Mackenzie Cramblit
YEAR: 3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Land and property; conservation, development, natural heritage; technology and renewable energy; Science and Technology Studies; Scotland, UK
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mackenzie.cramblit@duke.edu |
Can Evren
YEAR: 2
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Research Interests:
My research is on the history of soccer in Turkey and how this popular sport circulates contrasting ideas about European culture and is subjected multiple European-inspired models of social and political organization. I explore the contrasting functions of Germany and England as both diplomatic and economic collaborators or rivals in Turkish history, rival transnational routes for soccer exchanges, and as historically enduring tropes for distinguishing between different models of competitive organization in soccer.
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can.evren@duke.edu |
Zach Levine
YEAR: 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS: secularism, energy, carcerality, justice, law and intimacy, ayahuasca, drugs and capitalism, psychoanalysis, Amazônia, Brazil
DEGREES: BA at Columbia University. , 2012
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zachary.e.levine@duke.edu |
Jake Silver
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research concerns the intimate dynamics of mediation, specifically how we feel that we come to know the world and the violence, beings, and things that populate it through forms of, and at the limits of, representation. The formation of mass imaginaries is at the center of my work. I'm primarily interested in the ways that individual narratives become neat and tidy portrayals of crisis, destruction, and colonialism. Ethnographically, I'm currently exploring how stories of those that have been injured or killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict come to be harnessed in a global theatre and affect engagement with Israeli and Palestinian politics. At the anthropological level, I am interested not only in the social dissemination of these narratives, but how mass gossip is consumed, worked with, and becomes an affective means of relating to the world. The ways these stories circulate through publics illuminate how individuals treat facticity in a mediated world, and reactions to these forms of media point to the power of mass publicity in the formation of identity. Pursuing these themes has driven me to question what the limits of life and death are in a mass mediated age, especially in relation to how the public attempts to (re)animate the dead by building politics around the dead, their identities and desires, and their (after)lives. I have previously explored the politics of citizenship through my work with queer Palestinian activists, and so a strand of queer theory and method—particularly a critical eye towards reproductive and exclusionary national projects—ties all of my thinking together.
DEGREES: BA at Reed College. , 2012
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jake.silver@duke.edu |
Christopher Webb
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research investigates the reintegration of veterans into civilian society in the United States. As an ethnographer, I explore how systems of meaning that are created in the traumatic environment of war are experienced through fieldwork with repatriated combat veterans. Through this research, I wish to cultivate greater understandings of the effect of militarism/militarization on society and violence/trauma on human beings, including those who perform it.
DEGREES: BA (Magna Cum Laude) at University of North Carolina Asheville. , 2014AA at Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College. , 2012
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christopher.m.webb@duke.edu |
