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Ph.D. Student Kevin Darcy Successfully Defends His Dissertation

Renee Kuban — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:05:25 +0000

Ph.D. Student Kevin Darcy Successfully Defends His Dissertation Renee Kuban Tue, 11/05/2024 - 13:05

Kevin Darcy successfully defended his dissertation, "An Ethnography of Disability in Academia: Stories of Crip Time, Cripping Independence and the Cognitive Load of Disability." Kevin examines the experiences of people with disabilities in academia. It is oriented autoethnographically by Kevin's own experiences, and those of other students and faculty, to make vivid the phenomenological realities of living on crip time, navigating independence, the cognitive load of disability, and disclosure management. Kevin's committee is Professor Kate Goldfarb (chair), Professor Donna Goldstein, Professor Terry McCabe, Professor Alison Cool, and Professor Christine Sargent (University of Colorado Denver Department of Anthropology).

Congratulations, Kevin!

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Ph.D. Student Arielle Milkman Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

Renee Kuban — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:52:30 +0000

Ph.D. Student Arielle Milkman Successfully Defends Her Dissertation Renee Kuban Tue, 11/05/2024 - 12:52

Arielle Milkman successfully defended her dissertation, "Between Crisis and Coordination: Wildfire Response, Mobility and Well-being in the American West." Her work considers the expertise, skilled work and mobility of contract wildland firefighters, including farmworkers, forestry guest workers, construction workers and others who travel to the Pacific Northwest and then around the country each fire season to address lengthening fire seasons. Arielle's committee is Professor Kate Goldfarb (chair), Professor Donna Goldstein, Professor Jerry Jacka, Professor Jen Shannon, and Professor Jason De León (UCLA Anthropology).

Congratulations, Arielle!

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Alumna, Chu May Paing Interviewed on WPR's Wisconsin Today

Renee Kuban — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:15:49 +0000

Alumna, Chu May Paing Interviewed on WPR's Wisconsin Today Renee Kuban Mon, 11/04/2024 - 12:15

Alumna, Chu May Paing (Anthropology, PhD 2024) was interviewed for a segment on WPR's Wisconsin Today show about her new position as the new Executive Director at Winnebago Area Literacy Council. In the interview, Chu explains how she learned English from an organization in New York when she first came to the states from Myanmar a decade ago and how language instruction can be a lifeline for people.

Listen to the interview Wisconsin Today

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Ph.D. Student Sabrina Bradford Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

Renee Kuban — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:43:05 +0000

Ph.D. Student Sabrina Bradford Successfully Defends Her Dissertation Renee Kuban Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:43

Sabrina Bradford successfully defended her dissertation, "Carnivores, Conservation, and Collaboration: The Co-Production of Resilient Working Landscapes." Her committee members were Professor Matt Sponheimer (co-advisor), Professor Jerry Jacka (co-advisor), Professor Michelle Sauther, Professor Will Taylor, and Professor Dan Doak (ENVS).

Congratulations, Sabrina!

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Carla Jones Publishes Article in CSSH

Renee Kuban — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:30:43 +0000

Carla Jones Publishes Article in CSSH Renee Kuban Tue, 10/29/2024 - 12:30

Professor Carla Jones publishes, "Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia" in the latest issue of Comparative Studies in Society and History published on line by Cambridge University Press.

Abstract

In the two decades since the end of Suharto regime in Indonesia, two apparently distinct public industries have emerged in tandem: gendered forms of religious style, glossed as modest fashion, and legal efforts to hold citizens accountable for theft, glossed as corruption. Many of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in the past decade have brought these two fields into semiotic interaction, as female defendants increasingly deploy forms of facial cover associated with extreme religious piety to signal humility and shame when appearing in court, in the process complicating the relationship between religious semiotics and criminality. Analyzing how and why these two genres of political communication have intersected in the past decade, and to what effects, requires situating these shifts in the context of dense aesthetic archives in which the spectacularity inherent to fashion resonates with the unique impulses of a post-authoritarian political landscape in which uncovering secrets is especially alluring. I argue that the hermeneutic impulses motivating popular fascination with criminal style, often circulated via social media, open new analyses of the ethical relationship between beauty and justice. Building on the scholarship on transparency and on the human face, I argue that putting gendered religious style at the center of the analytical frame—from religious self-fashioning to court appearances, and as forms of political protest—reveals the ethical impulses behind seeing and being seen, and the faciality of scandal.

