Please join us in congratulating Marielle Marcaida, who successfully passed her written and oral PhD general exams on Friday.
Now a PhC, Marielle also brilliantly elaborated upon her dissertation prospectus, “Salvaging Maria: Urban Poor Mothers’ Resistance against the Philippine Drug War.” Her project examines how urban poor mothers vernacularize international human rights — and other recognized social, political, and legal forms — to create accountability against state-sanctioned murders of their children and kin.
Marielle’s dissertation explores the innovative forms of collectivity, power, and new subjectivity that mothers’ loss-based vernacular organizing produces in Manila and beyond.
Her entire committee — Cricket Keating, Amanda Swarr, Rick Bonus, Vicente Rafael (in absentia), and Chandan Reddy — commend Marielle for her critical work and wish her well as she returns to the Philippines for her fieldwork.