Alumni and Placements
2022
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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Candice Ralston | Isotopic Reflections on the Sexual Division of Labor and Postmarital Residence in Precontact Central California: A Multi-Isotopic (δ 13C, δ 15N, δ 34S, δ 18O, and 87Sr/86Sr) Investigation at the Windmiller (CA-SAC107) and Blossom (CA-SJO-68) Mounds | |
Anne O'Connor | Making up Mosquitoes: Gene Drives, Malaria, and Reproductive Transformation in the Field | Senior Researcher, Transformation of the Human, Berkeley |
Justin Malachowski |
Images of the Shab: Exploring the Fears and Hopes of Popular Sovereignty in Post-Revolution |
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Adam Kersch | Inoculating Whiteness: Race, Resistance, and Infectious Diseases on Sheet'ká Kwáan | Cultural & History Director, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Alaska |
Justin Haruyama | Mining for Coal and Souls: Modes of Relationality in Emerging Chinese-Zambian Worlds | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan |
Tory Brykalski |
The Source of the Two Rivers: Human Devastation and Refugee Social Life in the Bekaa Valley (2015 - 2021) | Tutor, Franciscan Third Order |
Mayowa Adegboyega |
The Evolution of the Human Pelvis: 3D Geometric Morphometric and Virtual Solutions to and Incomplete Fossil Record | Postdoctoral Associate Researcher, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina |
Muneeza Rizvi | Convoys and Counterterrorism: Islamic Care in Times of (In)Security | UC President Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley |
Kristi Onzik |
Phyto-Innervations: An Ethnography at the Margins of Plant Science |
2021
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Kevin Smith | A Technological Approach to Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Aquatic Adaptation in the Far West of North America | |
Kyohei Itakura | Rethinking Gay Liberation: Sexual Minority Movements in Contemporary Japan | Lecturer, Intercultural Communication Department, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Japan |
Melissa Salm | Diseases at the Interface: An Ecological Inquiry into One Health With Fieldwork in Peru | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University |
Susan Lagle | Reindeer Hunters of the Middle Paleolithic: Investing Neandertal Subsistence Strategies in Quina Mousterian Contexts of Southwestern France | Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel |
Aida Rivera Sotelo | Coral Nurseries: Growing Coral in an Not Only Biological Sea | |
Ishani Saraf |
Scrapscape: Waste, Trade, and Urban Ecologies in Contemporary Delhi |
2020
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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Curtis Atkisson | Using Multiplex Networks in the Study of Human Behavioral Evolution | Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
Whitney Larratt-Smith | Aqueous Worldings: Life, Death, and Waters Downstream from the Alberta Oil Sands | Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Canada |
Nicolas Lashinsky | Exploring and Extending Multivariate Brownian Diffusion Models of Phenotypic Evolution for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University |
Mei-Chun Lee | The "Nobody" Movement: Digital Activism and the Uprising of Civic Hackers in Taiwan | Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University |
Caroline MuKusick | In the Kitchen: Kurdish Women Journalists and the Gendered Subject | Assistant Editor, Stanford University Press |
Jason Miszaniec | An Economic Classification of Pre-industrial Fisheries and Subsistence Economies in Norton Sound, Alaska; A Faunal Analysis of Intensification | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Susan Talcott | The Significance of Salmon in Pre-contact Hunter-Gatherer Diet: An Isotopic Perspective on Aquatic Resource Exploitation in Northern California | Archaeologist, Solano Archaeological Services, Suisan City, CA |
Matthew Nesvet | ?Zama-Zama?: Afterlives of Extraction in South Africa and Lesotho | Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the Humanities, Miami Dade College |
2019
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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Maya Costa-Pinto |
"The City in Flux: Navigating Urbanism(s) through Waterways in Goa, India." (S. Srinivas, advisor) |
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Christian Doll |
"The Post-State State: Sovereignity, Futurity and Urban Life in Independent South Sudan." (J.H. Smith, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Scholar, North Carolina State University (2019-2021) |
Naomi Martisius |
"The Middle Paleolithic Lissoirs (Smoothers) from Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-I'Aze I: Investigating Neandertal Bone Tool Material Selection, Manufacture, and Use." (T. Steele, advisor) |
Fulbright Scholar (Fall 2019) |
Laura Meek |
"Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Embodied Experiments and World-Making Tastes in Tanzania." (J.H. Smith and C. Giordano, advisors) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan |
Nicole Naar |
"Pescando la Pinata': Testing Cooperation Theory and Method in a Fishing Commons." (M. Borgerhoff Mulder, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Scholar, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Jane Saffitz |
“Lightness and Visibility: Violence, the Unseen and Albinism Rights in Tanzania.” (J.H. Smith, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Denison University |
2018
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Gregory Burns |
"Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach." (J.W. Eerkens, advisor) |
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Meghan Donnelly |
"Practices of Perserverance: Violence, Impossible Information, and Critical Journalism in Mexico." (J.A. Dumit and M. de la Cadena, advisors) |
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"The Third Temple Movement: An Ethnography of Messianic Activism." (S. Joseph, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies/Judaic Studies, Franklin and Marshall College |
