Current Graduate Students

Dharma Akmon, dharmrae@umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: securing copyright permissions for digital archives, evolution of digital library and archives infrastructure, and metadata and interface issues associated with scientific data repositories.

Lindsay Ahalt, lierah@umich.edu
Deparmtnent of Anthropology
Current research: the confluence of traditional Ayurvedic and Allopathic treatment modalities in India, regional treatment variance, and national identity within medical discourse.

Robyn d'Avignon, robdavig@umich.edu
Program in Anthropology and History
Current research: historical ethnography of energy technologies, electricity and solar traders in Francophone West Africa; the politics of development in colonial and post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa.

Ayse G. Buyuktur, abuyuktu@umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: cyberinfrastructure and values in design.

Matthew Burton, mcburton@umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: scientific data production in the earth and environmental sciences.

Danielle Czarnecki, dczar@umich.edu
Department of Sociology
Current research:

Morgan Daniels, mgdaniel@umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: scientific data sharing and reuse; cyberinfrastructure.

Tara Diener, tddiener@umich.edu
Program in Anthropology and History
Current research:

Kristin Fraser, kwfraser@umich.edu
Department of English
Current research: space and place in modern literature, intersubjectivity and epistemology, relations between scientific discourse and understanding of environment in the early 20th century.

Daniel Hirschman, dandanar@umich.edu
Department of Sociology
Current research: history of macroeconomic statistics, sociology of economics and economists, the emergence of "the economy" as an object of knowledge in the 20th century.
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Geoffrey Hughes, gfhugh@umich.edu
Department of Anthropology
Current research: the political economy of weddings and marriage in Jordan.  The STSS component focuses on the bureaucratic procedures that render populations visible and manageable through statistics, demography and urban planning.

Adam Fulton Johnson, afjhnsn@umich.edu
Department of History
Current Research: 19th century anthropology, anthropological training through field experience, theories of "prehistory" and civilization, 19th century justifications for and arguments against settler colonialism, theories of the global and development, global/big/deep history.

Joshua Kupetz, jkupetz@umich.edu
Department of English
Current research: disability theory, specifically the relationship of contemporary American fiction with anatomical discourse, evolutionary theory, prosthetics, and the posthuman.

Brian S. Matzke, bmatzke@umich.edu
Department of English
Current research: American fiction writers’ discussions of science in the early twentieth century; the emergence of science as a component of everyday reality.

Emily Merchant, eklanche@umich.edu
Department of History
Current research: demographic transition theory as an organizing principle of twentieth-century population studies and politics.

Davide Orsini, dorsini@umich.edu
Program in Anthropology and History
Current research:

Kate Schnur, krschnu@umich.edu
Department of English
Current research:

Caitlin Townsend, cgtowns@umich.edu
Department of History
Current research: Early modern experimentalism; medicine, especially medical ethics; science as a knowledge system in contrast with religion.


COMPLETED / GRADUATED

Sarah Hamilton, sarahrha@umich.edu
Department of History
Current research: environmental policy and the changing perspectives on landscape and nature in twentieth-century Spain.

Cory Knobel, cknobel@umich.edu
School of Information, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Department of Statistics
Program research: service science and the transformation of the research university; sociotechnical issues in cyberinfrastructure; the evolution of interdisciplinarity.
Scholar-Warrior
Postdoc, University of California, Irvine

Clapperton Mavhunga
Deparment of History
Program research: the intersection of STS, African history, environment, and anthropology. My interests are in the designers and users of guns, wildlife, knowledge, and resources. I work in Southern Africa, especially transfrontier conservancies, water basins, and resident communities. I am writing a doctoral thesis entitled "Writing 'African Wildlife' from the Barrel of the Gun: Firearms and Wildlife Uses in Gonarezhou National Park."
Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology & Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wendy L. Michael, wlmich@umich.edu
American Culture
Program research: the Ford Rouge Tour.

Ricardo Punzalan, ricpunz@umich.edu
School of Information
Current research: archives and visual representation of leprosy, including their relationship with stigma and the social memory of the disease.

Marianne Ryan, meryan@umich.edu
School of Information
Program research: legal, ethical and policy implications of emerging information ecologies, including the complex transformations of information flows, cultural values, and sociotechnical systems within a global information network.

Stephen Sparks, sparkss@umich.edu
Anthropology and History
Current research: apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, capitalism, state owned corporations, nationalism, company towns, town planning, expertise, discourses of technological prowess.
Assistant Professor, Department of History at University of Johannesburg

Emily Wentzell
Cultural Anthropology; Women's Studies
Program research: medicalization of sexuality, masculinity, Mexico.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Iowa