Dissertations by Laura Eichelberger and Karin Friederic, both 2011 SoA PhDs and both advisees of Linda Green (Professor of Anthropology and Research Anthropologist, BARA), were named on a top 40 list of best dissertations in socio-cultural anthropology in 2011.

The list is the work of Barbara Miller, Director of the Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Miller is the author of an anthropology blog called AnthropologyWorks and recently published a post titled "Anthroworks Best 40 Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology 2011." The 40 dissertations are arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the dissertation author. You can see the entire list and read abbreviated abstracts of each dissertation here.

Here are the titles of Laura and Karin’s dissertations:

Manufacturing Insecurity: Power, Water, Waste, and the Silences of Sustainability and Suffering in Northwest Alaska, by Laura Eichelberger. The University of Arizona. Advisors: Linda B. Green, Mark Nichter, Mark, Mimi Nichter, Susan Shaw, et al.

La Violencia Adentro (Violence in the Interior): Gender Violence, Human Rights, and State-NGO-Community Relations in Coastal Ecuador, by Karin Friederic. The University of Arizona. Advisors; Linda B. Green, Mark Nichter, Laura Briggs, Martha Few, et al.