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Email - all "@columbia.edu"
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| Hanifa Abdul Sabur |
ha2154 |
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| Mireille Abelin |
ma457 |
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| Sonia Ahsan |
sa2320 |
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| Kitana Ananda |
ksa2103 |
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| Heather Atherton |
hna4 |
| Heather Atherton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. She is a historical archaeologist concentrating on European and Native American interactions in North America, colonialism, and identity. Previous work has explored Choctaw ethnicity in post-removal Indian Territory during the nineteenth century. Her current research focuses on the expression of Hispanic identity during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Spanish colonial New Mexico. |
| Anschaire Aveved |
aa2634 |
| So far, I have been examining the ways people in sub-Saharan Africa
experience the issue of cultural identity as inherited from
intellectuals at the time of national independence movements, focusing
on contemporary urban art and the birth of museums in rural areas. My
current interest is to investigate the relation between the
international circulation of art objects, the making-up of identities
and the politics of 'culture' in Central Africa. |
| Gajendran Ayyathurai |
ag2114 |
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| Negar Azimi |
na2265 |
| Negar is interested in the peculiarities of human rights language and internationalism at large. |
| Fadi Abda Bardwil |
fab2001 |
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| Gulden Baykal Buyuksarac |
gb2017 |
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| Uma Bhrugubanda |
umb3 |
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| Anuj Bhuwania |
ab2303 |
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| Matthew Black |
mdb2103 |
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| Anderson Blanton |
ab2312 |
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| Khiara Bridges |
kmb73 |
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| Kelly Britt |
kb239 |
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| Adam Bund |
ahb2004 |
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| Jon Carter |
jhc2010 |
| My work is based on questions pertaining to criminality and sovereignty in Honduras, and Central America more generally. |
| Claire Cesareo |
cmc2 |
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| Yogesh Chandrani |
yrc4 |
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| Ryan D. Chaney |
rdc99 |
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| Ho-jun Chang |
hc294 |
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| Xenia Cherkaev |
xac2101 |
| I'm interested in the logic of modernity in relation to the nuclear explosion, in which objective material reality dissolves into energy and light, spawning death, sickness, and superheroes; and also in the concept of history as something auratically embodied by objects. Looking specifically at Chernobyl and the American West.
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| Rodney Collins |
rwc2001 |
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| Ayca Cubukcu |
ac2116 |
| Ayca Cubukcu is completing her dissertation in the Department of Anthropology towards a postdoctoral appointment with the Columbia University Committee on Global Thought. Her publications include Paradoxes of Sovereignty: War, Justice and the World Tribunal on Iraq, 2006. Monograph published by World Politics/Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton, NJ; Can the Network Speak? A review of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Arab Studies Journal. Fall 2005 / Spring 2006, Vol. XIII No. 2 / Vol. XIV No. 1: 168-174; and �Neither Their War, Nor Their Peace�: Opposition against Imperialist War and Imperial Peace. Birikim [Istanbul], September 2005, Issue 197: 57-60. Her research is concerned with globalization and social movements, as well as politics of human rights and international law. |
| Jennifer K. DeWan |
jkd13 |
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| Danielle DiNovelli-Lang |
dd2046 |
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| Kristen Drybread |
kd25 |
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| Narges Erami |
ne52 |
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| Oguz Erdur |
oe7 |
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| Maria Ferro |
mdf2112 |
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| Michael Fisch |
mf2024 |
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| Christine Flaherty |
cf28 |
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| Felipe Gaitan-Ammann |
fg2112 |
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| Goutam Gajula |
gg97 |
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| Adriana Garriga-Lopez |
amg2009 |
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| Elizabeth Gelber |
erg2103 |
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| Amanda Gilliam |
aog2102 |
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| Marcial Godoy |
mg110 |
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| Seema Golestaneh |
sg2166 |
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| Brigham Golden |
bmg9 |
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| Rebecca Gould |
rrs40 |
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| Nadia Guessous |
ng283 |
| Nadia Guessous is working on a dissertation tentatively entitled"Aversions of Modernity: The 'Problem' of Tradition and Religion in Leftist Feminist Thought in Contemporary Morocco", in which she seeks to understand how and why a strong commitment to ideas associated with
modernity leads to a condemnation and disavowal of the "traditional" and of non-secular ways of being (exemplified in this instance by the veiled woman who is seen as non-modern) among leftist feminists whose activism
emerged out of their immersion in and subsequent disenchantment with the Moroccan left and Marxist traditions in the 1980s. Her interests include feminism, gender, religion, secularism, criticism, tradition, and subject formation in modernity. |
| Trisha Gupta |
tg2028 |
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| Guangtian Ha |
gh2217 |
| I am primarily concerned with how Chinese people "making Other" during the transitional period that spans from late imperial China to now. In contrast to the western genealogy of the discourses on violence, desire, death, etc, I intend to articulate through studies on different "others"(ethnic minorities, immigrant workers, women, even merchants, etc.) against the changing Chinese context an alternative approach of "Othering"--as I see it, this is an inquiry that not only tries to address the presently widely discussed question of Chinese "modernity", but also endeavors to understand how Chinese people, in the face of successive swirly changes of over 200 years, "make sense" of both their past and present life. "Making Other" is in this sense always first and foremost already a "making" of "self". |
| Brian D. Harmon |
bdh37 |
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| Erin Hasinoff |
elh2005 |
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| Kaori Hatsumi |
kh2211 |
