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DateNameField Research LocationDissertationCurrent Location
1980Donald BillingsleyCayor"Groundnut Cooperatives and Social Change in Cayor"
1980Robert WellerTaiwan"Unity and Diversity in Chinese Religious Ideology"Boston University
1981Charles CarnegieSt. Lucia"Human Maneuver, Option-Building, & Trade: An Essay on Caribbean Social Organization"Bates College
1981Ewa HauserRhode Island"Ethnicity and Class Consciousness in a Polish American Community"University of Rochester
1981Gary McDonoghSpain"Good Families: A Social History of Power in Industrial Barcelona"Bryn Mawr College
1981Sally PriceSuriname"Women and Art in an Afro-American Society"William & Mary College
1982Trevor PurcellCosta Rica"Conformity and Dissension: Social Inequality, Values and Mobility Among West Indian Migrants in Limon, Costa Rica"University of South Florida
1983Brackette WilliamsGuyana"Cockalorums in Search of Cockaigne: Social Interaction, Status Competition, and ritual in a Rural Guyanese Community"
1983Claire WolfowitzSuriname"Styles of Speech in Suriname-Javanese"Jakarta, Indonesian Embassy
1983Eugene GalbraithBrazil"Facets of Social Experience: Household, Family, and Compadrio In a Northeast Brazilian Community"President-Director Hoare-Govett, Indonesia
1983Paul SullivanMexico"Contemporary Yucatec Maya Apocalyptic Prophecy: The Ethnographic and Historical Context"Independent Scholar
1984Alice IngersonPortugal"Corporatism and Class Consciousness in Northwestern Portugal"Applied History for Land Conservation & Urban Planning
1984Rolph TrouillotDominica"The Economic Integration of a Caribbean Peasantry: The Case of Dominica"University of Chicago
1984Scott GuggenheimPhilippines"Proletarianization and Political Change in the Northern Phillipines"World Bank, Indonesia
1985Deborah CaroBolivia"Those Who Divide Us: Resistance & Change Among Pastoral Ayllus in Ulla Ulla, Bolivia"Cultural Practice LLC
1985Deborah RubinTanzania"People of Good Heart: Rural Response to Economic Crisis in Tanzania"Cultural Practice LLC
1985Jeanne HamiltonColombia"Women in Movement: The Expansion of Education in Urban Columbia, 1950-1980"
1986Laura BentonSpain"The Role of the Informal Sector in Economic Development: Industrial Restructuring in Spain"New York University
1986Patricia Torres-MejiaPhilippines"Before Smoking. Social Relations Involved in Tobacco Production in a Philippine Setting"University of Ibero Americana
1987Ira LowenthalHaiti"Marriage is 20, Children are 21: The Cultural Construction of Conjugality And the family in Rural Haiti"America?s Development Foundation, Haiti
1988Deborah HeathSenegal"The Politics of Signifying Practice in Kaolack, Senegal: Hegemony and the Dialectic of Autonomy and Domination"Lewis and Clark College
1989Gertrude FraserVirginia"Afro-American Midwives, Biomedicine And the State: And Ethnohistorical Account of Birth and its Transformation In Rural Virginia"University of Virginia
1989Lucía DesirProvidencia"Between Loyalties: Racial, Ethnic & 'National' Identity in Providencia, Columbia"Mercy College
1989Pamela Feldman-SavelsbergCameroon"Then We Were Many": Bangangté Women's Conceptions of Health, Fertility, and Social Change in a Bamiléké Chiefdom, Cameroon"Carleton College
1990Charles RutheiserBelize"Culture, Schooling, and Neocolonialism in Belize"Annie E. Casey Foundation
1990Kenneth BilbyFrench Guyana"The Remaking of the Aluku: Culture, Politics, and Maroon Ethnicity in French South America"Ctr for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies
1990Rebecca BatemanUSA"The Oklahoma Seminole and Racial Politics"
1991Samuel MartinezHaiti"Labor Circulation and Peasant Social Reproduction: Haitian Migrants and Dominican Republic Sugar Plantations"University of Connecticut
1993Catharine GoodMexico"Work & Exchange in Nahuati Society: Lost Values and the Dynamics of an Indigenous Economy"Escuela Nacional de Anthropologia y Historia
1993Diane DorfmanChina"Spirits of Reform: Power, Wealth, & Morality in Northeastern Rural China"NWREL, Portland
1993Susan BremsBrazil"Caretakers of Blood: Fertility Transition in Rural Northeast Brazil"American Embassy USAID
1994Ananta GiriIndia & USA"In the Margins of Shacks: The Vision And Practice of Habitat for Humanity"Madras Institute of Development Studies
1994Viranjini MunasingheTrinidad"Calaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and National Identity in Trinidad"Cornell University
1995Lanfranco BlanchettiPhilippines"Sea Harvesters, Traders and Corporations: Local and Global Dynamics in the World Seaweed-Carrageenan Economy"Asian Development Bank
1996Bjorn ClaesonUSA"The System Feeds on Us: An Ethnography of Poor People and Elites in a New England City"Sweatfree Communities
1996Erik MuegglerChina, Yunnan Province"Specters of Power: Ritual and Politics in an Yi Community"University of Michigan
1996Felicity NorthcottUSA"Acting in a Manner Not Usual for Law-Abiding Individuals: Constructing Homelessness in Baltimore"
1996Vineeta SinhaSingapore"Theorizing the Complex Singapore Health Scene: Reconceptualizing 'Medical Pluralism'"National Univ. of Singapore
1996Zong-cheng LinPeople's Republic of China"Shuikou in Relocation: Capital-Intensive Scheme and Cultural Adaptation to Involuntary Resettlement in the Min River Basin"World Bank
