
Alexander Anthony
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies
Director, Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project
Research Associate, University of South Florida Institute for Digital Exploration
Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi

Siaw Appiah-Adu
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse
Dissertation Title
The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana
Joanna Behrens
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse
Dissertation Title
Digging the Great Trek: An historical archaeology of a Voortekker community, Limpopo, South Africa

Madison Burhenn
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
M.A., University of Chicago
Advisor:
Heather Law Pezzarossi

Aren Burnside
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić

Dissertation Title
Modern Strangers, Pious Burials: Strangerhood, Religion, and Archaeological Knowledge

Julissa Collazo Lopez
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi

Melissa Darroch
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Shannon A. Novak

Avital Datskovsky
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Mona Bhan

Ayşe Durakoğlu
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program
M.A., Bilkent University
M.S., Middle East Technical University
Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Dissertation Title
International brand, local meanings: "slow city" experiences in Seferihisar, Turkey

Ross Freedenberg
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Shannon A. Novak
Dissertation Title
Possessing the future: devine encounter, futures and the transitional in Kali Mai Mother-Goddess worship in Guyana and Queens, New York


Steven Harris
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi
Douglas V. Armstrong
Dissertation Title
Bajan Metallurgy: An Archival Exploration of Local Blacksmithing, 1600-1800s

Odlanyer Hernández de Lara
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Part-Time Instructor, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Theresa Singleton
Dissertation Title
Violence, Destruction, and Memory: An Archaeological Approach to State Terrorism in Dictatorial Cuba (1952-1958)

Brianna Hinkley
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Sadam Hussain
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center


Ajaya Mali
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Shannon A. Novak
Dissertation Title
“How Does Policy Develop? The 40-yr Checkered Modernization of Nepal’s Religiously Pivotal Pashupati Area.”

David Okanlawon
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse

Matthew O'Leary
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union
Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse

Dana Olesch
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi
Dissertation Title
Constructing Inevitability in Evicatability: Revealing Indexes of Violence and Ineauality with the Former Fifteenth Ward of Syracuse

Vatya Raina
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Mona Bhan

Mariel Rivera-Piluso
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Lecturer, SUNY Brockport, Departments of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies
Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein
Sandra D. Lane
Dissertation Title
Reproductive Justice in Motion: Community-Based Doula Work in Central new York


Jay Sharma
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
MPhil, University of Delhi
M.A., Tata Institute of Social Science
Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Susan Snow Wadley
Dissertation Title
Rethinking Subaltern Politics: Adivasi Assertion for the Sovereignty Over Land, Forrest and Water in Premnagar, India

Kanwaljit Singh
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
B.A., University of California - Davis
Advisor:
Mona Bhan


Jessica M. Smith
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Hans C. Buechler
Dissertation Title
(Re)Productive lives: exploring pro-choice activist life histories in Ireland and Norethern Ireland

Nimisha Thakur
Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Advisor:
Mona Bhan
Susan Snow Wadley
Dissertation Title

Ernestine Whitaker
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić