Name and Description	Email Address
Attiya Ahmad YEAR: 6 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: 2 DISSERTATION TITLE: "Katrina!": The Struggle Over New Orleans and Beyond CHAIR: Baker	rba2@duke.edu
Neta Bar YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: The Power of Breathing: Yoga, Transnationalism, and Common Unhappiness CHAIR: Orin Starn/Diane Nelson	neta.bar@duke.edu
Emily Bieber -- JD/MA YEAR: 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Case Studies in Gay and Lesbian Law CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	emily.bieber@law.duke.edu
Leigh M. Campoamor YEAR: 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Beyond the Poster Child: Working Children and Ideologies of Development in Peru CHAIR: Orin Starn	leigh.campoamor@duke.edu
Jennifer Chien YEAR: 1 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Globalization/Alter-globalization, migrant labor; China CHAIR: Litzinger	jc42@duke.edu
Jason Cross -- JD/PhD YEAR: 5 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 Dixon YEAR: 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Young People and Social and Economic Mobility in Contemporary Urban Japan CHAIR: Diane Nelson	dedixon@duke.edu
Arianne Dorval YEAR: 3 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: 1 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Law and anthropology, mobility and migration; Indian Ocean (Africa and the Middle East) CHAIR: Piot	jd90@duke.edu
David Flood YEAR: 1 (LOA S'08) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ethnomusicology, identity formation, cultural politics of globalization CHAIR: TBD	dnf3@duke.edu
Micah Gilmer YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Strategizing for Working with Black Youth: How Black Male Educators Theorize Work in the Classroom and on the Football Field CHAIR: Lee Baker/John Jackson	mcg17@duke.edu
Brian Goldstone YEAR: 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Prosperity Gospels: Christianity, Islam, and the Remaking of Moral Subjects in Northern Ghana CHAIR: Charles Piot	bdg3@duke.edu
Nichole Green YEAR: 12 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Between White and Black, Enslaved and Free: Charleston's Mulatto Elite, 1850-1920 CHAIR: Lee Baker	greenn@ci.charleston.sc.us
Angelia Haro YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Developing Utopias: An Ethnography of Millennial Development CHAIR: Charlie Piot/Orin Starn	amh2@duke.edu
Giles Harrison-Conwill YEAR: 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Inhabiting the City: Cultural Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas CHAIR: Deborah Thomas	ghc2@duke.edu
Kristina Jacobsen YEAR: 2/3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Manly Voices: Navajo Country Music and the Politics of Indigeneity CHAIR: Orin Starn/Louise Meintjes	kmj8@duke.edu
Alvaro E. Jarrin YEAR: 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Surgery and Inequality in 21st Century Brazil CHAIR: Anne Allison	alvaro.jarrin@duke.edu
Mara Kaufman YEAR: 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Zapatismo, Alterglobalization and the Reinvention of the Political CHAIR: Charles Piot/Orin Starn	mck@duke.edu
Sowmya Krishnamoorthy -- JD/MA YEAR: 2 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: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Abandoned Dreamland: Migration and Development in Yanbian China CHAIR: Ralph Litzinger/Anne Allison	jk66@duke.edu
Louisa Lombard YEAR: 2 DISSERTATION TITLE: Policing No Man's Land: The Work of Conflict Prevention in Central Africa CHAIR: Charlie Piot	lnl5@duke.edu
Elizabeth McBrearty -- JD/MA YEAR: 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender and the American legal system, reproductive rights law, queer theory and transexuality CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	elizabeth.mcbrearty@law.duke.edu
Tami Navarro YEAR: 4 ABD RESEARCH INTERESTS: "Culture" and "Progress": Economic Development in the US Virgin Islands CHAIR: Deborah Thomas	tdn2@duke.edu
Lorien Olive YEAR: 2 DISSERTATION TITLE: Youth (Af)finities: Immigration, Fortification, and the Management of Reproductive Crisis CHAIR: Orin Starn	lro2@duke.edu
Senay Ozden YEAR: 8 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Borders of Belonging: Palestinian Refugees and Politics of Resistance in Syria CHAIR: Charlie Piot	so13@duke.edu
Dawn Peebles YEAR: 3 (LOA 07/08) DISSERTATION TITLE: Relations Between International Human Rights Mechanisms and Domestic Human Rights Practitioners CHAIR: Orin Starn	dap11@duke.edu
Bianca Robinson YEAR: 6 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: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Borderland Politics: Space, Memory and Sovereignty in Northern Viet Nam CHAIR: Ralph Litzinger	js118@duke.edu
Jessica Shulruff -- JD/MA YEAR: 2 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Juncture where politics and culture collide, human rights; Latin America CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	jessica.shulruff@duke.edu
Kevin Sobel-Read YEAR: 2 DISSERTATION TITLE: Sovereignty and the Judiciary: The Negotiation of Global Capital Through the Courts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Cook Islands CHAIR: William O'Barr	kbs7@duke.edu
Aaron Thornburg YEAR: 6/5 ABD DEGREES: M.A. in Anthropology at Brandeis University. DISSERTATION TITLE: Gaeilge, Irish Irish-Language Education, and Media in "New Ireland" CHAIR: Naomi Quinn	act12@duke.edu
Rocio Trinidad YEAR: 3 DISSERTATION TITLE: Image Politics: Ayacucho in War and Peace CHAIR: Diane Nelson	ret6@duke.edu
Yektan Turkyilmaz YEAR: 8 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
Yu Wang YEAR: 6 ABD 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

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