Project Postdocs 2019-2023
Ecuador
Joshua Homan
PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas
He is a sociocultural anthropologist focused on the ethnology of western Amazonia and the Andes-Amazon interface. Drawing from extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, his work explores the intersections of technology, kinship, shamanism, and ethnogenesis.
Peru
Emanuele Fabiano
PhD in Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris - EHESS.
His recent investigations focus on the study of contemporary indigenous Amazonian communities and their relationship with the state and local and international markets, as well as analysing the practice of communal resistance. He has investigated the anthropological, social and political effects of extractive processes (timber and petroleum) and their effects at the ritual and cosmographical level.
Korea
Minha Lee
Former Postdoctoral Fellow of the Geography of Philosophy Project and PhD Candidate in the Department of Psychology at Seoul National University
As a social psychologist, she has studied culture, happiness, and decision making. In recent years, she developed a new research interest in morality. Her recent investigation on the topic explores how similar children’s moral foundations are to parents’ moral foundations.
Slovakia
LJILJANA PANTOVIC
Former Postdoctoral Fellow of the Eastern European Team
Received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a medical and socio-cultural anthropologist who specializes in Eastern Europe.
South Africa
Josien Reijer
Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Johannesburg.
Her academic career commenced with a BSc (Human Geography) degree in 2010 followed by an MSc(Res) (International Development Studies) degree in 2013 from the University of Amsterdam. In 2019 she received her Ph.D. (Sociology) from the University of Johannesburg. Her work combines the fields of sociology, health studies, geography and development studies. Her mixed-methods research has focussed on People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and the impact of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) on well-being.
United States of America
Brian Porter
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
Brian studies logic and experimental semantics. In logic, he is interested in semantic paradoxes, and in what those paradoxes tell us about meaning and inference. He is particularly interested in the ways in which practical concerns regarding how we use logics constrain the possibilities for solving paradoxes. His research in experimental semantics focuses on reference, particularly for kind terms, and on the methodology by which we test theories of reference.
KELLI BARR
Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
Kelli’s research focuses on the structural and institutional features of knowledge production. Since finishing her PhD in philosophy in 2017, she has been an Associate at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her past projects have drawn from work in social epistemology, science and technology studies, science policy, the history of philosophy, and theoretical work on inter- and trans-disciplinarity.
LOUIS CHARTRAND
Former Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
His work aims at exploiting text mining tools to model knowledge formation and evolution for the purpose of conceptual analysis.
Wesley Buckwalter
Incoming Presidential Fellow and permanent faculty at the University of Manchester
He specializes in epistemology, cognitive science, and moral psychology. A unifying theme of his research in these areas has been to study phenomenon such as knowledge, belief, delusion, consciousness, ability, luck, morality, expertise, and biases in light of pragmatic factors that arise in the course of practical reasoning and decision-making important for our everyday lives. He has published over thirty articles, entries, and chapters on these topics, which have been cited over 1,000 times. He has been awarded a Banting Fellowship through The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Jan David hauck
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA.
Jan David Hauck is a linguistic anthropologist with a primary interest in language socialization, child development, ethics and morality, and human–environment relations. He has been working with the Aché former hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay for over a decade. Aside from his involvement in the Geography of Philosophy Project at UCLA he is also a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
NY Vasil
Former Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA.
Ny studies how humans think about complex systems. Ny’s research on causal reasoning and structural explanation examines how acknowledging instability, or lack of robustness of causal and categorical relationships across background circumstances affects learning, inductive inference, language, and decision-making.
Jordan Kiper
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Former Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA.
His work centers on the anthropology of religion, violence, and human rights. In studying these topics, he has conducted extensive fieldwork with ex-fighters and survivors of armed conflicts in the Balkans.
LILA SAN ROQUE
Former Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
She studies grammar, interaction, and culture. Her research focus is on the lexical and grammatical expression of perception and knowledge (e.g., evidential systems, verbs of perception, egophoric markers) and how they are used in conversation and in language socialisation. Her fieldwork is with speakers of the Duna (or Yuna) language, which is spoken in Hela Province (formerly Southern Highlands Province) of Papua New Guinea, towards the western edge of the Highlands evidentiality area.