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Katya Gibel (Azoulay) Mevorack Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: It's not the Color of your Skin but the Race of your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity |
Associate Professor, Anthropology & American Studies, Grinnell College |
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Nadia Abu El-Haj Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology, the State, and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College |
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Madelaine Adelman Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Family, Law, Nation, and Violence: The Gendered Costs of Israeli Domestic Politics |
Associate Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry Studies, Arizona State University |
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Ph.D. 2009 DISSERTATION TITLE: Limits of Conversion: Dawa, Domestic Work, and Migrant South Asian Women in Kuwait |
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University |
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Ayse Gul Altinay Ph.D. 2001 DISSERTATION TITLE: Making Citizens, Making Soldiers: Military Service, Education and Gender in Turkey |
Assistant Professor (equiv), Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Jason Anderman JD/MA 1997 |
Counsel, Becton, Dickinson and Co. and Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall Univ School of Law |
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Emily Bieber -- JD/MA 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Case Studies in Gay and Lesbian Law CHAIR: Rebecca Stein |
JD/MA |
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Pamela Block Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Biology, Culture, and Cognitive Disability: 20th Century Professional Discourses in Brazil and the United States |
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Program, SUNY - Stonybrook |
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Tracy M Brown Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Ideologies of "Indianness" in New Mexico, 1692-1820: Personhood and Identity in the Colonial Encounter |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work, Central Michigan University |
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Kelsey Cameron -- JD/MA RESEARCH INTERESTS: Self-representation in the legal system; cross-cultural navigation of the system. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein |
JD/MA |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: Public Childhoods: Street Labor, Family and the Politics of Progress in Peru |
Teaching Fellow, International Comparative Studies, Duke University |
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Ya-Chung Chuang Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Activism as a Vocation: Social Movements in Urban Taiwan |
Assistant Professor, College of Hakka Studies, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan |
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Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: Of Autarchic Expressionism: Rethinking Resistance and Subjectivity through Ahmad Ar-Raysuni during Morocco's Colonial Encounter |
Technical Services Archivist, Duke University |
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JD/MA 2011 RESEARCH INTERETS: Gender, Anthropology of Law, Social Construction Theory, Human Rights |
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Heather Dell Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Hierarchies of Femininity: Sex Workers, Feminists, and the Nation |
Associate Professor, Women's Studies, Univ. of Illinois,Springfield |
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Kirsten Edey 2007 DEGREES: BS (highest honors) in Conservation and Resource Studies at U.C. Berkeley. DISSERTATION TITLE: Transgression and Transcendence: Distress, Healing and the Management of Personal Boundaries in Urban Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo CHAIR: Katherine Ewing |
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Les Field Ph.D. 1987 DISSERTATION TITLE: "I Am Content With My Art:" Two Groups of Artisans in Revolutionary Nicaragua |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
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Katherine Frank Ph.D. 1999 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intimate Labors: Masculinity, Consumption, and Authenticity in Five Gentlemen's Clubs |
Research Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Marla Frederick Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cultural Politics of Religious Experience: African American Women's Spirituality and Activism in the Contemporary US South |
Assistant Professor, Religion & African American Studies, Harvard University |
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Jan H. French Ph.D. 2003 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants of Indios and Fugitive Slaves in Northeast Brazil CHAIR: William O'Barr |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Richmond |
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Jack Friedman Ph.D. 2003 DISSERTATION TITLE: Ambiguous Transitions and Abjected Selves: Betrayal, Entitlement, and Globalization in Romania's Jiu Valley |
Research Scientist, University of Oklahoma
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Ph.D. 2009 DISSERTATION TITLE: "You Got to Have a Heart of Stone to Work Here": Coaching, Teaching, and "Building Men" at Eastside High |
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Chana |
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University |
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Lila E. Gray Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Re-Sounding History Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal |
Associate Professor, Music Department (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University |
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Ph.D. 2010 DISSERTATION TITLE: Inhabiting The City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas, Venezuela |
Visiting Scholar, Duke University |
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Jennifer Hasty Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Big Language, Brown Envelopes: The Press and Political Culture in Ghana |
Research Associate, African Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
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Carie Little Hersh JD/MA 2002 RESEARCH INTERESTS: PMS as a Defense for Violence: Women, Culture and the Law |
Graduate Student, Anthropology Department, UNC Chapel Hill |
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Jennifer Hirsch Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Building Collective Identities in Global Times: A Study of the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network |
Director, Chicago Field Studies Program, Northwestern University |
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Susan F. Hirsch Ph.D. 1990 DISSERTATION TITLE: Gender and Disputing: Insurgent Voices in Coastal Kenyan Muslim Courts |
Associate Professor, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University |
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Danny Hoffman Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine |
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Washington |
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Marro Inoue Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: US Military Base Problems in Okanowa, Japan |
Assistant Professor, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: Manly Voices: Navajo Country Music and the Politics of Indigeneity |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology |
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Ph.D. 2010 DISSERTATION TITLE: Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Social Inequality in Southeastern Brazil |
Duke University Post Doc |
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Heather Johnson -- JD/MA RESEARCH INTERESTS: Kindship and gender, science studies, international law. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein |
