911 calls in Rhode Island span a spectrum of severity, the most serious being emergencies such as major traumas, heart attacks, and strokes. However, alongside …
Drawing on fourteen months of ethnographic research, my project focuses on the politics of disability rights organizing in Lebanon, and draws on disability studies, medical …
This dissertation examines college aspiration as a lens onto Latino youth’s claims to socio-political belonging in a nativist United States. In 2012-2013, I conducted ethnographic …
This dissertation examines the role of media in shaping political subjectivity. My analysis emerges from La Victoria, a highly politicized low-income neighborhood in Santiago, Chile; …
This dissertation examines the everyday life of the “untouchables” (dalits) in contemporary India. While legal discourses in India have long abolished untouchability, the majority of …
This dissertation examines how the Classic Period (ca. A.D. 250-850) Maya constructed monumental buildings. To achieve this goal, I explore three interrelated questions: What techniques …
This dissertation reports excavations at the site of El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala, and the results of subsequent laboratory analysis. The overall objective of the present …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the humanitarian workers who resettle them in Italy. Between 2015 and 2020, Italy …
Abstract of “The Resilience Paradox: Ethical Quandaries of Humanitarian Aid in Jordan and Lebanon” by Malay Firoz, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020. Anthropologists have argued …
This dissertation examines the processes that drive ethnic minority women from the Northeast Region of India to migrate to Bangalore and the transformations they undergo …
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives …
Haitians living with HIV in South Florida have taken the biomedical markers of the virus – detectable and undetectable – and grafted onto this dichotomy …
This dissertation explores the transformative power of music practice for young people living in contexts of violence and social marginalization in Venezuela. These musicians are …
This dissertation explores the intersections of class relations, social mobility, and bodily self-care. In recent years, yoga has become increasingly accessible to Mexicans through state-sponsored …
As one of the first state hospitals in the United States, the Worcester State Hospital (est. 1833) set a precedent for asylum design and administration …
In recent years, the disproportionate rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the US within Black communities have drawn more attention to the work of …