2010

ADVISERS [Caps]/Readers

This thesis won a Hoopes Prize:

Allison Sarah Brandt KLEINMAN

“Abandonment and the Quest for Care: The Social Experience of Commercial Sex Work in Rural Malawi”

Kristen Elizabeth Calandrelli LAHIRI

“Divided We Stand: Disciplining Disparity in U.S. Diplomatic Communities”

Justin Robert Gerrard VAN PATTERSON

“Identity Affirmed: The Pathway to Assimilation for the Haliwa-Saponi Indians of North Carolina”

Cameron Van Patterson is a doctoral student in AAAS

Genevieve F. Greer STEEDLY

“Influences on Gender Roles in Two Burmese Migrant Communities in Thailand”

Priya Gupta SUBRAMANIAN/VAIDYA

“’No a las papeleras’: Environmental protest and community construction in Argentina and Uruguay”

Anand Vaidya is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Sociology is joint secondary field:

Kelsey Trey Leonard LIEBMANN

“Performatives of Sovereignty: The Shinnecock Indian Nation”

Megha Majumdar STEEDLY

“A Moving Ethic: Humanitarianism in Gulu, Uganda”

Winner of Evon Z. Vogt Prize for outstanding 2010 thesis in social anthropology

Coral Rose Martin QUIMBAYA

“Bringing Brazil to Boston: An Examination of Language, Belonging and Ethno-racial Identity among Brazilian Immigrants in the Boston Area”

Illiana Quimbaya is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Emily Martorano R. WATSON/DHAKA

“Confronting the Past and the Nation in the Buenos Aires Tango Show”

Ujala Dhaka is a doctoral student in social anthropology

African and African-American Studies is joint primary field:

Andrea L. Raines MOHAMAD

“The Freshest Kicks: The Celebration of American Identity through Sneaker Culture in Harvard Square”

Arafat Mohamad is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Music is joint secondary field:

Jordan A. Reddout SHELEMAY

“Tienes Que Vivirlo: You have to Live it. A Study into the Cultural Impact and Social Significance of Flamenco in Casabermeja, Spain”

Prof. Kay Shelemay is an anthropologist in the Music Dept.

Graduated March, 2010:

Mary Rockas THOMPSON/THEIDON

Changing Spaces, Changing Minds: Fat-Positive Social Spaces and How They Change the World

Phyllis Thompson is a doctoral student in WGS

Grace Ryan KLEINMAN

“The Invisible: Representing the Madness in Accra, Ghana”

Charlotte Twaalfhoven LAHIRI

“’A Priest is Who I Am’: Processing Priestly Identity at St. John’s Seminary”

Camille Maria Vasquez KLEINMAN/HANNA

“Central Plaza: An Ethnography of Aging in an Assisted Living Residence”

Bridget Hanna is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Bianca A. Verma KLEINMAN/McDOWELL

“Segmented Selves: Success, Sadness and Society Among Second-Generation Indian American Youths in Queens, NY”

Andrew McDowell is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Risa Miriam Ward AHMED/HANNA

“AmeriCorps and the Meaning of National Service in the United States”

Bridget Hanna is a doctoral student in social anthropology

2009

ADVISERS [Caps]/Readers

Winner of Evon Z. Vogt Prize for outstanding 2009 thesis in social anthropology

Ola Aljawhary DHAKA/CATON

The Border Dwellers: Palestinians Negotiating Identity in Al-Arish, Egypt”

Ujala Dhaka is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Kirk Christian Bansak FULLWILEY

“Biodefense in Boston: The Political Controversy, Profound Social Stakes, and Threat of Incurable Diseases Concerning a High-Containment Laboratory”

Nita (Bhavnit) Kaur Bhatia HANNA/KLEINMAN

“Stories Under the Skin: The Gendered Lived Experience of Female Vitiligo Patients in Chandigarh, India”

Bridget Hanna is a doctoral student in social anthropology

This thesis won a Hoopes Prize:

Wilmarie Cidre Serrano HERZFELD

“From Nursery to Nursing Home: Catalonia’s Changing Language Ideologies”

African and African-American Studies is primary field:

Karma F. Frierson MATORY

“Silences in Mentions: The Narration of Slavery in Charleston’s Tourism”

also working with Prof. Susan O’Donovan, History

Grace M. Gu PERIC

“Oregon Terroir: Re-imagining Place and Identity in the Willamette Valley Wine Industry”

Sabrina Peric is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Won-Jin Jo MURRAY/HERZFELD

“Cultural Intimacy, Discrimination and Neoliberalism: Understanding ‘Immigrants’ Failures’ in Sweden”

Andrea Murray is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Caitlin Leslie Mika Kakigi GOLLATZ/KLEINMAN

“Embodied Metaphor, Aesthetic Experience, and Healing: Dance Therapy in Paris, France”

Garner Gollatz is a doctoral student in social anthropology; Dr. Deborah Foster is Head Tutor in Folklore & Myth.

