We celebrate the achievements of our graduates. The career opportunities they have found after completing our PhD program are endless. Listed below are the last ten years of graduate placements. Although only recent graduates are listed at this time, we maintain information about all of our graduates. Please send updates about our alumni at anthro.grad.program@umich.edu.
2022
Huatse Gyal (Sociocultural)
The Remaking of Home, Community, and Self: Rangeland Fencing, Resettlement, and the Resilience of Tibetan Pastoralists
Benjamin Hollenbach (Sociocultural)
All Are Welcome: Inclusion and Mainline Protestantism in the United States
Ozge Korkmaz (Sociocultural)
Politics, Ethics, and Complicity in Turkey's Kurdistan: Anxieties of an Era
Jo Osborn (Archaeology)
Jahuay: Maritime Specialization in a Littoral Topara Community (200 BC-AD 150)
Adolmary Pena (Sociocultural)
Remapping Afro-Caribbean Landscapes: Embodiment and the Sensory Aesthetics of Dominican Tourism Space
Niku T'arhechu T'arhesi (Linguistic)
Endangered Words and Invulnerable Worlds: Spatial Language and Social Relations in Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico
University of Rhode Island, Distinguished Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow
Yuchao Zhao (Biological)
Taming the Plateau: From Hunting to Herding in the Fourth Millennium BP at Meilong Cave, Western Tibet
2021
Anna Antoniou (Archaeological)
Collaborating for First Foods: Archaeological Investigations of Chinookan and Lower Chehalis Foodways in Willapa Bay, Washington
Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society
Vincent Battista (Biological)
Senior Data Analyst/Bioinformatician, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Adrian Deoanca
University of Bucharest, Faculty Member, Department of Sociology and Social Work
Amelia Frank-Vitale (Sociocultral)
Leave if You're Able: Migration, Survival, and the Everydayness of Deportation in Honduras
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer with the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University.
V (Victoria) Koski-Karell (Sociocultral and MSTP)
PhD, Medical Student, University of Michigan Medical School, Medical Scientist Training Program, Class of 2023
Kyra Pazan (Archaeology)
The Last Glacial Maximum and Acceleration of Technological Change in the Lesotho Highlands
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, California State University - Stanislaus
Cheryl Yin (Linguistic)
Khmer Honorifics: Re-emergence and Change After the Khmer Rouge
University of California - Berkeley, UC Berkeley Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam Shuman (Sociocultral)
Rabin-Shvidler Post-doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Columbia & Fordham Universities
2020
Jamie Andreson (Anthropology and History)
Mothers in the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage
Postdoctoral Scholar with the Africana Research Center at Pennsylvania State University.
Abagail Breidenstein (Biological)
Postdoctoral Research, University of Zurich
Nicholas Caverly (Sociocultural)
Restructured City: Demolition and Racial Accumulations in Detroit
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts
Jordan Dalton (Archaeological)
Excavations at Las Huacas (AD 1200-1650): Exploring Elite Strategies and Economic Exchange During the Inca Empire
Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellow, Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History
Adrian Deoanca (Sociocultural)
End of the Line: State Infrastructure, Material Ruin, and Precarious Labor along Romanian Railroads
Faculty Member, University of Bucharest, Department of Sociology and Social Work
Briana Doering (Archaeological)
Evaluating the Social and Environmental Process of the Dene/Athabascan Migration from the Subarctic
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wyoming
Jessica Lowen (Linguistic)
Rescue and Revival in Detroit Anti-Sex Trafficking Ministry: How sex industry outreach and the fight against human trafficking is reviving American evangelicals
Aaron Michka (Sociocultural)
House, Church, Cave: Coptic Landscapes and the Demands of Pluralism in Upper Egypt
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Sandhya Narayanan (Linguistic)
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University.