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Carole McGranahan's Article Published in Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State

Renee Kuban — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:07:26 +0000

Carole McGranahan's Article Published in Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State Renee Kuban Tue, 10/29/2024 - 12:07

Professor Carole McGranahan's latest article, "Things Not Revealed: A Redacted Ethnography of the CIA" published in Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State, edited by Lisa Min, Franck Bille, and Charlene Makley (Punctum Books).

Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State brings together essays, poems, artwork, and memes – a bricolage of media that conveys the experience of living in state-inflected worlds in flux. Critically and poetically engaging with redaction in politically charged contexts (from the United States and Denmark to Russia, China, and North Korea), the volume closely examines and turns loose this disquieting mark of state power, aiming to trouble the liberal imaginaries that configure the political as a left–right spectrum, as populism and nationalism versus global and transnational cosmopolitanism, as east versus west, authoritarianism versus democracy, good versus evil, or the state versus the people – age-old coordinates that no longer make sense. Because we know from the upheavals of the past decade that these relations are being reconfigured in novel, recursive, and unrecognizable ways, the consequences of which are perplexing and ever evolving.

This book takes up redaction as a vital form in this new political reality. Contributors both critically engage with statist redaction practices and also explore its alluring and ambivalent forms, as experimental practices that open up new dialogic possibilities in navigating and conveying the stakes of political encounters.

Get the book Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State

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Carole McGranahan's Research on the CIA-Tibet training Camp at Camp Hale Covered in Radio Free Asia

Renee Kuban — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:46:32 +0000

Carole McGranahan's Research on the CIA-Tibet training Camp at Camp Hale Covered in Radio Free Asia Renee Kuban Tue, 10/29/2024 - 11:46

Carole McGranahan's research on the CIA-Tibet training camp at Camp Hale covered in Radio Free Asia. Investigative journalists delve into the June 2024 Dumra event, the history of the CIA operation and Tibetan resistance, and Professor McGranahan's research.

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Victor A. Del Valle-Prieto Wins the Plains Anthropological Society's Poster Competition

Renee Kuban — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:02:28 +0000

Victor A. Del Valle-Prieto Wins the Plains Anthropological Society's Poster Competition Renee Kuban Mon, 10/28/2024 - 13:02

Victor A. Del Valle-Prieto's (BA Anthropology in Progress) poster, "Archaeology, Illustration, and the Importance of Trained Artists in the Field," won the Plains Anthropological Society's conference undergraduate student poster competition.

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Alumna, Chu May Paing Accepts Position at Winnebago Area Literacy Council

Renee Kuban — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:42:35 +0000

Alumna, Chu May Paing Accepts Position at Winnebago Area Literacy Council Renee Kuban Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:42

Alumna, Chu May Paing (Anthropology, PhD 2024) has accepted a position of Executive Director at Winnebago Area Literacy Council, a second-largest literacy-focused non-profit in Northeast Wisconsin that offers free adult literacy services to immigrant and refugee communities in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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Yuti Gao Receives the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award at RMBAA

Renee Kuban — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:24:18 +0000

Yuti Gao Receives the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award at RMBAA Renee Kuban Mon, 10/21/2024 - 13:24

Yuti Gao (Biological Anthropology, PhD in progress) received the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award at the 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association
Conference for her poster "Investigating Variation in Cercopithecoid Oral Microbiomes."

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