Graduate Global Research

Asian elephants have been an integral part of social life in India for centuries – as war elephants, participants in temple rituals, heavy laborers, and recently in conservation discourse.

The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage.

My project considers the way Ainu people, the Indigenous people of northern Japan, express identity and think about what being Indigenous means within their communities.

My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE.

Exacerbated by climate change, flash droughts pose significant threats to global food and water security.

My project explores the archaeology of the Swahili in Zanzibar Tanzania, during the Portuguese and Omani colonial occupations of the 16th-20th centuries CE.

My project explores the ways in which Indigenous Australian artists from the Tiwi Islands invoke ceremonial performance in their artistic practices.

My doctoral research examines the role of beauty in landscape architecture theoretical discourse as it emerged as a field of studies in U.S. academia during the early decades of the twentieth century.

The study explores informal constitutional norms in Latin America, employing comprehensive methodology including textual analysis, case studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia.