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Graduate Students

2007 Entering Class
Janel K. FINK
Erica FONTANA
David KEYES
Melanie McCOMSEY
Jorge MONTESINOS
Elizabeth PLUNGER
Amy ROTHSCHILD
Christina SACKMANN
Andrew SOMERVILLE
Alexander STEWART

Doctoral Alumni

2000 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Heather RAE-ESPINOZA	Devoted Abandonment: The Children Left Behind by Parental Emigration in Ecuador
Dr. Adolfo MUNIZ	Feeding the Periphery: Modeling Changing Early Bronze Age Environments and the Cultural Landscape of the Wadi Fidan, Southern Jordan

1998 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Yoav ARBEL	The Historical Impact and Archaeological Reflections of Intense Religious Movements
Dr. Angelica MARCELLO	Contemplating the Evolution of Attachment and Cognition in a Collaborative Learning Environment
Dr. Jonathan S. MARION	Dance as Self, Culture, and Community: The Construction of Personal and Collective Meaning and Identity in Competitive Ballroom and Salsa Dancing
Dr. Jennifer POURNELLE	Marshland of Cities: Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization

1997 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Nicole PETERSON	Casting a Wide Net: Decision-Making in a Mexican Marine Park
Dr. Gregory SIMON	Self and Moral Obligations of Husbands and Fathers in a West Sumatran City

1996 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Margie BURTON	Collapse, Continuity, and Transformation: Tracking Protohistoric Social Change Through Ceramic Analysis. Case Studies of Late 5th-Early 4th Millennium Societies in the Southern Levant
Dr. Bambi CHAPIN	Hierarchy, Envy, and Spirit Possession: Case Studies of Internalization Among Sinhala Women in Central Sri Lanka
Dr. Timothy "Cage" HALL	Social Change, Mental Health, and the Evolution of the Gay Male Identities: A Clinical Ethnography of Post-Communist Prague
Dr. April LEININGER	Culture and Cognitive Psychodynamics in Vietnamese-American Families
Dr. Joylin NAMIE	Good Intentions: Women, Diet, and Food Choice in "America's Finest City"

1995 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Steven G. CARLISLE	The Self Divided: Obligation and Solitude in Contemporary Thailand
Dr. Ashidara DAS	Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area: Work, Home, and the Construction of the Self
Dr. Timothy KNICKERBOCKER	Digo Discontents & the Future of Conservation Illusions in Kenya

1994 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Shawn M. BENDER	Drumming Between Tradition and Modernity: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Contemporary Japan
Dr. Sharla BLANK	Women Don't Want to Stoop Too Low: Help-Seeking Among Female Household Heads in Dominica, West Indies
Dr. Marcia S. REGO	Echoes From an Empire, Voices of the Nation: Hierarchy, Disorder, Speech, and Textuality in Cape Verde
Dr. Randy STURMAN	A Matter of Life & Death: End-of-Life Decisions in Jerusalem, Israel: Cultural, Legal, Medical, and Ethical Considerations
Dr. LiAnne S. YU	The Reemergence of Vietnam's Ethnic Chinese Community through Local, National, and Transnational Structures

1993 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Armine ISHKANIAN	Hearths and Modernity: The Role of Women in NGOs in Post-Soviet Armenia
Dr. Lisa ROSEN	Calculating Concerns: The Poltics of Representation in California's "Math Wars"
Dr. João H. Costa VARGAS	Blacks in the City of Angels' Dust
Dr. Laura STANLEY	Prodigal Sons & Daughters of Job: Navigating the Moral Landscape of AIDS.
Dr. Deana WEIBEL	Kidnapping the Virgin: The Reinterpretation of a Roman Catholic Shrine by Religious Creatives

1992 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Jeffrey D. BASS	In Exile From the Self: Identity, Politics, and Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
Dr. Jason JAMES	Imagining Restoration: Loss and Redemption in an East German Cityscape
Dr. Leila MADGE	Managing & Manipulating Modernity: Middle-Class Women and the Japanese Nation-State
Dr. William RHETT-MARISCAL	Settling In: New Indian Communities & the Transformation of Citizenship in Mexico

1991 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Thomas K. BROWN	Spiritual Seekers & "Finding a Spiritual Home": An Ethnographic Investigation of Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches in Southern California.
Dr. Rebecca LESTER	My Name Would Be Jerusalem: Religious Formation & the Transformation of Subjectivity in a Mexican Convent
Dr. Marc L. "Marco" MOSKOWITZ	Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan
Dr. Julia OFFEN	Beyond the Ring: The European Traveling Circus

1990 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Dale BRETCHES	Culture and Economy in Cuba's Transition: An Anthropological Perspective
Dr. Andrew BROWN	Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations & Confrontations with a Post-Soviet Economy (Kazakstan)
Dr. Heather L. CLAUSSEN	Un(convent)ional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines
Dr. Lisa DIETRICH	Coming of Age in the Barrio: Girls, Gangs, and Growing-Up
Dr. Erica PRUSSING	Warriors & Survivors: The Culture of Sobriety in Northern Cheyenne Women's Narratives
Dr. Elizabeth THROOP	Net Curtains & Closed Doors: Intimacy, Public Life, and the Family in Dublin

1989 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Joseph P. MASCO	The Nuclear Borderlands: The Legacy of the Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Dr. Andrew C. WILLFORD	Cage of Freedom: The Politics of Tamil & Hindu Identity in Malaysia & Bangalore, South India

1988 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Marysia GALBRAITH	Polish Youth in Transition: Nation, Self, and Other in Post-Communist Poland
Dr. Jeffrey SNODGRASS	Big Words, Little People : Cash and Ken in Modern Rajasthan

1987 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Axel AUBRUN	Modeling Animism : In Defense of an Old Illusion
Dr. Susan L. BROWN	This Is the Real Bahamas: Solidarity and Identity in Cat Island
Dr. Brian HAZLEHURST	Fishing for Cognition : An Ethnography of Fishing Practice in a Community on the West Coast of Sweden
Dr. William REESE	The Writer, the West, and the People: Calcutta's Populist Literary Tradition

1986 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Alexander H. BOLYANATZ	Matriliny and mortuary feasting among the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Dr. Daniel M. T. FESSLER	A Small Field With a Lot of Hornets: An Exploration of Shame, Motivation, and Social Control
Dr. Kendall W. KROESEN	Es Otra Cosa: Emotion and World View in a Mexican Town

1985 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Kevin K. BIRTH	Any Time Is Trinidad Time: Time and Social Organization in Eastern Trinidad
Dr. Mark A. CRAVALHO	An Invisible Universe of Evil: Supernatural Malevolence and Personal Experience Among Amazon Peasants
Dr. Alasdair S. DONALD	Stories of the 'Real Self': A Psychological Analysis of Popular Illness Categories in the Secular West
Dr. Elisa J. SOBO	The Jamaican Body: A Study of the Use of Traditional Health Beliefs

1984 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Eva M. BAGG	Children's Uses of Culture Through Self-Presentation: A Study of a Cretan Boy and Girl

1983 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Eiko TADA	Maintaining a Balance: Between Hito ("Person") and Kojin ("Individual") in a Japanese Farming Community

1982 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Daniel J. DOYLE	Democracy in the Context of Fraud: The Mexican Presidental Election of 1988
Dr. Sara Ann DICKEY	Going to the Pictures in Madurai: Social, Psychological, and Political Aspects of Cinema in Urban Working Class South India

1981 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Karen BRISON	Gossip, Innuendo, and Sorcery: Village Politics Among the Kwanga, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Dr. Stephen L. EYRE	Revival Christianity Among the Urat of Papua New Guinea: Some Possible Motivational and Perceptual Antecedents
Dr. Brian P. FARLEY	Existential Dilemmas. Anxiety. and Social Control in a Tlaxcalan Village
Dr. Dana A. FARNHAM	Animal Traction at Agbassa: The Change From Hoes and Plows on a Government-Sponsored Land Settlement Project in Northern Togo
Dr. Rebecca M. JOSEPH	Diffused Batik Production in Central Java
Dr. Stephen LEAVITT	Cargo. Christ. and Nostalgia for the Dead: Themes of Intimacy and Abandonment in Bumbita Arapesh Social Experience
Dr. Yasuko WACHI	What comes next? Native Americans of San Diego County: A Study of Uncertainty for an Ethnic Minority Group of Southern California

1980 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Eloise HIEBERT-MENSES	Aspects of Cheating in a South Indian Market
Dr. Daniel T. LINGER	Beyond Carnaval : Dangerous Ritual in São Luis
Dr. Susan THICKSTUN	Culture and Self: A Study of Cultural Ideas in the Discourse of Five American Psychotherapy Patients
Dr. Anne WOODRICK	The Sign of the Cross: Folk Catholicism in a Rural Yucatecan Community

1979 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Michael A. DOWNS	Sociocultural Change and Ethnic Identity: The Effect of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in Unalaska, Alaska
Dr. Eugene S. KUMEKAWA	Person, Group, And Context : The Foundations of Ethnic Identity Among the Chinese in Fiji
Dr. Steven PARISH	Hierarchy and Person in the Moral World of the Newars
Dr. Raquel PRIEGUEZ	The Power of Demeanor: Charismatic Leadership in a Spiritual Organization
Dr. Elizabeth STERN	Conflicts in a Swiss valley
Dr. Alan N. TIMMERMAN	Tradition and Community in Modern Japan: Tradition as a Mediating Agent in Social Change at the Family and Local Level

