Current Cultural Forms Graduate Students
- Earnest Alba
- Jennifer Douglass Carlson
- Abdul Haque Chang
- Julie Conquest
- David Garcia
- Saikat Maitra
- Linda Ho Peche
- Calvin Johns
- Jerry Lord
- Emily Ann Lynch
- Omer Ozcan
- Alisa Marlene Perkins
- Chelsi West
Alba, Earnest
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
Conquest, Julie
Chang, Abdul Haque
haq_chang@yahoo.com
Program: Doctoral
Geographic Area(s): South Asia, Southeast Asia Middle East, USA and Latin AmericaResearch Interest(s): Abdul Haque Chang is a Fulbright scholar and a PhD Student at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He finished a Masters in anthropology from Qaud-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan in 2000 and did research work on 'Shah Jo Raag' (the music of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai) a Sindhi Sufi poet of the 18th century. Mr. Chang is recipient of FAME (Feroze Ahmed Memorial Fund) scholarship from Sindhi Association of North America in 2000. He finished his second Masters at the department of anthropology,The University of Texas at Austin, and wrote an MA thesis on "The Issue of Hur Representation in the Historiography of Sindh." He has written several papers on the historiography of Sindh. His area of work is colonial and post-colonial history of Sindh, issue of water crisis in Indus Basin, politics in contemporary Sindh and Sufism. He has also taught History of Civilizations at the center of Excellence in Arts and Design, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali
Dissertation title: The Myth of Colonial Science and Illusions of Modernity
Published articles:
http://sufinews.blogspot.com/2006/12/philosophy-of-sindhs-sufi-poets.html
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2009-weekly/nos-29-11-2009/kol.htm
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2009-weekly/nos-27-12-2009/kol.htm
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/061217/books3.htm
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2009-weekly/nos-12-07-2009/kol.htm
Webpage: http://haqchang.blogspot.com
Garcia, David
Ho Peche, Linda
litto@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral
Research Interest(s): Politics of representation; museums and festivals
Supervisor(s): Pauline Turner Strong
Johns, Calvin
Lord, Jerry
jerry.lord@gmail.com
Program: Doctoral
Supervisor(s): John Hartigan
Lynch, Emily
elynch@mail.utexas.edu
Program: Doctoral Candidate
Geographic Areas: Northern Ireland and Europe, diasporic Somalis and East Africa - Great Lakes Region
Research Interests: Statelessness and post-conflict sociality, forced migration and political subjectivities, refugee identity, Somali diasporic identity in exile, theories on citizenship and belonging, difference and aversion, and the urban anthropology of the everyday
Research Description: This dissertation research investigates how forced migration and displacement are lived and experienced by refugees and asylum seekers in a place with a history of political instability and violent ethnic violent conflict: Belfast, Northern Ireland. Although refugees in Northern Ireland are part of a larger in-migration to Western Europe from all over the globe, especially Eastern Europe and South Asia, I am particularly focused on Somali refugees - Muslim Africans - and the ways this population interacts with local established Northern Irish residents.
Supervisors: Kamran Asdar Ali (Chair), Kathleen Stewart, John Hartigan Jr., Pauline Turner Strong, Neville Hoad
Dissertation Title: The Product of Failed States: Refugees and Rootedness in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Articles:
"In a List: Obscure Elements of Northern Irishness" (2009)
"The Importance of Social Networks for Refugees in Northern Ireland" (2009)
"The Credit Card Market in Russia: Cultural Particularities and Capitalist Universalities" (2009)
"Reflections on Ethnography: A Mode of Engagement and Research" (2009)
Webpage: http://utexas.academia.edu/EmilyLynch
Maitra, Saikat
Ozcan, Omer
omrozcan@gmail.com
Supervisor: Kamran Asdar Ali
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)
West, Chelsi
chelsi.west@mail.utexas.edu
Supervisor: Kathleen Stewart
Webpage: http://chelsialbaniaadventure.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html
