Doctoral Dissertations authored by Wayne State University graduate students in the Department of Anthropology.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
La Olla Y Los Patios: An Ethnography Of Place, Selfhood, Violence, And Rehabilitation In Bogotá, Andrés Romero
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Multispecies Perspective Into Dietary Genetic Adaptations And Ancient Migration In The Peruvian Andes, Kelsey Jorgensen
An Emergent Legionnaires' Disease Syndemic: Water Supply Systems, Infrastructural Violence, And Afflicted Lives In The South Bronx, Ny, Eduardo Piqueiras
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Transformation Of The St. Clair Maritime Cultural Landscape From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Centuries, Daniel Frederick Harrison
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Learning To Be Deaf In Guatemala: The Role Of Gender, Learning, And Families In Communities Of Practice, Monica Elizabeth Rodriguez
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art In Detroit, Maya Stovall, Ph.d.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Rituals Reproducing Race: African American Women's Feminine Hygiene Practices, Shared Experiences, And Power, Angela K. Guy-Lee
Inscribed Administrative Material Culture And The Development Of The Umayyad State In Syria-Palestine 661-750 Ce, Tareq Ramadan
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
“i Can See My Values In Places”: Relationships, Place, And Growing Old In Detroit Neighborhoods, Wendy Daniel Bartlo
Healing The Social Body After Assisted Reproduction, Cvetana Cindy Golusin
Learning About Healing In Family Medicine: Making Doctors In An American Medical Residency Program, Edward John Rohn
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Numbers And Neighborhoods: Seeking And Selling The American Dream In Detroit One Bet At A Time, Felicia Bridget George
Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Networks Of Users And Powers: Blackboard Software Roadmap As Cultural Practice, Diana Gellci
Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present), Maria Rosaria Roti
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
Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation, William D. Banks
The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual, James Peter Meza
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Exploring Sacred Objects And Their Meanings In Catholic Mexicano Households: Domestic Religious Practices In San Antonio, Mary E. Durocher
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
"treating the whole person:" an ethnographic study of an integrative medicine pain clinic, Lindsey Ann Martin
A ritual investigation of sudden death events in an urban united states emergency department, Mary Eleanor Mitsch
"still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, Andrea Nevedal
Preterm Birth And The Perception Of Risk Among African Americans, Gwendolyn Simpson Norman
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Zanko, chef tribal: ethnography of a text, Susan Marie Kirwan
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era, Amy Goldmacher
Doing Ethnography In An Urban Hospital Emergency Department Setting: Understanding How Culture Was Related To Emergency Physician Habitus, Renady Hightower
A Bioarchaeological Study Of A Prehistoric Michigan Population: Fraaer-Tyra Site (20sa9), Allison June Muhammad
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital, Margaret Karadjoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Aerobic energy metabolism : the molecular evolution of COX8 in primates, Allon. Goldberg
Understanding hospitals' changing environments through the lens of complexity theory, Barbara L. Penprase
Understanding hospitals' changing environments through the lens of complexity theory, Barbara L. Penprase
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Transforming Transform, Inc. : team experiences in designing transformative initiatives, Kathleen M. Fell
Plants in the "Patxokon Na" : Tzotzil Maya homegardens in the highlands of southeastern Mexico, Sara Jean. Murray
The body shop : staff work and life in an urban medical rehabilitation hospital, Diane R. Pawlowski
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
Urbanization, tribalism, and tribal marriage in contemporary Kuwait, Ali Z. Al-Zubi
Toward a contextually-valid measure of social support among middle-aged and older African Americans in a southern urban community, Paula Dawn Swenson. Bodo
A description of the beliefs, practices and pathways to birth of certified nurse midwives and direct entry midwives, Margaret Moore. Gorman
Cultural influences on the adoption and use of information and communication technologies in organizations, Crysta J. Metcalf
Multivocalic cross border innovation of continuous quality improvement develops a community-of-practice in a health system, June G. Smart
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The politics of school-based health centers :, Kimberly. Campbell-Voytal
Rim city : Downtown Community Change 1987-1997 An Ethnography, Beverly J. Fogelson
Japanese company wives living in America : Culture, Social Relationships and Self, Denise. Saint Arnault