1997Kamran AliEgypt"Regulating Bodies, Organizing Selves: Planning the Family in Egypt"University of Texas, Austin
1997Karen-Sue TaussigThe Netherlands"Normal and Ordinary: Human Genetics and the Production of Dutch Identities"University of Minnesota
1997Laura OaksUSA"Expert & Everyday Perceptions of Prenatal Health Risks: An Ethnography Of Cigarette Smoking & Fetal Politics In the U.S."University of California Santa Barbara
1997Peri FletcherMexico & USA"La Casa de Mis Suenos: Migration and Houses in a Transnational Mexican Community"Univ. of California, Davis
1997Sarah HautzingerBrazil"Lady Cops, Machos, and Battered Women in Brazil: Women's Police Stations Criminalizing Spousal Violence"Colorado College
1998Elizabeth DunnPoland"Privatization and Personhood: Transforming Work in Postsocialist Poland"University of Colorado
1998Ella RayJamaica"Standing in the Lion's Shadow: Jamaican Rastafari Women Reconstructing Their African Identity"Denver Museum of Nature & Science
1998Monica Schoch-SpanaUSA"Reactor Control and Environmental Management: A Cultural Account of Agency in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex"UPMC CTR for Biosecurity
1998Pamela BallingerItaly, Slovenia, Croatia"Submerged Politics, Exiled Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans"Bowdoin College
1999Charles HirschkindEgypt"Technologies of Islamic Piety: Cassette-Sermons and the Ethics of Listening"University of California, Berkeley
1999Christopher McIntyreSpain"The Spatial Control of Meaning through the Mapping and Marketing of Patrimony In Catalonia, Spain"
1999Roger MagazineMexico"Stateless Contexts: Street Children and Soccer Fans in Mexico City"Universidad Iberoamericana
1999Rosana GuberArgentina"From chicos to veteranos: Argentine Uses of Memory and the Nation in the Making of Malvinas Postwar Identities"
2000Christine Du BoisUSA"Race, Ethnicity, and Mass Media: Identities and Concerns About Reputation Among Chesapeake-Area West Indians"JHU, Bloomberg School of Public Health
2000Elizabeth FerryMexico"Veins of Value: Patrimony and the Reproduction of Power in a Mexican Mining Cooperative"Brandeis University
2000Hanan SabeaTanzania"Moments and Processes: Redefining The Building of a new Society in Tanzania"University of Virginia
2000Jason AntrosioColumbia"Todo Moderno: Appropriations of Modernization in the Columbian Andes"Hartwick
2000Paul NadasdyCanada"Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and the Restructuring of Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon, Canada"Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2000Sarah HillUSA, Mexico"Domesticated Responsibility: The Making of the US-Mexico Border Environment"Western Michigan University
2000Wendy RichardsonCanada"Reproducing the Nation: Motherhood In 20th Century Quebec"
2001Frederick KlaitsBotswana"Housing the Spirit, Hearing the Voice: Care, Kinship, and Faith in Botswana during the time of AIDS"University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2001Iveris MartinezUSA"Aging in Exile: Mental Health, Family, and the Meanings of History for Cuban Elders in South Florida"Johns Hopkins Univ. Ctr on Aging & Health
2001Wendy WalkerMadagascar"Defending the Environment, Conserving Social Life: Global Visions & Local Values in South Madagascar"World Bank
2002Bettina Ng'wenoColumbia"The State of Question: Afro-Colombians, Ethnic Territories and Governing in the Andes"University of California, Davis
2002Carlota McAllisterGuatemala"Good People: Revolution, Community, and Concienia in a Maya-K'iche' Village in Guatemala"York University
2002Eric RiceBrazil"Freezing Culture in the Tropics: Racing Resistance in Bahian Candombl"Department of Teacher Preparation, JHU
2002Espelencia BaptisteMauritius"The nation deferred: Language, ethnicity and the reproduction of social inequalities in Mauritian primary schools"Kalamazoo College
2003Aaron GoodfellowUSA"Inqueeries": Tracing the Reproduction Legacies of Gay Men"JHU, Women, Gender & Sexuality Program
2003George BacaUSA"The Culture of Post-Civil Rights Racial Politics in a Southern Military Town"Goucher College
2004Mulki Al-SharmaniEgypt"Refugees & Citizens: The Somali Diaspora in Cairo"Social Research Center,The American University in Cairo
2005Hussein AgramaEgypt"Law Courts and Fatwa Councils in Modern Egypt: An Ethnography of Islamic Legal Practice"University of Chicago
2006Richard BaxstromMalaysia"Wrecking Balls, Recognition, Reform: The Ambivalent Experience of Law, Justice and Place in Ureban Malaysia"The University of Edinburgh
2007Anna FournierUkraine"Between Freedom and Order:
Citizenship, Education, and the Quest for
Rights in Ukraine"
University of Manitoba, Canada
2008Simone TaubenbergerIndia"Exam Time: Educational Distress
Psychological Intervention and the Middle
Classes in Post Liberalization Delhi"
Center for Qualitative
Research. New England
Reasearch Institutes, Inc.
2008Sameena MullaUSA"The Institutionalization of
Suffering:Time and Technique In Legal
and Medical Sexual Assault Interventions
in Baltimore Maryland"
Marquette University, Wisconsin
2008Boris NikolovEgypt"Care of the Poor and Ecclesiastical Government: An Ethnography of the Social Services of the coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt"Towson University
2009Todd MeyersU.S.A

