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 since 2010.

If you’re an alum and our information about you is incomplete or out of date, please send a note to the department chair and we will be happy to update it.

2026

Student Name Dissertation Title Year Subfield Job Placement
Hannah Keller Taphonomic Framework for Ostrich Eggshell in Archaeology: Implications for Human Behavior, Social Complexity, and Ostrich-Human Interactions 2026 Archaeology  
Al Lim Risking Fortune: Building Value in the Social Ecology of Thai Crypto 2026 Socio-Cultural Presidential Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Singapore Management University
Faith Macharia Anti-African: Black in Rome 2026 Socio-Cultural  
Sarah Martini Social Interaction in the Andes Bajos Between 500 BCE and 700 CE: Two Case Studies From the Central-North Andean Transition Zone at Las Pampas De Panecillo and Cerro La Plaza De Portachuelo De Culucan, Piura, Peru 2026 Archaeology  
Kate McNally Newfoundland Ghost Nets: Fathoming Imperial Fallout 2026 Socio-Cultural  
David Wood Behavior and Energetics of Infant Care in a Biparental, Neotropical Primate (Plecturocebus cupreus) 2026 Biological  
Nala Williams Excavating Expertise: Black Women, Misogynoir, and Archaeology 2026 Archaeology  
Shoko Yamada Promises of Repair: Reckoning with Environmental Injuries in the Jinzu River Basin 2026 Socio-Cultural PIIRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

2025

Student Name Dissertation Title Year Subfield Job Placement
Asa Cameron  Crafting the Nomadic State: Isotopic Perspectives Into Pastoral Practices, Mobility, and Subsistence During the Xiongnu Period of Mongolia 2025 Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University 
Michael Carolla The Evolution and Current State of Archaeomagnetism 2025 Archaeology  
Christina Carolus Sowing the Seeds of Empire: Archaeobotanical and Biomolecular Perspectives on Subsistence Transformation and the Emergence of Early Political Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe 2025 Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University 
Mallory Cox Towards an Interdisciplinary Archaeology of Pathogens: The Malaria Pigment, Archaeomagnetism, and Vector-Borne Disease Ecology in Classic Period Maya Art 2025 Archaeology  
Katherine Daiy The Human Milk and Infant Gut Microbiome in Samoa: Analyses With Maternal Diet and a Qualitative Investigation of Samoan Women’s Perceptions of Antibiotic Use 2025 Biological Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh 
Caitlin Davis A Peculiar Decoration: Production, Exchange, and Access to Usulután Pottery in the Late and Terminal Formative Southern Maya Region 2025 Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Corey Herrmann Evaluating Ancient Volcanic Disaster in the Rio Grande De Chone, Manabi, Ecuador 2025 Archaeology Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
Manon Lefevre Embryo Cultures: Re/producing ‘Life’ in the IVF Lab 2025 Socio-Cultural NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
David McCormick The Cotzumalhuapa Obsidian System: Economy of Procurement, Production, and Provisioning in a Classic Mesoamerican Polity 2025 Archaeology Archaeological Laboratory and Collections Supervisor, Mohegan Tribe
Mathew O’Malley Remnant Time: An Oral & Social History of Antiblack Spatial Injustice, Community Memory, and a Black Sense of Place in Buffalo, New York 2025 Socio-Cultural Assistant Teaching Professor, Barrett Honors Faculty, Arizona State University
Sakura Oyama Female Reproductive Lives in Samoa – Reproductive Effort and Costs in an Obesogenic Environment 2025 Biological Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.(Link is external)
Kefilwe Rammutloa Variabilities and Anomalies: An Archaeological Study of Early Iron Age Agriculturist Communities at the Emseni Site in the Thukela River Basin of the KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa 2025 Archaeological Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Developmental Studies at the University of Pretoria(Link is external)
Ben Slightom Laboring for Aid: Black Women’s Work in the Making of Detroit’s Nonprofit Aid Economy 2024 Socio-Cultural and African American Studies Housing Justice Advocate, Seattle

2024 

 
Student Name Dissertation Title Year Subfield Job Placement
Alex Bertacchi The Impact of Resource Predictability on Human Territoriality Among Late Quaternary Foragers in Malawi: Isotopic and Zooarchaeological Perspectives 2024 Biological Flint Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University(Link is external)
Bukhchuluun Dashzeveg  Bronze Age Prone Burials of the Mongolian Gobi Desert: An Anthropological Study of Mortuary Traditions  2024 Archaeology Cultural Resource Management PI, Statistics Research Inc.
Chelsea Fitzgerald  Hemp and the Politics of State Care for Rural America  2024 Sociocultural Program Director for User Research & Strategy at Yale University Library
Yufang Gao Envisioning Coexistence: Snow Leopards and Tibetan Herders in China’s First National Park  2024 Sociocultural

Gao Yufan Founder & Director of Conservation Edgewalkers, Shenzhen, China,(Link is external)

 Science Advisor of Shan Shui Conservation Center, Beijing, China(Link is external)
Bhoomika Joshi Attachments to Hurt: The Intimate Economy of Mobility and Enterprise in the Indian Himalayas  2024 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Asian Studies Program, National University of Singapore(Link is external)
Lav Kanoi Urban Water Ways: The Changing Waterscape of India’s Thirsty Capital City 2024 Sociocultural Post-Doc in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (Link is external)
Souvanik Mullick  Democracy in Motion: Livelihoods, Politics, and Small Transport Operators in Delhi, India  2024 Sociocultural Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mellon Program on Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, Princeton University(Link is external)
Shivangi Pareek Art as (A) Living: Making Adivasi Art and Artists in Contemporary India 2024 Sociocultural Assistant professor of Anthropology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jacob Welch Ancient Maya Labor Relations: Building a Palace at Ucanha, Yucatan, Mexico  2024 Archaeology  
Wen Zhou The Concessionary Regimes of Gabon, Central Africa: Corporate Sovereignty, Forest Governance, and the Post-Colonial State  2024 School of the Environment & Sociocultural  Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore

2023

Name 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(Link is external)
Vanessa Koh On the Ground: Land, Sovereignty, and Terraformation in Singapore 2023 Sociocultural & School of the Environment Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College(Link is external)
Rundong Ning Rearticulating Work: Entrepreneurship and Work-Based Identity in Contemporary Congo-Brazzaville 2023 Sociocultural Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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 Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia(Link is external)
Paul Burrow The Ecology of Belonging: Cultural Dynamics of Environmental Change in the North American West  2023 Sociocultural Social and Environmental Scientist at Stanford University

2022

Name Dissertation Year Division Current Position
Nicholas Brown Ancient Andean Archipelagos: Human Interaction and Social Innovation at Chawin Punta and Kunturay in the East-Central Highlands of Pasco, Peru 2022 Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto(Link is external)
Rachel Laryea Black Capitalists in the TransAtlantic Financial Industry  2022 Sociocultural Kelewele and JP Morgan Chase(Link is external)
Amanda Leiss Paleoenvironmental context of Early Stone Age Archaeology: An Analysis of the Gona Fauna Between ~3 and 1 Ma 2022 Biological Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University

2021

Name Dissertation Year Division Current Position
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(Link is external)
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
Rong Fan Physiological stress, workload and social relations in early village life before 5000 BP: Two case studies of Jiahu and Beiqian 2021 Archaeology Assistant Professor, School of Ethnology and Department of Ethnology, Yunnan University 
Qingzhu Wang Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State 2021 Archaeology Assistant Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University(Link is external)
Aalyia Sadruddin After-After-Lives: Aging, Care, and Dignity in Postgenocide Rwanda 2021 Sociocultural and Medical Assistant Professor of Anthropology,(Link is external) Wellesley College
Elizabeth Berk Viral Subjects: Stigma, Civil Society Activism, and the Making of HIV/AIDS in Lebanon 2021 Sociocultural & Medical Lecturer, Anthropology, Southern Methodist University(Link is external)
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 at Georgia College and State University
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 Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resources and Political Economy, Berkley(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Meredith Mclaughlin Moral Claims: Ethics and the Pursuit of Welfare in Rural Rajasthan, India 2021 Sociocultural Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South California(Link is external) 

