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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 is about the complex connections between religious faith and migrant inclusion, as experienced by African Pentecostal Christians living in the United Kingdom (UK). …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …