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Where Are They Now?<\/h1>\n

The following is a showcase of alumni accomplishments to help with department & alumni relations, as well as to show current and potential PhD Candidates\u00a0the diverse possibilities that a PhD in Anthropology can lead to.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are an alumnus and would like to update your information, please fill out our Department News form<\/a>. If you would like to be featured on our website, fill out our Alumni Spotlight form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nDissertation Title<\/strong><\/td>\nGraduation Year<\/strong><\/td>\nCurrent Position<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fathimath Anan (Anu) Ahmed<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nSituating Selves: “Self-Illness” (Nafs\u0101n\u012b Bali) and Living Ethical “Modern” Lives in Contemporary Male\u2019, Maldives<\/span><\/td>\nMay 2024<\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Rochester, NY<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jessica Hlay<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nEvolutionary, Ontogenetic, and Environmental Origins of Human Pathogen Disgust Sensitivity<\/span><\/td>\nMay 2024<\/td>\n(pending update)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacob Tischer<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nSound Affects: Remaking Taiwan Through Traditional Religious Practices<\/span><\/td>\nMay 2024<\/td>\n\u00a0(pending update)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mahtab Sirdani<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nMigrations and Hope: Religious Iranians in North America<\/span><\/td>\nJanuary 2025<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0Lecturer, Modern Persian Language and Culture, The University of British Columbia<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christian Gagnon<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nThe Evolutionary History and Adaptive Significance of UCP1-Mediated Thermogenesis in Primates<\/td>\nJanuary 2024<\/td>\n\u00a0Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rongrong Xu<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nMiracle of Backwardness: A Lay Daoism For Young People in Contemporary China<\/td>\nJanuary 2024<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Anthropology, Xiamen University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faye Harwell<\/b><\/a><\/td>\nInvestigation of the Life History, Male Bimaturism, and Sex Differences of Orangutans<\/td>\nMay 2023<\/td>\n*pending update*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mehrdad Babadi<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nMarriage Postponed: The Transformation of Intimacy in contemporary Iran<\/td>\nMay 2023<\/td>\nOmar Khayyam Postdoctoral Research Associate in Iranian Studies, Brown University Center for Middle Eastern Studies<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graham Albert<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nTesting the Effects of Facial Sexual Dimorphism on Selective Attention, Memory, and Decision Making<\/td>\nJanuary 2023<\/td>\n\n
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Quantitative Social Scientist, <\/span>Acrisure<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gana Ndiaye<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n‘Plastic Migrants’: Race, Religion, and the Making of a Senegalese Community in Brazil<\/td>\nAugust 2022<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Anthropology, Beloit College, Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Williamson Ibrahim<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nFolded Speech: A Semiotics of Uncertainty in an Accra Zongo<\/td>\nAugust 2022<\/td>\nAsst. <\/span>Professor, Socio-cultural Anthropology, Kenyon College<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Calynn Dowler<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nTides of Change: Water, Religion, and Ethics in the Sundarbans Delta<\/td>\nAugust 2022<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Francis Boueri<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nTrail of Dreams: Journeys of Belonging on the Lebanon Mountain Trail<\/td>\nJanuary 2022<\/td>\nOptum (health tech company) as a Senior User Experience Researcher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maria Claire Codlin<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nHunting and Husbandry at Teotihuacan, Mexico: An Application of Zooarchaeology, Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry, and Stable Isotopes to Animal Economies in an Ancient City of the Americas<\/td>\nMay 2022<\/td>\nResearch Fellow, University of Turin, Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kathleen Forste<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nAn Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agricultural Economy in the Levant<\/td>\nSeptember 2021<\/td>\nLecturer, Archaeology Program, Boston University