2020

Name Dissertation Year Division Current Position
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(Link is external)
Chloe Chen-Kraus Assessing Anthropogenic Impacts on Endangered Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) and Prospects for Human-Lemur Coexistence 2020 Biological Manager of the Reconnecting Appalachian Rivers program at The Nature Conservancy
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(Link is external)
Kyle Wiley Intergenerational Consequences of Interpersonal Violence: The Role of Fetal Programming 2020 Biological Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas El Paso(Link is external)
Michelle Young Interregional interaction, social complexity and the Chavin horizon at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru 2020 Archaeology Curator, American Museum of Natural History
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(Link is external)
Alyssa Paredes Plantation Peripheries: The Multiple Makings of Asia’s Banana Republic 2020 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan(Link is external)
Kristen McLean Fatherhood and Futurity: Youth, Masculinity, and Contingency in Post-crisis Sierra Leone 2020 Biological Assistant Professor, International Studies, College of Charleston

2010–2019

Name Dissertation Year Division Current Position
Elaine Gomez-Guevara Genomics of Primate Longevity 2019 Biological Lecturer, Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Amelia Sancilio Is Accelerated Senescence a Cost of Reproduction? An Analysis of Life History Trade-offs in Post-menopausal Polish Women 2019 Biological EO Health 
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(Link is external)
Tanambelo Vassili Reinaldo Rasolondrainy Resilience and Niche Construction in the face of Climate Variability, Southwest Madagascar 2019 Archaeology Researcher, Musee d’Art et de l’archéologie, at the University of Antananarivo, 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(Link is external)
Gabriela Morales Decolonizing Medicine: Care and the Politics of Well-Being in Plurinational Bolivia 2018 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Scripps College(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Elliot Prasse-Freeman Resisting (without) Rights - Activists, Subalterns, and Political Ontologies in Burma 2018 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Colin Thomas Las Minas Archaeometallurgical Project 2018 Archaeology Human Capital Consultant
Dorsa Amir Adaptive Variation in Risk & Time Preferences: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspective 2018 Biological Assistant Professor, Dept Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University(Link is external)
Daniela Wolin Everyday Stress, Exceptional Suffering: Bioarchaeology of Violence and Personhood in Late Shang, China 2018 Archaeology Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)(Link is external)
Rose Keimig Growing Old in China’s New Nursing Homes 2018 Sociocultural UX Researcher, Target(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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 Visiting Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University(Link is external)
Aniket Pankaj Aga Genetically Modified Democracy: The Sdence and Politics of Transgenic Agriculture in Contemporary India 2017 Sociocultural Associate Professor of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo(Link is external)
Hosna Sheikholeslami Thinking through Translation: Translators, Publishers, and the Formation of Publics in Contemporary Iran 2017 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Denison University(Link is external)
Elizabeth Miles Men of No Value: Contemporary Japanese Manhood and the Economies of Intimacy 2017 FAS Assistant professor, Fulbright University-Vietnam(Link is external)
Sierra Bell Apocalyptic Politics: Liberty and Truth in Tea Party America 2017 Sociocultural Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Jessamy Doman The paleontology and paleoecology of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds and Lukeino Formation, Tugen Hills succession, Baringo, Kenya 2017 Biological 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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Andrew Carruthers Specters of Affinity: Clandestine Movement and Commensurate in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands 2016 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania(Link is external)
Adrienne Jordan Cohen Improvising the Urban:Dance, Mobility, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea 2016 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Colorado State University(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Timothy Webster Genomic of a Primate Radiation: Speciation and Diversification in the Macaques 2015 Biological Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah(Link is external)
Lucia Cantero Specters of the Market: Consumer-Citizenship and the Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil 2015 Sociocultural Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University(Link is external)
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil 2015 Sociocultural Senior Anthropologist, Ethics and Engagement, Variant Bio(Link is external)
