The state uses public funeral practice and large-scale national mourning as an opportunity to affirm cultural and sexual norms as state values, as evidenced in state and military funerals. My dissertation, "Queering U.S. Public Mourning Practice: Funerals, Performance, and the C…
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This dissertation is an attempt to understand what my friend Okpatu Dunu meant before he died when he would say "uwa agalaga," the world has gone astray. Okpatu was a man from the Igbo speaking town of Ukpo in Anambra State, Nigeria where I lived and conducted fieldwork in 1993.…
This work looks at the effect of institutions on development. It draws on fieldwork in a case study country, Sierra Leone. Problems of underdevelopment in Sierra Leone have been linked to institutional failures. This thesis examines that argument, both in relation to agrarian ch…
When faced with the death of a loved one, bodies serve as both the site of mourning and the vehicle through which individuals can embody grief. Using a Performance Studies lens this thesis examines the performance of bodies during a contemporary American funeral. This includes t…
La muerte es un evento biológico insalvable, pero también es un hecho social y cultural; las maneras en la que cada comunidad entiende la muerte y genera estrategias de sanación para afrontarla son específicas, dan poderosas luces sobre la identidad y memoria, y son un reflejo d…