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Noor Amr
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
BioNoor Amr is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University. She is conducting dissertation research alongside the church asylum (Kirchenasyl) movement in Germany, paying attention to the relationship between religion, race/ethnicity, migration, sovereignty, and political belonging. Her ethnographic research explores how Christian sanctuary, a form of shelter from the state, becomes a means through which rejected asylum-seekers gain legibility as subjects worthy of legal recognition. Her broader theoretical interests include political theology, psychoanalysis, histories of sanctuary/confinement, and the coloniality of asylum.
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Paras Arora
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2021
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSocio-Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Ethnography, Care, Cognitive Disability, Autism, Gender, Family, Kinship, Ethics, Occupational Therapy, Neurodiversity, Voice, Intuition, Emotions, Everyday Life, & South Asia
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Andrew Bauer
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BioAndrew Bauer is an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. As an extension of his archaeological work he is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories and modern framings of nature that relate to conservation politics and climate change.
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Miray Cakiroglu
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioMiray Cakiroglu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. She is currently conducting fieldwork on non-Muslim property in Turkey, with particular attention to the current figurations of the temporality of transition from the empire to the nation-state and the more-than-legal sociopolitical domain that infiltrates past and present articulations of ownership. Miray has focused on the scene of acquisition, use, confiscation, claim, and return involving non-Muslim property, specifically those owned by Rum foundations in contemporary Istanbul. Following the major earthquakes of 2023 in southern Turkey, Miray has extended her focus to understanding how property relations might be articulated in stark ways with loss, especially for the Arabic-speaking Christian Orthodox community in the Antakya region.
Miray has two poetry books published in Turkey. She also translated Philip Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings into Turkish. Most recently, she collaborated with ten other women poets in a volume of documentary poetry.
Miray holds an M.A. degree in Near Eastern Studies from the Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University and Critical and Cultural Studies from Bogazici University, Turkey. She received her B.A. from Bogazici University, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, with a double major in Philosophy. -
Hector Miguel Callejas
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIndigenous cultural development
In 2014, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved a constitutional reform establishing state recognition of Indigenous peoples as culturally distinctive citizens. This emerging regime of national multiculturalism centered on the state development of Indigenous identity and culture, with a focus on Indigenous peoples' spiritual relationship to land, territory, and natural resources. Hector's current project examines how the Salvadoran state created Indigenous identity and culture through national Indigenous policymaking during the 2010s. He shows how national and local authorities articulated and used "Indigenous culture" as a relatively new and increasingly important discourse for governing mestizo, or mixed race, communities with internal racialized class divisions. He traces diverse forms, practices, and effects of Indigenous cultural development between state institutions, Indigenous organizations, and ordinary people in the capital city of San Salvador and the neighboring municipalities of Izalco and Nahuizalco in the western highlands of the national territory. Hector entered these distinct social worlds through the Red Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas, "El Jaguar Sonriente," an influential network of Indigenous organizations within the Salvadoran Indigenous movement coordinated by the state institution responsible for Indigenous policy, the Ministerio de Cultura. He accessed the network through the Consejo de Pueblos Originarios Náhuat Pipil de Nahuizalco, a grassroots Indigenous organization. Hector conducted ethnographic research between January of 2019 and March of 2020, during the transition period in national politics between the outgoing FMLN and incoming Bukele administrations.
Environmental justice activism
Hector has begun pilot research on environmental justice activism in the Sacramento Valley of California. He entered this emerging field of public policy through his mother's participation as a community leader in the Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition, a grassroots organization.