\nMacrobotanical Analyst and Consultant,\u00a0Atlatl Archaeology Ltd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Ann Chang Tourtellotte<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nDeserving Daughters, Martyred Mothers: Reproductive Politics, Pronatalism, and Care Work in the Creation of Gendered Subjects in Kazakhstan<\/td>\nSeptember 2021<\/td>\nEngagement \/ Product Manager, Massachusetts Digital Service<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Noha Roushdy<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nBetween Class and Nation: International Education and the Dilemmas of Elite Belonging in Contemporary Egypt<\/td>\nMay 2021<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Assistant, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, Universit\u00e4t Bern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amy Scott<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nSexual Selection and Sexual Conflict in the Reproductive Strategies of Bornean Orangutans<\/td>\nMay 2021<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Researcher-Conservation Genetics, University of New Hampshire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrea Blackburn<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nOrangutan seed dispersal effectiveness and spatial distribution patterns<\/td>\nMay 2021<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Associate, Santa Barbara Zoo, Conservation and Science Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Bristol<\/strong><\/td>\nSharia, the American Way<\/td>\nMay 2020<\/td>\nSenior Associate, Parrish & Associates Law Firm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dat Manh Nguyen<\/strong><\/td>\nCrafting a Buddhist Public: Urban Buddhism and Youth Aspirations in Late-Socialist Vietnam<\/td>\nMay 2020<\/td>\nResearcher & Program Co-Leader, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Annika Schmeding<\/strong><\/td>\nSufis in Afghanistan: Religious Authority and Succession in an Insecure Age<\/td>\nMay 2020<\/td>\nSenior Researcher, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Mildred (Mimi) Stith<\/strong><\/td>\nWith and Without Them: Thinking Through Binaries in Serengeti Conservation Science<\/td>\nMay 2020<\/td>\nManaging Director, The Pula Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Clarke<\/strong><\/td>\nProducing Stone and State: The Intersection of Domestic and Institutional
\nEconomies in Classic Maya Society<\/td>\n		May 2020<\/td>\nLecturer in Archaeology, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feyza Burak Adli<\/strong><\/td>\nTrajectories of modern Sufism: an ethnohistorical study of the Rifai order and social change in Turkey<\/td>\nSeptember 2019<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer in Anthropology, Northwestern University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Justin Holcomb<\/strong><\/td>\nGeoarchaeology of the Palaeolithic in the Aegean Basin, Greece: A Deposit-Centered Approach and Its Implications for Hominin Dispersals in the Pleistocene<\/td>\nSeptember 2019<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas and Kansas Geological Survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yang Shen<\/strong><\/td>\nSidestepping Secularism: Performance and Imagination in Buddhist Temple-Scapes in Contemporary China<\/td>\nSeptember 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Zhejiang University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrea L. DiGiorgio<\/strong><\/td>\nNutrient drivers and movement ecology of wild Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) foraging choices<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nPrinceton Writing Seminar Faculty, Princeton University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erica M. Larson<\/strong><\/td>\nCivic and religious education in Manado, Indonesia: ethical deliberation about plural coexistence<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nResearch Fellow, Religion and Globalization Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natalie Laudicina<\/strong><\/td>\nComparative primate birth mechanics and the evolution of human childbirth<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura E. Masur<\/strong><\/td>\nPriestly plantations: an archaeology of capitalism and community in British North America<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacob D. Negrey<\/strong><\/td>\nThe hormonal and immunological correlates of social dominance in wild male chimpanzees<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mohammad Omar Sharifi<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Nauroz festival as a social site: understanding faith, ethnicity, and nation-ness in Afghanistan<\/td>\nMay 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor of Humanities; Director & Senior Research Fellow American Institute for Afghan Studies, American University of Afghanistan, Kabul; American Institute for Afghan Studies (now in exile at University of Minnesota, International Relations)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Heath-Stout<\/strong><\/td>\nDiversity, Identity, and Oppression in the Production of Archaeological Knowledge<\/td>\nSeptember 2019<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar, Archaeology, Stanford University<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carol Ferrara<\/strong><\/td>\nPious citizens of the republic: Muslim and Catholic negotiations of national identity and ethical plurality in contemporary France<\/td>\nJanuary 2019<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Marketing and Communications, Emerson College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ekaterina Anderson<\/strong><\/td>\nNervous conditions: cultural difference, political rifts, and mental health care in Israel<\/td>\nSeptember 2018<\/td>\nResearcher, VA Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martha Lagace<\/strong><\/td>\nFarming the tarmac: rootedness and longing for the world in post-war Northern Uganda<\/td>\nSeptember 2018<\/td>\nFaculty Affiliate, Institute for Immigration Research, George Mason University
