Recent Ph.D. Recipients Social Anthropology Program
2008-09
Sharon Abramowitz "Psychosocial Liberia Managing Suffering in Post-Conflict Life"
Adia Benton "Yu get fo liv positiv: HIV, subjectivity and the politics of care in post-conflict Sierra Leone"
Zongze Hu "Keeping Hope: Encountering and Imagining the National State in a North China Village"
Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin "Knockoff: A Cultural Biography of Transnational Counterfeit Goods"
Laurie McIntosh "Interlopers, Immigrants and Others: Difference and Ambivalence in the “New” Norway"
Andrew Preston "Traveling the trail of self-determination, or “the path the people walk”: Sovereignty, environmental practice, and Lutselk’e Dene’s place in Northwest Territories, Canada"
2007-08
Diana Allen "Eating their god: The contingencies of nationalism and survival in Shatila Camp"
Sepideh Bajracharya “A Country of Hearsay and Rumor: Kings, Strongmen, and Rumor in the Urban Nepali Political Imaginary”
Omar Al-Dewachi "The Professionalization of the Iraqi Medical Doctor in Britain: Medicine, Citizenship, Sovereignty and Empire"
Jinhua Guo "Stigma: Social Suffering for Social Exclusion and Social Insecurity From Mental illness to HIV/AIDS in China"
Rusaslina Idrus "The Politics of Inclusion: Law, History and Indigenous Rights in Malaysia"
Zahra N. Jamal "“Work No Words”: Voluntarism, Subjectivity, and Moral Economies among Khoja Ismaili Muslims""
Hyojin Kim "From Heritage to People's House: Kyomachiya Revitalization Movements and Regional Identity in Kyoto"
Lilith Mahmud "The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Knowledge, Subjectivity, and Discretion in Italian Masonic Lodges"
Ernesto Martinez "Border Chinese: Making Space and Forging Identity in Mexicali, Mexico"
Noor O’Neill Borbieva "Development in the KyrgyzRepublic: Exchange, Communal Networks, and the Foreign Presence"
Prista Ratanapruck "Market and Monastery: Manangi Trade Diasporas in South Asia and Southeast Asia"
Miriam Shakow "States of Discontent: Patronage, Liberalism, and Indigenist Democracy in Central Bolivia"
Priscilla Song "Biotech Pilgrims and Medical Entrepreneurs: Cultural Encounters from Cyberspace to China"
Lindsay A. Smith "Subversive Genes: Re(con)stituting Identity, Family, and Human Rights in Argentina"
Noelle Stout "On the Malecón: Revolutionary Desires in Late-Socialist Cuba"
Emily Zeamer "Buddhism Updated: Technology, Technique, and Moral Imagination in Urban Thailand"
2006-07
Peter B. Benson "To Not Be Sorry: Citizenship, Moral Life and Biocapitalism in North Carolina Tobacco Country"
Angela N. Garcia "The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Absolution Along the Rio Grande"
Clara Young Han "Life in Debt: Depression and Survival in Chile's Market Democracy"
Yuson Jung "Consumer Lament: An Ethnographic Study on Consumption, Needs, and Everyday Complaints in Postsocialist Bulgaria"
Jaesok Kim "The Cultural Encounters in a Chinese Sweatshop: The Transnational Movement of South Korean Enterprises and the Creation of Borderland Factory Regime"
Katrina L. Moore "Journeys into Later Life: Gender and Self-Cultivation in Contemporary Japan"
Jessica M. Mulligan "Managed Lives: Privatizing Public Health in Puerto Rico"
Young-a Park "Beyond Margins and Center: Reconfiguring Activist Film Production and Consumption in Post-authoritarian South Korea"
Maple J. Razsa "Bastards of Utopia: An Ethnography of Radical Politics After Yugoslav Socialism"
Melanie Adrian, PhD in Religion and Anthropology "Restricting the Republic: France, The Veil, and Religious Freedom"
2005-06
Bernadine Chee "Beyond Native Place Identity in China: Valuation, Agency, and Household Registration in a Beijing Restaurant"
Michelle Tisdel Flikke "Cuban Museums and Afro-Cuban Heritage: Fragments and Transition in Daily Life"
Kathleen Gallagher "Too Poor to Own: Landlessness and the Politics of Survival in Rural Nepal"
Ahmed Kanna "'Not Their Fathers' Days': Idioms of Time and Space in the Urban Arabian Gulf"
Wen-Ching Sung "Global Science: The Convergence of Biotechnology, Capitalism, and National Development in China"
Sarah Wagner "Return of Identity: Technology, Memory, and the Recognition of Srebrenica’s Missing"
Amy Young "Convincing Women: Global Rights, Local Families, and the Moroccan Women's Rights Movement"
2004-05
Tahmima Anam "Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in Post-Independence Bangladesh"
Kathleen Anne O'Connor "O Outro Lado: Candomblé, Psychiatry And Discourse In Bahia, Brazil"
Saubhagya Shah "A Project of Memoreality: Transnational Development and Local Activism Among Rural Women in Nepal"
Fei Wu "Elegy for Luck: Suicide in a County of North China"
Michael Westerhaus, AM-Medical Anthropology
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