Ph.D. Recipients

August 2024

Renee Boucher
The application of trace metal isotope analysis to hominids: Reconstructing the behavior, diet, and physiology of wild chimpanzees 
Dartmouth College

Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht
An Invisible Enemy: Pathogens, Colonialism, & Ancient DNA
University of Vermont

Zahirah Suhaimi
The Sea is Not Empty: Maritime Trade Ecologies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Postdoctoral Scholar, SEACoast, UCSC 

June 2024

Darcey Evans
Salmon Viruses and Sovereignties-at-Sea: A Settler Colonial Politics of Salmon Aquaculture
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA

Seth Phillips
Chimpanzee and Macrotermes Interactions: Investigating the Dynamic Relationship Between Chimpanzees and their Preferred Termite Prey in a Savanna Woodland Ecosystem with Implications for Early Hominin Foraging Ecology

Jacob Stone
Constructing Context After Internment: Japanese American Incarceration and the Historic 20th Century Redman-Hirahara House
Archaeologist, Dudek

Eda Tarak
The Sea is Not Empty: Maritime Trade Ecologies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pembroke Center, Brown University 

August 2023

June 2023

December 2022

June 2022

April Reber
The 'Extremist' Next Door: Normalcy and Democratic Legitimacy in Germany

Daniel Schniedewind
Complicit Ecologies: Landscape as Violence in Hudson's Valley

March 2022

December 2021

June 2021

Krisha J. Hernández
Agents of Pollination: Native and Indigenous Lives & Bodies, and US Agricultural Technosciences

Suraiya Anita Jetha
Plass Til Alle: Intimacy, Biological Relation, and Nation in Norway

Caroline Kao
Startup Capitalism: Gendered Transformations of Home, Work, and Value in Silicon Valley

Jessica Madison-Pískatá
“In any Crystalline Land”: Human and Mineral Worlds in Eastern Mongolia

December 2020

Salvador Chava Contreras
Toxic Landscapes in Sacred Wixaritari Territory: Chemicals and Food as Environmental Epigenetic Triggers in a Metabolic Epidemic in Mexico

Danielle Dadiego
Beads, Bullets, and Brokerage: Exploring Economic Agency in Eighteenth-Century West
Florida

June 2020

Cristina Verdugo
Ritual and Politics: Exploring Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize

Eden Washburn
Life in the Andean Northern Highlands: An examination of population dynamics, human mobility and dietary change

June 2019

Jon Nyquist
Fire and the creation of landscape regimes: Wildness and interconnections in West Australian forests

Kristine Lawson
Acoustic Relations: The Sounds of Pipelines, Plant Medicine, and Sustainability in Vancouver, BC
Resource Development and Communications Coordinator, First United

Elisa Huerta
Buscando la armonía: Performance, Embodiment and Indigeneity in la danza azteca
Director, Multicultural Community Center, UC Berkeley

December 2018

August 2018

Sarah Kelman
Walking the Sufi Path: Ethical Entanglements in Entrepreneurial Malaysia

Kim Cameron-Dominguez
How Did We Get Here? Black Professional Women, Place-Making and Belonging in Portland, Oregon
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College

Jeffrey Omari
Democracy and Digital Technology: Internet Governance and Social In/Exclusion in Rio de Janeiro
Visiting Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University

June 2018

Kali Rubaii
Counterinsurgency and the Ethical Life of Material Things in Iraq’s Anbar Province
Assistant Professor of Anthropolgy, Purdue University

Chester Liwosz
Ontological Considerations at Two Mojave Desert Petroglyph Labyrinths
Project Archaeologist, Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project

Pierre Duplessis
Gathering the Kalahari, Tracking Landscapes in Motion
International Postdoctoral Fellow,  Independent Research Fund Denmark

Rebecca Feinberg
Bottling the Past, Planting the Future: Immigrants in Italian Wine Production
Instructor, Food Studies, University of the Pacific

Alix Johnson
Compromising Connections: Imperial legacies, intimate encounters, and intermediary politics in icelandic information infrastructure
Tenure-track position, University of Florida

Stephie MacCallum
Derailed: Aging Railroad Infrastructure and Precarious Mobility in Buenos Aires
User Researcher, EarnIn

March 2018

      Emma Britton
      The Mineralogical and Chemical Variability of Casas Grandes Polychromes Throughout the International Four Corners

December 2017

Hatib Kadir
Gifts, Belonging, and Emerging Realities among "other Molucans" during the aftermath of sectarian conflict. 
Lecturer at the department of Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya

Zachary Caple
Holocene in Fragments: A Critical Landscape Ecology of Phosphorus in Florida
Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida

JUNE 2017

Chris Cochran
Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science can Be Spiritual
Researcher, UC Berkeley

Lizzy Griffith (Hare)
Making Histories with Science: Paleoecology and Conservation in the American Midwest
Program Innovation and Evaluation Bureau Chief, California Department of Social Services

Colin Hoag
Scratching About (Fato-Fato): Erosion, Governance, and the Commodification of Water in Lesotho
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Smith College

JUNE 2016

Celina Callahan-Kapoor
Disidentification with Diabetes: Diabetic Publics in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society

Aaron Montoya
Performing Citizens and Subjects: Dance and Resistance in Twenty-First Century Mozambique

DECEMBER 2015

Sarah Chee
Borders of Belonging: Nationalism, North Korean Defectors, and the Spiritual Project for a Unified Korea
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies

SEPTEMBER 2015

Anneke Janzen
Mobility and Herd Management Strategies of Early Pastoralists in South-Central Kenya, 3000-1200 BP
Tenure track position, University Tennessee, Knoxville

JUNE 2015

Patricia Alvarez
Moral Fibers: The Making of (Trans)National Fashions in Post-Authoritarian Peru
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis

Anna Higgins
Labor of Care: Spectacular Fetuses, Healthy, Smart Babies, and Cosmopolitan Pregnancy in Middle Class Beijing
UX and Design Researcher/Consultant

DECEMBER 2014

Christian Palmer
The Production of Place, Urban Development, and Public Spaces in an Emerging Tourist Economy in Northeastern Brazil
Instructor, Windward Community College

JUNE 2014

Nellie Chu
Global Supply Chains of Desires and Risks: The Crafting of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Guangzhou, China
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University

Jonathan Brent Crosson
Catching Power: Race, Altered Solidarities, and Science in Trinidad
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Rosa Elena Ficek
The Pan American Highway: An Ethnography of Latin American Integration
Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University

Amy Garza
Places of Sanctuary: Religious Revivalism and the Politics of Immigration in New Mexico
Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies & Mexican American Studies Program Head, Our Lady of the Lake University

Micha Rahder
Satellites and Senses of Place: Remote Monitoring of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Editor and Independent Scholar

Carla-Ann Takaki-Richardson
The Long After: Disaster and Information Politics in Post-Quake Kobe, Japan

Jessica Watson
Conjuring Blight in an Urban Landscape: Market Farms and Aerosol Murals in Oakland, CA
Global Programs & Partnership Director, Wings of Hope

SEPTEMBER 2013

Xochitl Chavez
Migrating Performative Traditions: The Guelaguetza Festival in Oaxacalifornia
Assistant Professor, UC Riverside

William Girard
Enacting Pentecostalism: Spirit-Filled Development and the Honduran Coup d'Etat
Visiting Lecturer in Religion, Amherst College

Naomi Rodriguez
Remaking Families: Child Welfare at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Assistant Professor of Education, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Daniel Solomon
Menace and Management: Power in the Human-Monkey Social Worlds of Delhi and Shimla
Adjunct Faculty, De Anza College

JUNE 2013

Sarah Bakker
Fragments of a Liturgical World: Syriac Christianity and the Dutch Multiculturalism Debates
Visiting Research Scholar, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion

Heather Swanson
Caught in Comparisons: Japanese Salmon in an Uneven World
Associate Professor, Aarhus University

SEPTEMBER 2012

Roosbelinda Cardenas
Articulations of Blackness: Journeys of an Emplaced Politics in Colombia
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Latin American Studies, Hampshire College

Conal Ho
Living in Liminality: Chinese Migrancy in Ghana
Administrative Reviewer/Associate Director, Duke Health Institutional Review Board, Duke University
Board Member, Institutional Review Board, Duke Kunshan University

JUNE 2012

Jason Alley
When You're 64: Publics, Aging and Community in San Francisco
Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College

Lauren Zephro
Determining the Timing and Mechanism of Fracture in Bovine Bone
Forensic Services Director, Santa Cruz Sheriff's Dept

MARCH 2012

Cristie Boone
Integrating Zooarchaeology and Modeling: Trans-Holocene Fishing In Monterey Bay, California
Senior Archaeologist, Albion Environmental

Tia-Nicole Leak
Testing Virginity: HIV/AIDS, Modernity & Ethnicity In Post-Apartheid South Africa
Social Science Analyst/Project Officer, US Department of Health and Human Services

JUNE 2011

Melissa Hackman
Born-Again Masculinity: "Ex-Gay" and Pentecostal Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Sociology and Development Studies Librarian, Emory College

