
PhD Students



Kong Cheong Adjunct Instructor
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology of American University in Washington DC. My dissertation research is on the inarticulate Whites of the 19th century Upland Georgia. T…




Delande Justinvil
Interests: Black burial grounds; Bioarchaeology; Race and racism; Memory, museums, and the archive; Violence and trauma. Delande Justinvil is critical biocultural anthropologist whose interes…

Maya Kearney
Maya S. Kearney is a socio-cultural and urban anthropologist, specializing in urban ethnographic methodologies, carceral studies, and urban policy and transformation. She has done extensive research o…



Alexandra McDougle
Alex McDougle is a biological anthropologist interested in race, health and structural violence. She received a Bachelors in Anthropology with High Honors from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 20…

Ebonica Sharp
E. Nickole Sharp: As a person of a multi-racial and multi-lingual home and from a community rich in culture, New Orleans, Louisiana, I am attracted to academic environments that mirror my life and pa…

Justin Wright
Justin D. Wright is a socio-cultural anthropologist, performance studies scholar, theatre artist, and award winning performance poet. In each his scholarly and artistic pursuits, he is concerned with …
