Natasha Schull, a candidate for the Ph.D in the Department of Anthropology, is writing a dissertation entitled Living with the Machine: An Ethnography of Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival research on Las Vegas gambling, addiction and technology Schull wants particularly to understand the lived experience of women machine-gamblers. She situates her dissertation at the intersection of subjective experience and the discursive and material fields that constitute, enable, and limit such experience; her goal is thus to chart the complex interaction of diagnostic and therapeutic apparatuses, corporate infrastructure, and techniques of the self. Natasha Schull is supported by a fellowship from the Center for Working Families.