener

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Africa / Europe: childbirth; medicalization; post-colonialismtddiener@umich.edu

  • Christopher Estrada

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Latin America: Brazilcestrad@umich.edu

  • Brady G'Sell

    Brady G'Sell

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Africa; South Africa; 19th/20th Century-present; Ethnicity, culturalbrgsell@umich.edu

  • Federico Helfgott

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History (Defended)

    Peru, capitalism and modernity, mining, neoliberal restructuring, value, labor, social movements, globalization and constructions of race and culturefederimi@umich.edu

  • Jeremy Johnson

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Russia/Soviet Union/Central Asia; Armenian Studiesjeremypj@umich.edu

  • Diwas Kc

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    South Asia; 20th Century – present; Labor, Film, Artdiwas@umich.edu

  • Gurveen Kaur Khurana

    Gurveen Kaur Khurana

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    South Asia; space and place; political subjectivities; religion; memory; epistemology,; cultural history; urban history; Punjab history and anthropologygurveenk@umich.edu

  • Oana Mateescu

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Eastern Europe; modernization of Romaniaomateesc@umich.edu

  • Purvi Mehta

    Purvi Mehta

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    South Asia; genderpurvim@umich.edu

  • Melnysyn_Shana

    Shana Melnysyn

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Portuguese colonialism, Angola, missionaries, slavery, anti-colonial rebellions, 20th centuryshanamel@umich.edu

  • Bertrand Metton

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    France, Slovakia, Central Europe: National Narratives; WWII Transnational ideas/conceptionsbgmetton@umich.edu

  • Cyrus O'Brien

    Cyrus O'Brien

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    United States; race; incarceration; religion; faith-based prisons; juvenile courtscjobrien@umich.edu

  • Grace Okrah

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    African History; Performancegokrah@umich.edu

  • Orsini_Davide

    Davide Orsini

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Post WWII Italy/US Military Bases/Nuclear Power/Cold War Technopolitics/ Actor Network Theorydorsini@umich.edu

  • Powers_Kimberly

    Kimberly Powers

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Russia/Central Asia, 19th/20th centuries, imperialism, anthropology of law, Islam, gender and sexualitypowerska@umich.edu

  • Renero_Bruno

    Bruno Renero

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Mexico, social movements, radical politics, state formation, popular religion, memory, oral historyvago@umich.edu

  • Tasha Rijke-Epstein

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Democratic Republic of Congo; Environmental History; Ethnography of Land, Landscape and Kinship; Mining and Labortrijke@umich.edu

  • Esteban Rozo

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Amazonia, Religious Conversion, State Formationestebanr@umich.edu

  • Sipahi_Ali

    Ali Sipahi

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Classical anthropology (1920-80); anthropology of peasantry; anthropology of Europe; anthropology of morality; history of Ottoman Empire and Turkey (19th-20th cent.); theories of place and belonging; academic critiqueasipahi@umich.edu

  • Natalie Smolenski

    Natalie Smolenski

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    Catholicism & Islam; Saints; Mideast & Poland; 20th Century - present & medievalnsmolens@umich.edu

  • Ian Stewart

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Africa: Child Soldiersianstew@umich.edu

  • Amir Syed

    Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History

    West Africa, Latin America, United States; 16th -19th Century; Islam, Slavery, Literacy, Identityaxsyed@umich.edu

  • Taylor_Edgar

    Edgar Taylor

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Africa; nationalism, race, social changeedgarjac@umich.edu

  • Joseph Viscomi

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    Middle East / Mediterranean: identification, social differentiationviscomi@umich.edu

  • Andrea Wright

    Andrea Wright

    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology & History

    South Asia and the Arabian Gulf; labor migration; transnational networks; oil economies; anthropology and historyagwa@umich.edu