Sumanto Al Qurtuby (GRS ’13)
Sumanto Al Qurtuby is a faculty member in the Department of Global & Social Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he was a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a senior research scholar at the Middle East Institute, National University of […]
Macken Murphy (CAS ’19)
Macken Murphy graduated in 2020 with a dual major in History and Biological Anthropology. He was honored as the student speaker for the 2020 commencement. During his sophomore year at Boston University, Macken launched Species, a “Podcast About Animals.” Each episode examines one type of creature at a time, drawing audiences in the thousands. This […]
Lynsey Farrell (GRS ’15)
Lynsey Farrell has taken an unusual path by academic standards. Focused on the intersections of youth, livelihoods, informality and urbanization, she completed her ethnographic field research in Nairobi, Kenya while directing the American University’s study abroad program on sustainable development in Kenya. After returning to the United States to write up her dissertation, she joined […]
Robert Rodriguez Suro (CAS ’13)
Robert Rodriguez Suro graduated in 2013 with a dual major in Biology (with specialization in Behavioral Biology) and Biological Anthropology. After graduating, he spent a year in Borneo as a research volunteer for the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project, led by Professor Cheryl Knott. In 2014, he was awarded a National Geographic Young Explorer Grant (now […]
Andrea L. DiGiorgio (GRS ’19)
Andrea started a position teaching STEM writing in the Princeton Writing Center in the fall of 2019. In this role, she’s worked with several freshmen on conference posters and one publication (Will Individual ActionsDo the Trick? Comparing Climate Change Mitigation through Geoengineering versus Reduced Emissions, Murray & DiGiorgio 2021). She has also continued her research […]
Alexis Winter (CAS ’09)
Alexis Winter graduated with a BA in sociocultural anthropology in 2009, after writing an honors thesis exploring the identity practices of Irish punk bands in and around Boston. She now manages communications for the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and educators working to protect and restore biodiversity both in […]
Elizabeth Alva-Rajakumar (CAS ’16)
Lizzie graduated from BU with a BA in anthropology in May 2016. She then earned a law degree from Loyola in 2019. Immediately after law school, Lizzie began working at the Jenesse Center, a non-profit dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence, as the Loyola Law School Post-Graduate Public Interest Fellow. She has since become […]
Navid Fozi-Abivard (GRS ’11)
Navid is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He works on topics of minorities, migration, and pluralism in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. His research on ethnoreligious minorities in Iran has resulted in a book, Reclaiming the Faravahar: Zoroastrian Survival in Contemporary Tehran (Leiden University Press, 2014). His current […]
Arianna Huhn (GRS ’13)
Arianna is an Assistant Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, and Director of the CSUSB Anthropology Museum. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Boston University and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University. Her research and training focus on Africa, medical anthropology, and museology. Her book Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanities […]
Lexi Rae Lang (CAS ’18)
Lexi Lang graduated in 2018 with a major in Biological Anthropology and a minor in Hebrew and was awarded with the College Prize in Anthropology. While at BU, she completed an honor ‘s thesis exploring obstetric fistula from an evolutionary perspective and was a member of Dr. Cheryl Knott’s primatology research group. Upon graduation, she […]