Master’s Theses
Christa Burdick: Marking and Marketing Difference in Projects of Language Commodification: Alsatian Dialect under the Tourist Gaze (MA project), May 2013
Grace Cleary: United in Difficulty: The European Union’s Use of Shared Problems as a Way to Encourage Unity, February 2013
Dana Johnson: Rewriting the Balkans: Memory, Historiography, and the Making of a European Citizenry, September 2012
Other Conference Papers
Christopher Sweetapple: Banal Homonationalism: Darkrooms, Chatrooms and the German National Imaginary
Invited paper presented at the International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference, Brighton, England, July 2013
Christa Burdick: Alsacez-Vous! Language Commodification and Heritage in Tourism
Paper presented at the conference “The Past for Sale? The Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage,” University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 15-17, 2013
Grace Cleary: Marketing Difficult Pasts: Case Studies from Across Spain
Paper presented at the conference “The Past for Sale? The Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage,” University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 15-17, 2013
Alin Rus: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Migration, Protests and Nationalism Symbols in Postsocialist Romania
Paper presented at the Annual Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, Columbia University, NY, April 18-20, 2013
Dana Johnson: Authoritarian or Impotent? Narrating the State of Postsocialism in the Former Yugoslavia
Paper presented at the SOYUZ Symposium, Columbia University, NY, March 22-23, 2013
Jill Bierly: Strategic Moves: Phoenician Economic Tactics in Cyprus
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 2012
Alin Rus: Physical Violence, Visual Image and Intangible Heritage in Ruginoasa Village
Roundtable discussion at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 16, 2012
Grace Cleary: United In Difficulty: The European Union's Use of Shared Problems As a Way to Encourage Solidarity
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2012
Justin Helepololei: Beyond the Plaza: Barcelona’s Okupa Squatters at Work in the Wake of La Crisis
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2012
Alin Rus: Two Different Burial Rituals in the Same Village of Eastern Romania: Heleşteni, Iaşi Region
Paper and ethnographic film presented at the fifth Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD) conference, "1 December 1918" University, Alba Iulia, Romania, September 6-8, 2012
Christopher Sweetapple: Some Notes on Affect and Discourses of Social Tense in Tense Times
Paper presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, Nanterre University, France, July 10–13, 2012
Alin Rus: Trends, Ideologies and Methods in American Anthropology
Paper presented at the Archaeological Summer School in Heleşteni, Romania, April 25- May 5, 2012
Jill Bierly: From Artifact to Narrative: Presenting the Cypriot Past in the Cypriot Present
Paper presented at the tenth Biennial Graduate Student Forum in Archaeology, Boston University, February 25, 2012
CHESS Panels Organized
First Annual Public Heritage Colloquium
Regis College, May 24, 2012
Jill Bierly: From Artifact to Narrative: Presenting the Cypriot Past in the Cypriot Present
Dana Johnson: Disarming History? The Pedagogy of Reconciliation and Democratic Citizenship in the Balkans
Grace Cleary: El Futuro Tiene Raíces: Finding Roots, Producing a European Capital of Culture
Seung ho Chung: Contemporary Flamenco as a Cultural Resource between a Commodity as an Art Form
Memory Remains: Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association Annual Conference
Boston, MA, March 30–31, 2012
European Pasts, Presents and Futures: The Anthropology of Public Memories
Grace Cleary: Selective Memory: Writing a Narrative for the City of Three Cultures
Mackenzie Jackson: Public Memory of Trauma and the Biopolitics of Mental Health Policy in Turkey
Dana Johnson: Between History and Memory: The Struggle for Education Reform in the Balkans
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011
Memory, Monuments, and Commemoration: Field Legacies, Field Futures
(Krista Harper, Chair; Elizabeth Krause, Organizer)
Grace Cleary: El Futuro Tiene Raíces: Finding Roots, Producing a European Capital of Culture
Jill Bierly: From Artifact to Narrative: Combining Methodologies to Trace National Identity through Cypriot History
Seung ho Chung: Contemporary Flamenco between Heritage Tourism and Cultural Identity
Mackenzie Jackson: “We Have Entrusted Our Hopes, Dreams and Memories to the Sea”: Locating Reverberations of Turkey's Marmara Earthquake in Public Places and Mental Health Policies