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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Melanie Cootsona
Archaeology
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, American Southwest, Collaborative Research, Pueblos, New Mexico
Britt Dawson
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Migration, Borders, Crisis, Islam, Religious Institutions, Humanitarianism, Psychoanalysis, Mexico, Critical Refugee Studies
About: Britt is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology. Their dissertation project investigates the growth of Islamic institutions in Tijuana, Mexico, and how Mexican converts to Islam and international migrants build such institutions as they navigate life and crisis in the Mexican borderlands. Britt holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and is a former assistant editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Michael Doulas
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research interests: Postcolonialism & Decoloniality, Ethnography, Basketball, Ghana, Africa, Metageography, Race/Ethnicity, More-than-Human perspectives
Elizabeth Dresser-Kluchman
Archaeology
e_dresser-kluchman@berkeley.edu
Research Interests: Paleoethnobotany, North American Southwest, Historical Ecology, Landscapes, Archaeology of Food