The Graduate program usually admits several new students per year. About 12-15 are usually in residence

Some students maintain their own websites, where more info can be found...

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Michael Adair-Kriz

Ala Mahmoud Alazzeh

Othon Alexandrakis

Cecilia Balli

Class, ethnicity and citizenship in northern Mexico and Texas. Intraethnic conflict between Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals/immigrants. Ethnography and journalism as cultural critique

Katia Belousova

Brian Clark

Lina Dib

Annie Feighery

Hutan Hejazi

Anthropology of Religion; hermeneutics; history; rhetoric; social theory; the Baha'i Faith in the United States.

Laura Jones

Ebru Kalyaap

Elise McCarthy

Nahal Naficy

My research explores the political and intellectual life of Iranians in the United States, specifically with regards to Iranian post-Khatami (1997) and American post-9/11 politics. I have worked with Iranian student cultural organizations in Texas, but the main bulk of my research will take place in Washington DC in 2004-2005. The majority of the nearly 2 million Iranians in the US are cultural and professional elites who have left the country within the past 25 years since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Valerie Olson

I am developing a dissertation project on clinical research in Mexico. My interest in the interconnected dynamics of research knowledge production and use gives the project its methodological and theoretical direction. In general, my research goes where medical anthropology and science and technology studies intersect: techniques of medical modernity and rationality, medical knowledge production, bodies and subjects, medical networks.

Nichole Payne

Stacey Pereira

Aimee Placas

Financial services industry, tourism, service industry culture, experimental ethnographic writing styles, Greece, U.S.A.

Anthony Potoczniak

I am researching the historical development of sound archives in Eastern Europe and how folk music is used to express ethnic and national identity in the public and private sectors of post-Soviet countries.

Elitza Ranova

As a native Bulgarian, I find the social and cultural transformations in my home country and in Eastern Europe particularly stimulating for research. My dissertation will focus on the changes in the Bulgarian social structure after 1989 and specifically on the emergence of a new consumer class. Teaching and research figure most prominently in my plans for after graduation.

Erkan Saka

Mass media studies/journalism (production of journalistic knowledge)/film studies; ethnography of modernity/Turkish modernity/Turkey's integration to European Union; anthropology as cultrual critique.

Ayla Samli

Maria Lucia Vidart

Ana Wandless

My dissertation research is an ethnographic case study of the politics and ethics of accountability in public education in Texas. The project explores the relation between political discourses, calculative technical practices, and forms of governance and will be conducted among education reformers, the standardized testing industry, and public schools. It combines my interests in social theory; pedagogical relationships; power, politics and authority; native ethnography; and the boring anxieties of everyday modern life.

Dan White

My research focuses on the moral landscape of "genetic futures" in Japan. This includes the rhetoric, ethics and popular permutations (fears, anticipations, promises) surrounding such issues as The Human Genome Project, genetic testing, cloning and bio-engineering. I also have broader interests in social theory, hermeneutics and history and anthropology.

Timothy Wood

Somewhere in the 'bodge...

Amanda Ziemba

Most generally I am interested in the institutional impact of the shifting demographic contours of world Catholic population and the religious experience of immigrant and diasporic communities. Regional emphasis is the European Union and sub-Saharan Africa. Specific themes include the politicization of Christian identity for European Union membership expansion and cultural delimitation, the Roman Catholic Church as an international social/political lobby, New African Philosophy and Liberation Theology, cross-cultural pastoral care, Afro-German and Afro-Austrian identity, the conversion experience and seminary formation, and Christian constructions/understandings of psycho-spiritual health and illness.