Graduate Students

Banan Abdelrahman


Email: banan.abdel@berkeley.edu

Research Interests:
Displacement & Migration, Carceral Geographies, Border Studies, Refugee Solidarities, Palestinian Shattat & Sumud, Critical Legal Studies, Visual & Digital Ethnographies, Memory & Belonging, Political Economies of Migration, Decolonial & Anti-Genocide Studies

Nicolas Arms


Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology

narms@berkeley.edu

Research Interests: Ethnography, linguistics, and historical ecology of the greater Sonoran Desert region and the Gran Chaco; subsistence-oriented foraging economies; indigeneity and settler colonization; semiotics; history of Americanist anthropology. 

Anjana Bala


Medical Anthropology

anjana.bala@ucsf.edu

Research Interests: Embodiment, Art, Psychiatry, Religion, India

Tanya Bertone


Archaeology
tanya_bertone@berkeley.edu
Research interests: CBPR, Historic Archaeology, Ethnography, gpr, Heritage Conservation

Pascale Boucicaut


Archaeology

pboucicaut@berkeley.edu

Research Interests: Caribbean, Haiti, Heritage and Traditional Culture, History of Anthropology, Folkloristics, Material Culture, Museum Anthropology, Theories of Materiality, Vodou

Jordan Brown


Archaeology

jordanbrown@berkeley.edu

Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, geomorphology, archaeology, environmental archaeology, ecological archaeology, landscape archaeology, community-based participatory research, stewardship, socioecological systems, coupled human-natural systems, Bayesian statistics, quantitative methods, uncertainty analysis, data management

Gustavo Capela


Sociocultural Anthropology

guscapela@berkeley.edu

Emilia Cardenas


Medical Anthropology

emilia.cardenas@berkeley.edu

Emilia is a Colombian PhD student in the Medical Anthropology program with an interest in intercultural medical systems in Colombia and other contexts. She has worked with indigenous and migrant communities, NGOs, hospitals, and Health Departments in the adaptation of institutional public health systems to meet the needs of local communities and the strengthening of communities' autonomous health models. She is interested in the articulations and clashes between local models of care and institutional health systems, and the possibilities of building intercultural health systems that address health disparities.

Emilia earned a bachelors in anthropology from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and a masters in public health and global health at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA).

Chris Cristóbal Chan

Sociocultural Anthropology
ckc4@berkeley.edu

Research Interests:  Technologies of the State, Art and Politics, Visual Anthropology, Techno-aesthetics, Environment, Infrastructure, Film and Media, Post/Coloniality, Nationalism, Memory, Trauma, China, East/South East Asia