Name and Description	Email Address
Attiya Ahmad YEAR: 7 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Muslim Belongings and Becomings: Migrant Domestic Workers and Islamic Da'wa in Kuwait CHAIR: Katherine Ewing/Diane Nelson	aa38@duke.edu
Ronnie Armstead YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: "Katrina!": The Struggle Over New Orleans and Beyond CHAIR: Baker	rba2@duke.edu
Neta Bar YEAR: 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: The Power of Breathing: Yoga, Transnationalism, and Common Unhappiness CHAIR: Orin Starn/Diane Nelson	neta.bar@duke.edu
Leigh M. Campoamor YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Juggling Acts: Working Children and Their Publics in Lima, Peru CHAIR: Orin Starn	leigh.campoamor@duke.edu
Jennifer Chien YEAR: 2 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Globalization/Alter-globalization, migrant labor; China CHAIR: Litzinger	jc42@duke.edu
Jason Cross -- JD/PhD YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Governing Expertise: The Role of Law and Technology in Constructing Market Democracy Reform in El Salvador and the Central American Free Trade Agreement CHAIR: William O'Barr	jmc2@duke.edu
Dwayne E. Dixon YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Young People and Social and Economic Mobility in Contemporary Urban Japan CHAIR: Diane Nelson	dedixon@duke.edu
Arianne Dorval YEAR: 4 DISSERTATION TITLE: Marseilles, Door to the Souths: The Politics of Metissage at the Border of the Nation CHAIR: Charles Piot	ad47@duke.edu
Jatin Dua YEAR: 2 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Law and anthropology, mobility and migration; Indian Ocean (Africa and the Middle East) CHAIR: Piot	jd90@duke.edu
Micah C. Gilmer YEAR: 5 ABD - April 2009 Defense 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/John Jackson	micah.gilmer@duke.edu
Brian Goldstone YEAR: 5 ABD RESEARCH INTERESTS: subjectivity and ethical formation; the politics of indigeneity and belonging; political theology; secularity/secularism; political theory; history of anthropology; history and philosophy of science; violence; Christianity; Islam; West Africa DISSERTATION TITLE: Crusading Faith: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana CHAIR: Charles Piot	bdg3@duke.edu
Nichole Green YEAR: 13 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Between White and Black, Enslaved and Free: Charleston's Mulatto Elite, 1850-1920 CHAIR: Lee Baker	greenn@ci.charleston.sc.us
Lia Haro YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Global Africa, Global Poverty and the Hungers of Millennial Development CHAIR: Charlie Piot/Orin Starn	amh2@duke.edu
Giles Harrison-Conwill YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas, Venezuela CHAIR: Deborah Thomas	ghc2@duke.edu
Kristina M. Jacobsen YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Manly Voices: Navajo Country Music and the Politics of Indigeneity CHAIR: Orin Starn/Louise Meintjes	kmj8@duke.edu
Alvaro E. Jarrin YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Surgery and Inequality in 21st Century Brazil CHAIR: Anne Allison	alvaro.jarrin@duke.edu
Mara C. Kaufman YEAR: 7 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Zapatismo, Alterglobalization and the Reinvention of the Political CHAIR: Charles Piot/Orin Starn	mck@duke.edu
Sowmya Krishnamoorthy -- JD/MA YEAR: 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Study the dissemination of information across cultures using digital mass-media and its legislation CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	sk88@duke.edu
June Hee Kwon YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Abandoned Dreamland: Migration and Development in Yanbian China CHAIR: Ralph Litzinger/Anne Allison	jk66@duke.edu
Louisa N. Lombard YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Policing No Man's Land: The Work of Conflict Prevention in Central Africa CHAIR: Charlie Piot	lnl5@duke.edu
Gwen McCarter YEAR: 1 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Religion and migration, especially regarding modern political thought and Muslims living in non-Muslim societies; Turks in Germany; human rights; material culture	gwen.mccarter@duke.edu
Tami Navarro YEAR: 5 ABD RESEARCH INTERESTS: "Culture" and "Progress": Economic Development in the US Virgin Islands CHAIR: Deborah Thomas	tdn2@duke.edu
Lorien R. Olive YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Youth (Af)finities: Immigration, Fortification, and the Management of Reproductive Crisis CHAIR: Orin Starn	lro2@duke.edu
Senay Ozden YEAR: 9 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Borders of Belonging: Palestinian Refugees and Politics of Resistance in Syria CHAIR: Charlie Piot	so13@duke.edu
Bianca C Robinson YEAR: 7 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Diasporic Realities, Virtual Contacts: Traveling Girlfriends in Search of Race, Happiness, and Intimacy CHAIR: Lee Baker	bcw5@duke.edu
Ju Hyung Shim YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Borderland Politics: Space, Memory and Sovereignty in Northern Viet Nam CHAIR: Ralph Litzinger	js118@duke.edu
Jessica Shulruff -- JD/MA YEAR: 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Juncture where politics and culture collide, human rights; Latin America CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	jessica.shulruff@duke.edu
Kevin B. Sobel-Read YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: State Sovereignty and the Regulation of Cross-Border Capital in the Global Age CHAIR: William O'Barr	kevin.sobelread@duke.edu
Aaron C. Thornburg YEAR: 6 ABD DEGREES: M.A. in Anthropology at Brandeis University. DISSERTATION TITLE: Gaeilge, Migration, and Media in "New Ireland" CHAIR: Naomi Quinn	act12@duke.edu
Yektan Turkyilmaz YEAR: 9 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Imagining "Turkey," Creating a Nation: The Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938 CHAIR: Orin Starn	yt8@duke.edu
Netta R. Van Vliet YEAR: 7 ABD CHAIR: Diane Nelson	nrv2@duke.edu

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