Michael Degani The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania 2015 Sociocultural Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, U.K.(Link is external)
Dana Graef Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in Costa Rica and Cuba 2015 Sociocultural Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment(Link is external)
Oscar Prieto Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices of a Prehispanic Maritime Community 2015 Archaeology Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida(Link is external)
Atreyee Majumder Being Human in Howrah: On Historical Sensation and Public Life in an Industrial Hinterland 2014 Sociocultural Dean for Academics at the National Law School of India University(Link is external)
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(Link is external), University of Michigan 
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(Link is external)
Vikramaditya Thakur Unsettling Modernity: Resistance and Forced Resettlement Due to Dam in Western India 2014 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware(Link is external)
David Kneas Substance & Sedimentation: A Historical Ethnography of Landscape in the Ecuadorian Andes 2014 Archaeology Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina(Link is external)
Ana Lara Bodies & Souls: LGBT Citizenship and the Catholic State 2014 Sociocultural Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon(Link is external)
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 Assistant Curator, Global Indigenous Arts and Lifeways, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.(Link is external)
C. Anne Claus Drawing Near: Conservation By Proximity In Okinawa’s Coral Reefs 2014 Sociocultural Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Anthropology, American University(Link is external)
Hande Ozkan-Zollo Cultivating the Nation in Nature: Forestry and Nation-Building in Turkey 2013 Sociocultural Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Transylvania University(Link is external)
Joshua Rubin Confronting an Art of Uncertainty: Rugby, Race and Masculinity in South Africa 2013 Sociocultural Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Colby College(Link is external)
Susanna Fioratta States of Insecurity: Migration, Remittances, and Islamic Reform in Guinea, West Africa 2013 Sociocultural Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Isaac Gagne Private Religion and Public Morality: Understanding Cultural Secularism in Late Capitalist Japan 2013 Sociocultural Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo(Link is external)
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(Link is external), Founder & CEO, Parker Academics, LLC(Link is external), Adjunct Professor, School of Professional Studies, New York University(Link is external)
Radhika Govindrajan Beastly Intimacies: Human-Animal Relations in India’s Central Himalayas 2013 Sociocultural Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external), Founder & Director WURArts Consulting
Nathaniel M. Smith Right Wing Activism in Japan and the Politics of Futility 2012 Sociocultural Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan(Link is external)
Emily Goble Early Paleontology of the Chemeron Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya, with Emphasis on Faunal Shifts and Precessional Climatic Forcing 2012 Biological Associate Curator of Anthropology, Arizona Museum of Natural History(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Myra Jones-Taylor Blank Slates: Boundary-work and Neoliberalism in New Haven Childcare Policy 2011 Sociocultural Chief Policy Impact Officer, The Urban Institute(Link is external)
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.(Link is external)
Brenda Khayanga Kombo The Policing of Intimate Partnerships in Yaoundé, Cameroon 2010 Sociocultural Norbert Elias Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University(Link is external)
Yuichi Matsumoto The Prehistoric Ceremonial Center of Campanayuq Rumi: Interregional Interactions in the South-central Highlands of Peru 2010 Archaeology Associate Professor of Modern Society and Civilization at the National Museum of Ethnology(Link is external)
Nana Okura Gagné “Salarymen” in Crisis?: The Collapse of Dominant Ideologies and Shifting Identities of Salarymen in Metropolitan Japan 2010 Sociocultural Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan(Link is external)
Durba Chattaraj Roadscapes: Everyday Life Along the Rural-Urban Continuum in 21st Century India 2010 Sociocultural Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University(Link is external)
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(Link is external)
Annie Harper The Idea of Islamabad: Unity, Purity and Civility in Pakistan’s Capital City 2010   Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine(Link is external)
Ajay Gandhi Taming the Residual Workers, Animals and Others in Old Delhi 2010 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Leiden University College, Leiden University(Link is external)
Csilla Kalocsai Corporate Hungary: Recrafting Youth, Work, and Subjectivity in Global Capitalism 2010 Sociocultural Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Department, University of Toronto