Graduate Students M-Q

Below is a list of graduate students. If you are not listed here and should be, please contact the webmaster.

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Kirt Mausert

Sociocultural Anthropology

kmausert@berkeley.edu

Emily McKenzie

Archaeology

ermckenzie@berkeley.edu

Research interests: Paleoethnobotany, Andes, agriculture, land management strategies, domestication, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), archaeological ethics

Shelby Medina

s_medina@berkeley.edu

Cora Miller

Medical Anthropology 

coramiller@berkeley.edu

Research interests: death and dying, medical examination, United States, policing, incarceration, social movements, medical documentation, racialization, abolition

Jasmine Mitchell

Archaeology

Jasminemit@berkeley.edu

Keywords: African American spaces, Beauty Salon, Barbershop, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), materiality

Bernardo Moreno Peniche

Medical Anthropology

bermorenop@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)

Research interests: Landscape Ethnography, Political Ecology, Multispecies Intimacies, Science and Technology Studies, Biomedicine, Tropicality, United States, Latin America, Zoonotic Diseases, Epidemics, Borders and Borderlands, Global Health. 

Srihari Nageswaran

Sociocultural Anthropology

srihari@berkeley.edu 

Research Interests: political economy, critical development studies, anthropology of work, urbanization, critical theory, world-systems analysis, South Asia (Tamil Nadu)

Rebecca Newmark

Medical Anthropology

Research Interests: Disgust, Embodiment, Phenomenology, The Body, Affect Theory, Feminist Anthropology, Liminality, Science and Technology Studies

Anna Nielsen

Archaeology

anna_nielsen@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Research interests: Environment and landscape, resilience and sustainability, GIS analysis, state formation processes, and disaster archaeology in Japan’s Kofun period

研究対象：環境とランドスケープ、持続可能とレジリエンス、地理情報システム（GIS）、国家形成プロセス、自然災害考古学、日本の古墳時代。

Rusana Novikova

Sociocultural Anthropology

rusana.novikova@berkeley.edu

Research Interests: Environmental Anthropology; Studies of (Post)Socialism; Human-Environment Relations; Land Use and Tenure; Environmental Justice; (Post)Socialist Land Reforms; (Settler)Colonialism; Agricultural Abandonment; Ruins; Wilderness and Conservation; Environmental Harm; Indigenous Land Dispossession; Northern and Central Asia; Russia

Sandra Oseguera

Archaeology

oss@berkeley.edu

Kyoungsoo Park

Medical Anthropology

kyoungsoo_park@berkeley.edu

Keywords: Global Health, Citizenship, Faith-based Organizations, Pharmaceuticalization, Community Health Workers, East Asian and African Studies

Alejandra Perez-Rotondo

Sociocultural Anthropology

alejandraperez@berkeley.edu

Elena Peterman

ekpeterman@berkeley.edu

India Pruette

Archaeology

ipruette@berkeley.edu

Research interests: zooarchaeology, foodways, human-animal relationships, domestication, maritime trade, urbanism, paleopathology, stable isotope analysis, Mediterranean archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Near East, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Levant, archaeological drawing