Nana Quarshie (Anthropology and History)
Assistant Professor, Yale University
Rachna Reddy (Biological)
The Development of Male Chimpanzee Reproductive Tactics
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Amanda Respess (Anthropology and History)
The Abode of Water: Shipwreck Evidence and the Maritime Circulation of Medicine Between Iran and China in the 9th Through 14th Centuries
Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Sonia Rupcic (Sociocultural)
Righting Sexual Wrongs? Personhood, Intent, and Sex in a former South African Homeland
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
Heather Tidrick (Social Work and Anthropology)
Roma Integration and Institutional Practices with Roma/Gypsies in Postsocialist Hungary
Social Worker IV-C, County of Mendocino
Nishita Trisal (Sociocultural)
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California - Irvine
2019
Irisa Arney (Biological)
East African Miocene Catarrhine Evolutionary Ecology
Research Assistant at the University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
Allison Caine (Sociocultural)
Restless Ecologies in the Andean Highlands: Climate Change and Pastoralism in Peru
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wyoming
Lacey Carpenter (Archaeological)
Households and Political Transformation: Daily Life During State Formation at Tilcajete, Oaxaca, Mexico
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Hamilton College
Ainash Childebayeva (Biological)
Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
John Doering-White (Social Work and Anthropology)
In the Shadow of the Beast: Violence and Dignity along the Central American Migrant Trail
Kevin Donovan (Anthropology and History)
Sovereign Scales: Frontiers of Value in East Africa
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
Georgia Ennis (Linguistic)
Remediating Endangerment: Radio and the Animation of Memory in the Western Amazon
Visiting Junior Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Pennsylvania State University
Chelsea Fisher (Archaeological)
Maya Farming Communities and the Long View of Sustainability at Tzacauil
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Washington and Lee University
Andrew Haxby (Sociocultural)
A House Divided: Land, Kinship, and Bureaucracy in Post-Earthquake Kathmandu
Visitng Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Pitzer College
Matan Kaminer (Sociocultural)
By the Sweat of Other Brows: Thai Migrant Labor and the Transformation of Israeli Settler Agriculture
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Haifa
Nama Khalil (Sociocultural)
Making a Difference: Youth, Business, and Re-Envisioning Media Practice in Egypt
Adjunct Faculty, Columbus College of Art and Design (starting January 2020)
Gurveen Kaur Khurana (Anthropology and History)
Gaining Authority and Legitimacy: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Golden Temple c. 1920-2000
Global Head of Flexible Working (COE), Standard Chartered Bank
Jin Li (Sociocultural)
Reassembling Religion: Sino-Tibetan Encounters in Serta
Anna MacCourt (Anthropology and History)
Lord of the Universe Among Equals: The Challenges of Kingship in Early Historic/Early Medieval Gujarat
Maire Malone (Biological)
Histological, Trace Element, and Stable Isotopic Reconstruction of Dental Development, Diet and Weaning in Ugandan Chimpanzees: Implications for Studies of Hominin Life History
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Prash Naidu (Sociocultural)
Sea-Change: Mambai Sensory Practices and Hydrocarbon Exploitation in Timor-Leste
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of International Studies and Environmental Social Sciences at the Department of Historical & Political Studies at Arcadia University.
Cyrus O'Brien (Anthropology and History)
Redeeming Imprisonment: Religion and the Development of Mass Incarceration in Florida
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Religion and Politics, Washington University, St. Louis
Christina Sampson (Archaeological)
Safety Harbor at the Weeden Island Site: Late Pre-Columbian Craft, Community, and Complexity on Florida’s Gulf Coast
Associate Faculty, Anthropology Program, Everertt Community College
Aleksandr Sklyar (Sociocultral)
Living in Post-Fukushima Grey Zones: Family Decisions in the Wake of Nuclear Disaster
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University
Leigh Stuckey (Sociocultural)
Guests in the Homeland: Transnational Heritage Tourism in Greece and Turkey
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Nikolas Sweet (Linguistic)
The Poetics of Relationality: Mobility, Naming, and Sociability in Southeastern Senegal
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wyoming
Warren Thompson (Sociocultural)
The Orphaned Past: Ache Autonomy and Relationality in Times of Change
Jennifer Tucker (Social Work and Anthropology)
In the Time of Mangos, Motorcycles, and Improvised Medicine: Aging with Displacement during the Post-Chavez Venezuelan Crisis
2018
Hoda Bandeh-Ahmadi (Sociocultural)
Anthropological Generations: A Post-Independence Ethnography of Academic Anthropology and Sociology in India
