Current Ph.D. Students
Naomi Bartz
Portland State University, B.A. Psychology
University of Chicago, M.A in Social Science
Research: Urban neighborhoods; concentrated inequality, stigmatization, social policy and community mobilization
Les Beldo
Central Michigan University, B.S. in General Business Administration
Research: Cultural Psychology and Psychological Anthropology; Moral Reasoning Anthropology and
Environment; Atheism
Sam Bergmann
University of Texas at Austin, B.A. in Humanities and Psychology
Research: GLBT development and families, the construction of self and identity, developmental psychopathology
Elise Berman
Dartmouth College, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Anthropology of childhood, linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, socialization, conversation and discourse, Maya, Oceania
http://home.uchicago.edu/~eberman
Matthew Bird
Yale University, B.A. in History
Lara Braff
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish Language and Literature
Research: Psychological and medical anthropology; science studies; biological and social reproduction; kinship theory; Mexico
Rachel S. Brezis
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, B.A. in Psychology and Amirim Multi-Disciplinary Honors Program
Research: Autism, personal and social memory, religious development, neurobiological
underpinnings of acculturation
Jason Bruck
Southampton College, B.S. Psychology/Biology
Research: Comparative animal behavior; spatial learning and memory/communication; marine mammals; Long Island University
http://mateolab.uchicago.edu/lab_bruck.htm
Susan Bullivant
Smith College, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Biological psychology and psychotherapy research
Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), B.A. Hispanic Language and Literatures
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), M.A. Hispanic Linguistics
Research: Language development and language socialization, developmental pragmatics, language development and pretend play; language and cognition; language and culture; endangered languages, Isthmus Zapotec;
Christopher D. Collins
Miami University, B.A. in Mathematics and Statistics
Research: Adolescence and early adulthood; the development of personal agency and problem solving competencies
Amy E. Cooper
Georgetown University, B.S. in Foreign Service
University of Chicago, M.A. in Social Sciences
Research: Medical anthropology, social change, Venezuela, Cuba.
John Davy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A. in Linguistics, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Intimate relationships; gender and development; psychotherapy and clinical psychology; Christianity in North America
Allison DiBianca
Middlebury College, B.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Culture and child development; ideologies of childhood, parents’ cultural theories of play
Antonie Dvorakova
Masaryk University (Czech Republic), M.A. in Clinical Psychology
University of Kansas, M.A. in Indigenous Nations Studies
Research: Indigenous psychologies; self-regard among indigenous peoples of the U.S., roles and identities of Indigenous and ethnic minorities scholars; conceptualizations of success and honor in different cultures; culturally responsive psychological assessment, research, and theorizing
Guy Christopher Fricano
De Paul University, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Charisma and leadership; psychological anthropology of Catholicism; long-term adaptation to illness; health psychology
Email: guycfricano at hotmail.com
Shana Fruehan
University of California San Diego, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Medical anthropology, gender & the body, local/multicultural feminisms, Japan
Nicole Gallicchio
Amherst College, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Reproduction; medical anthropology; women's health; doulas; US
Lainie (Ilaina) Goldwert
Vassar College, B.A. in Cultural Anthropology
The New School, M.F.A. in Poetry
Research: Psychological & medical anthropology, clinical ethnography; conceptions of the body in health and healing practices; yoga in the US
Jim Goss
Georgetown University, B.S. in Foreign Service
University of Chicago, M.A. in Social Science
Research: Psychopathology; psycholinguistics; psychiatric anthropology
Shelli Jean Greenslade
University of Puget Sound, B.A. in Psychology
University of Puget Sound, A.A. in Business Administration
Jennifer Hall
Syracuse University, B.A. African-American Studies
University of Chicago, M.A Social Work
Research: Psychological anthropology, African diaspora in the Americas
Email: jenhall at uchicago.edu
Jacob R. Hickman
Brigham Young University, B.S. in Psychology and B.A. Sociocultural Anthropology
Research: Cultural-psychological adaptations in refugee and immigrant communities, Hmong diaspora, ethnic identity, moral beliefs, personhood, hybridity and syncretism
http://home.uchicago.edu/~jhickman/
Christy Hoffman
College of William and Mary, B.S. in Biological Psychology and B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Behavioral and hormonal aspects of aging in rhesus monkeys; comparative Behavioral Biology
Pinky Hota
University of Delhi, India, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Globalization and its implications for social reproduction; youth as agents of social change; mental health and cultural constructions of distress, illness, and healing; South Asia
Ryoko Imai
London School of Economics, M.A. in Anthropology of Learning and Cognition
University of California, B.A. in Psychology, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Attribution of blame, construction of victim identity, reinterpretation of past events.
