Recent Department of
Anthropology Ph.D. Recipients
Received 2005
Omowale Adenrele
Dissertation
Title: Nurturing the
Nation? Ethnicity, Gender, and Family Planning in Trinidad
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad Kottak
Megan Callaghan
Dissertation
Title: Our Whack of the
Woods: Young People, Public Space, and IRA Authority in a Belfast Housing
Estate
Dissertation
Chairs: Janet Hart
Carla Daughtry
Dissertation
Title: Shifting Grounds:
Southern Sudanese Asylum-Seekers in Cairo
Dissertation
Chairs: Andrew Shryock and
Brinkley Messick
Jeffrey Jurgens
Dissertation
Title: Plotting
Immigration: Diasporic Identity Formulation Among
Immigrants from
Dissertation
Chairs: Jennifer Robertson
Erica Lehrer
Dissertation
Title: ‘Shoah-Business,’ ‘Holocaust Culture,’ and the Repair of the
World in Empathy, and the Ethnic Self After Genocide
Dissertation
Chairs: Ruth Behar and Janet
Hart
Jessaca Leinaweaver
Dissertation
Title: Familiar Ways:
Child Circulation in Andean Peru
Dissertation
Chairs: Bruce Mannheim
Kenneth MacLean
Dissertation
Title: The Arts of
Disclosure: Peasant-Bureaucrats, Historiography, and State Socialism in Viet
Nam
Dissertation
Chairs: Fernando Coronil and
Ann Stoler
Pablo Nepomnaschy
Dissertation
Title: Stress and Female
Reproduction in a Rural Mayan Population
Dissertation
Chairs: Bobbi Low
Robert Sherman
Dissertation
Title: Settlement
Heterogeneity in the Zapotec State: A View from Yaasuchi, Oaxaa, Mexico
Dissertation
Chairs: Joyce Marcus
Genese Sodikoff
Dissertation
Title: Reserve Labor: A
Moral Ecology of Conservation in Madagascar
Dissertation
Chairs: Gillian Feeley-Harnick and Kelly Askew
Laura Villamil
Dissertation
Title: Divergent Cityscapes: Urban Patterns at two
Ancient Maya Centers in Central Quintana Roo, Mexico
Dissertation
Chairs: Joyce Marcus
Received 2004
Elizabeth Abrams
Dissertation
Title: Malaria During
Pregnancy: Physiological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Poor Birth Outcomes
Dissertation
Chairs: Andres R. Frisancho
and Steven R. Meshnick
Daniel Bass
Dissertation
Title: A Place on the
Plantations: Up-Country Tamil Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Dissertation
Chair: Jennifer Robertson
Luke Bergmann
Dissertation
Title: Owners,
Occupants and Outcasts: Young Drug Hustlers in Detroit, Making Money, Time and
Space.
Dissertation
Chairs: Tom Fricke, Fernando
Coronil
Robert Brubaker
Dissertation
Title: Cornerstones of
Control: The Infrastructure of Imperial Security at Vijayanagara,
South India
Dissertation
Chair: Carla M. Sinopoli
E. Summerson
Carr
Dissertation
Title: Flipping the
Script: Language Ideology and Linguistic Strategy in a Drug Treatment Program
for Homeless Women.
Dissertation
Chair: Janet Hart
Liviu Chelcea
Dissertation
Title: State, Kinship and
Urban Transformations During and After Housing Nationalization (Bucharest,
Romania, 1945-2004)
Dissertation
Chairs: Katherine Verdery
Joanne Cunningham
Dissertation
Title: “Don’t be making
big of yourself”: Self-Narratives of Mood Disorders and Alcoholism in Dublin,
Ireland
Dissertation
Chairs: Larry Hirschfeld
Gisela Fosado
Dissertation
Title: The Exchange of
Sex for Money in Contemporary Cuba: Masculinity, Ambiguity, and Love
Dissertation
Chair: Ruth Behar
Rachel Heiman
Dissertation
Title: Driving After
Class: Youth and the Cultural Politics
of Suburban Life in the Boom Economy
Dissertation Chair: Lawrence Hirschfeld
William Honeychurch
Dissertation
Title: Inner Asian
Warriors and Khans: A Regional Spatial Analysis of Nomadic Political
Organization and Interaction
Dissertation
Chairs: Carla M. Sinopoli and
Henry T. Wright
Eugene Morin
Dissertation
Title: Late Pleistocene
Population Interaction in Western Europe and Modern Human Origins: New Insights
Based on the Faunal Remains From Saint-Cesaire,
Dissertation
Chair: Robert Whallon
Douglas Rogers
Dissertation
Title: An Ethics of
Transformation: Work, Prayer, and Moral Practice in the Russian Urals,
1861-2001
Dissertation
Chair: Katherine Verdery
Elizabeth Sobel
Dissertation
Title: Social Complexity
and Corporate Households on the Souther Northwest
Coast of North America, A.D. 1450-1855
Dissertation
Chairs: John O’Shea and John
Speth
Julie Solometo
Dissertation
Title: The Conduct and
Consequences of War: Dimensions of Conflict in East-Central Arizona
Dissertation
Chair: John Speth
Jennifer Tilton
Dissertation
Title: Dangerous and
Endangered Children: Representations of Youth and Political Struggles to Shape
the State and the City
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
Christopher Timura
Dissertation
Title: The Globalizing
Expertise of British and American Conflict Resolution Specialists
Dissertation
Chairs: Conrad Kottak
Tomomi Yamaguchi
Dissertation
Title: Feminism
Fractured: An Ethnography of the Dissolution and
Textual Reinvention of a Japanese Feminist Group
Dissertation
Chair: Jennifer E.
