Ph.D. Recipient Dissertations

  • August 2012

    Roosbelinda Cardenas
    Articulations of Blackness:
    Journeys of an Emplaced Politics in Colombia 

  • June 2012

    Jason Alley
    When You're 64:
    Publics, Aging and Community in San Francisco

    Lauren Zephro
    Determining the Timing and Mechanism of Fracture in Bovine Bone

  • March 2012

    Cristie Boone
    Integrating Zooarchaeology and Modeling:
    Trans-Holocene Fishing In Monterey Bay, California

    Tia-Nicole Leak
    Testing Virginity:
    HIV/AIDS, Modernity & Ethnicity In Post-Apartheid South Africa

  • June 2011

    Melissa Hackman
    Born-Again Masculinity:
    "Ex-Gay" and Pentecostal Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Zeb Rifaqat
    The Governance Game:
    Contradictory Discourses of Power, Politics, and Change in Pakistan

    Jason Rodriguez
    Translating Desires in Bodhgaya:
    Buddhism and Development in the Land of Buddha's Enlightenment

    Aviva Sinervo
    Appeals of Childhood:
    Child Vendors, Volunteer Tourists, and Visions of Aid in Cusco, Peru

    Bettina Stoetzer
    At the Forest Edges of the City:
    Nature, Race and National Belonging in Berlin

    Noah Tamarkin
    (Lost) Tribes to Citizens:
    Lemba 'Black Jews' Engage the South African State

    James Todd
    The Anatomy of a Race:
    Labor, Salvation and the Intimacy of Spectacle in NASCAR® Nation

  • March 2011

    Chelsey Juarez
    Geolocation: 
    A Pathway to Identification for Deceased Undocumented Border Crossers

  • June 2010

    Heath Cabot
    Translating Law and Lives: Asylum and Legal Aid in Athens

    Cris Hughes 

    Joanie McCollom
    History On Its Side: Narratives of "Malaysia" and Beyond

    Marissa Ramsier
    The Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Auditory Sensitivity

  • March 2010

    Jeff Smith
    Moonlighter's Paradise:
    From the Land of Iron and Steel to the Land of Irony and Stealing

    Bregje van Eekelen
    The Social Life of Ideas: Economies of Knowledge

  • December 2009

    Ruby Rodriguez
    The Role of Religious Institutions in the Incorporation of
    Latin American and Latino/a Immigrants and Migrants in the North American Midwest

  • September 2009

    Jeremy Campbell
    The Social Life of an Amazonian Highway:
    Speculation, Mobility, and Development Politics in Brazil

    Riet Deising
    Articulating Rapa Nui:
    Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State

  • June 2009

    Sarah Ginn
    Creating Community in Spanish California:
    An Investigation of California Plainwares

    Charlotte Sunseri
    Spatial Economies of Precontact Exchange in the Greater Monterey Bay Area, California

    Jun Sunseri
    Nowhere to Run, Everywhere to Hide:
    Multi-scalar Identity Practices at Casitas Viejas

    Kanokwan (Gaye) Tharawan
    Private Dance Floor in Public Space:
    Contested Sexualities Among Thai Women

  • December 2008

    Patrick Lundh
    Cultivating Rights:
    Russia's Rights Defenders and the Interstices of Formal and Informal Morality

  • September 2008

    Jon Anjaria
    Unruly Streets: Everyday Practices and Promises of Globality in Mumbai

    Yen-ling Tsai
    Strangers Who Are Not Foreign:
    Intimate Exclusion and Racialized Boundary in Urban Indonesia

  • June 2008

    Eunice Blavascunas,
    The Peasant and Communist Past in the Making of an Ecological Region:
    Podlasie, Poland 

    John Marlovits
    Fugues of Depression:
    An Ethnography of Affect and Mental Illness in Seattle 

    Jessica O'Reilly

  • June 2007

    David Machledt, 
    Moving Risk:
    Binational Bureaucracies, Tuberculosis, and the "Foreign Born" at the United States/Mexico Border 


  • December 2006

    Alejandra Kramer, 
    When the Political is Personal:
    Right Wing Women Politicians Negotiate Power in Democratic Chile 


  • September 2006

    Sasha Welland, 
    Experimental Beijing:
    Contemporary Art Worlds in China's Capital 

  • June 2006

    Tyler Rooker 
    Zhongguancun: The Silicon Valley of China 

    Russell Rodriguez,
    Cultural Production, Legitimation, and the Politics of Aesthetics:
    Mariachi Transmission Practice, and Performance in the United States 

    Bahiyyih Watson, 
    Technogenic Turns:
    The Production of a Public Sphere in 21st Century Urban Morocco 

    Vicki Wedel,
    Patterns of Bone Remodeling Among Enslaved and Freed Historical African Americans 


  • March 2006

    Megan Moodie,
    Culture of Freedom?
    The Gendered Intimacies of Modernization in Rajasthan, India

