Ph.D. Job Placement

Students receiving a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale go on to teaching and research positions around the world, at a wide variety of institutions–both academic and non-academic. This page lists the dissertation topic, graduation date, and current employment (if known) of Yale Anthropology Ph.D. alumni who received their degrees in the past decade. If our information about you is incomplete or out of date, please send a note to the department chair and we will update!

	Dissertation	Year	Division	Current Position
Tram Luong	The Optics of Hatred: Visualizing the Vietnamese Other in Cambodia	2023	Sociocultural	Faculty Member (assistant professor equivalent) in Art and Media and Social Studies, Fulbright University Vietnam
Vanessa Koh	On the Ground: Land, Sovereignty, and Terraformation in Singapore	2023	Sociocultural & School of the Environment	Postdoctoral Fellow, Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, Princeton University
Rundong Ning	Rearticulating Work: Entrepreneurship and Work-Based Identity in Contemporary Congo-Brazzaville	2023	Sociocultural	Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Carlye Chaney	Environmental Exposures from the Local to the Global: A Comparison of the Experiences and Consequences of Exposure Among the Qom of Formosa, Argentina, and Residents of New Haven, Connecticut	2023	Biological	Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Missouri, Columbia
Amanda Leiss	Paleoenvironmental context of Early Stone Age Archaeology: An Analysis of the Gona Fauna Between ~3 and 1 Ma	2022	Biological	Adjunct Professor, Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University
Tri Phuong	The Politics of Play: Digital Youth, New Media, and Social Movement in Contemporary Vietnam	2021	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Jessica Cerdeña	Onward: An Ethnography of Latina Migrant Motherhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2021	Medical Anthropology (MD/PhD)	Resident in Family Medicine, Middlesex Healthcare System
Qingzhu Wang	Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State	2021	Archaeology	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Tang Center for Early China, Columbia University
Aalyia Sadruddin	After-After-Lives: Aging, Care, and Dignity in Postgenocide Rwanda	2021	Biological and Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth Berk	Viral Subjects: Stigma, Civil Society Activism, and the Making of HIV/AIDS in Lebanon	2021	Sociocultural & Medical	Lecturer, Anthropology, Southern Methodist University
Heidi K. Lam	Animating Heritage: Affective Experiences, Institutional Networks, and Themed Consumption in the Japanese Cultural Industries	2021	Sociocultural	Researcher, ReD Associates
Amy Leigh Johnson	State Re-Making: Federalism, Environment, and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Nepal	2021	Sociocultural & School of the Environment	Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Georgia College of Arts and Sciences
Emily Nguyen	Urban Dreams and Agrarian Renovations: Examining the Politics and Practices of Peri-Urban Land Conversion in Hanoi, Vietnam	2021	Sociocultural	Qualitative Research Expert, World Food Programme Headquarters, Rome
Chandana Anusha	The Living Coast: Port Development and Ecological Transformations in the Gulf of Kutch, Western India	2021	Sociocultural	Princeton Mellon / Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies Fellow, Princeton University
George Bayuga	How to Make a Nun: Gender and the Infrastructure of the Catholic Church in China	2021	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Meredith Mclaughlin	Moral Claims: Ethics and the Pursuit of Welfare in Rural Rajasthan, India	2021	Sociocultural	Joint fellowship between Homerton College and The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, University of Cambridge.
