Name

Email - all "@columbia.edu"
Hanifa Abdul Sabur ha2154
 
Mireille Abelin ma457
 
Sonia Ahsan sa2320
 
Kitana Ananda ksa2103
 
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
 
Negar Azimi na2265
Negar is interested in the peculiarities of human rights language and internationalism at large.
Fadi Abda Bardwil fab2001
 
Gulden Baykal Buyuksarac gb2017
 
Uma Bhrugubanda umb3
 
Anuj Bhuwania ab2303
 
Matthew Black mdb2103
 
Anderson Blanton ab2312
 
Khiara Bridges kmb73
 
Kelly Britt kb239
 
Adam Bund ahb2004
 
Jon Carter jhc2010
My work is based on questions pertaining to criminality and sovereignty in Honduras, and Central America more generally.
Claire Cesareo cmc2
 
Yogesh Chandrani yrc4
 
Ryan D. Chaney rdc99
 
Ho-jun Chang hc294
 
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.
Rodney Collins rwc2001
 
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
 
Danielle DiNovelli-Lang dd2046
 
Kristen Drybread kd25
 
Narges Erami ne52
 
Oguz Erdur oe7
 
Maria Ferro mdf2112
 
Michael Fisch mf2024
 
Christine Flaherty cf28
 
Felipe Gaitan-Ammann fg2112
 
Goutam Gajula gg97
 
Adriana Garriga-Lopez amg2009
 
Elizabeth Gelber erg2103
 
Amanda Gilliam aog2102
 
Marcial Godoy mg110
 
Seema Golestaneh sg2166
 
Brigham Golden bmg9
 
Rebecca Gould rrs40
 
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
 
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
 
Erin Hasinoff elh2005
 
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
 
Sashur Henninger slh2137
 
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
 
Anne Hohman akh2002

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.

Karen Holmberg kgh11
 
Drew Hopkins dh125
 
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
 
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
 
Patience Kabamba psk2006
 
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
 
Munira Khayyat mk2275
 
David Kim djk47
 
Yukiko Koga yk294
 
Scott H. Kremkau shk28
 
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
 
Nadia Latif nl2022
 
Axel Lazzari acl31
 
Alejandra Leal aml2012
 
Yixin Li yl2041
 
Meredith Linn mbl2002
 
Nadia Loan nl254
 
Kazuma Maetakenishi km357
 
Kathleen Marac kpm13
 
Caroline McLoughlin cm2144
 
Paul Mendelsohn pmm30
 
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
 
Maya Mikdashi mtm2116
 
Ana Miljanic asm2004
 
Vishnupad Mishra mv208
 
Jun Mizukawa jm2063
 
Nicholas Moustakas nm14
 
Kirsten Olson kao16
 
Poornima Paidipaty email not listed
 
Sonali Pahwa sp444
 
Matthew Palus mp843
 
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli mvp2002

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.

Suren Pillay sp777
 
Lorraine Plourde ldp27
 
Zoe Reiter zr23
 
Angeliki Rovatsou ar606
 
Kristin Ruppel ktr2
 
Zainab Saleh zms2002
 
Lorenzo San Juan ls505
 
Manuel Schwab mss2118
 
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
 
Christina Sornito cvs2103
 
Ravindran Sriramachandran rs699
 
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins scr60
 
Dattathreya Subbanarasimha dcs117
 
Jennifer Syron jas96
 
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
 
Fa'anofo Uperesa flu2101
 
Marie Varghese mv2190
 
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.
Anna Von Schnitzler acv31
 
Linsay Weiss lw2004
 
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
 
Kwang-Kyoon Yeo ky94