Anjali Browning
PhD Candidate (ABD), UCLA 2005; MA, Latin American Studies, UCLA 2005; BA, Anthropology, UCLA 2002
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
browning@ucla.edu
Subfield
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests
Village politics, intra-community conflict and management of disputes in Oaxaca, Mexico. Interests include: indigenous peasants and the State, corruption, narratives and discourses of conflict, political economy of agriculture, social history of commodities, consumption, effects of neoliberalism and migration on social relations, regionalism, ethnic identity, gender, ethnohistory.
Publications
Cohen, Jeffrey H., and Anjali Browning
2007 “The Decline of Basket Making in San Juan Guelavía.” Human Organization 66(3): 229-239.
Browning, Anjali, and Alessandro Duranti (Eds)
2005 Special Issue of Discourse Studies: Theories and Models of language, interaction, and culture, 7(4–5).
Browning, Anjali, and Alessandro Duranti
2005 “Editor’s Introduction.” Discourse Studies 7(4–5): 403–407.
Grants and Awards
2006 UCLA Quality of Graduate Education (QGE) Post-Fieldwork Data Analysis Year Fellowship
2005 Fulbright IIE García-Robles Fellowship for Research in Mexico
2005 UCLA Latin American Studies Award for Best Masters Papers
2005 UCLA Graduate Division, Research Mentorship Conference Travel Grant
2004 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Title VI, Fellowship in Mixtec Language Studies
2004 UCLA Graduate Division, Summer Research Mentorship
2004 UCLA Department of Anthropology, Conference Travel Grant
2003 UCLA Graduate Division, University Fellowship
2003 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2002 Golden Key Honour Society, Recognition
2000 - 2002 UCLA College Honors Program
2000 - 2002 UCLA Anthropology Departmental Honors Program
2001 UCLA President’s Undergraduate Fellowship
2001 UCLA College of Letters and Sciences Honors Program: Jeffrey George Wilson Award for Outstanding Research Proposal
2001 UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Naumberg Research Stipend
2001 UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Rose and Sam Gilbert Honors Scholarship
Advisors
Allen W. Johnson, Co-Chair
Karen Brodkin, Co-Chair
Alessandro Duranti
Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA)
Jeffrey H. Cohen (Anthropology, Ohio State University)
Conference Presentations
Anthropology Session Moderator, Fulbright Midterm Meetings,México City, México, March 2006.
“Intercommunity Conflict in Oaxaca, México.” Fulbright Midterm Meetings, México City, México, March 2006.
“Roads, Pistols, & Pesos: Factionalism & Boundary Trouble in Oaxaca, México.” Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Annual Conference. Conference Session: “Boundary Trouble(s).” Mérida, Yucatán, México. May 2005.
“Roads, Pistols, & Pesos: Factionalism & Disputing in Oaxaca, México.” UCLA Anthropology Department, Cultures of Capitalism Ethnographic Working Group, Guest Presentations. April 2005.
“Lesson Plans and Active Learning.” UCLA Anthropology
Department, Teaching Assistant Training Workshop. September 2004.
“Censor This! Head-Bangers, Hip Swishing Divas and Rap Heads: The Role of Music in the Construction of Adolescent Identity.” Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Annual Conference, Conference Session: “If it Ain’t Mainstream, Is it Resistence?” Atlanta, Georgia, USA. May 2004.
“The Role of Music in the Construction of Adolescent Identity.” UCLA Department of Anthropology Annual Honors Presentations. May 2002.
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