Hatice Erten	At Least Three Children: Politics of Reproduction, Health and Care in Pronatalist Turkey	2020	Sociocultural and Medical	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jacob Rinck	The Future of Political Economy: International Labor Migration, Agrarian Change and Shifting Developmental Visions in Nepal	2020	Sociocultural	Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Kyle Wiley	Intergenerational Consequences of Interpersonal Violence: The Role of Fetal Programming	2020	Biological	Postdoc at UCLA Biobehavioral Sciences
Michelle Young	Interregional interaction, social complexity and the Chavin horizon at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru	2020	Archaeology	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
Keahnan Washington	There Has to Be Reciprocity': Love-Politics, Expertise, and the Reimagination of Political Possibility with Formerly-Incarcerated Organizers in New Orleans	2020	Sociocultural & AFAM	Lecturer in the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, University of Pennsylvania
Alyssa Paredes	Plantation Peripheries: The Multiple Makings of Asia’s Banana Republic	2020	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Kristen McLean	Fatherhood and Futurity: Youth, Masculinity, and Contingency in Post-crisis Sierra Leone	2020	Biological	Assistant Professor, International Studies, College of Charleston
Elaine Guevara	Genomics of Primate Longevity	2019	Biological	Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington
Myles Lennon	Affective Energy: Intersectional Solar Transitions in a Late Liberal Metropolis	2019	Sociocultural & Forestry and Environmental Studies	Assistant Professor, Environment and Society and Anthropology, Brown University
Amelia Sancilio	Is Accelerated Senescence a Cost of Reproduction? An Analysis of Life History Trade-offs in Post-menopausal Polish Women	2019	Biological	Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Northwestern University
Kendall Arslanian	Early Life In Samoa: Nutritional And Genetic Predictors Of Infant Body Composition And An Analysis Of Maternal Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding	2019	Biological	Program Manager, American Academy of Pediatrics
Louisa Cortesi	Living in Unquiet Waters: Knowledge and Technologies in North Bihar	2019	Sociocultural	Assistant professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University
Tanambelo Vassili Reinaldo Rasolondrainy	Resilience and Niche Construction in the face of Climate Variability, Southwest Madagascar	2019	Archaeology	Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University, Chief Advisor, Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur l’Art et la Tradition Orale de Madagascar
Samar Al-Bulushi	Citizen-Suspect: Publics, Politics, and the Transnational Security State in East Africa	2018	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Gabriela Morales	Decolonizing Medicine: Care and the Politics of Well-Being in Plurinational Bolivia	2018	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Scripps College
Andrew Womack	Crafting Community: Exploring Identity and Interaction through Ceramics in Early Bronze Age Gansu, China	2018	Archaeology	Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Furman University
Elliot Prasse-Freeman	Resisting (without) Rights - Activists, Subalterns, and Political Ontologies in Burma	2018	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Sayd Randle	Replumbing the City:Water and Space in Los Angeles	2018	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University
Sahana Ghosh	Borderland orders: Gendered Geographies of Mobility and Security Across the India-Bangladesh borderlands	2018	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Colin Thomas	Las Minas Archaeometallurgical Project	2018	Archaeology	AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, National Science Foundation
Dorsa Amir	Adaptive Variation in Risk & Time Preferences: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspective	2018	Biological	Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Origins Lab in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Daniela Wolin	Everyday Stress, Exceptional Suffering: Bioarchaeology of Violence and Personhood in Late Shang, China	2018	Archaeology	Post-doctoral Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rose Keimig	Growing Old in China's New Nursing Homes	2018	Sociocultural	UX Researcher, Target
Ryan Jobson	Fueling Sovereignty: Energy, Infrastructure, and State Building in Trinidad and Tobago	2017	Sociocultural	Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Erin Burke	Broad Engagement of the Neuroendocrinology of Parenting: Evidence from Male Same-Sex Parents	2017	Biological	Senior Manager, Head of Partnership Development at Variant Bio
Jessica Newman	Making the Mere Celibataire: NGOs, Activism, and Single Motherhood in Morocco	2017	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Temple University
Aniket Pankaj Aga	Genetically Modified Democracy: The Sdence and Politics of Transgenic Agriculture in Contemporary India	2017	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo
Hosna Sheikholeslami	Thinking through Translation: Translators, Publishers, and the Formation of Publics in Contemporary Iran	2017	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Denison University
Elizabeth Miles	Men of No Value: Contemporary Japanese Manhood and the Economies of Intimacy	2017	FAS	Faculty Member (assistant professor equivalent) in Social Science
Sierra Bell	Apocalyptic Politics: Liberty and Truth in Tea Party America	2017	Sociocultural	Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University
Maria Sidorkina	Kholivar: New Projects of Belonging on the Russian Periphery	2017	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Jessamy Doman	The paleontology and paleoecology of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds and Lukeino Formation, Tugen Hills succession, Baringo, Kenya	2017	Archaeology	Anthropologist, Kenyon International Emergency Services
Qiubei Amy Zhang	Matter Transformed: Remaking Waste in Postreform China	2017	Sociocultural & Forestry and Environmental Studies	Assistant Professor, New York University
Ainur Begim	Investing for the Long Term: Temporal Politics of Retirement Planning in Financialized Central Asia	2016	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of International Business Faculty of Economics and Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Andrew Carruthers	Specters of Affinity: Clandestine Movement and Commensurate in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands	2016	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Adrienne Jordan Cohen	Improvising the Urban:Dance, Mobility, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea	2016	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
Kristina Douglass	An Archaeological Investigation of Settlement and Resource Exploitation Patterns in the Velondriake Marine Protected Area, Southwest Madagascar, ca. 900 BC to AD 1900	2016	Archaeology	Associate Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School
Ivan Ghezzi	Chankillo as a Fortification and Late Early Horizon (400-100 BC) Warfare in Casma, Peru	2016	Archaeology	Director of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Peru
Yu Luo	Ethnic by Design: Branding a Buyi Cultural Landscape in Late-Socialist Southwest China	2016	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puget Sound
Timothy Webster	Genomic of a Primate Radiation: Speciation and Diversification in the Macaques	2015		Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Lucia Cantero	Specters of the Market: Consumer-Citizenship and the Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil	2015	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer	National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil	2015	Sociocultural	Cultural Anthropologist, Variant Bio
Michael Degani	The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania	2015	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Dana Graef	Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in Costa Rica and Cuba	2015	Sociocultural	Research-in-Action Fellow at The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
Oscar Prieto	Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices of a Prehispanic Maritime Community	2015	Archaeology	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Atreyee Majumder	Being Human in Howrah: On Historical Sensation and Public Life in an Industrial Hinterland	2014	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Law School of India University University
Abigail Dumes	Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease in the United States	2014	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Sarah Osterhoudt	The Forest in the Field: The Cultural Dimensions of Agroforestry Landscapes in Madagascar	2014	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington
Vikramaditya Thakur	Unsettling Modernity: Resistance and Forced Resettlement Due to Dam in Western India	2014	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware
David Kneas	Substance & Sedimentation: A Historical Ethnography of Landscape in the Ecuadorian Andes	2014	Archaeology	Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
Ana Lara	Bodies & Souls: LGBT Citizenship and the Catholic State	2014	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Ryan Clasby	Exploring Long Term Cultural Developments and Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Slopes of the Andes: A Case study from the site of Huayurco, Jaén Region, Peru	2014	Archaeology	Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Western Illinois University
C. Anne Claus	Drawing Near: Conservation By Proximity In Okinawa's Coral Reefs	2014	Sociocultural	Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Anthropology, American University
Hande Ozkan-Zollo	Cultivating the Nation in Nature: Forestry and Nation-Building in Turkey	2013	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Transylvania University
Joshua Rubin	Confronting an Art of Uncertainty: Rugby, Race and Masculinity in South Africa	2013	Sociocultural	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bates College
Susanna Fioratta	States of Insecurity: Migration, Remittances, and Islamic Reform in Guinea, West Africa	2013	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Shaila Seshia Galvin	State of Nature: Agriculture, Development and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand	2013	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute Geneva