1978 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Mark W. BUSSE	Sister Exchange Among the Wamek of the Middle Fly
Dr. John DART	Ethnic Identity and Marginality Among the Coast Veddas of Sri Lanka
Dr. Mary Kay GILLILAND	The Maintenance of Family Values in a Yugoslav Town
Dr. Sunil GOONASEKERA	Renunciation and Monasticism Among the Jainas of India
Dr. Douglas HOLLAN	"Disruptive" Behavior in a Toraja Community
Dr. Jane WELLENKAMP	A Psychocultural Study of Loss and Death Among the Toraja

1977 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Kathleen BARLOW	Learning Cultural Meanings Through Social Relationships : An Ethnography of Childhood in Murik Society, Papua New Guinea
Dr. Ernestine McHUGH	The Social, Cultural, and Personal Worlds of the Gurungs of Nepal

1976 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Joshua AKONG'A	Social Training: Perspectives on Obedience and Autonomy in Boys Among the Swahili of Old Town, Mombasa and the Upper-Middle Class of La Jolla, California
Dr. Daniel W. FORSYTH	Motivational Bases for Conformity to Religious Norms
Dr. David M. LIPSET	Authority and the Maternal Presence: An Interpretive Ethnography of Murik Lakes Society (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea)

1975 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Ruth L. MOORE	Women and Warriors: Defending Islam in the Southern Philippines
Dr. John S. PETTERSON	The Political Significance of Fishing Cooperatives: A Mexican Case Study
Dr. Betsy R. STRICK	Ideology and Expressive Culture in the Druze Family

1974 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Susan ACKERMAN-LEE	Cultural Process in Malaysian Industrialization: A Study of Malay Women Factory Workers
Dr. Bruce M. HARRIS	What Go 'Round, Come 'Round: Dissimilation in a Caribbean Society
Dr. Sandra C. MURRAY	All in the Family: A Study Of Family Life in a Jat-Sikh Village
Dr. Lawrence A. PALINKAS	The Force of Words: Rhetoric and Social Change in a Chinese Christian Community

1973 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Namika RABY	Bureaucracy, Politics, and Society in a Provincial Town in Sri Lanka
Dr. George SCOTT	Migrants Without Mountains: The Politics of Sociocultural Adjustment Among the Lao Hmong Refugees in San Diego
Dr. Elizabeth YOUNG	Topeng in Bali: Change and Continuity in a Traditional Drama Genre

1972 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Kevin A. AVRUCH	American Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change
Dr. James MacMURRAY	Modernization and Psychopathology: An Anthropological Perspective of the Borderline Personality Syndrome
Dr. John C. RUSSELL	In the Shadows of Saints : Aspects of Family and Religion in a Rural Irish Gaeltacht
Dr. Terry TOMBS	Women, Politics and Social Change in Spain
Dr. Jack McIver WEATHERFORD	Family Culture, Behavior, and Emotion in a Working-Class German Town

1971 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. John L. AGUILAR	Self-Esteem and Reputation Management Among Lower Class Males of a Southern Mexican Town
Dr. Peter D. BELL	Social Change and Social Perception in a Rural Hungarian Village
Dr. M. Griffin DIX	The East Asian Country of Propriety: Confucianism in a Korean Village
Dr. Paula F. LEVIN	Students and Teachers on Tubuai: A Cultural Analysis of Polynesian Classroom Interaction
Dr. Michael W. MELTZER	Psychosocial Activity Among Elderly Members of the Legal Profession
Dr. Michael D. MURPHY	Between the Virgin and the Whore: Local Community and the Nuclear Family in Seville, Spain
Dr. Joseph NALVEN	The Politics of Urban Growth: A Case Study Of Community Formation in Cali, Colombia
Dr. Michael K. ORBACH	The Cultural Systems of the Tuna Seinermen of San Diego, California
Dr. George R. SAUNDERS	The Family Bond: Individual and Communal Experience in a Modernizing Italian Village
Dr. Carlos G. VÉLEZ-IBÁÑEZ	Culture, Process, and Politics in Central Urbanizing Mexico
Dr. Geoffrey M. WHITE	Big Men and Church Men: Social Images in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands

1970 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Edwin HUTCHINS	Reasoning in Discourse: An Analysis of Trobriand Island Land Litigation
Dr. Michael French SMITH	Good Men Face Hard Times in Koragur: Ideology and Social Change in a New Guinea village
Dr. Shiu-kuen Fan TSUNG	Moms, Nuns And Hookers: Extrafamilial Alternatives for Village Women in Taiwan
Dr. William A. WEDENOJA	Religion and Adaptation in Rural Jamaica

1969 Entering Class	Dissertation Title
Dr. Peter W. BLACK	Neo-Tobian Culture: Modern Life on a Micronesian Atoll
Dr. Michael L. CHATFIELD	Interpersonal Conflict in a Colombian Town
Dr. Eleanor R. GERBER	The Cultural Patterning of Emotions in Samoa
Dr. Manisha Dasgupta ROY	Ideal and Compensatory Roles in the Life Cycle of Upper-Class Bengali Women