Research Specialist, Center for Surgical Training and Research, University of Michigan
Brady G'Sell (Anthropology and History)
Making Motherhood Work: Women’s Child Support Claims, Race, and the Remaking of Citizenship in South Africa, 1958-2015
Assistant Professor, Departments of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, University of Iowa
Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson (Biological)
Social and Ecological Challenges in Female Geladas: A Test of the Vocal Grooming Hypothesis
Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science and the Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University
Ujin Kim (Linguistic)
Ethical Management of Speech among Kazak Nomads in the Chinese Altai
Postdoc in Eurasian Studies at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Bruno Emanuel Renero-Hannan (Anthropology and History)
In the Wake of Insurgency: Testimony and the Politics of Memory and Silence in Oaxaca
Christine Sargent (Socialcultural)
Ambivalent Inheritance: Down Syndrome and Kinship Futures in Jordan
Assistant Professor, Cultural/Medical Anthropology, University of Colorado
Laura Yakas (Social Work and Anthropology)
Love in a Time of Madness: The Importance of Purpose and Belonging in Healing and Harnessing Madness
Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
Charles Zuckerman (Linguistic)
Good Gambling: Meaning and Moral Economy in Late-Socialst Laos
Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University
2017
Meghanne Barker (Linguistic)
Framing the Fantastic: Animating Childhood in Contemporary Kazakhstan
LSE Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Smadar Brack (Sociocultural)
Missionaries to the City of God: Christian Citizenship and African Immigrants in Rome, Italy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harry S. Truman Research Institute, for the Advancement of Peace
Courtney Cottrell (Sociocultural)
Competing Discourses, Developing Partnerships: Navigating Differences Between Ethnographic Museums and Tribal Museums
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Indian Studies Program, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Achirri Ismael (Sociocultural)
Host Plants, Butterflies & Neoliberal Spaces: Environmental Subjectivities & the Challenges of Conservation Ecotourism in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, University of Michigan
Deborah Jones (Linguistic)
Afterlives & Other Lives: Semiosis & History in 21st Century Ukraine
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Lavrentia Karamaniola (Sociocultural)
Bucharest Barks: Street Dogs, Urban Lifestyle Aspirations, and the Non-Civilized City
Muhammad Murshed Khadija (Archaeology)
The Nabataean Rock Carving Technique in Petra
Retired
Elizabeth Koomson (Social Work and Anthropology)
Transforming Customary Systems in Ghana: Women's Participation in Small-Scale Gold Mining Activities in the Talensi District
Oana Mateescu (Anthropology and History)
Serial Anachronism: Re-Assembling Romanian Forest Commons
Assistant Professor, University of Bergen
John Mathias (Social Work and Anthropology)
Contentious Ethics: Creativity and Persuasion among Environmental Organizers in South India
Assistant Professor, College of Social Work, Florida State University
Regev Nathansohn (Sociocultural)
Living in a Mixing Neighborhood: Reflexive Coexistence and the Discourse of Separation
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Haifa
Michael Prentice (Linguistic)
Ranks & Files: Corporate Hierarchies, Genres of Management,and Shifting Control in South Korea's Corporate World
Lecturer in Korean Studies, School of East Asian Studies, Sheffield University, England
Colin Quinn (Archaeology)
The Crucible of Complexity: Community Organization and Social Change in Bronze Age Transylvania (2700-1320 BC)
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Hamilton College
Tasha Rijke-Epstein (Anthropology and History)
Architectures of Belonging: Moral Economies of Urban Place-Making in Mahajanga, Madagascar
Assistant Professor, History, Vanderbilt University
Aaron Sandel (Biological)
Male-Male Relationships and the Transition to Adulthood in Chimpanzees
Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Austin
Josh Shapero (Linguistic)
Speaking Places: Language, Mind, and Environment in the Ancash Highlands (Peru)
Instructor, University of Michigan
Amir Syed (Anthropology and History)
Al-ḤājjʿUmar Tāl and the Realm of the Written: Mastery, Mobility and Islamic Authority in 19th Century West Africa
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Linda Takamine (Sociocultural)
Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America
Qualitative Researcher, VA Center for Clinical Management Research
Edgar Taylor (Anthropology and History)
Asians and Africans in Ugandan Urban Life, 1959-1972
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA)
Craig Wuthrich (Biological)
Computational Relationships among Form, Function, and Phylogeny in the Catarrhine Ulnar Carpus, and the Evolutionary History of Ape and Human Locomotion
