Graduate Student List
Alex Chavez- ABD
Alex Dodson-
Social Cultural Anthropology
Research Interest: Notions of the primordial and the primitive in environmentalism and indigenous discourse.
Research Area: Bangladesh (Dhaka, Chittagong Hill Tracts)
Graduate Standing: ABD, Prospectus defense
Alice Campbell-
Alix Chapman
Alysia Childs-
Social Cultural Anthropology
Research Interest: Factors Impacting Educational Attainment on African-American Adolescents (eg. skin colorism, gender, class).
Research Area: Washington, DC
Graduate Standing: Exams/Prospectus (so pre field/ post coursework)
Amanda Morrison
Folklore and Public Culture
Research Interest: Popular Culture, Racial Formation
Research Area: U.S. and Greater Mexico
Graduate Standing: ABD, writing up. Will complete Ph.D. by May 2010.
Amber Heard
Amber O'Connor
Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interest : Foodways as public performance and discourse for the modern Maya
Research Area : Mesoamerica particularly the Yucatan Peninsula
Graduate Standing: Coursework
Amy Brown
Social / Cultural
Research Interest : educational anthropology, intersectionality, power and popular culture in US classrooms, critical pedagogy
Research Area : Brooklyn, New York
Graduate Standing: ABD- In the Field
Andrea Grimes
Folklore and Public Culture
Research Interest: Stand-up comedy, specifically female stand-up comedians. Gender, humor, \ feminist theory, affect, identity, performance.
Research area: U.S. (New York, Texas.)
Graduate Standing: Second year master's, coursework.
Angel Zeninger
Angeliki Cavazos
Archaeology
Research interest: Osteology and funerary customs
Research site: Belize, Cyprus.
Graduate standing: taking courses (3rd year)
Anindita Chatterjee
Ann Buckun
Anne Johnson
Athayde Motto Filho
Audrey Steiner
Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interest : Narratives concerning the transgression of material boundaries
Research Area : East Austin
Graduate Standing: ABD
Bárbara Abadia Rexach
Beau Dubroc
Brenda Lopez
Brett Nachman
Calvin Johns
Carl Toborowsky
Carla Klehm
Archaeology
Research Interest : Archaeology of Everyday Life, Exchange Networks, Craft Specialization, Identity and Class Formation, Spatial Analyses, Museums and Representation Issues
Research Area : sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe
Graduate Standing: PhD student, taking courses
Carrie Veilleux
Casey Hanson
Celeste Henery
Chester Walker
Chiho Inoue
Christine Beler
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Loperenda
Claudia Arguelles
Courtney Morris
African Diaspora Program
Research Interest: Afro-Nicaraguan women's political organizing,
land struggles, gender and racial justice movements.
Research Area: Nicaragua, Central America region
Graduate Standing: Currently in the field.
Czarina Thelen
Daniel Gilman
Folklore/Public Culture
Research Interests: Nationalism and postcolonial modernity,
gendered citizenship, popular music.
Research Area: Egypt
Graduate Standing: ABD (writing)
Daniel Law
David Hyde
Deanna Riddick
Archaeology
Research Interest: Mesoamerican Archaeology, within that: The archaeology of social inequality, Gender and Production of Identities through Material Culture.
Research Site: Mesoamerica, specifically Belize
Deborah Trein
Derrick Washington
Social Anthropology-African Diaspora
Research Interest: Performance Studies, Caribbean Studies, urban ethnography, African diasporic dances,
Research Area: United States, Cuba
Coursework
Diya Mehra
Elizabeth Leflore
Elizabeth Marterre
Social Anthropology/Mexican Borderlands
Research Interest: Chicano artwork and resistance, protest art, labor studies, visual anthropology
Research Area: US, Mexico
Graduate Standing: second year, coursework
Elizabeth Reid
Elizabeth Velazquez
Social/ Activist Anthropology
Research Interest: Social Movements in Central America
Research Area: El Salvador
Graduate Standing: Coursework
Elvia Mendoza
Emi Nagai
Emiliana Cruz de Wallach
Linguistic anthropology
Research Interest: Documentation and revitalization of chatino
language
Research Area: Oaxaca, Mexico.