Zeb Rifaqat
The Governance Game: Contradictory Discourses of Power, Politics, and Change in Pakistan
Instructor, UC Santa Cruz

Jason Rodriguez
Translating Desires in Bodhgaya: Buddhism and Development in the Land of Buddha's Enlightenment
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Aviva Sinervo
Appeals of Childhood: Child Vendors, Volunteer Tourists, and Visions of Aid in Cusco, Peru
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, UCSC

Bettina Stoetzer
At the Forest Edges of the City: Nature, Race and National Belonging in Berlin
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies and Language, MIT

Noah Tamarkin
(Lost) Tribes to Citizens: Lemba 'Black Jews' Engage the South African State
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University

James Todd
The Anatomy of a Race: Labor, Salvation and the Intimacy of Spectacle in NASCAR® Nation
Assistant Superintendent / Vice President of Instruction and Planning, San Joaquin Delta College

MARCH 2011

Chelsey Juarez
Geolocation: A Pathway to Identification for Deceased Undocumented Border Crossers
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NC State

JUNE 2010

Heath Cabot
Translating Law and Lives: Asylum and Legal Aid in Athens
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Cris Hughes 
Biological variation among modern Maya of Guatemala: Discerning population structure and related sociohistoric factors
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joanie McCollom
History On Its Side: Narratives of "Malaysia" and Beyond

Marissa Ramsier
The Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Auditory Sensitivity
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Humboldt State University

MARCH 2010

Jeff Smith
Moonlighter's Paradise: From the Land of Iron and Steel to the Land of Irony and Stealing

Bregje van Eekelen
The Social Life of Ideas: Economies of Knowledge
Professor, Design, Culture and Society at Delft Technical University

DECEMBER 2009

Ruby Rodriguez
The Role of Religious Institutions in the Incorporation of Latin American and Latino/a Immigrants and Migrants in the North American Midwest

SEPTEMBER 2009

Jeremy Campbell
The Social Life of an Amazonian Highway: Speculation, Mobility, and Development Politics in Brazil
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator for the Sustainability Studies Program at Roger Williams University

Riet Delsing
Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State
Independent Researcher, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceana

JUNE 2009

Sarah Peelo
Creating Community in Spanish California: An Investigation of California Plainwares
Principal, Albion Environmental

Charlotte Sunseri
Spatial Economies of Precontact Exchange in the Greater Monterey Bay Area, California
Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University

Jun Sunseri
Nowhere to Run, Everywhere to Hide: Multi-scalar Identity Practices at Casitas Viejas
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Kanokwan (Gaye) Tharawan
Private Dance Floor in Public Space: Contested Sexualities Among Thai Women

DECEMBER 2008

SEPTEMBER 2008

Jon Anjaria
Unruly Streets: Everyday Practices and Promises of Globality in Mumbai
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University

Yen-ling Tsai
Strangers Who Are Not Foreign: Intimate Exclusion and Racialized Boundary in Urban Indonesia
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NCTU, Taiwan

JUNE 2008

Eunice Blavascunas
The Peasant and Communist Past in the Making of an Ecological Region: Podlasie, Poland 
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Whitman College

John Marlovits
Fugues of Depression: An Ethnography of Affect and Mental Illness in Seattle 
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University

Jessica O'Reilly
Policy and Practice in Antarctica
Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

JUNE 2007

DECEMBER 2006

SEPTEMBER 2006

JUNE 2006

Tyler Rooker 
Zhongguancun: The Silicon Valley of China
China Investment Manager, Gemdale USA Corporation

Russell Rodriguez
Cultural Production, Legitimation, and the Politics of Aesthetics: Mariachi Transmission Practice, and Performance in the United States 
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Bahiyyih Watson
Technogenic Turns: The Production of a Public Sphere in 21st Century Urban Morocco 
Adjunct Professor, Valencia College

Vicki Wedel
Patterns of Bone Remodeling Among Enslaved and Freed Historical African Americans
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Dental Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences

MARCH 2006

Megan Moodie
Culture of Freedom? The Gendered Intimacies of Modernization in Rajasthan, India
Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz

JUNE 2005

Afsaneh Kalantary
Exilic Yearnings and Diasporic Homes: An Ethnography of Memory, Place, Race and Gender among Iranian Exiles in Berlin, Germany
Lecturer, City College of Chicago

Roshanak Kheshti
Resoundingly Different: Desire and Alterity in the U.S. World Beat Culture Industry
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, UC San Diego

