Graduate Students
Raymond K. Awadzi, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: rawad003@fiu.edu
African diaspora, transnational networks, ethonogenesis, postcolonial theory
Sebastian Ballestas, Graduate Student/Ph.D.
Graduate Student| Ph.D Candidate
Contact: sball032@fiu.edu
Cultural Anthropology, Migration and Diasporas
Susannah Barr, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: sbarr144@fiu.edu
Critical food studies, inequality, economic anthropology, visual anthropology, rural studies
Ernesto Benitez, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: ebeni026@fiu.edu
Indigeneity, masculinity, tourism, Ecuadorian Amazon
Melissa Bernardo, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: mbern093@fiu.edu
Resilient agriculture, critical security studies, biopolitics, farming communities, food politics
Renata Bozzetto, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: rbozz001@fiu.edu
Critical race, integration, immigration
Adrián Cetina Catzin, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: aceti001@fiu.edu
Ethnicity, alterity, indigeneity, cultural heritage, and identity
David Dayton, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: ddayt001@fiu.edu
Corporate Culture Studies, Organizational and Business Anthropology, Chinese and Thai Corporate Anthropology
Veronica Diaz, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: diazver@fiu.edu
Ethnography, Cuban Diaspora, Migration Studies, Social Mobility, Identity, Culture, Cohort Analysis
Alexandra Gelbard, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: agelb005@fiu.edu
African Diaspora; Cuba; Cultural Production; Religion
Kimberly Gilchrist-Wynter, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: kgilc001@fiu.edu
Identity, Race, African Diaspora, Anglophone Caribbean, Caribbean popular culture.
Jacquelyn Johnston, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: jjohn237@fiu.edu
Multispecies ethnography, animal geographies, biopolitics, ferality, free-roaming cats
Tara Kai, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: tkai001@fiu.edu
Seasonal lifestyle mobilities, Place, Space, Spatial, Phenomenology
Karina Livingston, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: klivi001@fiu.edu
Immigration Detention, Mobility, Migration Industry, Structural Vulnerability
Jack Maguire, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: jmagu011@fiu.edu
Immigration, Migration, Venezuela, Honduras, Community Engagement
Marina Marchena, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: mmarchen@fiu.edu
Ethnography, medical anthropology, cuban diaspora, migration studies, social determinants of health, mental health
Evan Marcus, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: emarcus@fiu.edu
Visual anthropology, materiality, Andean futurism
Natalia Marques da Silva, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: ndasi001@fiu.edu
Votive offerings, roots tourism, museology, West Africa, Guinea-Bissau
Javier Mejia-Cruz, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: jmeji086@fiu.edu
Politics of resource extraction in Latin America, socio-environmental conflict, social movements
Jazmin Miller, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: jmill267@fiu.edu
Belize, Carnival, cultural identity politics, nationalism
Kimberly Miller, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: kmill131@fiu.edu
Ecotourism, Afro-indigeneity, Representation, Autonomy, Anglophone Caribbean
Jocelyn Moylan, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: jmoyl001@fiu.edu
Im/migration, Home, Belonging
Lisa Mueller, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: lbrow137@fiu.edu
Japan, minorities, museum studies, neoliberalism, urban planning
Tiffany Peacock, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: tpeac001@fiu.edu
African diaspora; hair/beauty politics & culture; racialization/Blackness; post-colonialism; body politics; social movements
Elisa Romulo, Graduate Student
Graduate Student| Ph.D. Student
Contact: eromu001@fiu.edu
Migrations, Diasporas and Identities
Paola Andrea Sánchez-Castañeda, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: psanc064@fiu.edu
Territory, urban Indigenous, urban political ecology, Colombia.
Melissa Scott, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: mscot012@fiu.edu
Latin American studies, Caribbean studies, intersectionality, media studies, ethnomusicology
John "Jack" Vertovec, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: jvert001@fiu.edu
Social inequities and inequalities, entrepreneurship, structural/economic transformation, Latin America and the Caribbean; community-based participatory research methodologies
Tom Weidemeyer, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: tweid001@fiu.edu
Puerto Rico, sovereignty, geopolitics, Caribbean
Judith Williams, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: Judith Williams
Racial equity, whiteness, intersectionality, labor, and Black foodways.
Jeffery Wilson, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Student
Contact: jwils123@fiu.edu
Machine learning, social media, AI ethics, internet governance, and technology studies
Rebecca Young, Graduate Student
Graduate Student | PhD Candidate
Contact: ryoun056@fiu.edu
Homelessness, neoliberalism, biopolitics, governance, criminalization, medicalization
