Noah Theriault
Born and raised in Arizona, Noah Theriault began his graduate career in cultural anthropology in fall 2007 after earning B.A. degrees in anthropology and Spanish from Arizona State University. Before enrolling at UW, Noah spent nine months conducting preliminary field research on Palawan Island, the Philippines, where he was supported by a Fulbright Student Grant. His main project there involved working with and studying an indigenous people's organization protesting the presence of an agri-/aqua-cultural interest within their ancestral domain. This project will be the topic of a conference paper tentatively to be presented in July 2008 at the Eighth International Conference on Philippines Studies in Manila. Generally speaking, Noah's academic interests revolve around political anthropology and local experiences of state/NGO intervention in the name of development and conservation. Advocacy, community service, and public anthropology are also among his interests, and he looks forward to building on his past experiences in these areas while at UW. Currently, Noah serves as an honorary member on the Board of Directors of Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees ( www.coarweb.org ), a social-service organization that he helped to establish while at ASU. Outside the realm of work, Noah's current pastimes of choice are reading fiction, hiking, and attempting to do yoga.
