Anna Jacobsen's dissertation titled "Making Moral Worlds: Individual and Social Processes of Meaning Making in a Somali Diaspora", made Anthropologyworks' list of the top 40 dissertations in North America for 2011.
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To read the abbreviated abstract for Jacobsen's dissertation and to see the entire top 40 list, visit Anthropologyworks.com.