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Michel Chambon<\/strong><\/td>\nMateriality and Christianity in Nanping: making God present<\/td>\nMay 2018<\/td>\nResearch Fellow, Religion and Globalization Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander Claxton<\/strong><\/td>\nA Re-Assessment of Femoral Neck Cortical Thickness<\/td>\nMay 2018<\/td>\nLecturer, Dartmouth College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chelsea Shields<\/strong><\/td>\nThe social life of placebos: proximate and evolutionary mechanisms of biocultural interactions in Asante medical encounters<\/td>\nMay 2018<\/td>\nOwner, Alien Ideas, LLC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caitlin O’Connell<\/strong><\/td>\nThe costs and benefits of sociality explored in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)<\/td>\nJanuary 2018<\/td>\nVisiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aviva Cormier<\/strong><\/td>\nMaya Osteobiographies of the Holmul Region, Guatemala: Curating\u00a0LifeHistories Through Bioarchaeology and Stable Isotope Analysis<\/td>\nMay 2018<\/td>\nVisiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth (Liz) Crocker<\/strong><\/td>\nMoral geographies of diasporic belonging: race, ethnicity, and identity among Haitian Vodou practitioners in Boston<\/td>\nMay 2017<\/td>\nProgram Manager, Communication at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrea Chiovenda<\/strong><\/td>\nCrafting masculine selves: culture, war and psychodynamics among Afghan Pashtuns<\/td>\nSeptember 2015<\/td>\nAsst. Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences, Zayed University, Saudia Arabia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lynsey Farrell<\/strong><\/td>\nHustling NGOs: coming of age in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya<\/td>\nSeptember 2015<\/td>\nSenior Lecturer in International Studies and Director of Africa Program, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jajang Jahroni<\/strong><\/td>\nThe political economy of knowledge: Salafism in post-Soeharto urban Indonesia<\/td>\nSeptember 2015<\/td>\nProfessor of Islamic Studies, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Chloe Mulderig<\/strong><\/td>\nPresent imperfect: hypocrisy and the pluralization of Islamic understanding in Fes, Morocco<\/td>\nMay 2015<\/td>\nFounder and Head of Research & Design, MulderigDesign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mentor Mustafa<\/strong><\/td>\nFrom the ashes of atheism: the reconstitution of Bektashi religious life in postcommunist Albania<\/td>\nMay 2015<\/td>\nLecturer, Dept of Anthropology & MET College, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paula D. Pryce<\/strong><\/td>\nMonastic Ritual, Intentional Living, and Varieties of Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity<\/td>\nMay 2015<\/td>\nLecturer and Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia; Research Associate, Vancouver School of Theology<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chun-Yi Sum<\/strong><\/td>\n“Therefore I am made indifferent”: morality and agency among university students in China<\/td>\nMay 2015<\/td>\nLecturer, Social Sciences, College of General Studies, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher B. Taylor<\/strong><\/td>\nIslamic charity in India: ethical entrepreneurism & the ritual, revival, and reform of zakat among a Muslim minority<\/td>\nMay 2015<\/td>\n\n
Vice President, Open Technology Fund<\/div>\n
Affiliate Scholar, Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Huwy-Min “Lucia” Liu<\/strong><\/td>\nDying socialist in capitalist Shanghai: ritual, governance, and subject formation in urban China’s modern funeral industry<\/td>\nJanuary 2015<\/td>\nAsst. Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, George Mason University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sumanto Al Qurtuby<\/strong><\/td>\nInterreligious violence, civic peace, and citizenship: Christians and Muslims in Maluku, eastern Indonesia<\/td>\nMay 2013<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Global & Social Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edward M. Callahan, Jr.<\/strong><\/td>\nTo rule the roof of the world: power and patronage in Afghan Kyrgyz society<\/td>\nMay 2013<\/td>\nAssociate Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lara Saipe Durgavich<\/strong><\/td>\nOvarian function and reproductive behaviors across the female orangutan life cycle<\/td>\nMay 2013<\/td>\nVisiting Faculty in Anthropology, Tufts University; Harvard 2021-2022; Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
