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Name, Short Description Current Placement
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

azoulay@grinnell.edu
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

ne2008@columbia.edu
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

mad@asu.edu
Attiya Ahmad
Ph.D. 2009
DISSERTATION TITLE: Limits of Conversion: Dawa, Domestic Work, and Migrant South Asian Women in Kuwait
CHAIR: Katherine Ewing/Diane Nelson
PhD

aa38@duke.edu
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

altinay@sabanciuniv.edu
Jason Anderman
JD/MA 1997
Counsel, Becton, Dickinson and Co. and Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall Univ School of Law

jason_anderman@bd.com
Emily Bieber
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Case Studies in Gay and Lesbian Law
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein
, JD/MA

emily.bieber@law.duke.edu
Pamela Block
Ph.D. 1997
DISSERTATION TITLE: Biology, Culture, and Cognitive Disability: 20th Century Professional Discourses in Brazil and the United States
CHAIR: Richard Fox
Associate Professor Occupational Therapy, School of Health Technology & Management, SUNY - Stonybrook

pamela.block@stonybrook.edu
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

brown3t@cmich.edu
Kelsey Cameron
JD/MA
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Self-representation in the legal system; cross-cultural navigation of the system.
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein


kelsey.cameron@law.duke.edu
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

ycc622@yahoo.com.tw
Anne Dana
JD/MA 2011
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender, anthropology of law, social construction theory, human rights.


anne.dana@duke.edu
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

hdell1@uis.edu
Kirsten Edey
Ph.D. 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
Graduate Student

kirsten@vtlink.net
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

lesfield@unm.edu
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

katefrank@comcast.net
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

frederic@fas.harvard.edu
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Richmond

jfrench@richmond.edu
Jack Friedman
Ph.D. 2003
DISSERTATION TITLE: Ambiguous Transitions and Abjected Selves: Betrayal, Entitlement, and Globalization in Romania's Jiu Valley
NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow

jrfriedman8@gmail.com
Micah C. Gilmer
Ph.D. 2009
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My project focuses on a group of 13 African American high school football coaches. The first part of the dissertation challenges the myth of the emotionally inept (Black) male by examining the ways these men share intimate conversation and build community. The second part engages the coaches who also are educators, examining their critiques of the No Child Left Behind era educational system and documenting the pedagogical and interpersonal strategies these teachers use to reach kids and mitigate burnout.
DISSERTATION TITLE: "You Got to Have a Heart of Stone to Work Here:" Coaching, Teaching and "Building Men" at Eastside High
CHAIR: Lee Baker


micah.gilmer@duke.edu
Lila E. Gray
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Re-Sounding History Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal
Assistant Professor, Music Department (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University

leg2114@columbia.edu
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

anidaso@hotmail.com
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

chersh@email.unc.edu
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

j-hirsch@northwestern.edu
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

shirsch4@gmu.edu
Danny Hoffman
Ph.D. 2004
DISSERTATION TITLE: The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Washington

djh13@u.washington.edu
Marro Inoue
Ph.D. 1999
DISSERTATION TITLE: US Military Base Problems in Okanowa, Japan
Assistant Professor, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky

msinoue@uky.edu
Alvaro E. Jarrin
DISSERTATION TITLE: Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Social Inequality in Southeastern Brazil
CHAIR: Anne Allison
PhD

alvaro.jarrin@duke.edu
Heather Johnson -- JD/MA
3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Kindship and gender, science studies, international law.
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein


heather.johnson@law.duke.edu
Gonzalo Lamana
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Between Contact and Domination: The Production of Order in Early 16th Century Peru
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of Pittsburgh

lamana@pitt.edu
Katherine Lambert-Pennington
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Belonging to the Land, Being in Australia: Koori Identity at La Perouse
Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Memphis

kath@mazzy.com
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

e.legare@optusnet.com.au
Sylvia Lim
Ph.D. 1999
DISSERTATION TITLE: About Face: American Nationalism under Transnationalism
Visiting Scholar, khadrosylvia@gmail.com
Gabriella Lukacs
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Romancing the Nation, Dramatizing Citizenship: Television Dramas, Women and Millennial Japan
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

lukacs@pitt.edu
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

sluthra@earthlink.net
Elizabeth McBrearty -- JD/MA
2008
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender and the American legal system, reproductive rights law, queer theory and transexuality
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein


elizabeth.mcbrearty@law.duke.edu
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

cmccol2@yahoo.com
Susan McDonic
Ph.D. 2004
DISSERTATION TITLE: Transnational Christian Charity: World vision, Faith, Development, and the Negotiation of Culture
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University

Molly Mullin
Ph.D. 1993
DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming the American Southwest: Culture, Art, and Difference
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Albion College

mmullin@albion.edu
Tami Navarro
6 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in the US Virgin Islands
CHAIR: Piot


tdn2@duke.edu
Lisa Neuman
Ph.D. 2002
DISSERTATION TITLE: Recapturing Culture: American Indian Identities at Bacone College, 1927-1955
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Maine

lisa_neuman@umit.maine.edu
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

jpassaro@mercy.edu
Jennifer Prough
PhD 2006
DISSERTATION TITLE: Reading Culture, Engendering Girls: Politics of the Everyday in the Production of Girls' Manga
CHAIR: Anne Allison
Instructor in Humanities and Anthropology

j_prough@yahoo.com
Bianca C Robinson
Ph.D. 2009
DISSERTATION TITLE: American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursuing Happiness, Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica
CHAIR: Lee Baker


bcw5@duke.edu
Kaifa Roland
Ph.D. 2004
DISSERTATION TITLE: El Color No Importa: Tourism and Race in contemporary Cuba
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado

rolandl@colorado.edu
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

mbs@cultural.com
Jessica Shulruff
3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Juncture where politics and culture collide, human rights; Latin America
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein
JD/MA

jessica.shulruff@duke.edu
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

ctalwalker@gmail.com
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

nilgunu@hotmail.com
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


yw11@duke.edu
Kim Wright Dixit
Ph.D. 2001
DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming Identities: Global Advertising, Marketing and Cultural Identity in India
CHAIR: O'Barr
Lecturer, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

kimdixit@yahoo.com
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

c_yezer@yahoo.com
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

yurchak@berkeley.edu
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

yongmingzhou@wisc.edu

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