Liberal Arts Services

Students

Al-Mussawir, Afra

afra@mail.utexas.edu
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Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Jordan, Iraq
Research Interest(s):
transnational identities (pan-arab, pan-muslim); arab diasporas, geography/ anthropology of space, border crossing
Office Hours:Thursdays, 11:30 - 1:30
Supervisor(s): Kamran Ali

Brulotte, Ronda

Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Mexico
Research Interest(s): anthropology of art, tourism, craft production
Supervisor(s): Richard Flores

Baker, Hannah

Carlson, Jennifer Douglass

jcarlson@mail.utexas.edu
Geographic Area(s): Germany, North America
Research Interest(s): comic genres, affect, everyday experience of neoliberalism in small-scale settlements, material semiotics, new ethnographic writing
Supervisor(s): Kathleen Stewart

Chapman, Alix Andrew

alixandrew@gmail.com
Research Interest(s): gender and sexuality among African diaspora and performance studies
Supervisor(s): Jafari Allen

Chavez, Alex

xicano@hotmail.com
Program: Masters
Research Interest(s): Mexicans in the United States, U.S.-Mexico cultural relations, Mexican and Chicano music, folklore, and popular culture, Performance studies
Supervisor(s): Richard Flores

Curtis, Mieke Maria

mcurtis@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Morocco, Turkey, US
Research Interest(s): Performance and media studies, citizenship and spatiality, ethnomusicology, ethnography and cultural critique, the sociality of sound and music.
Office Hours:
Degree status: ABD
Supervisor(s): Kathleen Stewart and Deborah Kapchan
Dissertation Title: The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music: Spirituality, Religion, and Diplomacy on a Global Stage
MA Thesis/Report Title: 'Ayoua and Women's Venerative Traditions in Northern Morocco

Dardashti, Galeet

galeet@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Israel
Research Interest(s): music and globalization, national identity, Mizrakhi/Middle Eastern cultural politics in Israel

Edwards, Terra

terraedwards@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interest(s):
linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, communicative practice, folklore and public culture, iconicity, gesture, language and cognition, affect, visual culture and visual anthropology, urban anthropology, modernity, the ordinary, experimental ethnographic writing, signed languages, deaf and deaf-blind communities, translation
Supervisor(s): Kathleen Stewart

Gibson, Margaret Rebecca

gibson.meg@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interest(s): museums, tourism, cultural heritage, native voice, memory, identity
Supervisor(s): Pauline Strong

Gilman, Daniel

dan_gilman@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Egypt, the Middle East
Research Interest(s): Nationalism and postcolonial modernity, gendered citizenship, popular culture,
critical historiography
Office Hours:
Supervisor(s): Ward Keeler

Godwin, Jonathan

jpgodwin@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Supervisor(s): John Hartigan

Gould, Miriam

Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Morocco
Research Interest(s): storytelling, dance, tourism
Degree status: ABD
Supervisor(s): Ward Keeler and Pauline Strong

Ho, Linda

Program: Doctoral
Research Interest(s): politics of representation; museums and festivals
Supervisor(s): Pauline Turner Strong

Johnson, Anne

awjohnson@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral

Krishnamurthy, Mathangi

mathangi@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): South Asia
Research Interest(s): Anthropology of Work, Anthropology of Globalization, urban studies, globalization, outsourcing, identity formation in post-colonial liberalized economies, consumption and consumerism
Supervisor(s): John Hartigan

Leflore, Elizabeth

ehleflore@gmail.com
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Central Mexico, U.S.A
Research Interest(s): popular religion, festival performance, transnational migration
Degree status: Doctoral Candidate
Supervisor(s): Pauline Turner Strong, Richard Flores

Lord, Jerry

Program: Doctoral
Supervisor(s): Kathleen Stewart

MacLeish, Kenneth

k_mac@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Masters
Geographic Area(s): United States, central Texas.
Research Interest(s): War, state violence and soldiers in the public sphere, Iraq War
veterans, the state in everyday life, new ethnography.
Supervisor(s): John Hartigan

Mora, Mariana

Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Mexico
Degree status: ABD
Supervisor(s): Charles Hale

Morrison, Amanda

amanda_mor@mail.utexas.edu
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Program: Doctoral Studies
Geographic Area(s): U.S.
Research Interest(s): Amanda Maria Morrison is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, studying cultural anthropology with a primary focus on popular culture, race, ethnicity, youth subcultures, and urban ethnography. Her dissertation focuses on regional identity and cultural poetics in the San Francisco Bay Area hip-hop scene. She has two forthcoming articles: "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez," to be published in the Journal of Popular Culture, and "Musical Trafficking: Urban Youth and the Narcocorrido-Hardcore Rap Nexus," which will appear in the journal Western Folklore. She has also worked as an arts journalist, contributing articles on music and culture to The Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Examiner, The Austin American Statesman, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Here are some of Amanda's articles:
1. "Hispanics go hyphy: Mission entrepreneur reps Latin rap on Thizz Entertainment offshoot," San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sept.12, 2007
Please vist Amanda's website for more of her publications.
Supervisor(s): John Hartigan, Richard Flores

Perkins, Alisa Marlene

alisaperkins@yahoo.com
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): US
Research Interest(s): Research Interests: Urban Anthropology, Space and Place, American Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Arab American Identity, Affect Theory, Women and Gender Studies.
Supervisor(s): Pauline Turner Strong
MA Thesis/Report Title: Dutiful Daughters of Morocco: Education, Empowerment, and the Father-Daughter Bond in Two Moroccan Families (2005)

Schaefer, John P.R.

johnschaefer@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Morocco
Research Interest(s): Music, popular culture, African diaspora
Degree status: Candidate
Supervisor(s): Kamran Ali
Dissertation Title: Marketing Global Culture: Gnawa Pop in Morocco

Webel, Scott

swebel@mail.utexas.edu
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Westmoreland, Mark

westmoreland@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): Middle East (Lebanon), Ethiopia, Texas, and the Balkans
Research Interest(s): Visual anthropology (ethnographic film/video/photography vis-Ã -vis postcolonial, transnational, and minor cinemas), modes of remembering, sites of representation, postwar society, and urban experience
Degree status: Doctoral Candidate
Supervisor(s): Kamran Ali
Dissertation Title: Cinematic Imaginaries in Beirut: Media Flows, Postwar Society, and