En-Chieh Chao<\/strong><\/td>\nWomen of fire, women of the robe: subjectivities of charismatic Christianity and normative Islam in Java, Indonesia<\/td>\nJanuary 2013<\/td>\nProfessor of Sociology, National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arianna Huhn<\/strong><\/td>\nSustenance and sociability: foodways in mozambican town<\/td>\nJanuary 2013<\/td>\nAssociate Professor & Director of the CSUSB Anthropology Museum<\/span>, California State University, San Bernadino<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew B. Armstrong<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Japanese “Ghetto-Gangsta”: searching for prestige in Kansai hip hop performance<\/td>\nMay 2012<\/td>\nAdjunct Professor, Bridgewater State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shelby E. Carpenter<\/strong><\/td>\nTrust-Building in Post-Conflict West Africa: Urban Hunting Societies in Sierra Leone And The Gambia<\/td>\nMay 2011<\/td>\nAdjunct Professor, Roger Williams University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Navid Fozi-Abivard<\/strong><\/td>\nAn Alternative Religious Space In Shi’a Iran: Socio-Cultural Imaginaries Of Zoroastrians In Contemporary Tehran<\/td>\nMay 2011<\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Anthropology, Bridgewater State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sarah A. Tobin<\/strong><\/td>\nEveryday Piety: Negotiating Islam and the Economy in Amman, Jordan<\/td>\nMay 2011<\/td>\nResearch Director, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), University of Bergen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jinba Danzeng<\/strong><\/td>\nIn the Heartland of the Eastern Queendom: Marginalities and Identities on the Han-Tibetan Border<\/td>\nJanuary 2011<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, National University of Singapore, Dept of Sociology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicole (Nic) Hayes<\/strong><\/td>\nUnequal Partners: Sex, Money, Power, and HIV\/AIDS in Southern Malawian Relationships<\/td>\nJanuary 2011<\/td>\nResearch affiliate\/Adjunct, University of Waterloo (Canada)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leonardo Schiocchet<\/strong><\/td>\nRefugee Lives: Ritual and Belonging in Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon<\/td>\nJanuary 2011<\/td>\nSenior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Noah Coburn<\/strong><\/td>\nPotters and warlords in an Afghan bazaar: Political mobilization, masterly inactivity and violence in post -Taliban Afghanistan<\/td>\nMay 2010<\/td>\nProvost, Goddard College<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher Annear<\/strong><\/td>\nWeathering the commons : resilience and heterogeneity in an inland fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia<\/td>\nJanuary 2010<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Todd French<\/strong><\/td>\n\u201cLike leaves fallen by wind\u201d: Resilience, remembrance, and the restoration of landscapes in central Mozambique<\/td>\nMay 2009<\/td>\nHistory Teacher, Sturgis Chater Public School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lindsay Gifford<\/strong><\/td>\nNashta: Rotating credit associations and women \u201cbeing active\u201d in Syria<\/td>\nMay 2009<\/td>\nResearch Faculty, University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denise Gulliot<\/strong><\/td>\nMeasures of Postural and Locomotor Performance in Wild Ateline Primates: A Comparative Analysis of Alouatta Seniculus, Lagothrix Poeppigii, and Ateles Belzebuth<\/td>\nMay 2009<\/td>\nAcademic Advisor, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Costello<\/strong><\/td>\nChoices and Changes in Tribal and Buddhist Moral Economies in Golok, a Pastoral Tibetan Area<\/td>\nJanuary 2009<\/td>\nProject Analyst, Resonance Insights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rob Fredericksen<\/strong><\/td>\nConstruction of the Future among Young Gay-Identified Men: Relationship to Gay Male Cultural Norms and Health<\/td>\nJanuary 2009<\/td>\nActing Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rachel Hall-Clifford<\/strong><\/td>\nOral Rehydration Therapy in Highland Guatemala: Long-Term Impacts of Public Health Intervention on the Self<\/td>\nJanuary 2009<\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology and Public Health, Emory University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eleanor Shoreman<\/strong><\/td>\nRegulation, Conservation and Collaboration: Ecological Anthropology in the Mississippi Delta<\/td>\nJanuary 2009<\/td>\nAssistant Professor In Residence, University of Conneticut<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Walters<\/strong><\/td>\nEveryday Islam in New England<\/td>\nJanuary 2008<\/td>\nClinical Director, Medical Non-Profit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asli Baykal<\/strong><\/td>\nSurviving the post-Soviet transition: Changing family and community relations in urban Uzbekistan<\/td>\nMay 2007<\/td>\nPsychotherapist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laurie LaPorte<\/strong><\/td>\nThe continuities of modernity: Cape Verdean identity and emigration<\/td>\nMay 2007<\/td>\nLecturer, Metropolitan College, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keping Wu<\/strong><\/td>\nChanneling Charisma: Leadership, Community and Ritual of a Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group in the United States<\/td>\nMay 2007<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Duke-Kunshan University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christal Whelan<\/strong><\/td>\nReligious responses to globalization in Japan: the case of the God Light Association<\/td>\nJanuary 2007<\/td>\nWriter, Lecturer, and Translator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ahmet Yukleyen<\/strong><\/td>\nThe European market for Islam: Turkish Islamic communities and organization in Germany and the Netherlands<\/td>\nJanuary 2007<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, University of Mississippi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth (Liz) Chettur<\/strong><\/td>\nSocial Hierarchy and Globalization: A Study of Shifting Interpretations of Socal Prestige<\/td>\nMay 2006<\/td>\nFreelance Writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Thomson<\/strong><\/td>\nChildren of the village: peace and local citizenship