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
2016
Luciana Aenasoaie (Anthropology and History)
Weaving and Unraveling the Factory Town: Social Alterations and European Belonging in the Aftermath of Romanian Industrial Collapse, 1950-2015
Assistant Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Anthropology and History)
Aligning the Sunna and the Jama'a: Religious Authority and Islamic Social Formation in Contemporary Central Java, Indonesia
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
Jess Beck (Archaeology)
The Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Practice at Marrquies Bajos, Spain
Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Georgia State University
Marcela Benitez (Biological)
Sizing up Strangers: Sexual Selection and Vocal Signals in Gelada Males
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
William Benton (Sociocultural)
Entrepreneurship Networks in Beirut: Capital and Creativity Modeling the Future
Scholar in Resident, Virginia Commonwealth University
Ivan Cangemi (Archaeological)
A Scale-Free, Relational Approach to Social Development in LatePrehistoric Tyrrhenian Central Italy
Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Matthew Chin (Social Work and Anthropology)
Enacting Politics through Art: Encounters between Queer and Trans of Color Organizers and the Canadian City
Assistant Professor, Social Work, Fordham University
Adriana Chira (Anthropology and History)
Uneasy Intimacies: Race, Family, and Property in Santiago de Cuba, 1803-1868
Assistant Professor, History, Emory University
Joshua Coene (Anthropology and History)
The Contentious Prison: From Rehabilitation to incapacitation in New South Wales and Pennsylvania, 1965-1990
Robyn d'Avignon (Anthropology and History)
Subterranean Histories: Making ‘Artisanal’ Miners on the West African Sahel
Assistant Professor of History, New York University
Alysa Handelsman (Sociocultural)
Growing up in Guayaquil's Barrios: A Collaborative Ethnography with Children
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Wofford College
Bethany Hansen (Biological)
The Ecology and behavior of new chimpanzee mothers at Ngogo, the Kibale National Park, Uganda
Research Fellow, Lincoln Park Zoo
Alison Joersz (Linguistic)
What's Wrong with Haiti? Politics, Development, and Discourse in Port-au-Prince
Customer Service Representative, American Heritage Insurance Agency, Inc.
Rachel Jihyun Lee (Archaeology)
Household Change and Social Complexity in Mumun Pottery Period Korea, 1500-500 B.C.
Instructor, Tenure Track - Shoreline Community College
Ashley Lemke (Archaeology)
Anthropological Archaeology Underwater: Hunting Architecture and Forager Lifeways beneath the Great Lakes
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthroplogy, University of Texas-Arlington
Jane Lynch (Sociocultural)
The Good of Cloth: Bringing Ethics to Market in India's Handloom Textile Industry
Lecturer, Social Theory and Practice, LSA Residential College, University of Michigan
Shana Melnysyn (Anthropology and History)
Vagabond States: Boundaries and Belonging in Portuguese Angola, c. 1880-1910
Mellon Graduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan
Lamia M. Moghnieh (Social Work and Anthropology)
Humanitarian Psychology in Lebanon: Psychological Aid, Violence and the Politics of Suffering
Postdoctoral Fellow, EUME (Europe in the Middle East, Middle East in Europe), Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin Germany
Elana Resnick (Sociocultural)
Nothing Ever Perishes: Waste, Race, and Transformation in an Expanding European Union
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stuart Strange (Sociocultural)
Suspected Gods: Spirit Possession, Performance, and Social Relations in Multi-Ethnic Suriname
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Yale-NUS College
Joseph Vascomi (Anthropology & History)
Out of Time: History, Presence, and the Departure of the Italians of Egypt, 1933-present
Faculty, Birbeck College, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of London
2015
Dana Begun (Biological)
Age-Related Changes in Bone: Variation and Factors Influencing Bone Fragility
Lead Sales Operations Specialist, Baker Hughes - GE
Jennifer Bowles (Sociocultural)
Hands on the Green Leaf: Labor, Resistance, and Bittersweet Dwelling in Argentina's Yerba Mate Country
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Oakland University
Vanessa Diaz (Sociocultural)
Manufacturing Celebrity and Marketing Fame: An Ethnographic Study of Celebrity Media Production
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Christopher Estrada (Anthropology & History)
Caboclos of Nazareth: Improvisation and Renovation in Marcacatu de Baque Solto of Prenambuco
Visiting Research Associate, King's College London
Joshua Friedman (Sociocultural)
Yiddish Exchange: Language, Inter-generational Gifts, and Jewish Devotion
Postdoc Research Fellow, Anthropology, Duke University
Katherine Fultz (Sociocultural)
Economies of Representation: Communication, Conflict, and Mining in Guatemala
Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University
Anna Genina (Sociocultural)
Claiming Ancestral Homelandsː Mongolian Kazakh migration in Inner Asia
Andrew Gurstelle (Archaeology)
The House of Oduduwa: An Archaeological Study of Economy and Kingship in the Save Hills of West Africa
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University
Geoffrey Hughes (Sociocultural)
Affection and Mercy: Kinship, State, and the Management of Marriage in Jordan
Lecturer, University of Exeter
Ji Eun Kim (Sociocultural)
The Politics of Survival and Care in Homeless Japan
Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Leeds
Moshe Kornfeld (Sociocultural)
The Chosen Universalists: Jewish Philanthropy and Youth Activism in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University
Jennifer Lee Hall (Archaeology)
Debating Darija: Language Ideology and the Written Representative of Moroccan Arabic in Morocco
Professor, Universite Internationale de Casablanca
Scott MacLochlainn (Sociocultural)
The Boundary Indefinite: Schism and the Ethics of Christian Strategy in the Philippines
Tenure-track faculty, Johns Hopkins University
Bertrand Metton (Anthropology and History)
From the Popular Front to the Eastern Front: Youth Movements, Travel, and Fascism in France (1930-1945)
Lecturer, City University of New York
Davide Orsini (Anthropology and History)
Life in Nuclear Archipelago: Cold War Technopolotics and US Nuclear Submarines in Italy
Assistant Professor, History, Mississippi State University
Ali Sipahi (Anthropology and History)
At Arm's Length: Historical Ethnography of Proximity in Harput
Edgar Taylor (Anthropology and History)
Asians and Africans in Ugandan Urban Life, 1959-1972
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa
Amorita Esperanza Valdez (Sociocultural)
Care-Biographies: Narrating Kinship in the Context of Care
Board member, Anthropology Theory Project
Elizabeth Bridges White (Archaeology)
Beyond Emire: Vijayanagara Imperialism and the Emergence of the Keladi-Ikkeri Nayaka State, 1499-1763 C.E.
Owner, Luna Lola
Andrea Wright (Anthropology and History)
Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea
Assistant Professor, William and Mary College
2014
Erika Alpert (Linguistic)
Language, Gender, and Ideology in Japanese Professional Matchmaking
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Nazerbayev University
Jean E. Balestrery (Anthropology & Social Work)
A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Study in Alaska: Examining the Culture-Communication Nexus Salient to Alaska Native Elders and Conventional Health and Social Services
Casey Barrier (Archaeology)
The Mississippi Transition at the Washausen Site: Demography and Community at a Tenth-Eleventh Century A.D. Mound Town in the American Bottom, Illinois
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Consulting Scholar, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology American Section, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Berk (Sociocultural)
Long Way, Long Time: Learning and Living Aboriginal Culture in Tasmania
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Auburn University
Sumi Cho (Sociocultural)
The Politics of Difference and Authenticity in the Practice of Okinawan Dance and Music in Osaka, Japan
Assistant Professor, Bangmok College of General Ed, Myongi University
Nishaant Choksi (Linguistic)
Scripting Autonomy: Script, Code, and Performance among Santali Speakers in Eastern India
Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Anne Marie Compton (Archaeology)
Shifting Trade Networks: Household Interaction and Integration in Central Ghana
Associate Director, Center for Academic Program Support, University of New Mexico
Jonathan Devore (Sociocultural)
Cultivating Hope: Struggles for Land, Equality, and Recognition in the Cacao Lands of Southern Bahia, Brazil
Akademischer Rat auf Lebenszeit (Academic Counsel), Dept of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany
Nicholas Emlen (Linguistic)
Language and Coffee in a Trilingual Matsigenka-Quechua-Spanish Frontier Community on the Andean-Amazonian Borderland of Southern Peru
Research Fellow, Brown University
Anna Genina (Sociocultural)
Creating Ancestral Homelands: movement, history, and belonging among Mongolian Kazakh repatriates
International Arts and Cultural Relations Consultant, Moscow, Russian Federation
Shu-Li Huang (Sociocultural)
From Millenarians to Christians: The History of Christian Bureaucracy in Ahmao (Miao/Hmong) Society, 1850s-2010s
Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
Kelly Kirby (Sociocultural)
Clothing, Kinship, and Representation: Transnational Wardrobes in Michigan's African Diaspora Communities
Department Chair, Moore College of Art & Design
Gabriele Koch (Sociocultural)
The Libidinal Economy of the Japanese Sex Industry: Sexual Politics and Female Labor
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Yale-NUS College
Bradley Kramer (Sociocultural)
Keeping the Sacred: Structured Silence in the Enactment of Priesthood Authority, Gendered Worship, and Sacramental Kinship in Mormonism
Assistant Professor, History, Utah Valley University
Matthew Kroot (Archaeology)
Feeding Villages: Farming and Forging Across Neolithic Landscapes in west-central Jordan
Academic Year Adjuct Lecturer, Santa Clara University
Nita Luci (Sociocultural)
Seeking Independence: Making Nation, Memory, and Manhood in Kosova
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo
Katherine Bolden Martineau (Sociocultural)
"Marginal Freedoms: Journalism, Participation and Moral Multiplicity in Odisha, India"
Assistant Professor, Binghamton University
Amy Nicodemus (Archaeology)
Trade, Craft Production, and Agro-Pastoral Intensification: Bronze Age Economies of the Carpathian Basin
Assistant Professor, Archaeology, University of Wisconsin LaCrosse
Katherine Rendle (Anthropology & Social Work)
Anthropology & Social Work Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Perry Sherouse (Linguistic)
Quality, Comfort, and Ease: Remapping the Affordances of Russian Language in Tbilisi, Georgia
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, AAAS-EEA Science and Technology
Junko Teruyama (Sociocultural)
Carving out a new minority: Identifying and locating LD, ADHD and autism spectrum disorder in Japan
Assistant Professor, Library, Media & Information Studies, University of Tsukuba
Caroline Marie VanSickle (Biological)
A New Examination of Childbirth-Related Pelvic Anatomy in Neandertal Females
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Alice Wright (Archaeology)
Inscribing Interaction: Middle Woodland Monumentality in the Appalachian Summit, 100 B.C. - A.D. 400
Assistant Professor, Biology, Appalachian State University
2013
Anne Bain-Nordberg (Anthropology & Social Work)
The Impact of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Critical Study of Toronto's Mental Health Court
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Daniel Birchok (Anthropology & History)
Sojourning in Mecca's Verandah: Place, Temporality, and Islam in an Indonesian Province
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint
Matthew Gallon (Archaeology)
Ideology, Identity, and the Construction of Urban Communities: The Archaeology of Kamphaeng Saen, Central Thailand (c. Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE)
Adjunct Professor, Middlesex Community College
Emily Hein (Linguistic)
The Semiotics of Diaspora: Language Ideologies and Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Berlin, Germany
Federico Helfgott (Anthropology and History)
Transformations in Labor, Land and Community: Mining and Society in Pasco, Peru, 20th Century to the Present
Lecturer, Nat'l University of San Marcos and Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Peru
Randall Hicks (Sociocultural)
The Politics of Envy: Progress, Corruption, and Ethical Kinship among Bolivian Immigrants in Escobar, Argentina
International Relations Analyst, U.S. Department of Labor
Sarah Hillewaert (Linguistic)
Between Respect and Desire: On Being Young, Pious, and Modern in an East African Muslim Town
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Emily Holt (Anthropology & Classical Art and Archaeology)
Economy and Environment in Complex Societies: A Case Study from Bronze Age Sardinia
Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University
Anneeth Kaur Hundle (Sociocultural)
The Politics of (In)security: Reconstructing African-Asian Relations, Citizenship and Community in Post-Expulsion Uganda
Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, University of California Merced
Purvi Mehta (Anthropology and History)
Recasting Caste: Histories of Dalit Transnationalism and the Interationalization of Caste Discrimination
Assistant Professor, Colorado College
Esteban Rozo Pabon (Anthropology and History)
Remaking Indigeneity: Conversion and Colonization in Northwest Amazonia
Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
David Pappano (Biological)
The Reproductive Trajectories of Bachelor Geladas
People Analyitics Data Scientist, McKinsey & Company
Laura Stein Pardo (Sociocultural)
Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Contemporary Visual Arts and Carribbean Diaspora in Miami, Florida
Designer, Appriss
Brent Pav (Biological)
Gestural Communication by Wild Chimpanzees
Peace Corps, Secondary Education English Teacher and Teacher Trainer
Janak Rai (Sociocultural)
Activism as a Moral Practice: Cultural Politics, Place-Making and Indigenous Movements in Nepal
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Jessica Robbins- Ruszkowski (Sociocultural)
Personhood in Places: Aging, Memory, and Relatedness in Postsocialist Poland
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Wayne State University
Lauren Sarringhaus (Biological)
Positional and Morphological Development of Wild Chimpanzees, Pan Troglodytes
Ian Stewart (Anthropology & History)
The Tenacity of Bondage: An Anthropological History of Slavery and Unfree Labor in Sierra Leone
Postdoc and Teaching Fellow, University of British Columbia
Uthara Suvrathan (Archaeology)
Complexity on the Periphery: A Study of Regional Organization at Banavasi, c.1st - 18th Century A.D.
