2009-10 Kenan Instructorship in Ethics recipient
Cultural Anthropology

Phone: 919-601-5230
Email: aaron.thornburg@duke.edu

Physical Address:
103 West Duke Building
Durham, NC 27708

Postal Address:
Box 90091
Durham, NC 27708

Aaron Thornburg is the 2009-10 Kenan Instructorship in Ethics recipient and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He studies Irish-language (Gaeilge) education and media in the context of European Unification. His dissertation project, tentatively entitled Gaeilge, Migration, and Media in ‘New Ireland,’ examines the layered intersections between social institutions, media representations, language, and (at times inconsistent) performances of cultural identity by Irish ethnographic informants in light of migration and other social effects resulting from European Unionization and increased participation in the world economy. Aaron received a B.A. in Anthropology from University of Florida, a M.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University, and a M.Phil. in Linguistics at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.