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.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Canine Behavioral Genetics Project,
University of California, San Francisco

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)