In the Field

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Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Materiality, Historical Memory, War and Displacement, Heritage and Cultural Identity, Time and Space, Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia
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sovereignty, secularism, migration, asylum, citizenship, kinship; Germany
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Historical Anthropology, Archival ethnography, Anthropology of Islam, Materiality, Imperial interactions, Nation-state, Space, Mobility, Memory, Politics of heritage, Ruins, Ruination, Mediterranean, Middle East, Turkey
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Internationalism, International Solidarity, Universalism, The Cold War, Coloniality, Third Worldism, Humanitarianism, Decolonization, Activism, Exile, Diaspora, Political Anthropology, Global Histories, Virtual Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, Political Biographies/Life Stories, Political Transformation: Syria, Turkey, Kurds
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Race, Racism, Maternal mortality, African American birthing practices and countercultures, Medical Anthropology, Midwifery: American South
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animals and ecology, nature, nationalisms and the Japanese right-wing, conservation, militarized modernity, animal extinction and emergence, wildlife tracking, culling and poaching, the exotic pet trade, Japan’s “natural monuments”, technology and infrastructure, the politics of dispossession and repossession, sovereignty & the state, civility, universals and vernaculars, imperialisms and annexation, post/present-cold war anthropology, post/present-colonialisms, public spheres, the press, elections, simulacra and refugia, aesthetics, mimetics, emergence, caves/forests/reefs, forest bathing, arcadia.
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race, diaspora, GIS and remote sensing, community collaborative archaeology, the Asian American experience
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Political and Legal Anthropology, citizenship, power, nation-state, black political participation, American South
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linguistic nationalism, state practices, bureaucracy, politics of citizenship, subjectivity, North-east India.
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Debt, Political Economy, Caste, Capitalism, Cooperatives, Self and Identity, Kinship, Politics, Democracy, Bureaucracy, South Asia
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development and infrastructure, migration and economic corridors, borders, affect, regional integration; Southern Africa.
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Environmental anthropology, Multi-species ethnography, Frontiers, Political economy, Environment, Collaborative methods, Disability studies, Aging, Logging, Forestry, Medical anthropology, The rural, Political ecology, Structure, Anthropology of history, development, & science, Western Canada
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GEOARCHAEOLOGY, REMOTE SENSING, IRRIGATION, HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS, CULTURAL HERITAGE, CENTRAL ASIA
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Southeast and East Asia, Critical Food & Agriculture Studies, Political Economy of Global Trade, Biopolitics and Epistemologies of Nutrition, Sensory Anthropology
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Political ecology, Anthropology of development, Gender, Youth activism, Agrarian studies, Eco-governmentality, Climate politics, Experimental ethnography, Mexico and Latin America
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historical anthropology, archival ethnography, anthropology of religions, materiality, imperial interactions, nation-state, space, place making, mobility, memory and nostalgia, politics of heritage, ruins, ruination, South Asia, Pakistan, Punjab
Research interest:
Anthropocene, Urban Heat Islands, Global Warming, Thermal Inequality, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Public Life and Environment, Urban Ecology