Below is a list of graduate students. If you are not listed here and should be, please contact anthropology@berkeley.edu.
Sheyda Aboii
Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Blackness, race, indigeneity, documentation, membership, belonging, immigration, toxic exposure, water, citizenship, borders, structural violence, bodily affect, environment, post-industrial worldings, the social meaning(s) of policies, and divergence of local practice from federal policies
Nicolas Arms
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology
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.
Sameeha Atout
Biological Anthropology
During my bachelor's and master’s studies in the medical field, I became aware of the significance of environmental factors in reforming and shaping the genetics of various populations over the centuries. This pushed me to pursue a PhD in biological anthropology. This shift came from realizing that in the circumstances of Palestine, studying biological anthropology may significantly benefit and influence my people, far more so than just studying pure medical science, as anthropology allows me to form and incorporate social perspectives and cultural concepts into my biological research.
Through the upcoming research, I aim to investigate the transmission possibility of the epigenetic changes of PTSD that happened due to the heavy traumas during the Nakba and Naksa across the Palestinian generations.
Anjana Bala
Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Embodiment, Art, Psychiatry, Religion, India
Philip Balboni
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research interests: Turkish history, politics, and literature; Orientalism; Postcolonialism; Social Theory; Religion and Secular Criticism
Tanya Bertone
Archaeology
tanya_bertone@berkeley.edu
Research interests: CBPR, Historic Archaeology, Ethnography, gpr, Heritage Conservation
Pascale Boucicaut
Archaeology
Research Interests: Caribbean, Haiti, Heritage and Traditional Culture, History of Anthropology, Folkloristics, Material Culture, Museum Anthropology, Theories of Materiality, Vodou
Jordan Brown
Archaeology
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
Emilia Cardenas
Medical Anthropology
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).
