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Ph.D. Recipient Dissertations

Name
Dissertation Title
June 1997
Kamari Clark
Genealogies of Reclaimed Nobility: The Geotemporality of Yoruba Belonging
Deborah Connolly
Mothering in the Margins: An Ethnography of Homeless Mothers in a Northwest Community
June 1998
Katherine Spilde
Acts of Sovereignty, Acts of Identity: Negotiating Interdependence Through Tribal Government Gaming on the White Earth Indian Reservation
September 1998
Kristin Bright
The Traveling Tonic: Tradition, Commodity, and the Body in Unani (Greco-Roman) Medicine in India
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
March 2000
Lena Sawyer
Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm, Sweden
Michelle Rosenthal
Violent Pasts, Democratic Futures: Engendering Cultural Citizenship in the New South Africa
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
September 2000
Cori Hayden
When Nature Goes Public: An Ethnography of Bio-Prospecting in Mexico
December 2000
Henry Goldschmidt
Peoples Apart: Race, 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
June 2001
Cathy Clayton
If We Are Not Different, We Will Cease to Exist:" Culture and Identity in Transition-Era Macau
Lyn Jeffery
Selling Selves: Meanings of the Market in the People's Republic of China
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
December 2002
Anna Lorrie Anderson
Of One Accord: Garifuna Collective Action and the Social Transformation of the Guatemalan Peace process in Labuga (1996-1998)
March 2003
Clayton Hurd
Belonging in School: The Politics of Race, Class, and Citizenship in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District
Steven Kurzman
Performing Able-Bodiedness: Amputees and Prosthetics in America
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
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
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 Philadephia's Public Schools
March 2004
Ulrika Dahl
Knowledge and Gendered Stories of Development in the Northern Periphery of the EU
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
September 2004
Shiho Satsuka
Traveling Nature, Imagining the Globe: Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies
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
March 2006
Megan Moodie
Culture of Freedom? The Gendered Intimacies of Modernization in Rajasthan, India
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
September 2006
Sasha Welland
Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China's Capital
December 2006
Alejandra Kramer
When the Political is Personal: Right Wing Women Politicians Negotiate Power in Democratic Chile
June 2007
David Machledt
Moving Risk: Binational Bureaucracies, Tuberculosis, and the "Foreign Born" at the United States/Mexico Border
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
Policy and Practice in Antarctic
September 2008
 
Jon Anjaria
Unruly Streets: Everday Practices and Promises of Globality in Mumbai
Yen-ling Tsai
Strangers who are not foreign: Intimate exclusion and racialized boundary in urban Indonesia
December 2008
 
Patrik Lundh
Cultivating Rights: Russia's Rights Defenders and the Interstices of Formal and Informal Morality
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