Graduate Standing: ABD and writing up.
Emily Lynch
Emily Root-Garey
Eunice Garza
Gabrielle Russo
Galeet Dardashti
Garcia
Gwendolyn Ferreti
Social Anthropology, Borderlands Concentration
Research interest: Race/Ethnicity Studies, Immigration Studies, Border Theory, Anthropology of the State, Intersectionality and Feminist Theories, Labor Studies
Research site: Latinos migrants in the U.S. Deep South
Graduate standing: Coursework completed, preparing for comprehensive exams and prospectus
Hafeez Ahmed Jamali
Halide Velioglu
Hannah Baker
Folklore and Public Culture:
Research Interest: Archives, headphones, media and memory
Research Area : Undecided
Graduate Standing: Taking courses
Heather Teague
Social Anthropology
Research Interest : political violence and healing, memory, household economics, development, indigenous politics, resistance, memorials/monuments, visual arts, photography.
Research Area : Guatemala, Latin America
Graduate Standing: Writing Up
Hisyar Ozsoy
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research interest: State, state terror, nationalism, sovereignty, political violence, politics of death, memory and history.
Research area: Turkey, Kurdistan, Middle East.
Graduate Standing: PhD Candidate, Writing.
Indulata Prasad
Social Anthropology
Taking Classes
Inger Mey
Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interest: Anthropology of Science, Scientific discourse and everyday interaction in a microbiology laboratory. Interaction in Apprenticeship
Research Area: Microbiology Laboratory
ABD, Writing
Jaime Alves
Jaime Mata-Miguez
Physical anthropology
Research Interests: Paleo-anthropology and molecular anthropology
Jamahn Lee
Jason Cato
Jennifer Babiarz
Jennifer Carison
Jennifer Grocer
Jerry Lord
Folklore and Public Culture
Hurricane Ike, urban political economy, Walter Benjamin
Galveston
In the Field, Writing Up
Jessica Montalvo
Jill Kowalsky
Jodi Skipper
Archaeology
Research Interests: Public Archaeology, African Diaspora Archaeology,
Interpretive Exhibitions, Texas Freedmen Communities
Research Area: Dallas
Graduate Standing: ABD (writing)
Jogendro Kshetrimayun
Social Anthropology
Research interest: State, Violence, Media.
Research site: Manipur (India)
Graduate standing: taking course (2nd year)
Jonathan Godwin
Jose Martinez
Julie Grigsby
Katherine (Kat) Bannar-Martin
Physical Anthropology/Primatology
Research Interest : Feeding and spatial ecology of primate communities affected by anthropogenic perturbations and non-indigenous species.
Research Area : Madagascar
Graduate Standing: First Year PhD Student, Coursework
Kayla Price
Linguistic Anthropology
Kenneth MacLeish
Folklore and Public Culture
Research Interest: war and state violence, public culture, everyday life, the U.S. military, trauma, affect
Research Area: central Texas/Ft. Hood/Killeen
Graduate Standing: ABD
Kirsten Atwood
Korinta Maldonado Goti
Krista Church
Physical Anthropology
Research Interests : Paleoecology, Human Evolution, Vertebrate Paleontology, Geochemistry
Research Area : Plio-Pleistocene Africa
Graduate Standing: Coursework
Laura Alport
Laurel Carnes
Lillian Salcido
Linda Peche
Lisa Kraus
Luciane Rocha
Social Anthropology/ African Diaspora
Research Interest: Race, Youth, Social Movement, Violence
Research Area: Brazil
Graduate Standing: Taking Courses - second year.
Lynn Selby
Marcia Lopes
Margaret Gibson
Maria Cruz
Maria Curtis
Maria Garcia
Maria Martinez
Maria Andrea Saores
Social/Diaspora Program
Research interest: Afro-brazilian contemporary dances, performance of speech and body
Research Area: Brazil (southern)
Marina del Sol
Maryam Kashani
Social Anthropology
Research Interest: Islam, diaspora and transnational networks, race/ethnicity/culture, film/media and visual anthropology. nationalism, gender, and affect
Geographic Area: Middle East, US
Graduate Standing: Taking Courses
Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Folklore/ Public Culture
Research Interest: Anthropology of Work and the corporation, globalization, urban studies, business process outsourcing, identity and technologies of self.
