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Jason Alley
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alleyjason@earthlink.net |
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Social Sciences 1, 337 |
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Aging & the life course, urbanisms, visual culture & media worlds, anthropology of publics, the United States. |
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Cristie Boone
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cboone@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 427 |
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Wed 10:45am-12:15pm |
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My current project concerns fish remains from an archaeological site in Monterey Bay. I'm interested in seeing if we can sort out human overexploitation from climate change effects in the relative abundances of fish species through time. By combining current fisheries research with archaeological data and knowledge of prehistoric fishing practices, I hope to gain a greater understanding of the interactive relationship between people and the marine environment.
I received my B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. My archaeological fieldwork experience includes three summers in Quebec (along the shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway), one in Russia on the Kuril Islands, a fieldschool on Kodiak Island in Alaska, and a Medieval project in southern France. At UC Santa Cruz, I am studying faunal analysis with Diane Gifford-Gonzalez as my advisor. |
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Heath Cabot
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heathcabot@yahoo.com |
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Social Sciences 1, 339 |
| Personal Page: |
http://www.sparethings.org/heathcabot/index.html |
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Areas of interest and expertise: migration; asylum; rights regimes; law and legal anthropology; humanitarianism; nation and citizenship; NGO’s; language and translation; narrative; urban memory; Greece, the Mediterranean, Europe.
My dissertation, Translating Law and Lives: Asylum and Legal Aid in Athens, examines dilemmas of political belonging, legal classification, and humanitarianism at an NGO that provides legal counsel to asylum seekers in Greece, one of the most contested border areas of the EU. I explore how NGO clients, interpreters, and lawyers build asylum cases through the telling and translating of life histories in diverse contexts, and how informal innovations in asylum cases do and do not translate into formal law.
I have recently begun a new project, tentatively entitled The Lacunic City: Athens, Migration, and the New Nation, on emerging forms of urban identity and memory in Athens in the wake of recent mass immigration. I am also developing a long-term ethnographic project that explores the interrelationships between rapidly changing, and extraordinarily fraught, Greek attitudes toward the state, the family, and “nature” (fisi) as agents of care and social support.
I am interested in initiating conversations, across disciplinary and geo-political borders, about common problems facing affected communities, practitioners, and policy makers in the domains of labor and asylum related migration. |
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Conal Guan-Yow Ho
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conalho@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 337 |
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Diaspora, migration, expatriacy, globalisation, nationalism, cultural belonging, home//Ghana, Chinese, West Africa.
Dissertation: Migrancy of Liminality: Negotiating National and Cultural Belonging Among Chinese Expatriates in Ghana |
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Anna Higgins
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ahiggins@ucsc.edu. |
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Social Sciences 1, 337 |
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Pregnancy and reproduction, fetal education, syncretic use of multiple traditions of science and medicine, intelligence, and cosmopolitanism in Beijing. |
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Chelsey Juarez
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Teaching Fellow |
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cjuarez@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-1481 Office |
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Social Sciences 1, 435 |
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Wed 2pm-5pm |
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Forensic Anthropology, functional anatomy, skeletal biology. |
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Joanie McCollom
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joanie@stanfordalumni.org |
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Social Sciences 1, 408 |
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My research interests include Malaysia, information technology and the Internet, and the production of the nation and it's economy. |
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Jason Rodriguez
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| Email: |
rigo311@hotmail.com |
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Social Sciences 1, 331 |
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Fri 3:15-4:15pm |
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Translating Bodhgaya: A study of a women's empowerment organization and a welfare school, both of which are funded through relations of contact intelligible to the Indian State as "tourism development." This research takes place in Bodhgaya, the enlightenment site of Prince Siddhartha, located in Bihar, the state popularly understood as the most "lawless," "corrupt," "backward" state in India.
Theoretical Interests:
Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Time/Temporality, Death as (Im)Possibility, The Philosophy of Praxis, Truth Effects, Ontologies of History and the Metaphysics of Capitalism/Globalization, Reproduction of the State through Discourses of Corruption. |
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Aviva Sinervo
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asinervo@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 410 |
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My research investigates the participation of child vendors in the tourism
industry in Cusco, Peru. I am interested in children's use of narratives
about their poverty to engage tourists, as well as the children's roles as
wage-earners within their families. My current project also addresses
policies of the state and foreign aid organizations that focus on child
labor and poverty.
Areas of Research: Childhood and Child Vendors, Poverty, Charity and Aid,
Tourism.
Areas of Fieldwork: Peru, the Andes, Latin America. |
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Danny Solomon
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dsolomon@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 337 |
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(cultural anthropology) political ecology, animal studies, ethnoprimatology; religion, supernatural, monsters, popular culture; India (Delhi). |
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Noah Tamarkin
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ntamarkin@hotmail.com |
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Social Sciences 1, 337 |
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My work is in South Africa on Lemba identity, particularly in terms of the ways race and ethnicity are articulared in relation to Lemba Jewish identity and the "Jewish DNA" tests that some Lemba men participated in in the late 90's (they tested positive for "Jew.") I'm also interested in the construction of gender categories.
I graduated from Colorado College in 2000 with a BA in Anthropology. My previous research is on UNESCO World Heritage sites in Kathmandu, Nepal (focusing on issues of ownership and control of space and the politics of "cultural" tourism) and on multiple gender systems (focusing on various articulations of two-spirit, hijra, and transgender/transexual identities with a particular attention to activist literature written by people who self-identify with those terms). |
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Bregje van Eekelen
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bregje@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 410 |
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Anthropology of Knowledge; Modern Societies and their Genealogies; Economic Anthropology; Social Studies of Finance; (Social) Science and Technology Studies; Work & Governance; Anthropology of Policy and Expertise; Postcolonial Studies of Europe & USA; Language & War; Continental Philosophy and Cultural Theory; History of Anthropological Thought.
My dissertation, The Social Life of Ideas: Economies of Knowledge (2009) is an
anthropological and historical study of the phenomenon of a “knowledge economy.”
My research has been funded by numerous grants. Amongst them, UC
Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UvA Employability Fund
Fellowship, Catharina van Tussenbroek Fellowship, Henriette Sara De Lanoy
Meijer Fellowship, Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Prins Bernhard
Cultuurfonds Fellowship, University of California Regents Fellowship,
Nationale Talentenbeurs, Vrouwe van Renswoude Fellowship, and a Fulbright
NAF Scholarship.
I am also developing a future project, provisionally titled Brainstorms: Fragments of A Mental Discourse.
Finally, I am developing a new project on the changing notions of “work”. |
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