Graduate Students
Jieun Cho
Student
Jieun Cho is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at Duke University who is researching the intersection between children’s health, everyday life, and the ethical/political imagination in post-nuclear Japan. She is learning from the experience of middle-class families and radiation experts...
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Sophia Goodfriend
Student
Sophia Goodfriend is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University whose research is based in Israel/Palestine. Her interests sit at the intersection of science and technology studies, biomedicine, and political economy.
Joseph Hiller
Student
I am a Ph.D. student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. My background is in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies (BA, Grinnell College, 2012) and in Latin American Studies (MA, Tulane University, 2018). My present research focuses on prisons, decarceration and justice in Colombia....
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Zach Levine
Student
Interests: incarceration; ayahuasca; mediumship; spiritual healing; psychedelics, morality, and freedom; religion; the ego; plant sensing; gender and sexuality; Brazil; Amazônia
Alexis Ligon
Student
Alexis Ligon is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University whose multi-sited research spans the United States. Her research involves racial and aesthetic hierarchies, identity, politics of space, and critical race theory.
Boyang Ma
Student
My research interest is the relationship between infrastructure projects and social environment. More specifically, I am focusing on Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa. I am interested in labor, environmental and political issues emerging from infrastructure projects. My current fieldwork...
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Matthew Sebastian
Student
Matthew is a sixth year PhD student in the Cultural Anthropology department at Duke University. His current project investigates how young people navigate states of security and vulnerability in post-conflict northern Uganda. His work engages men and women working as private security guards (...
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Dubie Toa-Kwapong
Student
I am a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. My undergraduate degree is in Anthropology, Geography, and African Studies from Macalester College (2016). My research interests are anthropology of (return) migration, diaspora, memory, gender, post-coloniality, and identity-making...
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Christopher Webb
Student
My research investigates the experience of military veterans reintegrating into the civilian world. I am interested in how discourses of war and trauma shape the experience of people trying to reconcile the complex ethical dilemmas that materialize in these environments.
North America...
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