Recent PhDs

2004

Anna Agbe-Davis Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, DePaul University, Chicago

Kristin Cahn von Seelen Ph.D.

Michael Frachetti Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

Pamela L. Geller Ph.D
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program of Women's & Gender Studies,
University of Miami

Melissa Murphy Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College

2005
Robey Callahan Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
California State, Fullerton

Melanie Lee Chang Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Canine Behavioral Genetics Project,
University of California, San Francisco

Jacqueline Fewkes Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University

Wendi A. Haugh Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College
Dissertation: Singing the Nation: Discourses of Identity and Community in Northern Namibia

Marc Meyer Ph.D.

Miranda Stockett Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania

Kristina Wirtz Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University

2006 (With Dissertation Topics)
Paja Faudree Ph.D.
Fiesta of the Spirits,
Revisited: Indigenous Language Poetics and Politics Among Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico

Carol A. Nickolai Ph.D.
Of Farms and Women:
The Occupation of the Emily and Amanda Shepard Site, 1875-1920

Sabina M. Perrino Ph.D.
Senegalese Ethnomedicine:
A Linguistic and Ethnographic Study of Medical Modernities between Senegal and Italy

Benjamin Pykles Ph.D.
The Archaeology of the Mormons Themselves:
The Restoration of Nauvoo and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America

Jonah Steinberg Ph.D.
The Anatomy of Transnation:
The Globalization of the Isma' Ili Muslim Community

2007
Wendy Bacon Ph.D.
The Dwarf Motif in Classic Maya Monumental Iconography:
A Spatial Analysis

Ivar Niklas Hultin Ph.D.
Legality, Information, and the Making of the Public Subject in Africa's Human Right's Capital
(The Gambia)

Donna Kirschner Ph.D.
Producing Unschoolers:
Learning Through Living in a U.S. Education Movement

Olivia Ng Ph.D.
View fromt he Periphery:
A Hermeneutic Approach to the Archaeology of Holotunich (1865-1930), British Honduras

Stephen Phillips Ph.D.
Cranial Anomaly, Pathology, or Normal Variant?
Thin Parietal Bones in Ancient Egyptian Human Remains

Benjamin Porter Ph.D.
The Archaeology of Community in Iron I Central Jordan

Teresa P. Razcek Ph.D.
Shared Histories:
Technology and Community at Gilund and Bagor, Rajasthan, India (c. 3000-1700 BC)

Emily Renschler Ph.D.
An Osteobiography of an African Diasporic Skeletal Sample:
Integrating Skeletal and Historical Information

Uzma Rizvi Ph.D.
Configuring the SPace in Between:
Redefining the Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex in Northeastern Rajasthan, India

Amelia Rosenberg-Weinreb Ph.D.
Unsatisfied Citizen - Consumers in Late Socialist Cuba

Damon Smith Ph.D.
The Last Shall be First and the First Shall be Last:
Speaking and Mormon History

Alex Steenhuyse Ph.D.
Continuity and Change in Lithic Technological and Economic Strategies:
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Industries of the Brive Basin (France)

2008

Lydia Clemmons Ph.D.
The Social Life of Ivermectin: Socio-Cultural and Political Constructions of a Western Pharmaceutical and its Mass Distributiong in Onchocerciasis-Endemic Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jane Hickman Ph.D.
Gold Before the Palaces: Crafting Jewelry and Social Identity in Minoan Crete
Lecturer University of Pennsylvania

Radu Iovita Ph.D.
Ontogenetic Scaling in Stone Tools and its Application to European Middle Paleolithic Systematics
Post-Doc Researcher: Roemisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany

Jennifer Jacobs Ph.D.
Ululation in Levantine Society: The Cultural Reproduction of an Affective Vocalization
Lecturer University of California Berkeley

Utsav Schurmans Ph.D.
The Production of Small Flakes in the Middle Paleolithic: A New Look at Assemblage Variability
Lecturer University of Pennsylvania

Megan Tracy Ph.D.
Anticipating the Chinese Century: Risks and Responsibilites in China's Food Industry and the SARS Epidemic
Assistant Professor James Madison University

2009

Azra Hromadzic Ph.D.                                                                        

Empty Nation: Youth, Education, and Democratization in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Page Selinsky

Death A Necessary End: Perspectives on Paleodemography and Aging From Hasanlu, Iran

Lecturer, Princeton University

Christopher Thornton

The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Metallurgy of Tepe, Hissar, Northeastern Iran, A Challenge to the 'Levantine Paradigm'

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Todd Wolfson

The Cyber Left: Indymedia and the Making of 21st Century Struggle

Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University