Cultural Anthropology Graduate Students
Cultural Anthropology Graduate Students
McGhee, Timothy
- Timothy McGhee
- PhD Candidate
- Advisor: Christien Philmarc Tompkins
- Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Research Interests: Afro-diasporic religions, Yoruba diaspora, Anthropology of religion, Anthropology of politics, African indigenous religions, Cuba, race, revolution, & sexuality
Timothy McGhee is an African American initiated priest in multiple Yoruba religious traditions. He earned his bachelor’s degree suma cum laude from the City College of New York as a double major in Black Studies and Anthropology. Timothy continued his studies to pursue a master’s degree from Columbia University in Anthropology. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University in the Anthropology department and a Mellon-Mays graduate fellow. His background as a priest and scholar is evidence of his passion to serve humanity as a cultural custodian, and preserver of Afro-diasporic religious and cultural traditions.
Timothy’s dissertation work focuses on his field work in Havana, Cuba studying Afro-diasporic religious communities and their relationships to socialism, communism and the ongoing U.S. enforced trade embargo. Timothy continues to write and work to provide African centered religious context to the many instantiations of revolution throughout the Americas. He was born and raised in New Jersey and resides in the south Bronx. Because of his love and respect for his own community, Timothy has a deep-seated desire to work in communities where minority populations are underserved. Timothy writes and teaches to contribute both to the Academy’s, and the community’s understanding of class, race, sexuality, indigeneity, politics, spirituality, and religion.
Lee, Minny
- Minny Lee
- PhD Student
- Advisor: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
- Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Research Interests: ecology, environment, sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge, heritage, value, religion, spirituality, gender, media, technology, aesthetics, food, embodiment, affect, multimodal anthropology
Minny’s research explores human relationship to the environment by examining individuals’ engagements with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in response to the climate change and sustainability. Minny intends to explore various ways of approaching TEK, from indigenous farming methods to fermentation techniques to Buddhist worldview of interconnectedness and human-animal kinship. Minny is curious to learn how individuals create their own space and methods in the entanglement of postcolonial and postmodern space in South Korea, and how they navigate social, cultural, political, and historical conditions. While investigating political economy and cultural politics, Minny seeks to study how attunement to the environment and its sensory responses affects the mind-body relationship and worldmaking.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Minny researched Buddhist temple food and conducted fieldwork at South Korean Buddhist nunneries. Minny holds an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University, an MA in Art History from the City College of New York, and an MFA in Photography from ICP-Bard College. In addition to her scholarly work, Minny is a multimedia artist, working with photography, video, poetry, and sound. Her artist books, Encounters (Datz Press, 2015) and Million Years (Datz Press, 2018), are in the collections of the New York Public Library, Special Collections at Stanford University Library, Poetry Center at University of Arizona, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Library, International Center of Photography, and Getty Research Institute, among other venues.
Mrozinski, Elliot
- Elliot Mrozinski
- PhD Student
- Advisor: Christien Philmarc Tompkins
- Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
Ankita Chanddranath
- Ankita Chanddranath
- PhD Candidate
- Advisor: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
- Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
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Choi, Chang-Hyun
- Chang-Hyun Choi
- PhD Student
- Advisor: Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
- Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Research Interests: Masculinity; Postcolonial Cold War; Feminist Activism; Korea; Asian American; Ethnographic Filmmaking
*"Chang-hyun" is pronounced as "Chahng Heeun" in two syllables.
Chang-hyun Choi has cultivated a keen interest in minority rights, particularly those related to disabilities and mental health. He organized and managed the Mad Pride Seoul festival, which was the foundation for his master’s thesis in anthropology. As an activist with the Korean male feminist group “Feminism with Him,” Chang-hyun has engaged with numerous young males, collaborating with colleagues to provide gender education. Drawing from this rich background, he will begin his doctoral program in anthropology at Rutgers University in the fall of 2024, focusing on researching victimized masculinity and male feminist activism in Korea. Additionally, he participated in the Visual Anthropology program at Ethnofest Summer School in Athens, Greece, and directed/produced some documentaries, ethnographic films, short films, and commercials since 2017. His passion lies in expanding communication possibilities to create a more compassionate world.
He received his BA in Film, Television, and Multimedia from Sungkyunkwan University and his MA in Anthropology from Seoul National University in South Korea.
External Award - The Korean Government Scholarship Program for Study Overseas (KGSPSO) 2023