Research Area: South Asia
Research Area: ABD, Writing Up
Matthew Chimera
Matthew Tallaferro
Archaeology
Research Interests: Social organization, social interaction, households, communities, abandonment, agency, obsidian studies, GIS modeling, archaeometry, statistical analysis
Research Area: Southwestern U.S.
Graduate Standing: ABD (writing)
Melissa Coupal
Micaela Olbedo
Archaeology
Research Interest: Mesoamerica, Funerary Archaeology, Forensic Archaeology, Osteology, GIS, Remote Sensing
Research Area: Belize
Graduate Standing: ABD - Writing
Mitsy Chanel-Blot
Social Anthropology, African Diaspora Program
Research interest: Francophone Caribbean identity, race and national identity, Haitian Diaspora
Research site: France
Graduate standing: Coursework (3rd year), Qualifying Exams
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Monique Ribeirro
African Diaspora
Research Interest: Race and image representation in Brazil
Research Area : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Graduate Standing: Taking courses.
Nadya Procluk
Archaeology
Research Interest: Gender theory
Research Area: Belize, Portugal
Graduate Standing: Second year taking courses
Nancy Rios
Naomi Reed
Nedra Lee
Noman Baig
Oluwabukola Kpotie
Pablo Gonzalez
Paul Merceaux
Archaeology
Research Interest: GIS and Spatial Analysis, Public Archaeology,
Archaeometry, and Ceramic Studies
Research Area: Texas and the Iberia Peninsula
Graduate Standing: ABD, Writing
Raja Swamy
Ricardo Ward
Robyn Dodge
Archaeology
Research Interest : Maya Archaeology
Research Area : Belize, Central America
Graduate Standing: 2nd year, currently taking courses and conducting annual fieldwork
Rosa Corrada
S. Mubbashir Rizvi
Social/ Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Historical Anthropology, Political Ecology, Land Rights‘ Movement.
Research Area: South Asia, Pakistan
Graduate Standing: ABD, Writing Up
Sade Anderson
Social/ Diaspora
Research Interest : African Descendants in Latin America
Research Area : Venezuela
Graduate Standing: 1st-yr. Taking Courses
Saikat Mitra
Social Anthropology
Research Interest: Labor, Urban Studies, Development
Research Area: India and South Asia
Graduate Standing: Will be finishing my qualifying exams and
prospectus defence this semester.
Salih Aciksoz
Social Anthropology
Research Interest: Trauma, Violence, Masculinity, Embodiment and Disability, Nationalism, Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health.
Research Area: Turkey
Graduate Standing: ABD, Writing.
Sandra Canas
Social Anthropology
Research Interest: Third World Feminisms, Citizenship, Cities, Nationalism, Secularism.
Research Area: Mexico (Chiapas)
Graduate Standing: ABD-In the Field
Santiago Guerra
Social Anthropology; Mexican American Borderlands Program
Research Interest: Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse, U.S.-Mexico Border History, U.S.-Mexico Immigration, Border Theory, Cultural History of Vaqueros
Research Area: US-Mexico Borderlands; South Texas
Graduate Standing: ABD - Writing Up
Serap Sengul
Social Anthropology
Research Interest: Urban Anthropology, nationalism, gender, violence, citizenship
Research Area: Middle East
Graduate Standing: ABD- Writing up
Shannon Iverson
Simeon Floyd
Susy Chavez
Teresa Velasquez
Social Cultural Anthropology
Tessa Farmer
Social Cultural Anthropology
Thathagathan Ravindram
Social/ Activist Anthropology
Research Interests: Social Movements, Political Identities, Marxist and Post-Marxist theory, Politically engaged Anthropology
Research Area: Bolivia
Graduate Standing: First Year Coursework
Thomas Schultz
Umair Ozcan
Folklore/ Public Culture
Research Interest:
Research Area:
Graduate Standing:
Vivian Newdick
Social Cultural Anthropology
Wai Fong Chiang
William Barr
William Wagner III
