
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…


Heba Ghannam Adjunct Instructor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Heba Ghannam is a Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Anthropology and the Critical Race and Gender Studies Department at American University in Washington, DC. With over a decade…


Delande Justinvil Adjunct Instructor
Delande Justinvil a third-year doctoral student whose interests lie at the intersection of biocultural anthropology, cultural history, race and science, critical geography, and Black study. His resear…

Maya Kearney Adjunct Instructor CAS | Anthropology
Maya S. Kearney is a socio-cultural and urban anthropologist, specializing in urban ethnographic methodologies, carceral studies, and urban policy and spatial transformation. She has had over 15 years…



Día Joy Wright
Día Joy Wright is a sociocultural anthropologist, performance studies scholar, theater artist, and performance poet. In both their scholarly and artistic pursuits, Wright is concerned with notions of …