This thesis won a Hoopes Prize:

Paul Jeffrey Ramirez Leopando JASANOFF

“’Protected By Angels’: Ecology and Spirituality in a North European Intentional Community”

Sheila Jasanoff is at the JFK School of Government[??]

Eric I. Lu HUANG/KLEINMAN

“The Politics of Recovery: An Ethnographic Study of Substance Abuse Recovery in Taiwan”

Hsuan-Ying Huang is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Nick Rizzo GRAYMAN/KLEINMAN/Caton

“Ethics and Moral Experience in Combat: Conversations with Anthropologists in the Human Terrain System”

Jesse Grayman is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Katherine Sachs BENTON/KLEINMAN/Willen

“’Depression Took Over and Set Me for Life’: Space, Morality, and Agency in African Immigrants’ Narratives of Depression”

Adia Benton is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Cristiana Strava McINTOSH/TAYLOR

“With Half a Mouth: Narrating Pasts Through Personal Memories in Post-Communist Romania”

Laurie McIntosh is a doctoral student in social anthropology

2009 (continued) ADVISERS [Caps]/READERS

This thesis won a Hoopes Prize:

Yunxue Xu KLEINMAN/Dasgupta/Newendorp

“The Guizhou, China Campaign to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: A Case Study of Social Mobilization in Public Health”

Samuel Benjamin Zegas CATON

“Tristes Diplomatiques: Insularity in U.S. Diplomatic Communities”

2008

HOOPES PRIZE WINNER:

East Asian Studies is secondary field:

Jordan C. Baehr PUETT

“From Every Subtle Thing We Do: Capitalist Socialization in Communist China”

Prof. Michael Puett is in the East Asian Studies Dept.

Regina Nana Pomaa Bediako BESTOR

“Of Salarymen and ‘Louis Vuitton Dons’: Consumerism and the Changing Face of Japanese Masculinity”

East Asian Studies is secondary field:

Nicole Buckley WANG

“China’s Nostalgic Youth: An Anthropological Study of the Effects of Postmodern Identity-Formation on Shanghai Television Consumption”

Prof. David Wang is in the East Asian Studies Dept.

HOOPES PRIZE WINNER:

Curtis Chan HERZFELD

“Being B-Boys: Style, Identity, and Respect Among New England and Miami Street Dancers”

HOOPES PRIZE, and winner of Hammond Prize (DRCLAS for best thesis on Latin America), and co-winner of Evon Z. Vogt Prize (for best Social Anthro thesis of 2008):

Denise Linda Delaney THEIDON/THOMAS

“Marginalization and Violence: The experience of being a desplazado in the Colombian capital”

Kedron Thomas is a doctoral student in social anthropology

HOOPES PRIZE WINNER and co-winner of Evon Z. Vogt Prize (for best Social Anthro thesis of 2008)

Darja Djordjevic HERZFELD/THEIDON

“Persecution and the Double Blind: An Ethnographic Study of Women Asylum Seekers at the Comité médical pour les exilés”

HOOPES PRIZE WINNER:

Chiazotam N. Ekekezie FULLWILEY/AULINO

“’Make Jealousy for Her’: Witchcraft, ‘Modernity,’ and Local Anxieties about Moralized Reproduction in Malawi”

Felicity Aulino is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Jamie Elizabeth Greenman MULLIGAN

“Feministas and Chiquitas: Reproductive and Sexual Rights Activism Among Chilean Women”

Dr. Jessica Mulligan is a lecturer on anthropology

Diane Guité NAKISSA

“From Radical Islam to ‘Smoke and Mirrors’: The Trajectory of Islamic Finance and its Effects on Religious Belief”

Aryeh Nakissa is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Isaac Hans Kenneth Ickes STEEDLY

“Onipa’a!: A Study of Hawaiian Protest Music and Identity”

Margaret Klein HO/THOMAS

“Reading with the Whole Heart: An Empathic Ethnography of the College Student Readers of Dating Self-Help Books”

Kedron Thomas is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Michael L. Manco-Johnson, Jr. TAYLOR/ McLAUGHLIN

“Of Hooves and ‘Hands’: ‘Liminal’ Rites of Passage on a ‘New Western’ Recreational Ranch”

Castle McLaughlin is in the Peabody Museum

Kenneth W. McKinley SMITH

“Who Decides? The Intersubjectivity of live organ transplant in Argentina and the United States”

Lindsay Smith is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Samuel T. Ray CATON

“A New Community for Darfur’s Displaced Fur Tribe: Two Perspectives on Language Revitalization in Khartoum”

Nicola Ulibarri PETERS

“Sense of Place in a Changing World: Identity, Ritual, and Globalization in Ocongate, Peru”

Dr. Pauline Peters is a lecturer on anthropology

Nina L. Vizcarrondo THOMAS

"Cooperativism in Guatemala: Contradictions, Chimeras and Conflict"

Kedron Thomas is a doctoral student in social anthropology

Lulu Zhou R. WATSON

“Birth of a Profession: Social Workers and the Search for Their Social Space in Beijing, China”