I am happy to be contacted by students considering our department for their studies. I generally work with students who share a thematic or regional interest; graduate students should choose an area of research that they are passionate about and I encourage you to contact me to discuss your interests.
Click here for more information on our graduate program. You can get a sense of the courses I teach from the syllabi below.
Click here for more information on our graduate program. You can get a sense of the courses I teach from the syllabi below.
Course SyllabiGraduate level
History of Anthropology, Part II, 1970s~. (Spring 2018) (Spring 2020) Political Economy (Spring 2016) Undergraduate level East Asia in Motion (Fall 2017) (Fall 2019) Tasting Food: Politics, Science, and the Senses (Spring 2015) Introduction to Ethnographic Methods (Spring 2018) Global Systems and Processes: An Introduction (Spring 2018) (Spring 2020) |
Graduate Students* Kara Griffin (advisor); working on security and dogs in Japan.
* Sara Mosher (committee member); working with refugees and volunteers in the DFW area. * Ashvina Patel, Ph.D. 2019 (committee member). "Locating Human Security in the City: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in New Dehli." * Carrie Perkins, Ph.D. 2019 (committee member); "Rethinking Repatriation: Karen Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border." * Laura Jarvis, Ph.D. 2018 (committee member). "Dignity in Decision Making: Modernity and Social Navigation among Rural French Polynesian Youth." * Joshua Dorfman, Ph.D. 2018 (committee member). "Nongovernmental China: 300 Million Migrant Workers and the NGO Response. |