Ahmed Adam
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • aadam4@uci.edu
Tawfiq Alhamedi
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Lafayette College, 2017 

  • belonging, citizenship, memory, Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Arab diasporas, postcolonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, race

  • talhamed@uci.edu
Monique Azzara
Shannon Bae
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Irvine 
    M.A., Hanyang University 
    B.A., Millikin University 

  • family, kinship, (trans)national belonging, gender, and South Korea

  • shannon2@uci.edu
Carlos Eduardo Borges de Carvalho Silva
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Graphic Digital Design  
    B.A. Industrial Design  

  • ceborges@uci.edu
Upuli DeSilva
Nan Ding
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Irvine 

  • dingn1@uci.edu
Hanna Dosenko
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Visual and Media Anthropology, HMKW Berlin, 2022
    B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences (major in Religious Studies, Philosophy, Politics, minor in Psychology), University of Groningen, 2018

  • war, digital anthropology, STS, forensics, and multi-modal methods, Ukraine

  • gdosenko@uci.edu
  • Website
Nasim Fekrat
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020
    M.A., Religious Studies, University of Georgia, 2018
    B.A., Political Science, Dickinson College, 2013

  • nationalism; transnationalism and diaspora; colonial and postcolonial studies; genocide studies; wars, empires and refugees; surrveillence and militarism; global war on terror; Afghanistan, South Asia and the Middle east

  • nfekrat@uci.edu
Margaux Fisher
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., London School of Economics 
    B.A., Wheaton College 

  • margauxf@uci.edu
Diana Gamez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz 

  • gamezd@uci.edu
Sab Garduño De La Vega
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, New York University 
    B.S. Political Science, Colorado State University - Pueblo 

  • sabg1@uci.edu
Mridula Garg
  • Graduate Student
    M.S. MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sust, Ain Shams University 
    B. Arch., School of Planning and Architecture 

  • mridulag@uci.edu
Santeiu Griffin
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology  
    B.A. International Studies and Anthropology  

  • santeiug@uci.edu
Eric Gu
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago 
    B.S. Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, Northeastern University 

  • ecgu@uci.edu
Athenas Viane Guerra
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara 
    B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • avguerra@uci.edu
Gina Hakim
Muneira Hoballah
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of London 
Emily Jorgenson
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 
    B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 

  • eljorgen@uci.edu
Scott Jung
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., University of Chicago 

  • ability, work, care, order, autism, United States

  • sfjung@uci.edu
Anna Kamanzi
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Cal State Chico,  2016

  • medical anthropology, visual anthropology, violence, ethnicity, aesthetics, colonialism/post-colonialism, inequality, representation, Rwanda, central Africa

  • akamanzi@uci.edu
Kristen Kennefick
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago 
    B.A. Anthropology, Colgate University 

  • kkennefi@uci.edu
Christine Ji-Young Kim
Hae Seo Kim
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
    B.A., Vassar College 

  • heask@uci.edu
Mette A. E. Kim-Larsen
Orlando Lara
  • Graduate Student
    M.F.A., Creative Writing, Cornell University 
    Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University 
    B.A., Chicano/Latino Studies, Stanford University 

  • citizenship and non-citizenship, biometric identification, state violence, border and migration studies, social movement theory, chicanx/latinx studies, critical race and ethnic studies, multimodal anthropology

  • orlandl@uci.edu
  • Website
Juwon Lee
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, 2019
    B.A. Comparative Studies (Specialization in Comparative Ethnic and American Studies), Ohio State University, 2012

  • urban ecologies, rivers, modernity, South Korea, Asia, multispecies ethnography, feminist anthropology

  • juwonl5@uci.edu
Xue Ma
  • Graduate Student
    M.S. Anthropology, Illinois State University 
    B.S. Finance, Beijing International Studies University 

  • xuem5@uci.edu
Syeda Mahmood
Adan Martinez Ordaz
Maeve McAllister
Andrew James McGrath
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of Cincinnati 
    M.A., University of Cincinnati 

  • southern California, new media, identity, aesthetics, semiology, simulation, hegemonic change, and radical theory

  • ajmcgrat@uci.edu
  • Website
Rojelio Muñoz
Jemini Sara Nainan
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Global Studies  
    B.Sc. Physical Sciences  

  • jnainan@uci.edu
Preetika Nanda
Arlette Cruz Perez
Kaitlyn Rabach
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., SOAS, University of London, 2017
    B.A., Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, 2015

  • krabach@uci.edu
Tariq Rahman
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 

  • capitalism, finance, and assets; big data, e-governance, and social media; experts and expertise; religion and the everyday; migration, diaspora, and citizenship; critical urban studies; ethnographic methods

  • tlrahman@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Muhammad Raqib
Darwin Rodriguez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. Anthropology, Kalamazoo College, 2013

  • queer anthropology, sexuality, Latinx studies, queer theory, identity, state-making, non-profits

  • darwinr@uci.edu
Camille Samuels
Rosie Sanchez
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 

  • labor, health and safety, disasters, environmental justice in greater Los Angeles

  • rosies@uci.edu
Tim Schuetz
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Science and Technology Studies (STS), Goethe University Frankfurt 
    B.A., Communications and Media Studies, University of Bremen 

  • science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, data ethnography, knowledge infrastructures, multimodal anthropology

  • tschuetz@uci.edu
  • Website
Taylor Silverman
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Brown University 
Kaitlyn Christine Sisco
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Anthropology, University of Mississippi 
    B.A. International Studies and Spanish, University of Mississippi 

  • ksisco@uci.edu
Jessica Slattery
Isabelle Soifer
  • Graduate Student

  • legal and political anthropology, human rights, urban studies, race, public policy (education, housing, policing), natural disasters, United States, South Africa

  • isoifer@uci.edu
Prerna Srigyan
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. in Environment & Development, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University at Delhi 
    B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Delhi 

  • environmental governance, air pollution and health, urban environments, South Asia

  • psrigyan@uci.edu
Sarah Stanley
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Sarah Lawrence College 
    M.F.A. Dance, California State University, Long Beach 

  • Medical anthropology, dance and performance, corporeality, narrative, trauma, wellness, American military culture, California and Southwestern U.S.

  • sarah.stanley@uci.edu
  • Website
Danielle Tassara
  • Graduate Student
     B.A.,  The College of William & Mary,  2015

  • migration, refugees, politics of belonging, (il)legality, citizenship, North and South Korea, South America

  • dtassara@uci.edu
  • Website
Margaret Louise Tebbe
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Sociology, University of California, Irvine 
    B.A. Sociology, University of Pennsylvania 

  • mtebbe@uci.edu
Shreya Uttara Kushal
  • Graduate Student
    M.S. Social Anthropology, University of Oxford 
    B.A. Political Science, Ashoka University 

  • uks1@uci.edu
Yvette Raquel Vasquez
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of Chicago 
    B.A., Duke University 

  • U.S.-Mexico borderlands, legal narrative analysis, knowledge production/pedagogical practice “in the social sciences”

  • yrvasque@uci.edu
Syed Mir Waleed
Tenzing Wangdak
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., New York University 
    B.A., Hindu College 
Margaret Woodruff
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Rutgers University 

  • environmental governance; citizenship; disability; global climate change; outer space; legal anthropology; science, technology, and society; engaged research

  • woodruff@uci.edu
  • Website
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