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Ph.D. 2010 DISSERTATION TITLE: We Are From Before, but We Are New: Autonomy, Territory, and the Production of New Subjects of Self-government in Zapatismo |
Postdoc, Lecturing Fellow, Duke University |
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Gonzalo Lamana Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Between Contact and Domination: The Production of Order in Early 16th Century Peru |
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature |
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Katherine Lambert-Pennington Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Belonging to the Land, Being in Australia: Koori Identity at La Perouse |
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Memphis |
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Evelyn Legare Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Nobody Speaks for the Nation Anymore: Canada's Problems with Itself |
Program Manager, Walking/Cycling/Planning, Melbourne, Australia |
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Sylvia Lim Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: About Face: American Nationalism under Transnationalism |
Visiting Scholar, khadrosylvia@gmail.com |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley |
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Gabriella Lukacs Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Romancing the Nation, Dramatizing Citizenship: Television Dramas, Women and Millennial Japan |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh |
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Sangeeta Luthra Ph.D. 1998 RESEARCH INTERESTS: The Cultural Politics of Development in the Age of NGOs: Grassroots Development in an Indian Metropolis |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology |
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Elizabeth McBrearty -- JD/MA 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender and the American legal system, reproductive rights law, queer theory and transexuality CHAIR: Rebecca Stein |
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Chris McCollum Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cultural Patterning of Self-Understanding: A Cognitive-Psychoanalytic Approach to Middle-Class Americans'Life Stories |
Director, Qualitative Research, The U30 Group |
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Susan McDonic Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: Transnational Christian Charity: World vision, Faith, Development, and the Negotiation of Culture |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, American University |
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Molly Mullin Ph.D. 1993 DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming the American Southwest: Culture, Art, and Difference |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Albion College |
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Ph.D. 2010 DISSERTATION TITLE: Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in The US Virgin Islands |
Post Doc, Rutger University |
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Lisa Neuman Ph.D. 2002 DISSERTATION TITLE: Recapturing Culture: American Indian Identities at Bacone College, 1927-1955 |
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Maine |
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Joanne Passaro Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: Men on the Street, Women in Their Place: Homelessness, Race and "Family Values" |
Acting Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Mercy College |
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Jennifer Prough PhD 2006 DISSERTATION TITLE: Reading Culture, Engendering Girls: Politics of the Everyday in the Production of Girls' Manga CHAIR: Anne Allison |
Associate Professor, Valparaiso University |
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Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: El Color No Importa: Tourism and Race in Comtemporary Cuba |
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorodo |
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Ph.D. 2009 DISSERTATION TITLE: American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursing Happiness, Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica |
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder |
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Michael Scher JD/MA 1993 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Language and Dispute Resolution: A Look at the Subject and its Discipline |
General Counsel, Nexum, Inc and PhD student in Anthropology, University of Chicago |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: Sovereignty, Law and Capital in the Age of Globalization. |
Senior Lecturing Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University |
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Ajantha Subramanian Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: State, Community, and the Politics of Development in Southern India |
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Social Studies, Harvard University |
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Clare Talwalker Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: "Like Chutney for Rice": Untouchability and Modernity in Postcolonial India |
Visiting Assistant Professor, International and Area Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley |
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Ph.D. 2011 DISSERTATION TITLE: Imagining Irelands: Migration, Media, and Locality in Modern Day Dublin |
Visiting Instructor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University |
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RocioTrinidad M.A. 2008 |
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Ph.D. 2011 DISSERTATION TITLE: Imagining "Turkey," Creating a Nation: The Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938. |
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Nilgun Uygun Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Being a "Natasha": Transnationalism, Sex Work, and the Political Economy of Desire in the Black Sea Region CHAIR: Orin Starn |
Visiting Assistant Professor in Writing, Havaford College |
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Ph.D. 2012 DISSERTATION TITLE: A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel |
Visiting Instructor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Univeristy |
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Yu Wang Ph.D. 2008 DEGREES: Tourism Management at Nankai University. Masters at Chinese University of Hong Kong. DISSERTATION TITLE: Naturalizing Ethnicity, Culturalizing Landscape: The Politics of World Heritage in Contemporary China CHAIR: Ralph Litzinger |
Loeb & Loeb LLP |
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Margot Weiss Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Techniques of Pleaseure, Scenes of Play: SM in the San Francisco Bay Area CHAIR: Allison |
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University> |
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Kim Wright Dixit Ph.D. 2001 DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming Identities: Global Advertising, Marketing and Cultural Identity in India CHAIR: O'Barr |
Visiting Lecturer, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai |
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Caroline Yezer Ph.D. 2006 DISSERTATION TITLE: Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse and War Memories in Peru's Andes CHAIR: Starn |
Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross |
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Alexei Yurchak Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cynical Reason of Late Socialism: Language, Ideology, and Identity of the Last Soviet Generation |
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley |
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Yongming Zhou Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Nationalism, History and State Building: Anti-Drug Crusades in Modern China, 1924-1997 |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
