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
Attiya Ahmad Ph.D. 2009 DISSERTATION TITLE: Limits of Conversion: Dawa, Domestic Work, and Migrant South Asian Women in Kuwait CHAIR: Katherine Ewing/Diane Nelson	PhD aa38@duke.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 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 CHAIR: Richard Fox	Associate Professor Occupational Therapy, School of Health Technology & Management, 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 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Self-representation in the legal system; cross-cultural navigation of the system. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	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
Anne Dana JD/MA 2011 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender, anthropology of law, social construction theory, human rights.	anne.dana@duke.edu
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 Ph.D. 2007 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	NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow jrfriedman8@gmail.com
Micah C. Gilmer Ph.D. 2009 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	micah.gilmer@duke.edu
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
Giles Harrison-Conwill 7 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas, Venezuela CHAIR: Starn	ghc2@duke.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
Kristina M. Jacobsen 5 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Manly Voices: Navajo Country Music and the Politics of Indigeneity CHAIR: Orin Starn/Louise Meintjes	kmj8@duke.edu
Alvaro E. Jarrin DISSERTATION TITLE: Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Social Inequality in Southeastern Brazil CHAIR: Anne Allison	PhD alvaro.jarrin@duke.edu
Heather Johnson -- JD/MA 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Kindship and gender, science studies, international law. CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	heather.johnson@law.duke.edu
Sowmya Krishnamoorthy -- JD/MA 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dissemination of information across cultures using digital mass-media and its legislation CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	sk88@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
Gwen McCarter 1 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Muslim diaspora (Turks in Germany), space, modalities of visual representation	gwen.mccarter@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
Tami Navarro 6 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in the US Virgin Islands CHAIR: Piot	tdn2@duke.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
Bianca C Robinson Ph.D. 2009 DISSERTATION TITLE: American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursuing Happiness, Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica CHAIR: Lee Baker	bcw5@duke.edu
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
Jessica Shulruff 3 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Juncture where politics and culture collide, human rights; Latin America CHAIR: Rebecca Stein	JD/MA jessica.shulruff@duke.edu
Kevin B. Sobel-Read 4 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: State Sovereignty and the Regulation of Cross-Border Capital in the Global Age CHAIR: William O'Barr	kevin.sobelread@duke.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
Aaron C. Thornburg 7 ABD DEGREES: M.A. in Anthropology at Brandeis University. DISSERTATION TITLE: Gaeilge, Migration, and Media in "New Ireland" CHAIR: Naomi Quinn	Graduate Student act12@duke.edu
Yektan Turkyilmaz 10 ABD DISSERTATION TITLE: Imagining "Turkey," Creating a Nation: The Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938 CHAIR: Orin Starn	Graduate Student yt8@duke.edu
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
Kim Wright Dixit Ph.D. 2001 DISSERTATION TITLE: Consuming Identities: Global Advertising, Marketing and Cultural Identity in India CHAIR: O'Barr	Lecturer, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai kimdixit@yahoo.com
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