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Graduate Students
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Jason Alley Email: alleyjason@earthlink.net Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: Aging & the life course, urbanisms, visual culture & media worlds, anthropology of publics, the United States.
Patricia Alvarez Email: pxalvare@ucsc.edu
Andrew Annis Email: aannis@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Indigenous media and politics, film
Sarah Bakker Email: sbakker@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1
Cristie Boone Email: cboone@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 427 Office Hours: Wed 10:45am-12:15pm Research Focus: My current project concerns fish remains from an archaeological site in Monterey Bay. I'm interested in seeing if we can sort out human overexploitation from climate change effects in the relative abundances of fish species through time. By combining current fisheries research with archaeological data and knowledge of prehistoric fishing practices, I hope to gain a greater understanding of the interactive relationship between people and the marine environment. I received my B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. My archaeological fieldwork experience includes three summers in Quebec (along the shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway), one in Russia on the Kuril Islands, a fieldschool on Kodiak Island in Alaska, and a Medieval project in southern France. At UC Santa Cruz, I am studying faunal analysis with Diane Gifford-Gonzalez as my advisor.
Heath Cabot Email: heathcabot@yahoo.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 339 Personal Page: http://www.sparethings.org/heathcabot/index.html Research Focus: Areas of interest and expertise: migration; asylum; rights regimes; law and legal anthropology; humanitarianism; nation and citizenship; NGO’s; language and translation; narrative; urban memory; Greece, the Mediterranean, Europe. My dissertation, Translating Law and Lives: Asylum and Legal Aid in Athens, examines dilemmas of political belonging, legal classification, and humanitarianism at an NGO that provides legal counsel to asylum seekers in Greece, one of the most contested border areas of the EU. I explore how NGO clients, interpreters, and lawyers build asylum cases through the telling and translating of life histories in diverse contexts, and how informal innovations in asylum cases do and do not translate into formal law. I have recently begun a new project, tentatively entitled The Lacunic City: Athens, Migration, and the New Nation, on emerging forms of urban identity and memory in Athens in the wake of recent mass immigration. I am also developing a long-term ethnographic project that explores the interrelationships between rapidly changing, and extraordinarily fraught, Greek attitudes toward the state, the family, and “nature” (fisi) as agents of care and social support. I am interested in initiating conversations, across disciplinary and geo-political borders, about common problems facing affected communities, practitioners, and policy makers in the domains of labor and asylum related migration.
Kim Cameron-Dominquez Email: kccamero@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 343
Teresa Campbell Email: tcampbel@ucsc.edu
Roosbelinda Cardenas Email: rcardena@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 408
Xochitl Chavez Email: xochitlch@yahoo.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 410
Sarah Eunkyung Chee Email: schee@ucsc.edu
Nellie Chu Email: nxchu@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1
Christopher Cochran Email: ccochran@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Rhetoric of "cultural differences," use of concepts of free will and determination in social explanation.
Brent Crosson Email: jcrosson@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1
Brooke Crowley Email: bcrowley@pmc.ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1 Personal Page: http://www.pmc.ucsc.edu/~bcrowley
William Duncan Email: wduncan@ucsc.edu
Rosa Ficek Email: rficek@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 343
Rachel Furey Email: rlf10915@ucsc.edu
Amy Garza Email: agarza@ucsc.edu
William Girard Email: wgirard@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 341
Naomi Glenn-Levin Email: nglennle@ucsc.edu
Conal Guan-Yow Ho Email: conalho@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: Diaspora, migration, expatriacy, globalisation, nationalism, cultural belonging, home//Ghana, Chinese, West Africa. Dissertation: Migrancy of Liminality: Negotiating National and Cultural Belonging Among Chinese Expatriates in Ghana
Melissa Hackman Email: mhackman@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 339 Office Hours: Tu 4pm-5pm Research Focus: South Africa, religion, sexuality.
Anna Higgins Email: ahiggins@ucsc.edu. Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: Pregnancy and reproduction, fetal education, syncretic use of multiple traditions of science and medicine, intelligence, and cosmopolitanism in Beijing.
Cris Hughes Email: cehughes@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 435
Anneke Janzen Email: ajanzen1@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Zooarchaeology, Africa.
Chelsey Juarez Title: Teaching Fellow Email: cjuarez@ucsc.edu Phone: (831) 459-1481 Office Office: Social Sciences 1, 435 Office Hours: Wed 2pm-5pm Research Focus: Forensic Anthropology, functional anatomy, skeletal biology.
Celina Kapoor Email: ckapoor@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Medical anthrpology, HIV/AIDS stigma-reduction programs
Tia-Nicole Leak Email: tleak@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 341
Peter Leykam Email: pleykam@ucsc.edu
Joanie McCollom Email: joanie@stanfordalumni.org Office: Social Sciences 1, 408 Research Focus: My research interests include Malaysia, information technology and the Internet, and the production of the nation and it's economy.