| My project examines how a community of Tamil-speaking, Roman Catholic fisherpersons and their families (who were internally displaced by civil war in Northern Sir Lanka and have now been relocated to a refugee camp) reconstitutes itself as a social group whose being-in-the-world is grounded in maritime ecology. |
| Krista M. Hegburg |
kmh55 |
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| Sashur Henninger |
slh2137 |
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| Katherine Heupel |
keh2131 |
| In the process of be-coming a historical archaeologist. Currently, working to develop a dissertation on the communal manifestations in Taos, New Mexico exploring issues of materiality and ideology/philosophy of counterculture movements, efforts, and lived experiences in the form of the hippie communes that located themselves in northern New Mexico in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also interested in post-1960s communal boom appropriations and commodifications of aspects of social life in the 1960s, within and without the communes and current counterculture projects that may relate tangentially to the experience or spirit of the 1960s communal efforts. |
| Thushara Hewage |
tnh2001 |
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| Anne Hohman |
akh2002 |
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United States; urban anthropology; media, expressive culture and consumption; late capitalism; race, gender and especially class; American middle class. My dissertation project explores a country music "scene" in Brooklyn, NY.
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| Karen Holmberg |
kgh11 |
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| Drew Hopkins |
dh125 |
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| Zachary Hooker |
zrh2101 |
| Fields of interest: anthropology of media, visual anthropology, politics & aesthetics, new media; Area specialty: East Asia, focus on South Korea; Nascent dissertation ideas: contemporary South Korean cinema, social criticism in film/art, the politico-economic factors that enable widespread media literacy and popularity, genre and auteurism, media & everyday life. |
| Megan Huston |
mmh2004 |
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| Mythri Jegathesan |
mj2114 |
| Mythri Jegathesan (Third-Year with Advanced Standing) received her Masters from Columbia in 2005. Her past research interests include the socialization of children in civil conflict, communal violence, and ideologies of trauma among Sri Lankan Tamil youth participating in violence. Her dissertation will focus on the effects of NGO development discourse and practice on the state of community among Hill Country Tamil tea estate workers in Central Sri Lanka. |
| Ronald C. Jennings |
rcj35 |
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| Patience Kabamba |
psk2006 |
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| Anush Kapadia |
ak932 |
| Political economy of monetary arrangements; Indian and International Political economy; theories of money; social studies of banking and finance; histories of economic thought; early modern state formation; histories of capitalism and development; governmentality and cybernetics. |
| Etsuko Kasai |
ek555 |
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| Munira Khayyat |
mk2275 |
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| David Kim |
djk47 |
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| Yukiko Koga |
yk294 |
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| Scott H. Kremkau |
shk28 |
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| Rajan Krishnan |
kr2014 |
| My thesis is on Difference and Cinema. It seeks to theorize the difference produced in/ by South Asian Cinema, as exemplified by Tamil cinema, by situating it in a comparative framework with other approaches to cinema in the world and by situating it in a gamut of post-colonial differences. My approach is primarily grounded on the semeiotic of C.S.Peirce and gathers insights from the works of other philosophers including Heidegger, Benjamin and Deleuze. It forges an anthropologically informed film theory to integrate with the contributions of post-colonial theory. |
| Christopher Lamping |
cjl34 |
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| Nadia Latif |
nl2022 |
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| Axel Lazzari |
acl31 |
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| Alejandra Leal |
aml2012 |
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| Yixin Li |
yl2041 |
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| Meredith Linn |
mbl2002 |
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| Nadia Loan |
nl254 |
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| Kazuma Maetakenishi |
km357 |
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| Kathleen Marac |
kpm13 |
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| Caroline McLoughlin |
cm2144 |
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| Paul Mendelsohn |
pmm30 |
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| Natalia Elsa Mendoza-Rockwell |
enm2109 |
| Natalia would like to understand something about power, especially about the kind of power that informal-illegal organizations exercise-resist. Every time she has the opportunity to do so, she comes up with a story about drug-traffickers-ranchers from the Mexican-US border. She wants to go to East Africa to see if she can a)renew her repertoire of stories b)see how other forms of storytelling and moral orders interact with other-same forms of informal-illegal-screwed up labor. From there to: the elaborations on solitude in different traditions (from wild hunters to hermits), China's power in East Africa, anti-colonial political thought, corruption, witchcraft, ethnographies of the State, Historical-Anthropology, cock-fights. |
| Sofian Merabet |
sm604 |
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| Maya Mikdashi |
mtm2116 |
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| Ana Miljanic |
asm2004 |
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| Vishnupad Mishra |
mv208 |
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| Jun Mizukawa |
jm2063 |
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| Nicholas Moustakas |
nm14 |
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| Morten Olesen |
mso8 |
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| Kirsten Olson |
kao16 |
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| Poornima Paidipaty |
email not listed |
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| Sonali Pahwa |
sp444 |
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| Matthew Palus |
mp843 |
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| Morgan von Prelle Pecelli |
mvp2002 |
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My current research is concerned with subverting a divide between self-present-living-matter and thought particularly as it plays out in anthropological theory and ethnographic practices and trying to devise a way to express material knowing through Charles S. Peirce, anarchist practices and postmodern aesthetics. I work on non-narrative aesthetics and the material realities and human event time of artists in postindustrial economies. My areas range from New York to Japan and Europe and historically from Dada & Futurism through the American Avant-Garde, Butoh and current manifestations of hyper-mediated compositional performance. I think through concepts of waiting, delay, flesh and the banal violences of contemporary civilization.
