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Anthropology/Ethnology
Dominic Boyer (1996-97)
Dominic is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2000. Dominic's current research is on "the practice of news journalism in the era of global informational economies." His project analyzes the political-economic, social, and phenomenological dimensions of news journalism as digital technologies and the widespread outsourcing of correspondent work to wire service organizations have changed the character of news journalism as professional practice. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Dominic spent the year in Berlin and eastern Germany focusing on the professional transition of former East German journalists to life and work in the unified (West) German media system. (5/15/06)
David Brenner (1993-94)
David Brenner is the Director of the Houston Teachers Institute at the University of Houston, where he also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature in the Honors College. He is the author of two books, Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West Wayne State University Press, 1998) and German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's Kitsch(Routledge, 2008). His translation of Niklas Luhmann’s Die Religion der Gesellschaft will appear in 2011 with Stanford University Press. Presently he is writing a memoir on teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.(3/25/10)
Maria Garrett (2004-05)
During her year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Maria conducted research at Hamburg's Amnesty for Women, an organization dedicated to securing rights for migrant women in Germany. Her project focused on the marriage migration of Thai women to German men. In particular, Maria examined how marriage migration blurs boundaries between legal and illegal migration and disrupts contemporary definitions of women's work in gendered flows of labor migration. Maria is enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago in the department of Anthropology. She obtained a master's degree in the department in 2002 and graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1998. After her college graduation, Maria interned for a year at EMPOWER Foundation for women in Thailand, generously supported by a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. (4/21/06)
Noelle Noyes (2002-03)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Noelle entered a master's program in European Studies at the University of Osnabrueck in Germany. After completing her German M.A., she returned to the United States and is now working at a strategy consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Noelle's master's thesis on current migration (written in German) will be published in a book and introduced by an expert on migration, Professor Klaus Bade. (5/5/05)
Damani Partridge (1999-2000)
Damani Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. In addition to teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on "Race and Displacement," "Citizenship and Non-Citizens," "Urban Anthropology," "The Races of Sexuality and the Sexualities of Race," "Diasporic Aesthetics," and "The Anthropology of Europe," he is completing the revisions for his book manuscript: Becoming Non-citizens: Technologies of Exclusion and Exclusionary Incorporation after the Berlin Wall. This project is based on research he began in 1995 in Berlin, Germany, during his year as a Fulbright scholar, and then expanded in 1999/2000, during his year as a German Chancellor Fellow, to address broader questions of citizenship and the production of non-citizens after the fall of the Berlin Wall. (5/12/06)
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