Ashley Elizabeth Drake
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2020
RO 331B
Dissertation: Militarizing Affection: The Making of the Military Working Dog Team
Aron Marie
University of California San Diego, B.A. Political Science, Minor in Language Studies (American Sign Language)
Research interests: Deaf and disability studies, sign language interpreting, political movements, Vietnamese studies, linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology
Paula Martin
Website: paulajoannemartin.com
University of Chicago, A.M. School of Social Service Administration
The Evergreen State College, B.A.
Tacoma Community College, A.A. Arts and Sciences
Research interests: Transgender and gender studies; medical anthropology; science studies; feminist and queer theory; race and ethnicity in the United States; ethnographic methods; youth studies; temporality
Coltan Scrivner
Website: coltanscrivner.com
Oklahoma Baptist University, B.A. Anthropology, minors in Biology and Natural Science
University of Central Oklahoma, M.S. Forensic Biology/Chemistry
Research interests: psychology of morbid curiosity; behavioral biology; emotion; evolution of human social behavior
Raffaella Taylor Seymour
Cambridge University, B.A. Archaeology & Anthropology
Dissertation: Intimate Rites: Localizing Queerness through Ancestral Spiritualities in Contemporary Zimbabwe (joint with Department of Anthropology).
Research Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology, gender and sexuality, religion and spirituality, subjectivity, ancestors, the politics of tradition, Christianity, land and landscapes. Southern Africa/Zimbabwe.
Hilary Tackie
Website: hilaryntackie.com
Brown University, Sc.B. Cognitive Neuroscience and Africana Studies
Research interests: Sociology of education; teacher agency; race talk in schools; teacher-student relationships; critical pedagogy; curriculum studies
Shenghe (Lily) Ye
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2021
RO 318H
Dissertation: Talking science to schools: Organizing the research-practice nexus in early 21st century American education