Visiting Fellow, City University of New York
Jack Ume Tocco (Sociocultural)
AIDS the Islamic Way: Treatment, Masculinity, and Ethics of Care in Northern Nigeria
Visiting Assistant Professor, William Paterson University
2012
Mary Block (Anthropology and Social Work)
Infected Kin: AIDS, Orphan Care and the Family in Lesotho
Visiting Lecturer, Brown University
Zachary Cofran (Biology)
Mandibular Growth in Australopithcus robustus
Assistant Professor, Vassar College
Andrew Conroe (Anthropology & History)
Generating History: Violence and the Risks of Remembering for Families of Former Political Prisoners in Post-New Order Indonesia
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Cameron Gokee (Archaeology)
Daily Life in the Land of Bambuk: An Archaeological Study of Political Economy at Diouboye, Senegal
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
Kathryn Graber (Linguistic)
Knowledge and Authority in Shift: A Linguistic Ethnography of Multilingual News Media in the Buryat Territories of Russia
Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Shayla Griffin (Anthropology and Social Work)
When the Black Kids Moved In: Racial Reproduction and the Promise of Intergroup Dialogue in an Exurban High School
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context
Mary Kelaita (Biological)
Morphological Variation of Two Howler Monkey Species and their Genetically Confirmed Hybrids
Assistant Professor, St. Philips College
Dong Ju Kim (Anthropology and History)
Taking Better Care of the Fields: Knowledge Politics of Sugar Beet, Soil, and Agriculture after Socialism in Western Poland
Assistant Professor, Korean Advanced institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
Amanda Logan (Archaeology)
A History of Food Without History: Food, Trade, and Environment in west-central Ghana in the Second Millennium, AD
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Khori Newlander (Archaeology)
Exchange, Embedded Procurement, and Hunter-Gatherer Mobility: A Case Study from the North American Great Basin
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Maria Perez (Sociocultural)
Exploration, Science, and Society in Venezuela's Cave Landscape
Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
Guillermo Salas Carreno (Sociocultural)
Negotiating Evangelicalism and New Age Tourism Through Quechua Ontologies in Cuzco, Peru
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pontificia Catholic University, Peru
Marissa Sobolewski (Biological)
The Hormonal Correlates of Male Chimpanzee Social Behavior
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
Stephen Sparks (Anthropology and History)
Apartheid Modern: South Africa's Oil from Coal Project and the History of a Company Town
Assistant Professor, University of Johannesburg
Tam Perry (Anthropology & Social Work)
Leaving Home in Late Life: Voluntary Housing Transitions of Older Adults as Gift Giving Practices in the Midwestern United States
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Howard Tsai (Archaeological)
An Archaeological Investigation of Ethnicity at Las Varas, Peru
Program Assistant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan
Andrew White (Archaeological)
The Social Networks of Early Hunter-Gatherers in Midcontinental North America
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Vanessa Will (Sociocultural)
Why Kenny Can't Can: The Language Socialization Experiences of Gaelic-Medium Educated Children in Scotland
Sr. Human Research Review Analyst, Human Research Protections Office, University of New Mexico
2011
Danna Agmon (Anthropology & History)
An Uneasy Alliance: Traders, Missionaries, and Tamil Intermediates in Eighteenth-Century French India
Assistant Professor, History and ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech
Marisabel Almer (Sociocultural)
Remembering Angola - Cuban Internationalism, Transnational Spaces, and the Politics of Memories
Author
Veronique Belisle (Archaeology)
Ak'awillay: Wari State Expansion and Household Change in Cusco, Peru (AD 600-1000)
Assistant Professor, Millsaps College
Mollie Callahan (Sociocultural)
Signs of the Time: Kallawaya Medical Expertise and Social Reproduction in 21st Century Bolivia
Teacher, Menlo Innovations
Jennifer Carballo (Archaeology)
Social Interaction and Variation in Middle Formative Tlaxcala, Mexico: An Analysis of Ceramics from Two Village Societies
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Andrew Conroe (Anthropology and History)
Generating History: Violence and the Risks of Remembering for Families of Former Political Prisoners in Post-New Order Indonesia
Assistant Professor, Sociology/Writing and Critical Thinking, National University of Singapore
