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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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