Omolade Adunbi
Email: omolade.adunbi@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests: Nigeria; democracy, resource distribution and justice
Year: 2010

Allison Alexy
Email: allison.alexy@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan; divorce, family studies
Year: 2007

Kalanit Baumhaft
Email: kalanit.baumhaft@yale.edu
Advisor: Linda-Anne Rebhun
Area/Interests: Brazil; youth, identity, cultural change
Year: 2007

Sheriden Booker
Email: sheriden.booker@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests: Cuba
Year: 2008

Devika Bordia
Email: devika.bordia@yale.edu
Advisor: Thomas Blom Hansen
Area/Interests: South Asia; legality and the formation of subjectivities, criminality and violence, indigeneity, the politics of identification and the production of sovereign power
Year: 2008

Elizabeth Busbee
Email: elizabeth.busbee@aya.yale.edu
Advisor: Hal Scheffler
Area/Interests: North America; language and gender, sexuality, discourse analysis
Year: 2008

Lucia Cantero (African American Studies)
Email: lucia.cantero@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests: Cuba and Brazil; cultural production in the Americas, diasporization of  Art and its market, religious art, ethnoaesthetics
Year: 2010

Judith Casselberry (African American Studies)
Email: judith.casselberry@yale.edu
Advisor: John Szwed
Area/Interests: North America (United States); African American religions, Pentecostalism, music, gender and performance
Year: 2007

Durba Chattaraj
Email: durba.chattaraj@yale.edu
Advisor: Thomas Blom Hansen
Area/Interests: South Asia; postcolonial state, development, transport, migration
Year: 2009

Seth Curley
Email: seth.curley@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: Africa; Uganda; development
Year: 2006

Abigail Dumes
email: abigail.dumes@yale.edu
advisor: linde-anne rebhun
area/interests: France; transnational feminisms, immigration and citizenship,  Cameroonian diaspora
Year: 2011

Susanna Fioratta
Email: susanna.fioratta@yale.edu
Advisor:
Area/Interests:
Year: 2012

Isaac Gagne
Email: isaac.gagne@yale.edu
Advisor:
Area/Interests:
Year: 2012

Ajay Gandhi
Email: ajay.gandhi@yale.edu
Advisor: Thomas Blom Hansen
Area/Interests: India; legal orders and subjectivity, violence and the postcolonial state, transnational movements and development
Year: 2009

Josh Gordon
Email: joshua.gordon@yale.edu
Advisor: Joseph Errington
Area/Interests: Language Ideologies, Chinese Language and Communities
in Burma/Myanmar
Year: 2009

Annie Harper
Email: annie.harper@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: Pakistan; globalization, development and resistance to 'freedom'
Year: 2009

Joseph Hill
Email: joseph.hill@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests: West Africa (Senegal, Mauritania); Islam, Sufism, religion and ritual as technologies of the self; transnational movements and globalization
Year: 2006

Shafqat Hussain (Foresty & Environmental Studies)
Email: shafqat.hussain@yale.edu
Advisor: Helen Siu
Area/Interests: Pakistan; post-colonial ethnography, political/social ecology
Year: 2008

Myra Jones-Taylor (American Studies)
Email: myra.jones-taylor@yale.edu
Advisor: Kathryn Dudley
Area/Interests:
Year:

Nazima Kadir
Email: nazima.kadir@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: Amsterdam; globalization, gender, urban anthropology
Year: 2008

Kristin Kajdzik
Email: kristin.kajdzik@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan; flea markets, modernity, aesthetics
Year: 2009

Csilla Kalocsai
Email: csilla.kalocsai@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests:
Year: 2005

Brenda Kombo
Email: brenda.kombo@yale.edu
Advisor: Kamari Clarke
Area/Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa; gender, state, development
Year: 2009

Moon Hee Lee
Email: moon-hee.lee@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: Africa
Year: 2007

Minhua Ling
Email: minhua.ling@yale.edu
Advisor: Helen F. Siu
Area/Interests: East Asia/China; late-socialist state, development, internal migration, education
Year: 2011

