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Department of Anthropology MS-20
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Fax: 713-348-5455
Email: anth@rice.edu

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Graduate Students

KrizMichael Adair-Kriz, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Visual culture, art, and media; visual ethnography and artist-anthropology; religious studies and comparative religions; Mormonisms; consciousness; entheogenic practices and communities; neoprimitivism; urban anthropology; violence; torture and human rights advocacy; queerness and masculinities; futurism and science fiction; public anthropology.Areas: Latin America - Chile, South Asia - Bangladesh, United States - Arizona
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Ala Mahmoud Alazzeh, Graduate Student
 

 

Othon Alexandrakis, Graduate Student
 

 

Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Archeology Graduate Student
 

 

Katia Belousova, Graduate Student
 

 

BendixsenCasper 'Cap' Bendixsen, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  performance theory; anthropology of experience; rhetoric and poetics; representation; creative/interdisciplinary ethnography; authenticity; anti-intellectualism; masculinity; the works of Clifford Geertz; American Studies; New American Western history and literature; American regionalism
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Timothy ChryssikosTimothy Chryssikos, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  anthropology of the biological and biomedical sciences; scientific collaboration; ethnographic authority; social theories of reciprocity; semiotics; modern biomedical imaging techniques
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

CisseMamadou Cisse, Archeology Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Iron Age, transitional period between late Stone Age and early Iron Age, reconstruction of the history of the three great empires in West Africa (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai), reconstruction of Gao past (7th – 16th centuries AD), conservation, protection and promotion of archaeological heritage of Mali. My dissertation work aims to reconstruct the history of the early Gao Kingdom (7th – 12th centuries AD) through the archaeological investigations at Gao Saney and Gao Ancien
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Brian Clark, Archeology Graduate Student
 

 

Sarai Conway, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Health effects of traumatic events and social suffering; reproductive health, including the influence of psychosocial factors on gestational health and birth as a traumatic event; the exacerbation of suffering by the interventions intended to lessen it; the intersection of history, gender, ethnicity, and public policy on the provision of healthcare.
 

 

Lina Dib, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The social study of science and technology; memory and subjectivity; prosthetic territories;  prototypes and the lab;digital transformations; the archive; ethics of surveillance; politics of representation;  collaboration and research design; contemporary art andinstallation
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Trevor Durbin, Graduate student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environment(alism) and social theory; science and technology parks (STP), their history and evolution including STP 3.0; collaboration; the convergence of academia, business and government on issues of science, technology and policy; innovation and its management; knowledge ecosystems; experts and expertise; clean technology, its politics and theorization; climate change; the anthropology of technology; Nordic Region, Finland
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Rebecca GimbelRebecca Gimbel, Graduate Student
 

 

Vibha Gokhale, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  virtual communities; digital media; blogging; fan studies; race; gender; anthropology of the self; anthropology of activism; the politics of social theory; nationalism; post-colonialism; Native American studies
 

 

Hutan Hejazi, Graduate Student
 

 

Jones(2)Laura Jones, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: medical anthropology; cultural study of hormonal contraceptives, as well as evolutionary medicine; medicalization of the life cycle
 

 

LockremJessica Lockrem, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  tourism, authenticity, sexuality, national identity, museums, Viet Nam
CONTACT:  e-mail
 

 

marks(2)Elizabeth Marks, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: media; popular culture; television and film; manga/ comics; religious practice; aesthetics and design; Frankfurt School theory; service learning; Japan; United States.
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Elise McCarthy, Doctoral Candidate
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Corporate responsibility in an Irish context; late capitalism; ethics of responsibility and making them 'doable'; activism and movements; economic growth, competition and sustainability; Ireland; contemporary anthropological research design.
CONTACT:  (713) 893 -7897  |  e-mail
 

 

Erin McLaughlin, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: medical anthropology; public health & culture; sexuality & gender (masculinities); United States
CONTACT:  e-mail
 

 

olsonValerie Olson, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  environment; ecology; biomedicine; science, technology, and operations; experimental ecologies; environmental and ecological imaginaries; cosmologies; ethics; the future; extreme environments; outer space; United States; Latin America; Europe. 
CONTACT:  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Janice Orlando, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: New media; affect & interactive media; pop-culture; transnational flows of pop-culture;negotiations of identity and nationality in NE Asia; Japan; South Korea 
 

 

payneNikki Payne, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Citizenship; Racialized beauty practices and ideals; Spacialization of power; Foucauldian Ethics; Personhood and self-formation; Nationalism; Human Geography; Digital storytelling ; GIS
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pereiraStacey Pereira, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Medical Anthropology; Consumption; Anthropology of Ethics and the Self; Self-Formation; Beauty and Body Ideals; Commodification of the Body
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PotoczniakAnthony Potoczniak, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Cultural heritage archives; the institutional relationship between amateurs, experts and entrepreneurs; ethnic identity; institutional networks; ethnomusicology in Ukraine.
CONTACT:  Rayzor Hall 117  |  713.348.6259  |  e-mail  |  profile
 

 

Ranova(2)Elitza Ranova, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  post-socialism; cultural production; intersections of high, popular and counter culture; media; ethics and aesthetics; social stratification and elites; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; gender; the craft of ethnographic writing; Europe and European unification; Eastern Europe; Bulgaria
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resendezLaura Resendez, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sustainability, Corporations, Mexico
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Ayla Samli, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern Turkey, modernity, gender and subjectivity, material culture, familial and generational transformations, memory
 

 

VidartMaria Vidart, Graduate Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Media, Public Formation, Anthropology of the State, Political Satire, Cynicism, Political Culture, Public Culture, Elites
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Daniel White, Graduate Student