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Concentration in Historical and Transnational Anthropology
Faculty (Dussart, Linnekin,
Martinez, Wilson)
who support historical and transnational studies in cultural anthropology at the
University of Connecticut welcome qualified
students with research interests in: cultural revitalization movements, indigenous
and women's rights, international human rights, democratization, arts and media,
international migration, and popular culture and mass consumption.
We particularly encourage historical and ethnographic approaches to the study of these topics and of other political, social and cultural phenomena that span international borders. While maintaining an emphasis upon basic research, we seek to bring history and ethnography together to create sophisticated analysis of global problems and dynamics.
The graduate concentration at the University of
Connecticut is highly flexible and responsive to each student's particular
interests. An entering graduate student is normally expected to take courses in
the development of anthropological theory (311, 312, 315), research design and
ethnographic methods (321, 322), and in topical areas related to their research
interests. We also offer specialized seminars and individual reading courses that
cater to our current students' needs. In recent years, for example, the faculty
in Historical and Transnational Anthropology have taught special-topics seminars
entitled "Collective rights and cultural politics," "Human Rights in Democratizing
Countries," "Systems of Values," "Reading Ethnographies," "Ethnic Art and Globalization,
" "Studying Global Processes," "Economic and Social Rights," "Media and Activism
in the Fourth World."
The faculty of the Historical and Transnational Anthropology Program have research expertise in the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ongoing research projects by our faculty include:
Dussart:
- Aboriginal visual media and aesthetics, production and circulation in neo-colonial Australia
- Ritual and the construction of identity
- Human rights, indigenous rights and land rights
- Historical development of cultural theories in Britain, France, the US and Australia
Linnekin:
- Pacific Islands ethnohistory
- Constructions of "democracy" in transitional regimes
- Ethnic identity construction
- Popular culture and commoditization
Martínez:
- Relations between international and Third World human rights organizations
- Historical antecedents of present-day discourses and campaigns surrounding contemporary slavery
- The relationship between civil-political rights violations and social and economic inequalities
- The history of anthropology's engagement with human rights
Wilson:
- Human rights in Latin America and South Africa
- Culture, multi-culturalism and rights
- Liberalism, constitutions and citizenship
- The emergence of humanitarianism, nineteenth century to the present
- Law, narrative and history
Faculty in Historical and Transnational Anthropology maintain close ties with:
Current Advisees
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