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Doctoral Alumni A-M
Tsirha Adefris
Adjunct Professor
Prince George's Community College, and University of Maryland University College
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Columbia University
Brinton Ahlin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chicago Society of Fellows
Ayshe Parla Alpan
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Boston University
Elise Andaya
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University at Albany (SUNY)
Acme Heritage Consultants
Alice Apley
Executive Director
Documentary Educational Resources
Angelo Baca
Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, & the Social Sciences
Rhode Island School of Design
Narges Bajoghli
Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Dwaipayan Banerjee
Associate Professor
Science Technology and Society
MIT
Engagement Manager/ Department of Fellowships & Public Programs
American Council of Learned Societies
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
New Mexico State University
Ulla Berg
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Rutgers University
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
David Ira Beriss
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of New Orleans
Anya Bernstein
Professor of Anthropology
Harvard University
Lucas Bessire
Professor of Anthropology
University of Oklahoma
Amahl Bishara
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Tufts University
Maryjka Blaszczyk
Pathology Resident
Rutgers University
Giuliana Borea
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department of Sociology
University of Essex
Filmaker
Lydia C Boyd
Associate Professor
Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
UNC-Chapel Hill
Ariane Burke
Professor
Dept. d'anthropologie
Université de Montréal
Joseph Califf
Clinical Associate Professor
Expository Writing Program
NYU
Anne-Marie E. Cantwell
Emeritus Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Rutgers-Newark
Jessica R. Cattelino
Associate Professor of Anthropology
UCLA
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center
CUNY
Paola Cerrito
Postdoctoral Fellow
Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
Anisha Chadha
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Toronto
Coordinating Producer
America Reframed
Paulo Chaves
Perito Criminal (Forensic DNA Scientist)
Laboratório de Biologia e DNA Forense, Superintendência de Polícia Técnico-Científica do Estado de Goiás
Brazil
Melissa Checker
Associate Professor Department of Urban Studies
Hagedorn Professor of Urban Studies
Queens College
PhD Programs in Anthropology and Environmental Psychology
The Graduate Center CUNY
Wenrui Chen
Adjunct Instructor
Julie Y. Chu
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Emily Cohen
Assistant Director of the Science and Justice Research Center
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Veronica Davidov
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Monmouth University
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institute of Mental Health
Kate Detwiler
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Eli Dollarhide
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University Abu Dhabi
Lee Douglas
Marie Skłowdowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Instituto de História Contemporânea – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Kristin L. Dowell
Associate Professor
Art History and Director of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies
Florida State University
Susan Draper
Associate Professor of Social Sciences
SCPS McGhee
Rachel Dvoskin
Private Practice
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Baltimore
Leslie Eisenberg
Burial Sites Archaeologist (formerly, Coordinator of the Burial Sites Preservation Program)
Wisconsin Historical Society
Madison, Wisconsin
Omri Elisha
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Deborah Elliston
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies
Department of Anthropology
Binghampton University/SUNY
Beth Epstein
Academic Director
NYU Paris
Associated Faculty
Gallatin School, NYU
Jennifer Eyre
Lecturer in Anthropology
Dartmouth College
Ayala Fader
Professor of Anthropology
Fordham University
Connie D. Fellmann
Special Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Colorado State University
Frontiers Publishing and the University of Halle, Germany
Daniel Fisher
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Maggie Fishman
Director of Practitioner Research and Digital Documentation
ArtsConnection
New York City
Christopher Fraga
Program Manager, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
Stanford University
Saudi Garcia
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
New School for Social Research
Katherine McCullough French
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
School of History, Archaeology, and Religion (SHARE)
Cardiff University
Professor
Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College
Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Joan D. Garey
Senior Toxicologist
Reproductive Toxicology Center
Washington, D.C
Paul B. Garrett
Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Associate Editor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Zenobie Garrett
Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
University of Limerick
Rene Gerrets
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
Aaron Glass
Associate Professor
Bard Graduate Center
Helle V. Goldman
Chief Editor
Polar Research
Norwegian Polar Institute
Thalia Gray
Practitioner of Chinese Medicine and Herbalist
Adam Green
Lecturer in Archaeology, Environment, and Geography
U of York, UK
Becky Ham
Freelance Science Writer
Sherine Hamdy
Associate Professor of Anthropology
UC Irvine
Eugene Harris
Professor of Biology
Queensborough Community College
City University of New York
Claire E Heckel
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
American Museum of Natural History
Becca Howes-Mischel
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
James Madison University
Nur Amali Ibrahim
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Yale-NUS College
Singapore
Mark Ingram
Professor and Chair Department of Modern Languages
Literatures, and Cultures
Goucher College
Graham M. Jones
Professor of Anthropology
MIT
Core Human Factors
Jelena Karanovic
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
Heidi Katz
Managing Member
Thinking Strings, LLC
Eleana J. Kim
Associate Professor of Anthropology
UC Irvine
Eugenia Kisin
Assistant Professor
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University
John Krigbaum
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
Jong Bum Kwon
Assistant Professor
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Webster University
St. Louis, MO
Myra Laird
Assistant Professor
Clinical Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Susan Lappan
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Appalachian State University
Amy Lasater-Wille
Director, Research and Strategy
Insight Strategy Group
Lucianne Lavin
Director of Research and Collections
Institute for American Indian Studies
Rachel Lears
Filmmaker
Duna Susie Lee
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Rostock, Germany
Melissa Lefkowitz
Program Analyst
US Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Tate LeFevre
Independent Scholar
Department of Anthropology
Franklin and Marshall College
Heather Levi
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Irina Levin
Barrett College Faculty Fellow
Arizona State University
Jennifer Listman
Director of Research
Spacestate
Aim Lab

Joseph Livesey
Software Engineer
BTP

Jessica López-Espino
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Criminology, Law and Society
University of California, Irvine

Biological Anthropologist
US Department of Transportation

Susan Malin-Boyce
Archaeologist
U.S. Army Engineer District
St. Louis
Kathe Managan
Assistant Professor
Geography and Anthropology Department
Louisiana State University
Schuyler Marquez
Grants Manager
Mellon Foundation
Luke Matthews
Behavioral and Social Scientist
RAND Corporation
Lea S. McChesney
Curator of Ethnology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM
Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, UNM
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNM
Editor, Museum Anthropology
Bernard McGrane
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Chapman University
Anne Meneley
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Trent University, Canada
Emily Middleton
Visting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of the Moving Image, NY
Katharine Milton
Professor
Dept. Environmental Sciences Policy & Management
University of California at Berkeley
Robert Moïse
Consultant on land rights issues in the Congo Basin and executive director of the NGO, Rainforest Voices
Yasmin Moll
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2021
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
John H. Moore
Research Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
University of Florida
John P. Murphy
Assistant Professor
Department of French
Gettysburg College
Laura Murray
Anthropologist In Strategy and Innovation
Gemic Global Business Consulting