     

  • June 2005

    Afsaneh Kalantary,
    Exilic Yearnings and Diasporic Homes:
    an Ethnography of Memory, Place, Race and Gender among Iranian Exiles in Berlin, Germany 

    Roshanak Kheshti,
    Resoundingly Different:
    Desire and Alterity in the U.S. World Beat Culture Industry 

  • September 2004

    Shiho Satsuka,
    Traveling Nature, Imaging the Globe:
    Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies 


  • June 2004

    Debra Bolter, 
    Anatomical Growth Patterns in Colobine Monkeys and Implications for Primate Evolution 

    Kristen Cheney,
    The Pillars of the Nation:
    Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development 

    Kale Fajardo,
    Filipino Cross Currents:
    Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization


  • March 2004

    Ulrika Dahl, 
    Knowledge and Gendered Stories of Development in the Northern Periphery of the EU 

  • December 2003

    Cynthia Gabriel,
    Being Born in a Nation that is Dying:
    Childbirth and the Medical System in Postsocialist Russia

    Leah Mundell,
    Community in the Making:
    Faith-Based Organizations in the Battles for Philadelphia's Public Schools     

  • September 2003

    Alejandra Castaneda
    Politics of Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States

    Lieba Faier
    On Being Oyomesan: Filipina Migrants and Their Japanese Families in Central Kiso

  • June 2003

    Tim Choy,
    Politics by Example:
    An Ethnography of Environmental Emergences in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

    Mae Lee,
    Post-Civil Rights Politics and Protagonists:
    Corporate Diversity in Silicon Valley

    Ivelisse Rivera Bonilla,
    Divided City:
    The Proliferation of Gated Communities in San Juan


  • March 2003

    Clayton Hurd, Director of service learning in the Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University
    Belonging in School:
    The Politics of Race, Class, and Citizenship in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District

    Steven Kurzman, Sr. Product Manager at Kaiser Permanente's Health Plan Institute 
    Performing Able-Bodiedness:
    Amputees and Prosthetics in America 


  • December 2002

    Anna Lorrie Anderson
    Of One Accord:
    Garifuna Collective Action and the Social Transformation of the Guatemalan Peace Process in Labuga (1996-1998) 


  • September 2001

    Scott Morgensen,
    Metropolitan Desires, Utopian Practices:
    Contesting Race, Sex, and Other Colonial Legacies in US Queer Communities

    Robin Whitaker, 
    Talking Politics: 
    Gender and Political Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process 


  • June 2001

    Cathy Clayton, 
    "If We Are Not Different, We Will Cease to Exist:"
    Culture and Identity in Transition-Era Macau 

    Lyn Jeffery, Director, Technology Horizons Program
    Selling Selves:
    Meanings of the Market in the People's Republic of China 


  • December 2000

    Henry Goldschmidt, 
    Peoples Apart:
    Religion and Other Jewish Differences in Crown Heights 

    Renee Rothman,
    Aikido Sensibilities:
    The Sociosomatics of Connection and Its Role in The Constitution of Community at North Bay Aikido in Santa Cruz, California 

  • September 2000

    Cori Hayden, 
    When Nature Goes Public:
    An Ethnography of Bio-Prospecting in Mexico 


  • June 2000

    Benjamin Chesluk
    Money Jungle:
    Race and Real Estate in the "New Times Square"

    Debra Klein, 
    Yoruba Bàtá:
    Politics of Pop Tradition in Erin-Osun and Overseas


  • March 2000

    Lena Sawyer, 
    Black and Swedish:
    Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm, Sweden     

    Michelle Rosenthal, Associate Director, Programs and Communication
    Violent Pasts, Democratic Futures:
    Engendering Cultural Citizenship in the New South Africa     

  • June 1999

    Isar Godreau
    Missing the Mix:
    San Anton and the Racial Dynamics of "Nationalism" in Puerto Rico     

    Krista Harper,
    From Green Dissidents to Green Skeptics:
    Environmental Activists and Post-Social Political Ecology in Hungary

    Galen Joseph, 
    Civilizing the Nation:
    Argentine Narratives of Education, Race and Democracy 


  • September 1998

    Kristin Bright, Research Coordinator of the Center of Excellence (COE) in Breast Cancer
    The Traveling Tonic:
    Tradition, Commodity, and the Body in Unani (Greco-Roman) Medicine in India 


  • June 1998

    Katherine Spilde, 
    Acts of Sovereignty, Acts of Identity:
    Negotiating Interdependence Through Tribal Government Gaming on the White Earth Indian Reservation


  • June 1997

    Kamari Clarke
    Genealogies of Reclaimed Nobility: The Geotemporality of Yoruba Belonging

    Deborah Connolly
    Mothering in the Margins: An Ethnography of Homeless Mothers in a Northwest Community 

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