Isaac Gagne	Private Religion and Public Morality: Understanding Cultural Secularism in Late Capitalist Japan	2013	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Hong Kong
Darian Parker	Topological Densities: An Existential Psychoanalytic Ethnography of a Title 1 School in New York City	2013	Sociocultural	Guest Professor, West African Dance, The Juilliard School, Founder & CEO, Parker Academics, LLC, Adjunct Professor, School of Professional Studies, New York University
Radhika Govindrajan	Beastly Intimacies: Human-Animal Relations in India's Central Himalayas	2013	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Stephen Chester	Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Primates: Systematics and Paleobiology of Primitive Plesiadapiforms	2013	Biological	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Alexander Antonites	Political and Economic Interactions in the Hinterland of the Mapungubwe Polity, c. AD 1200-1300, South Africa	2012	Archaeology	Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pretoria
Jason S. Nesbitt	Excavations at Caballo Muerto: An Investigation into the Origins of the Cupisnique Culture	2012	Archaeology	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
Sheridan M. Booker	Spanish Dance and Transformations in the Cuban Public Sphere:Race, Ethnicity, and the Performance of New Socio-Economic Differences, 1988-2008	2012	Sociocultural	Director, Beyond Identity Scholar Activist Program, The City College of New York, Founder & Director WURArts Consulting
Nathaniel M. Smith	Right Wing Activism in Japan and the Politics of Futility	2012	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
Emily Goble Early	Paleontology of the Chemeron Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya, with Emphasis on Faunal Shifts and Precessional Climatic Forcing	2012		Associate Curator of Anthropology, Arizona Museum of Natural History
Kelly Hughes	Spatial Representations of Objects by Non-human Primates: Evidence from Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) and Brown Capuchins (Cebus apella)	2012	Biological	Research Scientist III, Sage Program, Minnesota Department of Health
Minhua Ling	City Cowherds: Migrant Youth Coming of Age in Urban China	2012	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute
Christina H. Moon	Material Intimacies: The Labors of Creativity in the Global Fashion Industry	2011	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Art and Design History & Theory, Parsons School of Design
Douglas Park	Climate Change, Human Response and the Origins of Urbanism at Timbuktu: Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistoric Urbanism of the Timbuktu Region on the Niger Bend, Mali, West Africa	2011	Archaeology	Principal Consultant at ERM: Environmental Resources Management
Alethea Murray Sargent	Learning to Be Homeless: Culture, Identity, and Consent Among Sheltered Homeless Women in Boston	2011	Sociocultural	Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office
Katie Marie Binetti	Early Pliocene hominid paleoenvironments in the Tugen Hills, Kenya	2011	Biological	Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Anthropology, Baylor University
Myra Jones-Taylor	Blank Slates: Boundary-work and Neoliberalism in New Haven Childcare Policy	2011	Sociocultural	Chief Policy Impact Officer, The Urban Institute
Nazima Kadir	The Autonomous Life? : Paradoxes of Hierachy, Authority, and Urban Identity in the Amsterdam Squatters Movement	2010	Sociocultural	Lead senior user researcher, service designer, vice president for JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Brenda Khayanga Kombo	The Policing of Intimate Partnerships in Yaoundé, Cameroon	2010	Sociocultural	Norbert Elias Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University
Yuichi Matsumoto	The Prehistoric Ceremonial Center of Campanayuq Rumi: Interregional Interactions in the South-central Highlands of Peru	2010	Archaeology	Professor, Yamagata University
Nana Okura Gagné	"Salarymen” in Crisis?: The Collapse of Dominant Ideologies and Shifting Identities of Salarymen in Metropolitan Japan	2010	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Durba Chattaraj	Roadscapes: Everyday Life Along the Rural-Urban Continuum in 21st Century India	2010	Sociocultural	Director of Writing and Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Ashoka University
Omolade Adunbi	Belonging to the (S)oil: Multinational Oil Corporations, NGOs and Community Conflict in Postcolonial Nigeria	2010	Sociocultural	Associate Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
Annie Harper	The Idea of Islamabad: Unity, Purity and Civility in Pakistan's Capital City	2010	Yale School of Medicine	Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Ajay Gandhi	Taming the Residual Workers, Animals and Others in Old Delhi	2010	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Leiden University College, Leiden University
Csilla Kalocsai	Corporate Hungary: Recrafting Youth, Work, and Subjectivity in Global Capitalism	2010	Sociocultural	Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Department, University of Toronto