"Things Under The Tongue: Pharmacotherapy, Its Intersections And Its Afterlife In Urban America"

Wayne State University
2009Bhrigupati SinghIndia"Gods and Grains: Lives of desire in Rural Central India"Harvard University
2009Christopher KolbUSA"The Lives of Race and Destiny: The Drug War, Nothingness, and the Cultural Violence of Neoliberalism in the Crack Landscape"Spalding University
2009Young-Gyung PaikKorea"Technologies of 'the Korean Family': Population Crisis and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary South Korea"Korea Nattional Open University
2009Don SelbyThailand"The Politics and Morality of Human Rights in Thailand"
2010
Samantha GottliebUSA"Manufactured Uncertainty: The HPV Vaccine and the Object Multiple"
2010

Lauren Heidbrink

USA
“Negotiating (il)legality: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth at the Intersection of Family and the State”
2010David SchragGermany"The Object of Bildung: Post-Unification Remainder and the Reforming of German Education"Lafayette College
2010Abigail Baim-LanceSouth Africa"In-Forming Care: A Study of HIV/AIDS Care-giving Interventions in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa"New York Department of Health AIDS Institute
2010John Charles Ross ParsonsZimbabwe"Some Day This Will All Be Over: Growing up with HIV in Eastern Urban Zimbabwe"Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe
2010Isaias Rojas-PerezPeru"Fragments of Soul. Law, Transitional Justice and Mourning in Post-war Peru"State University of New Jersey-Newark
2010Sidharthan Maunaguru Sri Lanka"Brokering Transnational Marriages:Displacements, Circulations, Futures"
2011Sylvain PerdigonLebanon“Between the Womb and the Hour: Ethics and Semiotics of Relatedness in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Tyre, Lebanon”

American University in Cairo

2011Valeria ProcupezArgentina“The Work of Dwelling: Living Together in Squatter Housing Cooperatives in Buenos Aires (Argentina)”
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