Anthropology

Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation...

Ram Natarajan received his PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2014. His research and teaching focus on violence, memory, human rights, and law. His current project, "The Power of Memory," is an ethnographic inquiry into the social worlds of...

Michaela Schäuble is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where she also received a Ph.D. in 2010. She studied comparative literature and social anthropology at Tübingen University and Yale...

Ujala Dhaka-Kintgen received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University with a dissertation on the relationship between governance and marginality in Muslim working-class neighborhoods of Mumbai. In 2013-14, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the...

Jean-Philippe Belleau is a Latin Americanist and a social anthropologist working on Brazil. Prior to joining UMass Boston, he worked for a decade in human rights and development with the OAS, the United Nations, ADF, UNDP and various NGOs, including Viva...

Onur Günay holds a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University (2017). His book project, Becoming Kurdish: Migration, Urban Labor, and Political Violence in Turkey, examines the processes by which displaced Kurdish migrants become urban laborers in...

Sumayya Kassamali holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University (2017), where her dissertation focused on the lifeworlds of migrant workers in contemporary Lebanon. Her book project, tentatively titled Black Beirut, examines an informal labor...

Mark Anthony Geraghty received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2016. His current, PhD-based, book project ethnographically investigates the Rwandan state’s recent campaign against “genocide ideology”...

Callie Maidhof received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, "Borderline Settlers: Building the Suburban Israeli State in Palestine's West Bank," is an ethnographic inquiry into secularism and...

Mónica Salas-Landa received a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2015. Her project "Living among a Field of Ruins: (In)Visible Residues of Violence and Revolution" combines an archival approach with ethnographic research and examines the...