Doctoral Dissertations authored by Wayne State University graduate students in the Department of Anthropology.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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La Olla Y Los Patios: An Ethnography Of Place, Selfhood, Violence, And Rehabilitation In Bogotá, Andrés Romero

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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A Multispecies Perspective Into Dietary Genetic Adaptations And Ancient Migration In The Peruvian Andes, Kelsey Jorgensen

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An Emergent Legionnaires' Disease Syndemic: Water Supply Systems, Infrastructural Violence, And Afflicted Lives In The South Bronx, Ny, Eduardo Piqueiras

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Transformation Of The St. Clair Maritime Cultural Landscape From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Centuries, Daniel Frederick Harrison

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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In Pursuit Of The Three Highs: Urban Professional Chinese Women’s Experiences And Perceptions Of Gender In/equality In Contemporary China, Dawn L. Batts

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Learning To Be Deaf In Guatemala: The Role Of Gender, Learning, And Families In Communities Of Practice, Monica Elizabeth Rodriguez

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art In Detroit, Maya Stovall, Ph.d.

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Rituals Reproducing Race: African American Women's Feminine Hygiene Practices, Shared Experiences, And Power, Angela K. Guy-Lee

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Inscribed Administrative Material Culture And The Development Of The Umayyad State In Syria-Palestine 661-750 Ce, Tareq Ramadan

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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“i Can See My Values In Places”: Relationships, Place, And Growing Old In Detroit Neighborhoods, Wendy Daniel Bartlo

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Healing The Social Body After Assisted Reproduction, Cvetana Cindy Golusin

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Learning About Healing In Family Medicine: Making Doctors In An American Medical Residency Program, Edward John Rohn

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Numbers And Neighborhoods: Seeking And Selling The American Dream In Detroit One Bet At A Time, Felicia Bridget George

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Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Networks Of Users And Powers: Blackboard Software Roadmap As Cultural Practice, Diana Gellci

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Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present), Maria Rosaria Roti

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An Exploration Of The Use Of Objects In The Creation, Maintenance, And Social Performance Of Self Among People With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Disorders, Jayne Marie Yatczak

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation, William D. Banks

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Emotion Meaning-Making: Identity, Discourse And Social Interaction Among Arab Immigrant Healthcare Providers, Anne Katz

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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual, James Peter Meza

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Socioeconomic Differences In Body Mass Index, Neighborhood Satisfaction, Stress, And Perceived Racism Among African Americans In Metropolitan Detroit, Corey Zolondek

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Exploring Sacred Objects And Their Meanings In Catholic Mexicano Households: Domestic Religious Practices In San Antonio, Mary E. Durocher

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It's a birth not a procedure: an ethnographic study of intrauterine fetal death in a labor and delivery unit of an american hospital setting, Catherine Mcleod Griffin

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"treating the whole person:" an ethnographic study of an integrative medicine pain clinic, Lindsey Ann Martin

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A ritual investigation of sudden death events in an urban united states emergency department, Mary Eleanor Mitsch

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"still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, Andrea Nevedal

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Preterm Birth And The Perception Of Risk Among African Americans, Gwendolyn Simpson Norman

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Crossing The Valley Of Death: A Multi-Sited, Multi-Level Ethnographic Study Of Growth Startups And Entrepreneurial Communities In Post-Industrial Detroit, Marlo Rencher

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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A cultural analysis of information technology offshore outsourcing: an exercise in multi-sited ethnography of virtual work, Tara Eaton

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Zanko, chef tribal: ethnography of a text, Susan Marie Kirwan

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era, Amy Goldmacher

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Doing Ethnography In An Urban Hospital Emergency Department Setting: Understanding How Culture Was Related To Emergency Physician Habitus, Renady Hightower

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A Bioarchaeological Study Of A Prehistoric Michigan Population: Fraaer-Tyra Site (20sa9), Allison June Muhammad

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital, Margaret Karadjoff

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Aerobic energy metabolism : the molecular evolution of COX8 in primates, Allon. Goldberg

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Understanding hospitals' changing environments through the lens of complexity theory, Barbara L. Penprase

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Understanding hospitals' changing environments through the lens of complexity theory, Barbara L. Penprase

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The magical power of reciprocity: or, towards an understanding of cultural integration across the division of labor in a cross-functional automotive design organization via a theory of processual culture, Bradley Jay Trainor

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Transforming Transform, Inc. : team experiences in designing transformative initiatives, Kathleen M. Fell

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Plants in the "Patxokon Na" : Tzotzil Maya homegardens in the highlands of southeastern Mexico, Sara Jean. Murray

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The body shop : staff work and life in an urban medical rehabilitation hospital, Diane R. Pawlowski

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A caboclo society in the middle rio negro basin : ecology, economy, and history of an ornamental fishery in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, Gregory. Prang

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Urbanization, tribalism, and tribal marriage in contemporary Kuwait, Ali Z. Al-Zubi

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Toward a contextually-valid measure of social support among middle-aged and older African Americans in a southern urban community, Paula Dawn Swenson. Bodo

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A description of the beliefs, practices and pathways to birth of certified nurse midwives and direct entry midwives, Margaret Moore. Gorman

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Cultural influences on the adoption and use of information and communication technologies in organizations, Crysta J. Metcalf

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Multivocalic cross border innovation of continuous quality improvement develops a community-of-practice in a health system, June G. Smart

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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The politics of school-based health centers :, Kimberly. Campbell-Voytal

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Rim city : Downtown Community Change 1987-1997 An Ethnography, Beverly J. Fogelson

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Japanese company wives living in America : Culture, Social Relationships and Self, Denise. Saint Arnault