| Name and Description |
Email Address |
Ronni B. Armstead
YEAR: 4
DISSERTATION TITLE: New Orleans at the Vanguard: Historical and Cultural Transformations in the post-Katrina Urban Landscape
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farinzinga@gmail.com |
Neta Bar
YEAR: 6 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Fragile Subjects, Endangered Planet: Yoga and the Cultural Life of Stress in the Silicon Valley
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neta.bar@duke.edu |
Layla D. Brown
YEAR: 2
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research is concerned with political organizing among Afro-Venezuelan Women in particular, a youth and women’s organization referred to as the Cumbe de Mujeres de la Red de Organizaciones Afrovenezolanas or the Cooperative of Afro-Venezuelan Women. Conceptually, my research brings together issues of racial identification, political organization/affiliation, gender and diasporic mothering. I situate the Network of Afro-Venezuelans and the Cumbe of Afro-Venezuelan Women at the intersection of local and trans-regional social formations and ask how this location shapes the intimate and political lives of women members. I am especially concerned with how these political formations shape and are shaped by the pivotal role played by the mother in African Diasporic communities. To what degree do Afro-Venezuelan women’s identities as political activists and mothers overlap? How do their political inclinations affect their mothering practices? What kinds of collective mothering practices take place, if any, and how is mothering viewed from the outside and from within as both biologically reproductive and politically productive? Finally, how can a concept like “diasporic mothering” be applied to Afro-Venezuelan women? How is the role of mother constituted in the Afro-Venezuelan community in similar and different ways from other nodes of the African Diaspora? I also hope to interrogate the ways in which Afro-Venezuelans understand themselves to be a part of the larger African Diaspora and the particular ways in which women’s political organization differs from context to context.
DEGREES: BS in Latin American Studies at North Carolina Central University. , 2009PhD in Latin America at Duke University.
DISSERTATION TITLE: Raising Voices, Building History: Afro-Venezuelan Women and the Bolivarian Revolution (Working Title)
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ldb15@duke.edu |
Leigh M. Campoamor
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Public Childhoods: Family, Value, and Informal Labor in Contemporary
Lima
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leigh.campoamor@duke.edu |
Jennifer Chien
YEAR: 3
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Corporate social responsibility and community development in China.
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jc42@duke.edu |
Yasmin Cho
YEAR: 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Territoriality and transnationalism, everyday life of anthropology and space; China, Tibet, Northern India.
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yc81@duke.edu |
Jason Cross -- JD/PhD
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Metrics & Democratization: The Role of Monitoring Procedures in Democratic Governance Reform in El Salvador
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jmc2@duke.edu |
Dwayne E. Dixon
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Endless Question: Urban Japanese Kids and the Cruel/Cool Imaginary of Youth
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dedixon@duke.edu |
Arianne Dorval
YEAR: 5
DISSERTATION TITLE: Sans Papiers Workers of Marseilles: Constructing Universality at the Frontier of the Nation
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ad47@duke.edu |
Jatin Dua
YEAR: 3
DISSERTATION TITLE: Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection along the East African
Coast
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jd90@duke.edu |
Brian Goldstone
YEAR: 6 ABD
RESEARCH INTERESTS: anthropology of religion and secularism; ethics and sensibility; sovereignty; aesthetics; mental illness and global health; philosophy and critical theory; political theologies; science studies; intellectual history; ethnographic writing
DISSERTATION TITLE: The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana
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bdg3@duke.edu |
Lia Haro
YEAR: 4 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: The End(s) of the End of Poverty
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amh2@duke.edu |
Mara Kaufman
YEAR: 8 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Alterglobalization and the Reinvention of the Political
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mck@duke.edu |
June Hee Kwon
YEAR: 7 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Between Two Dreams: Multiple Dwellings, Multiple Departures of Korean Chinese in Yanbian, China
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jk66@duke.edu |
Louisa N. Lombard
YEAR: 4 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Raidig Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands
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lnl5@duke.edu |
Lorien R. Olive
YEAR: 4 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: "The Exceptional City: Guayaquileño Autonomy, Urban
Regeneration, and Political Subjectivity in Ecuador"
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lro2@duke.edu |
Erin D. Parish
YEAR: 2
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Space/place/power, anthropology and history, anthropology of the Americas.
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erin.parish@duke.edu |
Ju Hyung Shim
YEAR: 5 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Borderland Politics: Space, Memory and Sovereignty in Northern Viet Nam
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js118@duke.edu |
Tamar Shirinian
YEAR: 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural production, feminist theory, Armenia and Armenian Diaspora in Los Angeles.
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trs14@duke.edu |
Netta R. Van Vliet
YEAR: 8 ABD
DISSERTATION TITLE: Homeland Security: Reproduction, Militarism and Subjectivity in Israel
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Cagri Yoltar-Durukan
YEAR: 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS: State ethnography, theories on sovereignty, governmentality, subjectivity, post-colonial theory; Middle East/Turkey.
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cy57@duke.edu |
