Name, Short Description	Current Placement
Katya Gibel (Azoulay) Mevorack Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: It's not the Color of your Skin but the Race of your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity	Associate Professor, Anthropology & American Studies, Grinnell College azoulay@grinnell.edu
Nadia Abu El-Haj Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology, the State, and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College ne2008@columbia.edu
Madelaine Adelman Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Family, Law, Nation, and Violence: The Gendered Costs of Israeli Domestic Politics	Associate Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry Studies, Arizona State University mad@asu.edu
Ayse Gul Altinay Ph.D. 2001 DISSERTATION TITLE: Making Citizens, Making Soldiers: Military Service, Education and Gender in Turkey	Assistant Professor (equiv), Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey altinay@sabanciuniv.edu
Jason Anderman JD/MA 1997	Counsel, Becton, Dickinson and Co. and Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall Univ School of Law jason_anderman@bd.com
Emily Bieber -- JD/MA 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Case Studies in Gay and Lesbian Law CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	, JD/MA emily.bieber@law.duke.edu
Pamela Block Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Biology, Culture, and Cognitive Disability: 20th Century Professional Discourses in Brazil and the United States	Clinical Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Program, SUNY - Stonybrook pamela.block@stonybrook.edu
Tracy M Brown Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Ideologies of "Indianness" in New Mexico, 1692-1820: Personhood and Identity in the Colonial Encounter	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work, Central Michigan University brown3t@cmich.edu
Kelsey Cameron -- JD/MA 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Self-representation in the legal system; cross-cultural navigation of the system. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	, JD/MA kelsey.cameron@law.duke.edu
Ya-Chung Chuang Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Activism as a Vocation: Social Movements in Urban Taiwan	Assistant Professor, College of Hakka Studies, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan ycc622@yahoo.com.tw
Heather Dell Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Hierarchies of Femininity: Sex Workers, Feminists, and the Nation	Associate Professor, Women's Studies, Univ. of Illinois,Springfield hdell1@uis.edu
Kirsten Edey 14 ABD DEGREES: BS (highest honors) in Conservation and Resource Studies at U.C. Berkeley. DISSERTATION TITLE: Transgression and Transcendence: Distress, Healing and the Management of Personal Boundaries in Urban Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo CHAIR: Katherine Ewing	Graduate Student kirsten@vtlink.net
Les Field Ph.D. 1987 DISSERTATION TITLE: "I Am Content With My Art:" Two Groups of Artisans in Revolutionary Nicaragua	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque lesfield@unm.edu
Katherine Frank Ph.D. 1999 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intimate Labors: Masculinity, Consumption, and Authenticity in Five Gentlemen's Clubs	Research Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison katefrank@comcast.net
Marla Frederick Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cultural Politics of Religious Experience: African American Women's Spirituality and Activism in the Contemporary US South	Assistant Professor, Religion & African American Studies, Harvard University frederic@fas.harvard.edu
Jan H. French Ph.D. 2003 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants of Indios and Fugitive Slaves in Northeast Brazil CHAIR: William O'Barr	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Richmond jfrench@richmond.edu
Jack Friedman Ph.D. 2003 DISSERTATION TITLE: Ambiguous Transitions and Abjected Selves: Betrayal, Entitlement, and Globalization in Romania's Jiu Valley	Senior Fulbright Fellow in Romania
Lila E. Gray Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Re-Sounding History Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal	Assistant Professor, Music Department (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University leg2114@columbia.edu
Jennifer Hasty Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Big Language, Brown Envelopes: The Press and Political Culture in Ghana	Research Associate, African Studies, University of Pennsylvania anidaso@hotmail.com
Carie Little Hersh JD/MA 2002 RESEARCH INTERESTS: PMS as a Defense for Violence: Women, Culture and the Law	Graduate Student, Anthropology Department, UNC Chapel Hill chersh@email.unc.edu
Jennifer Hirsch Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: Building Collective Identities in Global Times: A Study of the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network	Director, Chicago Field Studies Program, Northwestern University j-hirsch@northwestern.edu
Susan F. Hirsch Ph.D. 1990 DISSERTATION TITLE: Gender and Disputing: Insurgent Voices in Coastal Kenyan Muslim Courts	Associate Professor, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University shirsch4@gmu.edu
Danny Hoffman Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine	Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Washington djh13@u.washington.edu
