Core Staff

  • Elyse M. Adams

    Elyse M. Adams

    Program Coordinator

    Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Osteology

  • Ezgi Benli-Garcia

    Ezgi Benli-Garcia

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Ethnomusicology; Turkey; Central Eurasia, Middle East; Anthropology of Religion; Sacred Music; Sound Studies; Ethno-religious identity; Ethnography and Fieldwork Methods; Autoethnography; Digital archiving; Sound Technologies, Music Production

  • Lisa Gilman

    Lisa Gilman

    Director

    Professor

    Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

  • Aditi Goel

    Aditi Goel

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Mental health, Interpersonal communication, Role conflict, Mindfulness

  • Umida Hashimova

    Umida Hashimova

    Graduate Research Assistant

    International migration, Central Asia, soft power, mixed-method research

  • Marissa Kiss

    Marissa Kiss

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Immigration, Inequality, Race, and Sports

  • Zach Nauful

    Zach Nauful

    Computational Immigration Research Intern

    Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Computational Linguistics

  • Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology