During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
This project explores three specific themes highlighted by instances of “coffee shop racism”: the ways large corporations like Starbucks accumulate mass amounts of economic resources …
The research for my dissertation was conducted over eighteen months at two abortion clinics in North Carolina. The methods were: 1) participant observation as a …
The HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is both invisible and ubiquitous: seemingly indiscernible on one's face and undetectable within a population, and pervasive in its …
Cemeteries reveal information about those buried there long after the end of their lives. This thesis examines the Jews of Stebechve, focusing on their lives …
People experiencing homelessness face much higher rates of chronic illnesses, substance use disorders, mental illnesses, and mortality than the general population. Yet, a very small …
This dissertation is about the reimagining of Argentine identity as racially and culturally diverse and distinctly Latin American as it is performed and experienced by …
During the summer of 2017, the author participated in an excavation of a Roman craft production facility dating to the first century, CE. The excavation …
My contention is that the knowledge created during my fieldwork emerged through acts of archaeological semblance. By semblance, I mean a way of restoring something …
Generations of archaeologists have identified and examined craft production, specialization, and technological development as defining characteristics of sociopolitical complexity. Yet, the significance of North American …
What can the inner processes and infrastructures of media-making reveal and defy about dominant understandings of how media is political? And if this media is …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
In 2016, the Center for Disease Control introduced new guidelines for prescribing opioids to people living with chronic pain. Recommendations included curbing new prescriptions to …
In the first section, body arts literature in anthropology is reviewed and then followed by a discussion of body modification and beauty among ancient and …
This dissertation offers a qualitative study of Classic Maya housebuilding and community-building. Archaeological studies of craft have demonstrated how technological processes are embedded within social, …
This dissertation examines themes of herding, mining, infrastructure, and environment in sixteenth and seventeenth century Huancavelica, Peru. Spanish colonial mining in the Americas flooded the …
During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
The dispossession of the Native American land base during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is at once a well-recognized historical process and a process seldom …
My dissertation synthesizes archaeological, historic, and geospatial data from six years of research in Guatemala, investigating the role of conflict and defensive spaces in early …
In this dissertation, I examine issues of ethnic engineering, interethnic tensions and social problems through a story of Meskhetian Turks, a group that was subjected …
This dissertation grapples with the racial, infrastructural, and ethical implications of tasking US police officers with public health service provision roles in response to one …
My dissertation explores the transforming patterns in marital relations of North India through an exploration of the trend of elopements and choice-based marriages or ‘love …
Focusing on craft workshops of the indigenous Austronesian-speaking peoples of Taiwan, this dissertation investigates how communities are formed, boundaries of inclusion negotiated, and competing perceptions …
How do the lenders and borrowers of microfinance negotiate the often-divergent ethics of financial sustainability and locally constituted obligations of social relationships? The dissertation is …
The dissertation, based on fieldwork from September 2006 to September 2007, ethnographically examines the multiple meanings of illegality and how notions of illegality permeate, and …
In this dissertation I examine evidence for oral care practices in the southern Maya lowlands over time from the Late Preclassic to Terminal Classic periods …
This dissertation develops a theory of maritime procurement that focuses upon the fishing strategies of small-scale commercial fishers who work in a highly stressed estuarine …
Discussions around international development generally focus on whether, and why, interventions achieve their goals of improving health, political engagement or economic opportunity in poor countries. …
This dissertation is about the complex connections between religious faith and migrant inclusion, as experienced by African Pentecostal Christians living in the United Kingdom (UK). …
This dissertation explores the ways in which 19th-century Irish residents of the American Mining West created and maintained community by embracing the saloon as a …
This study charts the affective and performative dimensions of intergenerational rupture between members of Eritrea’s diaspora in Bologna, Italy. This study locates political struggles around …
According to the numbers, Peru’s economy is growing rapidly with poverty rates declining apace. Yet Peruvians themselves remain skeptical of this success. They argue that …
This dissertation lies at the intersection of anthropology of sport and anthropology of ethics. I study football (soccer) in Istanbul to posit fairness as a …
Combining archival, oral historical, geospatial, and archaeological data, this dissertation is the result of several seasons of research with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde …
The patriarchal Italian father surrounded by his many bambini hardly exists anymore in today's Italy. Although stereotyped as proud of their traditions and ingrained in …
During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
Sweden has developed an international reputation as a progressive haven, promoting socioeconomic equality through its extensive welfare state. However, non-white and non-European migrants have disrupted …
This thesis will show how four Syrian refugee women resettled in Jordanian host communities have constructed their own therapeutic processes. It will show how they …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of higher education reform in Ecuador under Rafael Correa’s government (2007-2017). I ask how efforts to redesign higher education …
While mortuary contexts have traditionally been key loci for the discussion of ritual within archaeological literature, there has been little discussion of the emotional dimensions …
It has been well-documented through the COVID-19 pandemic the disproportionate impact the disease, and the ensuing political and social consequences of the disease, has had …
This dissertation is about changing perspectives on marriage, family relations, and work life among older Italian women in their mid fifties to late sixties. These …
In polities headed by divine kings, the public performance of hierarchy and inequality is essential to political power. Yet what happens to that inequality when …
How does being an immigrant shape the experience of being deaf and vice versa? Based on approximately two years of ethnographic research among the deaf …
This dissertation traces how obesity developed as an acknowledged social problem in India. Although public health officials estimate that chronic diseases such as obesity and …
Many lithic analyses in recent decades have focused on the influence of lithic production techniques and artifact stages in the discard form of stone tools. …
The Mohawk community of Akwesasne relied on fishing and farming for its livelihood until the discovery of environmental contamination from neighboring industries. The community and …
Diets and foodways and are intimately shaped by interregional processes and connections, such as imperial expansion. Despite substantial archaeological research into the immediate impact of …
This dissertation traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of human milk banking at Hospital Agostinho Neto in Praia, Cabo Verde. In 2011, Cabo Verde inaugurated its first …
Under socialism, China’s labor force was either employed in urban state-owned enterprises or as agricultural workers in rural communes. Urban jobs were controlled and allocated …
Under socialism, China’s labor force was either employed in urban state-owned enterprises or as agricultural workers in rural communes. Urban jobs were controlled and allocated …
This dissertation is a study of the political aspects of indigenous language revitalization in Mexico. In 2003, the Mexican state passed the General Law of …
This dissertation explores the ways in which individuals and groups create and recreate their personal and collective histories, the membership boundaries of their group, and …
The population of transmasculine and non-binary identified birthing parents is growing, but there is still very little research within anthropology and the larger health field …
This dissertation examines why U.S. police reforms fail by tracing how officers in Maryland absorb and resist reforms amidst a momentous legitimacy crisis. Over the …
Reconstructions of Classic Maya (AD 250-900) economic systems focus on evidence of production or exchange within a single community or the exchange of goods over …
Despite their colonial legacies of extraction, museums have served as critical sites of engagement in grappling with global issues and hold the potential to propel …
A combination of features of contemporary Nepal creates an ideal scenario for the study of ways women negotiate and reproduce social hierarchies: changes in social …
This dissertation focuses on the bits and broken pieces that were used, reused, discarded, and buried in the past. Although fragmented artifacts are often reconstructed …
This dissertation enriches our understanding of gender and religion in the African Muslim world. I illuminate this intertwining of gender and religion by investigating how …
In Native New England, the struggle to demonstrate "community" is a necessary, but fraught, enterprise in Native groups' fights for social and legal recognition. Groups …
As a cultural practice made most visible through its graphic artifacts, writing’s form can provide at least as much information about social organization of production …
In my dissertation, I examine how pre- and post-colonial Tanzania has co-opted “local religious leaders” as an integral feature in broader biopolitical efforts to introduce …
This dissertation is an ethnography of a government-run residential center for migrant women identified as human trafficking victims, based on 16 months of qualitative fieldwork …
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 …