Robertson
Received 2003
Derek Pomeroy Brereton
Dissertation
Title: Kinship and
Landscape at Squam Lake, New Hampshire.
Dissertation
Chair: Erik A. Mueggler
Maria Bianet Castellanos
Dissertation
Title: Gustos and Gender: Yucatec Maya
Migration to the Mexican Riviera.
Dissertation
Chair: Ruth Behar
John F. Collins
Dissertation
Title: The Revolt of the
Saints: Popular Memory, Urban Renewal
and National Heritage in the Twilight of Brazilian “Racial Democracy”.
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
Ronald Alan Covey
Dissertation
Title: The Vilcanota Valley (Peru): Inka
State Formation and the Evolution of Imperial Strategies.
Dissertation
Chair: Joyce Marcus
Gwen Colleen Dewar
Dissertation
Title: Innovation and
Social Transmission in Nonhuman Animals: A Cost-Benefit Model of the Predictive
Function of Social and Nonsocial Cues.
Dissertation
Chair: John C. Mitani
Elise Marie Edwards
Dissertation
Title: The “Ladies
League”: Gender Politics, National Identity, and Professional Sports in Japan.
Dissertation
Chair: Jennifer E.
Robertson
Christina M. Elson
Dissertation
Title: Elites at Cerro Tilcajete: A Secondary Center in the Valley of Oaxaca,
Mexico.
Dissertation
Chair: Joyce Marcus
Juliet Serenyi
Erazo
Dissertation
Title: Constructing
Autonomy: Indigenous Organizations,
Governance, and Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 1964-2001.
Dissertation
Chairs: Steven R. Brechin and Fernando Coronil
Helen M. Faller
Dissertation
Title: One Nation
Divisible: the Unmaking of Soviet People in Tatarstan,
Russia
Dissertation
Chair: Alaina Lemon
Lars Fogelin
Dissertation
Title: Beyond the
Monastery Walls: The Archaeology of Early Buddhism in North Coastal Andhra
Pradesh, India.
Dissertation
Chair: Carla M. Sinopoli
Severin Fowles
Dissertation
Title: The Making of Made
People: The Prehistoric Evolution of Hierocracy Among the Northern Tiwa of New Mexico
Dissertation
Chair: Richard I. Ford
James Patrick Herron
Dissertation
Title: Animating the
State: Discourses of Authority and Intimacy in the Colombian Agrarian Bank.
Dissertation
Chair: Bruce Mannheim
David John Karjanen
Dissertation
Title: The Politics of
Production in Postsocialism: Case Studies from Light
Industry in the Slovak Republic.
Dissertation
Chair: Katherine Verdery
Oren Kosansky
Dissertation
Title: All Dear Unto
God: Saints, Pilgrimage and Textual
Practice in Jewish Morocco.
Dissertation
Chair: E. Valentine Daniel
Patricia Gonzalez Lange
Dissertation
Title: Virtual Trouble:
Negotiating Access in Online Communities.
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
Amy Elizabeth Lawson
Dissertation
Title: Megaliths and Mande States: Socio-Political Change in the Gambia Valley
over the Past Two Millennia.
Dissertation
Chairs: Carla M. Sinopoli and
Henry T. Wright
Julian Mills Murchison
Dissertation
Title: Outside the Reach
of the X-Ray: Traditional Healing and Biomedicine in Southern Tanzania.
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
John William Norder
Dissertation
Title: Marking Place and
Creating Space in Northern Algonquian Landscapes: The Rock-Art of the Lake of
the Woods Region, Ontario.
Dissertation
Chairs: Richard I. Ford and
John M. O’Shea
Karen Strassler
Dissertation
Title: Refracted
Visions: Popular Photography and the
Indonesian Culture of Documentation in Postcolonial Java.
