| 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
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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
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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
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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
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PhD
aa38@duke.edu |
Ayse Gul Altinay
Ph.D. 2001
DISSERTATION TITLE: Making Citizens, Making Soldiers: Military Service, Education and Gender in Turkey
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Assistant Professor (equiv), Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
altinay@sabanciuniv.edu |
Jason Anderman
JD/MA 1997
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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
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, 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
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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
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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
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kelsey.cameron@law.duke.edu |
Ya-Chung Chuang
Ph.D. 2000
DISSERTATION TITLE: Activism as a Vocation: Social Movements in Urban Taiwan
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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.
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anne.dana@duke.edu |
Heather Dell
Ph.D. 1999
DISSERTATION TITLE: Hierarchies of Femininity: Sex Workers, Feminists, and the Nation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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micah.gilmer@duke.edu |
Lila E. Gray
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Re-Sounding History Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PhD
alvaro.jarrin@duke.edu |
Heather Johnson -- JD/MA
3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Kindship and gender, science studies, international law.
CHAIR: Rebecca Stein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Visiting Scholar, khadrosylvia@gmail.com |
Gabriella Lukacs
Ph.D. 2005
DISSERTATION TITLE: Romancing the Nation, Dramatizing Citizenship: Television Dramas, Women and Millennial Japan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University
|
Molly Mullin
Ph.D. 1993
DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming the American Southwest: Culture, Art, and Difference
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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
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tdn2@duke.edu |
Lisa Neuman
Ph.D. 2002
DISSERTATION TITLE: Recapturing Culture: American Indian Identities at Bacone College, 1927-1955
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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"
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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
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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
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bcw5@duke.edu |
Kaifa Roland
Ph.D. 2004
DISSERTATION TITLE: El Color No Importa: Tourism and Race in contemporary Cuba
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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
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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
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JD/MA
jessica.shulruff@duke.edu |
Clare Talwalker
Ph.D. 2000
DISSERTATION TITLE: "Like Chutney for Rice": Untouchability and Modernity in Postcolonial India
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
yongmingzhou@wisc.edu |
