Doctoral Alumni A-M

For a complete list of all doctoral alumni, please visit Completed Dissertations
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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)

Julie Anidjar

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

Ashley D. Bales

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Pratt Institute

Dwaipayan Banerjee
Associate Professor
Science Technology and Society
MIT

Desiree Barron-Callaci

Engagement Manager/ Department of Fellowships & Public Programs

American Council of Learned Societies

Brenda Benefit

Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
New Mexico State University

Ulla Berg
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Rutgers University

Christina Bergey

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

Brooke S Blades

Archaeologist

A.D Marble

Maryjka Blaszczyk
Pathology Resident
Rutgers University

Giuliana Borea
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department of Sociology
University of Essex

Dan Bosko

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

Andrew Burrell

Joseph Califf
Clinical Associate Professor
Expository Writing Program
NYU

Matthew Canfield

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

University of Leiden

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

Robert Chang
Coordinating Producer
POV

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

Alison Cool
Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology

University of Colorado

Alx Dark

Principal Software Engineer

Sage Bionetworks

Veronica Davidov
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Monmouth University

Ernesto De Carvalho

Alexandra DeCasien

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
Lecturer, Anthropology
MA Convenor, Visual Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London

Wendy Dirks
Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology
University of Durham
(Deceased 2023)

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

Amarilys Estrella

ACLS/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Johns Hopkins University

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

Amy Field

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

Alyshia Gálvez

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