Christina Davis (Sociocultural)
Education in the Language of Conflict: Linguistic and Social Practice among Sri Lankan Ethnic Minority Youth
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Western Illinois University
Roxanna Duntley-Matos (Anthropology & Social Work)
Transformative Accomplices: Multicultural Community Organizing in a Transnational Educational Context
Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
Elizabeth Falconi (Linguistic)
Migrant Stories: Zapotec Transborder Migration and the Production of a Narrated Community
Visiting Professor, Anthropology, Georgia State University
Kelly Fayard (Sociocultural)
We've always known who we are': Belonging in the Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Director, Native American Culture Center
Assistant Dean, Yale University
Sherina Feliciano- Santos (Linguistic)
An Inconceivable Indigeneity? The Historical, Cultural, and Interactional Dimensions of Puerto Rican Taino Activism
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina
J. Henrike Florusbosch (Sociocultural)
The Powers of Observation: Ideologies and Practices of Paying Attention among rural Malian Muslims in Mande
Program Coordinator and Lecturer, University of Michigan
Bridget Guarasci (Sociocultural)
Reconstructing Life: Environment, Expertise, and Political Power in Iraq's Marshes 2003-2007
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College
Laura Heinemann (Anthropology & Social Work)
Transplanting Kinship: Transplantation, Kin Relatedness, and Daily Home Life in the U.S. Midwest
Assistant Professor, Creighton University
Claire Insel (Linguistic)
Shifting Publics and Shifting Alignments in a Sprachinsel in Southern Brazil
Freelance Editor
Joshua Irizarry (Sociocultural)
A Forest for a Thousand Years: Cultivating Life and Disciplining Death at Daihonzan Sojiji, a Japanese Soto Zen Temple
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State University
Simon Jo-Keeling (Sociocultural)
Musicking Tradition in Place: Participation, Values, and Banks in Bamileke Territory
Freelance Proofreader, Wiley-Blackwell
Hemanth Kadambi (Archaeology)
Sacred Landscapes in Early Medieval South India: the Chalukya state and society (ca. AD 550-750)
Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University
Nathalie Koc-Menard (Sociocultural)
Social Mediation and Social Analysis: The Discourse of Marginality in a Theater of War
Lecturer, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Julie Lesnik (Biological)
Tools and Termites: Implications for the Foraging Behavior of the Swartkrans Hominids
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University
Rafael Boglio Martínez (Anthropology & Social Work)
The Politics of Grassroots Support: NGO Promoted Community-Based Social Change in Contemporary Puerto Rico
Faculty, Metropolitan University (Puerto Rico)
Emily McKee (Sociocultural)
Socializing Landscapes, Naturalizing Conflict: Environmental Discourses and Land Conflict in the Negev Region of Israel
Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
Elizabeth Miller (Biological)
Breastfeeding and Immunity in Ariaal Mothers and Infants
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Director, University of Southern Florida
Janam Mukherjee (Anthropology & History)
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire, 1939-1946
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto
Davorka Radovcic (Biological)
The Implications of Variation in Late Pleistocene Levantine Crania for Understanding the Pattern of Human Evolution
Curator, National Museum of History
Xochitl Ruiz (Sociocultural)
Dining in Bethlehem: Food, Charity, and Growing Old in Bogota
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College
Kirstin Swagman (Linguistic)
Language Names and Norms in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Web Communications Specialist, University of Nevada - Reno
Joanna Tatomir (Biological)
The Nutritional Use of Thai Medicinal Plants and the Etiology of Breast Cancer in Thai Women
National Science Student Associate, University of Michigan
Amanda Terc (Linguistic)
Syria's New Neoliberal Elite: English Usage, Linguistic Practices and Group Boundaries
Director, Seikh Faisal Center for Entrepreneurship in the Middle East, DePaul University
Cecilia Tomori (Demography)
The Moral Dilemmas of Nighttime Breastfeeding: Crafting Kinship, Personhood and Capitalism in the U.S.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Durham University
Susanne Unger (Linguistic)
Cultivating Audiences: Filmbildung, Moral Education, and the Public Sphere in Germany
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, American University