Dissertation Chair: Ann L. Stoler
Received 2002
Sarah de la Roche Munro
Dissertation
Title: “We Don’t All Wear
Black”: Gender and Civil Society in the Antimafia
Movement in Sicily.
Dissertation
Chair: Janet Carol Hart
Elizabeth D. de la Portilla
Dissertation
Title: San Antonio as a
Magical Crossroads: Healing and Spirituality in the Borderlands.
Dissertation
Chairs: Ruth Behar and
Richard I. Ford
Kamyar Abdi
Dissertation
Title: Strategies of
Herding: Pastoralism
in the Middle Chalcolithic Period of the West Central
Zagros Mountains.
Dissertation
Chair: Henry T. Wright
Martha G. Baker
Dissertation
Title: Citizenship on the
Septic Fringe: Urban Social Policy and Peri-Urban
Development in Kisumu, Kenya.
Dissertation
Chair: David W. Cohen
Graciela Susana Cabana
Dissertation
Title: A Demographic
Simulation Model to Assess Prehistoric Migrations.
Dissertation
Chairs: David Andrew Merriwether and John D. Speth
Lara Jan Descartes
Dissertation
Title: A Comparative
Study of Informal Support Networks in Culver City, California.
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
Maureen P. Feeney
Dissertation
Title: Freedom to Speak:
Vietnamese Reeducation and the Search for Cold War Refuge.
Dissertation
Chair: Ann L. Stoler
Brian A. Hoey
Dissertation
Title: Changing Places:
Life-Style Migration, Refuge, and the Quest for Potential Selves in the
Midwest’s Post-Industrial Middle Class.
Dissertation
Chair: Thomas E. Fricke
Keith Lee Hunley
Dissertation
Title: The
Anthropological Utility of Genetic Data in Small-Scale Populations: Migration
Rates and Patterns Among the Yanomamö.
Dissertation
Chair: David Andrew Merriwether
Renato Kipnis
Dissertation
Title: Foraging Societies
of Eastern
Dissertation
Chair: John D. Speth
Laura Ellen Kunreuther
Dissertation
Title: Domestic Archives:
Memory and Home in Kathmandu.
Dissertation
Chairs: E. Valentine Daniel
and Ann L. Stoler
Mandana E. Limbert
Dissertation
Title: Of Ties and Time:
Sociality, Gender and Modernity in an Omani Town.
Dissertation
Chairs: Alexander D. Knysh and Brinkley M. Messick
Morgan Y. Liu
Dissertation
Title: Recognizing the
Khan: Authority, Space, and Political Imagination Among Uzbek Men in
Post-Soviet Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
Dissertation
Chair: Brinkley M. Messick
Brian Malley
Dissertation
Title: The Bible Among
American Bible Believers: An Anthropological Analysis.
Dissertation
Chair: Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Janet S. McIntosh
Dissertation
Title: The Edge of Islam:
Religion, Language and Essentialism on the Kenya Coast.
Dissertation
Chair: Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Ellen Moodie
Dissertation
Title: “It’s Worse Than the War”: Telling Everyday Danger in Postwar San
Salvador.
Dissertation
Chair: Ruth Behar
Brian J. Mooney
Dissertation
Title: The Bhopal
Disaster: Discourse and Narrative in the Ethnography of an Event.
Dissertation
Chairs: Brinkley M. Messick and Ann L. Stoler
Christopher M. O’Leary
Dissertation
Title: Class Formation,
Diet and Economic Transformation in Two Brazilian Fishing Communities.
Dissertation
Chair: Conrad P. Kottak
Esra Ozyurek
Dissertation
Title: Nostalgia for the
Modern: Privatization of the State Ideology in Turkey.
Dissertation
Chair: Andrew J. Shryock
Aaron Jonas Stutz
Dissertation
Title: Pursuing Past
Seasons: A Re-evaluation of Cementum Increment
Analysis in Paleolithic Archaeology.
Dissertation
Chairs: John D. Speth and
Robert E. Whallon, Jr.
Received 2001
Zoe Crossland
Dissertation
Title: Ny Tany
Dissertation
Chair: Henry T. Wright
Sarah Huntington Jessup
Dissertation
Title: Staging
Traditional Chinese Opera in the Reform Era: Conflicting Local Identities in
Modernization.
Dissertation
Chairs: Norma J. Diamond and
Erik A. Mueggler
W. Flagg
Miller
Dissertation
Title: Inscribing the
Muse: Political Poetry and the Discourse of Circulation in the Yemeni Cassette
Industry.
Dissertation
Chairs: Bruce Mannheim and
Brinkley M. Messick