Molly Margaretten
Email: emily.margaretten@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: South Africa; youth, informal shelters
Year: 2006

Ilana Meltzer
Email: ilana.meltzer@yale.edu
Advisor: Helen Siu
Area/Interests: China; religion and ethnicity; urban anthropology; history of anthropology
Year: 2011

Christina H. Moon
Email: christina.moon@yale.edu
Advisors: Thomas Hansen, David Graeber, Kamari Clarke, Michael Denning
Area/Interests: US, Asia America, South Korea (in global garment production); politics of production and consumption in the fashion and textiles industry, ethnicization of labor, US immigration, Asian American history and popular culture, gender and cultural identity, cities and urban life, (fashion) design history and theory.
Year: 2008

Nana Okura
Email: nana.okura@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan, America; gender (masculinities), discourse/ideology, globalization (modernity), exchange and consumption, intellectual history (history of anthropology)
Year: 2009

Juan Orrantia
Email: juan.orrantia@yale.edu
Advisor: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Eric Worby, Thomas Blom Hansen
Area/Interests: Latin America, Colombia; cultural studies of violence/crime, narrative ethnography and photography, narratives of/and mourning, (post)modernity and conspiracy
Year: 2008

Jonathan Padwe (Forestry & Environmental Studies)
Email: jonathan.padwe@yale.edu
Advisor: Eric Worby, Michael Dove (F&ES)
Area/Interests: Cambodia; development, genocide
Year: 2007

Darian Parker (African American Studies)
Email: darian.parker@yale.edu
Advisor: John Szwed
Area/Interests: Africa; modes of worship, West African dance
Year: 2008

Richard Payne
Advisors: J. Errington, Michael Dove, David Graeber
Area/Interests: Indonesia (Kalimantan), Benauq Dayak shamanism and mortuary ritual, myth and taboo, state-ethnic minority relations, Christian conversion and syncretism, cosmology and nature, non-state legal systems.
Year: 2008

Mieka Ritsema
Email: mieka.ritsema@yale.edu
Advisors: Eric Worby, David Graeber, Vron Ware
Area/Interests: Botswana; culture theory, identity, urban studies
Year: 2004

Alethea Murray Sargent
Email: alethea.sargent@yale.edu
Advisor: Kathryn Dudley
Area/Interests: America; social inequality, urban poverty, ethnographic representation
Year: 2010

Ryan Sayre
Email: ryan.sayre@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan; risk, disaster, event, preparedness, security, post-structuralist thought, rhetoric, community policing
Year: 2011

Arian Schulze
Email: wanda.schulze@yale.edu
Advisors: Eric Worby
Area/Interests: India; politics of gender, identity, and development
Year: 2007

Shaila Seshia
Email: shaila.seshia@yale.edu
Advisors: Helen Siu, Thomas Blom Hansen, Michael Dove
Area/Interests: India; issues at the interface of environment, globalisation and development
Year: 2010

Nathaniel Smith
Email: nathaniel.smith@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan; nationalism, youth culture, music
Year: 2010

Olga Sooudi
Email: olga.sooudi@yale.edu
Advisor: Thomas Blom Hansen
Area/Interests: Japanese migration to New York City, gender and migration, urban studies, intersections of literature and anthropology, travel and travel
literature
Year: 2008

Catherine Timura
Email: catherine.timura@yale.edu
Advisor: Enrique Mayer, Linda-Anne Rebhun
Area/Interests: Ecuador; medical anthropology, therapeutic decision-making, indigenous identity, indigenous political movements,
Year: 2007

Anne Watzka
Email: anne.watzka@yale.edu
Advisor:
Area/Interests:
Year: 2012

Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Email: gavin.whitelaw@yale.edu
Advisor: William Kelly
Area/Interests: Japan; social change, globalization, consumption, small family business
Year: 2007

Karina Yager (Socio-cultural/Archaeology)
Email: karina.yager@yale.edu
Advisor: Enrique Mayer
Area/Interests:
Year: 2008

Jun Zhang
Email: jun.zhang@yale.edu
Advisor: Helen Siu
Area/Interests: South China; legal, urban anthropology
Year: 2009

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