Jason W. Ingersoll
George Washington University, B.A. in Psychology, Chinese Language and Literatures
Research: Globalization; social change; psychiatric anthropology; China
Katie Jenness
University of Chicago, A.B.
Research: Sociology of knowledge and creativity, history and theory of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology
Michael B. Kaufman
Amherst College, B.A. in Political Science and History
Harvard University, M.B.A.
Northwestern University, M.A. in Counseling Psychology
Research: The effect of family experience and personality in late adolescence on outcomes in career, family, and general well-being in late midlife
Abbe Rose Kopra
Boston University, B.A. Anthropology/ B.A. Psychology
University of Chicago, M.A. Social Sciences (Human Development)
Research: Psychological and cultural dimensions of chronic pain; the impact of illness narrative and illness attribution on disease course; the role of empathy in the patient-healer relationship
Email: abberose at uchicago.edu
Julia L. Kowalski
University of Chicago, B.A., Committee on Human Development and South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research: Anthropology of gender; family and kinship; social change and intimate practice; psychological anthropology; South Asia (North India)
Hallie Kushner
Stanford University, B.A. and M.A. in English
Research: Ethics and clinical psychology; qualitative suicide assessment; confluence of mental health and hospital care
Marco Leoni
University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.S. in Zoology
Research: Ethology; intergroup encounters in wild capuchin monkeys
Katherine Lewandowski
Sarah Lawrence College, B.A. in English
Research: Sociology of culture, transitions to adulthood in the US, changes in post-secondary education and occupational structures, social class
Jocelyn Marrow
University of Chicago, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: India, family, emotion, distress, mental illness
Daryl Mortensen
Northern Illinois University, MSEd in Educational Psychology
Research: Cultural Psychology
Email: dmortensen at uchicago.edu
Elizabeth Nickrenz
Swarthmore College, B.A. in English and Psychology
Research: Autism spectrum disorders; diagnosis, narrative and identity; psychiatric anthropology
Christine Nutter
Michigan State University, B.A. in International Relations and Psychology
Research: Psychological anthropology; child psychiatry; anthropology of childhood and child development; North Africa; globalization
Nadia Persun
Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia): B.S., Economics
University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT): B.A., Psychology & Journalism
Research: Close interpersonal relationships, intimacy and sexuality. Mental health: family systems and personal resilience
Teófilo L. Reyes
University of Michigan, B.A., Economics and Russian
Research: Comparative biopsychology of affiliative and cooperative behavior
Barnaby B. Riedel
University of Vermont, B.A. in Psychology and Sociology
Research: Cultural psychology; moral development; psychology/anthropology of religion; Islam
Aaron Seaman
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, M.A.
Research: Medical and linguistic anthropology, science studies, the effects of dislocation on self and health, caregiving
Lilah Shapiro
Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, B.A. in English, B.M. in Voice Performance
Benjamin Smith
Wake Forest University, B.A. in Anthropology
Research: Language and selfhood in middle childhood; reflexivity in language; evidentiality, modality, and reported speech; Andean languages and cultures; American psychotherapies; therapeutic discourse
Amy June Sousa
New York University, B.A. Anthropology
University of Chicago, M.A. Anthropology
Research: Psychiatric anthropology, pharmaceuticals, clinical ethnography, India
Gregory Thompson
University of Chicago, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Developmental psychology; linguistic anthropology; development of "voice" in adolescence; language and identity in developmental perspective; the development of a "recognizable" self
Kimberly Walters
University of Alabama, M.A.
Brigham Young University, B.A.
Research: Psychological anthropology; religion; motivation in asceticism, conversion, and spirit possession; culture theory; India