in a multiethnic Gambian community<\/td>\nJanuary 2006<\/td>\nLean Specialist, Washington State Auditor’s Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sumanto Al Qurtuby<\/strong><\/td>\nInterreligious Violence, Civic Peace, and Citizenship: Christians and Muslims in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nProfessor of Anthropology & Director of Nusantara Institute at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brady A. Cusick<\/strong><\/td>\nHigher education: the motivation, organization, and socialization of Japanese college student volunteers<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nAdjunct Lecturer of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linda Learman<\/strong><\/td>\nModernity, marriage, and religion: Buddhist marriages in Taiwan<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nAnalyst, US Navy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Lukas<\/strong><\/td>\nThe physiological ecology of steroid hormones in Turkana and Zimbabwean men<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yasime L. Ziesler<\/strong><\/td>\nBecoming Korean and American: a microethnography of Korean children\u2019s socialization in an American preschool<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\nChief Academic Officer, Vermont State Colleges System<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derick Fay<\/strong><\/td>\nThe trust is over! We want to plough\u201d: land, livelihoods and reverse resettlement in South Africa\u2019s Transkei<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology, University of California Riverside<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lillian Frejacques<\/strong><\/td>\nIdentity and belonging: ethic formation processes amongst the Karaiyu\/Oromo of the Central Awash Valley, Ethiopia<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beth Anne Pratt<\/strong><\/td>\nChildhood, space and children \u201cout of place\u201d: versions of Maasai childhood in Monduli Juu, Tanzania<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\nConsultant and Partner, Global Health Insights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paulo Pinto<\/strong><\/td>\nMystical bodies: ritual, experience and the embodiment of Sufism in Syria<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Universidade Federal Fluminense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manjari Wijenaike<\/strong><\/td>\nEnterprising culture: middle class women\u2019s businesses in Sri Lanka<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\nEducation, Grants, and Evaluation Consultant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chien-Yu Julia Huang<\/strong><\/td>\nRecapturing charisma: emotion and rationalization in a globalizing Buddhist movement from Taiwan<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\nProfessor of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Sheridan<\/strong><\/td>\nCooling the land: the political ecology of the North Pare Mountains, Tanzania<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\nProfessor of Anthropology, Middlebury College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teferi Abate Adem<\/strong><\/td>\nGovernment intervention and socioeconomic change in a northeast Ethiopian community: an anthropological study<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nResearch Anthropologist, Human Relations Area Files, Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chang-Hui Chi<\/strong><\/td>\nThe politics of deification and nationalist ideology: a case study of Quemoy<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, National Quemoy University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alanna Cooper<\/strong><\/td>\nNegotiating identity in the context of diaspora, dispersion and reunion: the Bukharan Jews and Jewish peoplehood<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Abba Hillel Silver Chair in Jewish Studies, Case Western Reserve University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Igoe<\/strong><\/td>\nEthnicity, civil society, and the Tanzanian pastoral NGO movement: The continuities and discontinuities of liberalized development<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nProfessor of Anthropology, University of Virgina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amalia Sa’ar<\/strong><\/td>\nGirls\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d: femininity and social adulthood among unmarried Israeli-Palestinian women<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nAssistant Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of Haifa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mimi Ye-Wo Wan<\/strong><\/td>\nThe secrets to success: change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992-1994<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\nLecturer, Northeastern University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anita Fabos<\/strong><\/td>\nAmbiguous ethnicity: propriety (adab) as a situational boundary marker for northern Sudanese in Cairo<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\nProfessor of International Development and Social Change, Clark University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simon Heck<\/strong><\/td>\nIn the presence of neighbors: land, property, and community in Ankole, Uganda<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\nProgram Leader, International Potato Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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