Ethnographies on language in relation to colonialism, nationalism, and performance are stressed. Extensive reading and writing required. Requires students to collect life history materials through fieldwork. Students work either on their graduate education fellowships or their doctoral dissertation grants, or both. Reading materials consist of granting-agency documents plus examples of successful applications.
Students develop area of transregional bibliographies.
Case studies examined within theoretical contexts. Explores these theoretical intersections and constructions of the body with new ethnographic works. Questions how race, gender, and culture are inscribed through bodily practice, imagery, and phenomenology. Enrollment limited to 15. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.