Social Anthropology Program
Recent Ph.D. Recipients

2012-13

Ujala Dhaka-Kintgen
"Governance and Marginality: Politics of Belonging, Citizenship, and Claim-making in the Muslim Neighborhoods of Mumbai"

Darryl Li
"Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the US World Order"
(Joint PhD with Middle Eastern Studies)

2011-12

Felicity Aulino
"Senses and Sensibilities: The Practice of Care in Everyday Life in Northern Thailand"

Eun-Ju Chung
"Learning to Be Chinese: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Ethnic Schooling and Diaspora Construction in Contemporary Korea"

Alireza Doostdar
"Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran" (joint PhD w/ Middle Eastern Studies)

Stella Kao
"Rediscovering the House and Body: Theatre and Performance Life in Hong Kong in the 1990s"

Jennifer Mack
"Producing the Public: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the present"
(joint PhD w/ Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning)

Andrea Murray
"Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa"

Aria Nakissa
"Islamic Law and Legal Education in Modern Egypt" (joint PhD w/ Middle Eastern Studies)

Rheana Juno Parrenas
"Arrested Autonomy: an Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation"

Kedron Thomas
"An Ethnography of Brand Piracy in Guatemala"

2010-11

Andrea Allen
“We Are Phantasms: Female Same-Sex Desires, Violence, and Ideology in Salvador, Brazil”

Kambiz Behi  
“Neoliberal Jihad: Reconfiguring Space in a Context of Islamic Moral Economy”

Naor Ben-Yehoyada
“Mediterranean, Becoming and Unbecoming: Fishing, Smuggling and Region Formation Between Sicily and Tunisia Since World War II”

Edward Akintola Hubbard
“Creolization and Contemporary Pop Iconicity in Cape Verde”

Kathryn Mason
“After SARS: The Rebirth of Public Health in China’s ‘City of Immigrants’”

Illiana Quimbaya
“Pare de Sofrer/Succeed in Life: The Interpretation and Influence of the Prosperity Gospel in the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus Salvador, Brazil”

Tashi Rabgey
“Specters of China: Tibetan Legal Recognition and the Politics of Sovereignty in Post-Democratization Taiwan”

2009-10

Joon Michael Choi
"Orijinŏl Mansin: An Ethnography of Shaman Life in South Korea" 

Lyndon K. Gill
"Transfiguring Trinidad and Tobago: Queer Cultural Production, Erotic Subjectivity and the Praxis of Black Queer Anthropology" (Joint AAAS)

Paula Goldman
"From Margin to Mainstream: Jubilee 2000 and the Rising Profile of Global Poverty Issues in the United Kingdom and United States" 

Megwen Loveless
"The Invented Tradition of Forró: A ‘Routes’ Ethnography of Brazilian Musical ‘Roots'" 

Anthony Shenoda
"Cultivating Mystery: Miracles and a Coptic Moral Imaginary" 

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 Keown Allan
"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
"Restricting the Republic: France, The Veil, and Religious Freedom"
Ph.D. in Religion and Anthropology

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