Sample Dissertation Topics
Begona Aretxaga (1960-2002)
"A Topography of Dignity: Gendered Politics and Transformative Symbols in Northern Ireland"
Daneila Brancaforte
"Camouflaged Identities and Army Wives: Narratives of Self and Place on the Margins of the U.S. Military Family"
Kenneth D. Croes
"Nature of a Nation: Monarchy, Development, and Culture in Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area Project"
Leslie Dwyer
"Making Modern Muslims: Embodied Politics and Piety in Urban Java, Indonesia"
Alex Edmonds
"New Markets, New Bodies: An Ethnography of Brazil's Beauty Industry"
Heiko Henkel
"Pious Disciplines and Modern Lives: The Culture of the Fiqh in the Turkish Islamic Tradition"
"Distributing Difference: the Distribution and Displacement of Media, Spectacle and Identity in La Paz, Bolivia"
Karen Zouwen Ho
"Liquefying Corporations and Communities; Wall Street Worldviews and Socio-economic Transformations in the Post-industrial Economy"
Elizabeth Hough
"The Gendered Dimensions of Local-Foreign Interactions in a Greek Tourist Destination: The Case of Symi"
Stephen Jackson
"War Making: Uncertainty, Improvisation and Involution in the Kivu Provinces, DR Congo, 1997-2002"
Eugenia Kaw
“Buddhism and Education in Burma: Varying Conditions for a Social Ethos in the Path to 'Nibbana'”
Alan Klima
"The Funeral Casino: Buddhist Meditation, State Terrorism and Public Images in Thailand"
Lauren Leve
"Contested Nation/Buddhist Innovation: the Politics of Piety in Theravada Buddhism in Nepal"
Hsu-Ta Lin
“Reflavored Nostalgias: A History and Ethnography of Taiwan’s Muted Marginality, 1895-2004”
Wende Elizabeth Marshall
"Recovering Nation: Disease, Decolonization and Healing in Wai`anae, O`ahu."
Florence Merle
"The International Graffiti Movement: Mixed Metaphors and Aesthetic Disruption"
Kavita Misra
"A Safe Space: AIDS and New Sociality in an Indian Setting (Immune Deficiency)"
Yael Navaro-Yashin
"Travesty & Truth: Politics of Culture and Fantasies of the State in Turkey"
Rachel Newcomb
"'Singing to So Many Audiences': Negotiations of Gender, Identity, and Social Space in Fes, Morocco"
"Constructing Modern Copts: The Production of Coptic Christian Identity in Contemporary Egypt"
Sarah Pinto
"Casting Desire: Reproduction, Loss and Subjectivity in Rural North India"
Michele Rivkin-Fish
"Reproducing Russia: Women's Health and Moral Education in Constructing a Post Soviet Society"
Kirsten Scheid
“Painters, Picture-makers and Lebanon: Ambiguous Identities in an Unsettled State”
“Pikosa: Loss and Life in the Papua New Guinea Highlands”
Susana Trnka
"'God Only Listens to those who Sweat': Violence, the Body and Community in Sanatan Hindu Dialogues of the May 2000 Fiji coup"
Antonio Luis Vivanco
"Green Mountains, Greening People: Encountering Environmentalism Monte Verde, Costa Rica"
Lisa Wynn
"From the Pyramids to Pyramids Road: An Ethnography of the Idea of Egypt"