Current Ph.D. Students
Deanna Barenboim
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
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;
http://home.uchicago.edu/~nadxieli/
Michael Chladek
University of Missouri, Columbia, B.A. in Psychology
Research: Anthropology of gender and religion; gender and sexual identity;Buddhism; Thailand
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
Lindsey A. Conklin
University of Virginia, B.A. in Psychology and French Language & Literature
Research: Cultural psychology; Honor; Morality; Youth; Marriage; Media; Syria, Jordan, the Middle East, and Islam
Amy E. Cooper
Georgetown University, B.S. in Foreign Service
University of Chicago, M.A. in Social Sciences
Research: Sociocultural anthropology, medicine, the body, citizenship, political practice, everyday life, social theory, Latin America (Venezuela).
Kenneth Crossman
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: Cultural psychology and Psychological anthropology; Language socialization; Theories of morality and moral development; Evangelical Christianity in the United States
Ashley E. Drake
Bucknell University, B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology
Research: Cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, multiculturalism, non-governmental
organizations
Daryl Dugas
Northern Illinois University, MSEd in Educational Psychology
Research: Transition to Adulthood, Teacher Development, Rites of Passage
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
Rebecca Epps
University of California, Irvine, B.A. Anthropology
Research: Psychological and Medical Anthropology, sexual violence in various cultural contexts,
changing gender roles, personal ethnography, mal de ojo,
Chilean history and culture, Latin America
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 psychology, 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
Amir Hampel
Lehigh University, B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature
Research: Social anxieties; Cultural psychology; China
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/
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.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rimai/
Steven A. Jacobs
Northeastern Illinois University, B.A. in Psychology
Research: The Effect of Gesture on Algebraic Performance and Understanding
Katie Jenness
University of Chicago, B.A., Committee on Human Development and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
Research: Social Studies of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Historical Sociology of Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic theory; Phenomenology and Clinical Psychology
Tracey Jones
Kami Jones
New York University, B.F.A.
Columbia University, M.A., Anthropology
Research: Sociology, Developmental Psychology; The relationship between "kinky" hair texture and economic/social/mental success over the life course. United States, and Brazil.
Layla Kassem
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
David W. Kern
Washington and Lee University, B.A. Psychology
Research: Biopsychology, olfaction, human behavior, attraction, and mate selection
http://home.uchicago.edu/~/dkern/
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
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
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
Chi-Han Liang
Harvard University, Ed. M in Human Development and Psychology
Research: Parental beliefs and practices in immigrant families; child development in socio-cultural
contexts; cultural psychology; Vietnam
Zhiying Ma
Peking University (China), B.S. in Psychology, B.A. in Philosophy
Research: Medical and psychological anthropology, anthropology of embodiment, science studies, ethnopsychiatry, social change and hybridity, post-socialism, China
Tara Mandalaywala
Duke University, A.B. Biological Anthropology and Anatomy
Research: Social cognition in non-human primates, comparative behavioral biology
http://primate.uchicago.edu/tara.htm
Nicole Martinez-Martin
Margaret Mass
Jonathon Medrano
Erin Moore
University of Chicago, B.A. Human Development and Gender Studies
Research: East Africa/Uganda, gender, youth, globalization, social reproduction,
development studies
Roscoe Nicholson
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: Violence; Childhood and Child Psychiatry; Rural Development; Islam; Morocco, North Africa and the Middle East; Sociocultural, Medical and Psychological Anthropology
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
Ahmad Qudafi
Washington University, B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
Research: Cultural and Developmental Psychology; Linguistic Anthropology; Development of
rhetorical and narrative competence in young adults; Media, Ideology and identity;
Semiotics; African Diaspora.
Teófilo L. Reyes
University of Michigan, B.A., Economics and Russian
Research: Comparative biopsychology of affiliative and cooperative behavior
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
Sarah Sellergren
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
Geertrui Spaepen
Harvard University, B.A. in Biological Anthropology
University of Chicago, M.A. in Social Sciences
University of Chicago, M.A. in Comparative Human Development
Research: women's health, preventative medicine, hormones, acoustics, human and non-human primate behavior in the context of biopsychology
http://home.uchicago.edu/~spaepen/
Marianna Staroselsky
Boston University, B.A. in Psychology and French Language and Literature
Research: Identity development and performance, socioemotional development, voice, self and relationships, social imaginaries, diaspora and immigration, metacultural awareness, France, Brazil
Joseph Tennant
University of Kansas, B.G.S. Psychology, Minor in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
Research: Cultural Psychology; Morality, Abortion and Eugenics; Protestantism.
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
Talia Weiner
Swarthmore College, B.A. in Psychology and English
University of Chicago, M.A. in Social Science
Research: Medical and psychological anthropology in the U.S. and Indonesia; clinical ethnography; narrative co-production and discursive practice
Jay M Williams
Princeton University, A.B. Anthropology
University of Chicago, M.A. Social Science
Research: Ethnic identity development, globalization, indigenous rights, drumming, communication & Identity
