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If you’re an alum and our information about you is incomplete or out of date, please send a note to the department chair and we will be happy to update it.

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 
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 Postdoctoral Associate in Library User Experience Research, Yale University
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,

 Science Advisor of Shan Shui Conservation Center, Beijing, China
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 
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 
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
Shivangi Pareek Art as (A) Living: Making Adivasi Art and Artists in Contemporary India 2024 Sociocultural Research Associate, Inter Asia Initiative, Yale University
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 Sociocultural Research Associate, World Resources Institute

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
Vanessa Koh On the Ground: Land, Sovereignty, and Terraformation in Singapore 2023 Sociocultural & School of the Environment Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and society, Brown 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
Paul Burrow The Ecology of Belonging: Cultural Dynamics of Environmental Change in the North American West  2023 Sociocultural Postdoctoral Fellow, 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  
Rachel Laryea Black Capitalists in the TransAtlantic Financial Industry  2022 Sociocultural Kelewele and JP Morgan Chase
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
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 Assistant Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University
Aalyia Sadruddin After-After-Lives: Aging, Care, and Dignity in Postgenocide Rwanda 2021 Sociocultural and Medical Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Tatson Instiutute for Public Affairs, Brown University & Assistant Professor of Cultural Medical Anthropology, The 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 Sociology, 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 Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resources and Political Economy, Berkley
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 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pitzer College, California

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
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
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
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

2010–2019

Name Dissertation Year Division Current Position
Elaine Gomez-Guevara Genomics of Primate Longevity 2019 Biological Lecturer, Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
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 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
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
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 Assistant Professor, Dept Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
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)
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 Visiting Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell 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 Assistant professor, Fulbright University-Vietnam 
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 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
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 Biological 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 Senior Anthropologist, Ethics and Engagement, 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
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, 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
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 Assistant Curator, Global Indigenous Arts and Lifeways, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.
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 Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
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 Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
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
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, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan
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   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