Aaron Montoya Email: amontoya@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 408
Vicki O'Day Email: oday@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 339 Research Focus: Genomics and the nature of aging.
Christian Palmer Email: cpalmer@ucsc.edu
Alisa Puga-Keesey Email: puga@sheapet.com Office: 339 Social Sciences 1 Research Focus: peace movements in Uganda and Sudan
Micha Rahder Email: mrahder@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Participatory science, conservation solutions, lowland Guatemala
Marissa Ramsier Email: mramsier@yahoo.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 435 Research Focus: Primate anatomy, physiology, and ecology; audition.
Zeb Rifaqat Email: zrifaqat@ucsc.edu Phone: (831) 459-3360 Office Office: Social Sciences 1, 427 Office Hours: TBA
Lauren Rockhold Zephro Title: Researcher Email: lzephro@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1
Ruby Rodriguez Email: rubadella@hotmail.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 408
Jason Rodriguez Email: rigo311@hotmail.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 331 Office Hours: Fri 3:15-4:15pm Research Focus: Translating Bodhgaya: A study of a women's empowerment organization and a welfare school, both of which are funded through relations of contact intelligible to the Indian State as "tourism development." This research takes place in Bodhgaya, the enlightenment site of Prince Siddhartha, located in Bihar, the state popularly understood as the most "lawless," "corrupt," "backward" state in India. Theoretical Interests: Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Time/Temporality, Death as (Im)Possibility, The Philosophy of Praxis, Truth Effects, Ontologies of History and the Metaphysics of Capitalism/Globalization, Reproduction of the State through Discourses of Corruption.
Craig Schuetze Email: cschuetz@ucsc.edu Research Focus: Phenomenology of cityscapes, politics, embodiment, parkour, French banlieues
Aviva Sinervo Email: asinervo@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 410 Research Focus: My research investigates the participation of child vendors in the tourism industry in Cusco, Peru. I am interested in children's use of narratives about their poverty to engage tourists, as well as the children's roles as wage-earners within their families. My current project also addresses policies of the state and foreign aid organizations that focus on child labor and poverty. Areas of Research: Childhood and Child Vendors, Poverty, Charity and Aid, Tourism. Areas of Fieldwork: Peru, the Andes, Latin America.
Jeffrey Smith Office: 341 Social Sciences 1
Danny Solomon Email: dsolomon@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: (cultural anthropology) political ecology, animal studies, ethnoprimatology; religion, supernatural, monsters, popular culture; India (Delhi).
Bettina Stoetzer Email: stoetzer@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 337
Heather Swanson Email: hswanson@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 408
Carla-Ann Takaki-Richardson Email: ctakakir@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1
Noah Tamarkin Email: ntamarkin@hotmail.com Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: My work is in South Africa on Lemba identity, particularly in terms of the ways race and ethnicity are articulared in relation to Lemba Jewish identity and the "Jewish DNA" tests that some Lemba men participated in in the late 90's (they tested positive for "Jew.") I'm also interested in the construction of gender categories. I graduated from Colorado College in 2000 with a BA in Anthropology. My previous research is on UNESCO World Heritage sites in Kathmandu, Nepal (focusing on issues of ownership and control of space and the politics of "cultural" tourism) and on multiple gender systems (focusing on various articulations of two-spirit, hijra, and transgender/transexual identities with a particular attention to activist literature written by people who self-identify with those terms).
James Todd Email: jimtodd@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 337 Research Focus: Southern culture and stock car.
Bregje van Eekelen Email: bregje@ucsc.edu Office: Social Sciences 1, 410 Research Focus: Anthropology of Knowledge; Modern Societies and their Genealogies; Economic Anthropology; Social Studies of Finance; (Social) Science and Technology Studies; Work & Governance; Anthropology of Policy and Expertise; Postcolonial Studies of Europe & USA; Language & War; Continental Philosophy and Cultural Theory; History of Anthropological Thought. My dissertation, The Social Life of Ideas: Economies of Knowledge (2009) is an anthropological and historical study of the phenomenon of a “knowledge economy.” My research has been funded by numerous grants. Amongst them, UC Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UvA Employability Fund Fellowship, Catharina van Tussenbroek Fellowship, Henriette Sara De Lanoy Meijer Fellowship, Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Fellowship, University of California Regents Fellowship, Nationale Talentenbeurs, Vrouwe van Renswoude Fellowship, and a Fulbright NAF Scholarship. I am also developing a future project, provisionally titled Brainstorms: Fragments of A Mental Discourse. Finally, I am developing a new project on the changing notions of “work”.
Jessica Watson Email: jwwatson@ucsc.edu Office: 341 Social Sciences 1