Whose Germany? Whose Future?: Citizenship and the Body in a Post Unification Era is the title of the dissertation of Damani Partridge, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. The dissertation considers rising nationalism during the process of German unification in relation to an increasingly international focus on globalization, neo-liberal market reform, and a recent change in German law that facilitates the access to citizenship for those with no claim to German “blood.” Its analysis focused on the daily lives and politicization of people of “African- German” (in east and West), “Turkish/ Turkish-German (in West Berlin), and “Vietnamese/Vietnamese-German (East Berlin) descent, Partidge’s study examines how legal institutions interact with broader social understandings to produce simultaneously “German” and “non- German” subjects.