Below is a list of graduate students. If you are not listed here and should be, please contact the webmaster.
Caylee Hong
Sociocultural Anthropology
caylee_hong@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)
Research Interests: Energy, Infrastructures, Finance, Enviornmental Justice, Urban Citizenship
Bri Jones
Archaeology
As a PhD student at UC Berkeley, Bri is interested in examining how island and coastal communities made use of Mediterranean-specific goods (especially shells, fish, and other marine resources), what role they played in broader networks of trade and cultural exchange, and the possibility/methods for seafaring from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene. Additionally, Bri approaches their research through a critical feminist lens informed by queer theory, critical race theory, and decolonial approaches as a means to combat unscientific narratives surrounding gender, race, and perceptions of civility vs. primitivity in the study of human evolution.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Bri received their BA in Anthropology from Michigan State University and their MA in French Studies from the American College of the Mediterranean. Bri has also participated in archaeological excavations in Turkey and France.
Patricia Kubala
Sociocultural Anthropology
pkubala@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)
Research Interests: Psychedelics, religion, Psychiatry
Alexa Kurmanova
Sociocultural Anthropology
alexa_kurmanova@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)
Research Interests: Blackness, Trans Movements, Feminist Movements, Postsocialism, decoloniality, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Soviet and post-Soviet world, Memory, Intersectionality, Collaborative Methods
Min Lee 李旻
Medical Anthropology
minlee7@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of China, Alternative Food Networks, Obesity and Nutrition
Jiyoon Lee
Archaeology
Sehee Lee
Sociocultural Anthropology
sehee.lee@berkeley.edu
Research Interests: Nation-State, Citizenship, Precarity, Affect, Labor, HCI, Digital Media, Digital Platform, Digital Anthropology
Nicole Mabry
Medical Anthropology
Nicole Mabry is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley where she researches the practical and felt work of sheltering worlds through climatic collapse. Her dissertation research is based in southeast Louisiana, on Lake Pontchartrain’s north shore. She considers how climate migration into and out of the northshore, in tandem with so-called structural and non-structural interventions into local landscapes and atmospheres, relate with the specific racialized, class, and environmental histories of those parishes (St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Livingston). In this, her research also examines the historic production and application of wood preservative-pesticide creosote, as well as its persistence in waterways throughout the southeastern U.S.
Nicole grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, on Bayou Paquet. Prior to Berkeley, Nicole received her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University and her Master of Public Health from Columbia University. Nicole has received support and funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Ethnological Society, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the UC Berkeley Mentored Research Award, and the Brandes Award.
Research interests: embodiment and feeling, property, suburbanization, sociospatial production of whiteness, gender, feminist and queer theory, southeastern pine histories, critical marshland histories
Danielle MacVicar
Medical Anthropology
Sophie Maria Manfredi
Archaeology
smanfredi@berkeley.edu
Research interests: Japanese Jomon Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Ecosystem resilience and sustainability, Landscape management, Human-Environment Interactions
José Marrero-Rosado
Archaeology
Research Interests:Bioarchaeology, Historical Archaeology, Paleopathology, Human Osteology, Paleotoxicology, Caribbean Archaeology, Structural Violence, Identity, Commingled Remains
Bri Matusovsky
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Disability Activism, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Biopower, Zoonoses, Systems of Oppression, Queer Feminist Approaches to Anthropology, Systemic Violence, Collective Liberation, Scientific Research, Clinical Trials, Bioethics, United States, Romania, Ukraine, Russia
Geographic Areas of Interest: Caribbean (St. Kitts), United States, Eastern Europe (Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
Research Areas of Interest: Anthropology of science and race, multi-species ethnography, post-colonial Caribbean studies, human/animal divide, human non-human primate interface, critical disability studies and activism, animal rights and welfare, queer feminist approaches to anthropology