Anthropology & Archaeology

This dissertation explores how music and musical performances are used to mediate trauma and memory, and the influence that these mediations have on identities at individual and community levels.

My project explores the creation of sacred space and the treatment of 'special dead' (victims of the plague and leprosy) within a newly excavated cemetery in Late Antique Thebes, Greece.

The MESALC Spring Symposium Envisioning 21st Century Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies( April 6 & 7, 2018) looks to define the contours of possibility for revitalized Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies.

An invited lecture series in the Spring of 2018, "Expulsion-Extraction-Extinction," will host speakers who work on intersectional issues of global economic, racial, and environmental justice today.

My dissertation investigates the visual and material culture of the California missions in order to understand the interplay of form and practice in bringing about religious conversion within a colonial context.

My research centers on a nascent collaboration between conservationists and Jamaican Maroons.

The question of core vs periphery has been intensely debated in the social sciences and the humanities since the 1970s, following the publication of Wallerstein's (1974) seminal study on World Systems.

By connecting known Chinese st≈´pasdated before the seventh century CE to historical records and Buddhist scriptures translated in Chinese, my dissertation examines the dissemination and reception of the Indianst≈´pasin early medieval China.

This project explores the role of the Spanish Manila in the birth of today's global world.

The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference will enable an interdisciplinary network of scholars to frame the emerging field of black girl history.