Marro Inoue Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: US Military Base Problems in Okanowa, Japan	Assistant Professor, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky msinoue@uky.edu
Heather Johnson -- JD/MA 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Kindship and gender, science studies, international law. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	heather.johnson@law.duke.edu
Gonzalo Lamana Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Between Contact and Domination: The Production of Order in Early 16th Century Peru	Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of Pittsburgh lamana@pitt.edu
Katherine Lambert-Pennington Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Belonging to the Land, Being in Australia: Koori Identity at La Perouse	Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Memphis kath@mazzy.com
Evelyn Legare Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: Nobody Speaks for the Nation Anymore: Canada's Problems with Itself	Program Manager, Walking/Cycling/Planning, Melbourne, Australia e.legare@optusnet.com.au
Sylvia Lim Ph.D. 1999 DISSERTATION TITLE: About Face: American Nationalism under Transnationalism	Visiting Scholar, khadrosylvia@gmail.com
Gabriella Lukacs Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Romancing the Nation, Dramatizing Citizenship: Television Dramas, Women and Millennial Japan	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh lukacs@pitt.edu
Sangeeta Luthra Ph.D. 1998 RESEARCH INTERESTS: The Cultural Politics of Development in the Age of NGOs: Grassroots Development in an Indian Metropolis	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology sluthra@earthlink.net
Elizabeth McBrearty -- JD/MA 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender and the American legal system, reproductive rights law, queer theory and transexuality CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	elizabeth.mcbrearty@law.duke.edu
Chris McCollum Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cultural Patterning of Self-Understanding: A Cognitive-Psychoanalytic Approach to Middle-Class Americans'Life Stories	Director, Qualitative Research, The U30 Group cmccol2@yahoo.com
Susan McDonic Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: Transnational Christian Charity: World vision, Faith, Development, and the Negotiation of Culture	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University
Molly Mullin Ph.D. 1993 DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming the American Southwest: Culture, Art, and Difference	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Albion College mmullin@albion.edu
Lisa Neuman Ph.D. 2002 DISSERTATION TITLE: Recapturing Culture: American Indian Identities at Bacone College, 1927-1955	Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Maine lisa_neuman@umit.maine.edu
Joanne Passaro Ph.D. 1995 DISSERTATION TITLE: Men on the Street, Women in Their Place: Homelessness, Race and "Family Values"	Acting Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Mercy College jpassaro@mercy.edu
Jennifer Prough PhD 2006 DISSERTATION TITLE: Reading Culture, Engendering Girls: Politics of the Everyday in the Production of Girls' Manga CHAIR: Anne Allison	Instructor in Humanities and Anthropology j_prough@yahoo.com
Kaifa Roland Ph.D. 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: El Color No Importa: Tourism and Race in contemporary Cuba	Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado rolandl@colorado.edu
Michael Scher JD/MA 1993 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Language and Dispute Resolution: A Look at the Subject and its Discipline	General Counsel, Nexum, Inc and PhD student in Anthropology, University of Chicago mbs@cultural.com
Ajantha Subramanian Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: State, Community, and the Politics of Development in Southern India	Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Social Studies, Harvard University subram@fas.harvard.edu
Clare Talwalker Ph.D. 2000 DISSERTATION TITLE: "Like Chutney for Rice": Untouchability and Modernity in Postcolonial India	Visiting Assistant Professor, International and Area Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley ctalwalker@gmail.com
Nilgun Uygun Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Being a "Natasha": Transnationalism, Sex Work, and the Political Economy of Desire in the Black Sea Region CHAIR: Orin Starn	Visiting Assistant Professor in Writing, Havaford College nilgunu@hotmail.com
Yu Wang Ph.D. 2008 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
Margot Weiss Ph.D. 2005 DISSERTATION TITLE: Techniques of Pleaseure, Scenes of Play: SM in the San Francisco Bay Area CHAIR: Allison	Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University> mdweiss@wesleyan.edu
Caroline Yezer Ph.D. 2006 DISSERTATION TITLE: Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse and War Memories in Peru's Andes CHAIR: Starn	Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross c_yezer@yahoo.com
Alexei Yurchak Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: The Cynical Reason of Late Socialism: Language, Ideology, and Identity of the Last Soviet Generation	Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley yurchak@berkeley.edu
Yongming Zhou Ph.D. 1997 DISSERTATION TITLE: Nationalism, History and State Building: Anti-Drug Crusades in Modern China, 1924-1997	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison yongmingzhou@wisc.edu

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