SEPTEMBER 2004

Shiho Satsuka
Traveling Nature, Imaging the Globe: Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

JUNE 2004

Debra Bolter
Anatomical Growth Patterns in Colobine Monkeys and Implications for Primate Evolution
Professor, Modesto Junior College

Kristen Cheney
The Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development 
Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Kale Fajardo
Filipino Cross Currents: Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota

MARCH 2004

DECEMBER 2003

Cynthia Gabriel
Being Born in a Nation that is Dying: Childbirth and the Medical System in Postsocialist Russia
Lecturer, Eatern Michigan University

Leah Mundell
Community in the Making: Faith-Based Organizations in the Battles for Philadelphia's Public Schools
Lecturer, Northern Arizona University

SEPTEMBER 2003

Alejandra Castaneda
Politics of Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States
Research Associate, Coordinator, Observatory on Immigration Policy and Legislation (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte)

Lieba Faier
On Being Oyomesan: Filipina Migrants and Their Japanese Families in Central Kiso
Associate Professor, UC Los Angeles

JUNE 2003

Tim Choy
Politics by Example: An Ethnography of Environmental Emergences in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Associate Professor, UC Davis

Mae Lee
Post-Civil Rights Politics and Protagonists: Corporate Diversity in Silicon Valley
Instructor, DeAnza College

MARCH 2003

Clayton Hurd
Belonging in School: The Politics of Race, Class, and Citizenship in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District
Senior Program Director, Public Service Research and Graduate Engaged Scholarship, Stanford 

Steven Kurzman
Performing Able-Bodiedness: Amputees and Prosthetics in America
Principal User Experience Designer

DECEMBER 2002

Anna Lorrie Anderson
Of One Accord: Garifuna Collective Action and the Social Transformation of the Guatemalan Peace Process in Labuga (1996-1998)
Director Of Research And Evaluation, Rural Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2001

Scott Morgensen
Metropolitan Desires, Utopian Practices: Contesting Race, Sex, and Other Colonial Legacies in US Queer Communities
Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Graduate Coordinator for Gender Studies, Queen's University

Robin Whitaker
Talking Politics: Gender and Political Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Associate Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland

JUNE 2001

Cathy Clayton
"If We Are Not Different, We Will Cease to Exist": Culture and Identity in Transition-Era Macau
Associate Professor and Chair of the Asian Studies Program, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Lyn Jeffery
Selling Selves: Meanings of the Market in the People's Republic of China
Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future

DECEMBER 2000

Henry Goldschmidt
Peoples Apart: Religion and Other Jewish Differences in Crown Heights
Director of Programs, Interfaith Center of New York

Renee Rothman
Aikido Sensibilities: The Sociosomatics of Connection and Its Role in The Constitution of Community at North Bay Aikido in Santa Cruz, California

SEPTEMBER 2000

Cori Hayden
When Nature Goes Public: An Ethnography of Bio-Prospecting in Mexico
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

JUNE 2000

Benjamin Chesluk
Money Jungle: Race and Real Estate in the "New Times Square"
Senior Researcher for Ethnographic Research, American Board of Internal Medicine

Debra Klein
Yoruba Bàtá: Politics of Pop Tradition in Erin-Osun and Overseas
Professor,  Gavilan College

MARCH 2000

Lena Sawyer
Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm, Sweden
Senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Michelle Rosenthal
Violent Pasts, Democratic Futures: Engendering Cultural Citizenship in the New South Africa 

JUNE 1999

Isar Godreau
Missing the Mix: San Anton and the Racial Dynamics of "Nationalism" in Puerto Rico
Researcher, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

Krista Harper
From Green Dissidents to Green Skeptics: Environmental Activists and Post-Social Political Ecology in Hungary
Professor, Umass Amherst

Galen Joseph
Civilizing the Nation: Argentine Narratives of Education, Race and Democracy
Associate Professor, UC San Francisco

SEPTEMBER 1998

Kristin Bright
The Traveling Tonic: Tradition, Commodity, and the Body in Unani (Greco-Roman) Medicine in India
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

JUNE 1998

Katherine Spilde
Acts of Sovereignty, Acts of Identity: Negotiating Interdependence Through Tribal Government Gaming on the White Earth Indian Reservation
Associate Professor, San Diego State University

JUNE 1997

Kamari Clarke
Genealogies of Reclaimed Nobility: The Geotemporality of Yoruba Belonging
Professor, International and Global Studies, Carleton University

Deborah Connolly
Mothering in the Margins: An Ethnography of Homeless Mothers in a Northwest Community
Commissioner of Health and Human Services - City of Newton