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| Suren Pillay |
sp777 |
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| Lorraine Plourde |
ldp27 |
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| Zoe Reiter |
zr23 |
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| Angeliki Rovatsou |
ar606 |
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| Kristin Ruppel |
ktr2 |
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| Zainab Saleh |
zms2002 |
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| Lorenzo San Juan |
ls505 |
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| Manuel Schwab |
mss2118 |
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| Ozge Serin |
ons8 |
| Ozge Serin is currently writing her dissertation on the mass hunger strike undertaken by leftist political prisoners in Turkey to protest the transition to F-type prisons modeled after the US-style maximum security prisons, legalized by the Anti-Terror Law of 1991. She is interested in political violence with a particular focus on the relationship between the violence of law and the act of sacrifice. Informed by Marxist critical theory, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism, she is also interested in tracing the formation of political subjectivities and their self-inscriptions in different forms of media. |
| Jennifer Sime |
jns29 |
| My research centers upon the practice and promotion of pilgrimage in Spain, from the Spanish Civil War to the present. I carried out field work along the Camino de Santiago and in Santiago de Compostela, capital of Galicia. Themes of particular interest are 1) the intersection of fascism and religion; 2) the role played by the sacrificial dead in the formation of the nation-state; 3) questions of cultural heritage in contemporary Europe; 4) Galician language and nationalist movements. I am currently writing my dissertation and plan to defend in fall 2008. |
| Martin Skrydstrup |
mcs2005 |
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| Christina Sornito |
cvs2103 |
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| Ravindran Sriramachandran |
rs699 |
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| Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
scr60 |
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| Dattathreya Subbanarasimha |
dcs117 |
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| Jennifer Syron |
jas96 |
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| Anand Vivek Taneja |
avt2109 |
| My work focuses on the contemporary practises and politics around medieval ruins in Delhi. I am interested in the public lives of History; in the continuation and contestation of Islamic forms of legality, belief, worship and being in the largely Hindu-secular polity of modern India; exploring the possibilities of 'material history'(following Benjamin and Pierce); and in trying to integrate popular Islamic belief with contemporary Western philosophical and anthropological theory. |
| Antonio Tomas |
aat2112 |
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| Fa'anofo Uperesa |
flu2101 |
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| Marie Varghese |
mv2190 |
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| Sarah Vaughn |
sev2112 |
| I am preoccupied with questions concerning the production of knowledge, print media, and meaning(s) of work in Guyana and the larger Caribbean region. My ethnographic research examines journalists? work, information-media policy and their entanglement with Guyana?s different modalities of state rule and their associated political projects. I question how this entanglement has historically constituted meanings of: accountability, landscape, liberal citizenship, and a local discourse about human rights. A second and related set of concerns is with examining how differing disciplinary modes of representation frame critical theory debates about the Caribbean as an anthropological site of knowledge.
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| Anna Von Schnitzler |
acv31 |
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| Linsay Weiss |
lw2004 |
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| Matthew West |
mew2139 |
| I am broadly interested in the intersections of economic and legal anthropology especially as related to inequalities and capitalism. My still somewhat inchoate dissertation topic will focus on intellectual property (in China and Taiwan) and the interactions between tangibility and intangibility. Given my topic, I am also intrigued by current debates in thing theory as well as theories of materiality and agency. |
| Darryl Wilkinson |
daw2142 |
| Archaeological theories of the state, landscape and materiality. The 16th Century neo-Inka state of Vilcabamba, Peru and indigenous resistance to early European colonial expansions. Andean archaeology and prehistory. |
| Erin Yerby |
edy2101 |
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| Kwang-Kyoon Yeo |
ky94 |
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