Below is a list of graduate students. If you are not listed here and should be, please contact anthropology@berkeley.edu.
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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
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
Research Interests: Embodiment, Art, Psychiatry, Religion, India
Tanya Bertone
Archaeology
tanya_bertone@berkeley.edu
Research interests: CBPR, Historic Archaeology, Ethnography, gpr, Heritage Conservation
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).
Clara Chamorro
Archaeology
Research interests: Bioarchaeology, histology, dental anthropology, skeletal biology, growth and development, developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), Life Course approach, weaning, inequality, historical archaeology
Siru Chen
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research interests: madness, psychoanalysis, poetics, governance, China