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“Turning Trash into Treasure: Shadow Economies and Toxic Ecologies in Kunming, China.” (L. Zhang, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University |
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Peter Stamos |
"On the Ontogeny of the Hominoid Distal Femoral Metaphysical Surface: Towards Reconstructing the Locomotor Behavior of the Dikika Child." (T.D. Weaver, advisor) |
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Adrian Yen |
"The Life After Life: Pills, Peace and Cen in Postwar Northern Uganda." (A. Klima, advisor) |
2017
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Lineages within Genomes: Situating Human Genetics Research and Contentious Bio-Identities in Northern South America." (J.A. Dumit, advisor) |
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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"The Evolutionary and Ecological Implications of Variation in Bornean Gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) Female Calls." (M. Crofoot, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University (2019) |
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Doris Duangboudda |
"Consuming Mobilities: Staging China in the World through Middle Class Car Culture." (L. Zhang, advisor) |
Adjunct Instructor, Sierra College |
Alexandra Greenwald |
“Isotopic Reconstruction of Weaning Age and Childhood Diet Among Ancient California Foragers: Life History Strategies and Implications for Demographics, Resource Intensification, and Social Organization.” (J.W. Eerkens, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah |
Julie Linden |
"Factors Affecting Hair Cortisol, Rank, and Aggression in a Large Newly Formed Social Group of Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)." (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Westchester Community College, New York |
"Markets of Excitement: Debt, Speculation, and Catalonia." (A. Klima, advisor) |
Faculty and co-founder, Centro de Etnografía Interdisciplinaria de Université Cuenca and FLACSO, Ecuador |
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"Zoonotic Malaria in Southeast Asian Macaques." (D.G. Smith, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA |
2016
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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“The Influence of Climate and Diet on Human Skull Shape, Form, and Size.” (T.D. Weaver, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Canada |
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Amy Porter |
“Variability in the Social Lives of Red Titi Monkeys (Callicebus discolor) and Equatorial Saki Monkeys (Pithecia aequatorialis), Two Pair-living Primates in Ecuador.” (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Director of Conservation Communications. Wolf Haven, Washington |
"Oncopolitics of Deferral and Temporal Urgency: Health Insurances, Biomedical Practices, and Cancer in Colombia" (M. de la Cadena, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Indianapolis |
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"Hunter-Gatherer Storage and Settlement: A View From the Central Sierra Nevada" (A. Eerkens, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico |
2015
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Recombinant Indigeneities: Maori Environmental Design and the Architecture of Biculturalism." (A. Klima, advisor) |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania |
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"Disruption, Transformation, and Division: Negotiation Joint-Management in Northern Australia." (S. Sawyer, advisor) |
Executive Director, Centre for Race and Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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"Mineral Incorporations: Lead Science, Ethics, and Politics in Central Peru" (M. de la Cadena and J.A. Dumit, advisors) |
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine (2019-20); Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Arizona (2020) |
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"Cyberabad Moves: Mobilizing Futures in a South Indian City." (S. Srinivas, advisor) |
Term Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada |
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"The Promise of Biology, Biology of Promises: An Ethnography of the Korean Stem Cell Enterprise." (J.A. Dumit, advisor) |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
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"Enveloped Lives: Caring, Giving and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care." (J.A. Dumit, advisor) |
Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, University of California, Berkeley |
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"The Origin and Development of Maritime Foraging Systems in Northern Alaska." (C.M. Darwent, advisor) |
Regional Archaeologist, National Park Service, Anchorage, Alaska |
2014
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Feeding Ecology and Sleeping Site Selection of Proboscis Monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia" (A.J. Marshall, advisor) |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University (2017 to present) |
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Md. Kamrul Hasan |
"Origin and Dispersal of Rhesus Macaques with a Special Emphasis on Bangladesh."(D.G Smith, advisor) |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Jahangikrnagar University, Bangledesh |
Vandana Nagaraj |
(A. Klima, advisor) |
ReD Associates, New York, New York |
"Bayesian Methods in Applied Anthropology and Human Behavior Ecology." (B. Winterhalder. advisor) |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
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"Multilevel Determinants of Reproductive Decision Making Among the Makushi of Guyana." (M. Borgerhoff Mulder, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville |
2013
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Soil Practitioners and 'vital spaces': Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon." (M. de la Cadena, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania |
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Rossio Motta Ochoa |
"Psychiatric Technologies Under Neo-Liberal Restructuring in a Peruvian Psychiatric Hospital." (M. de la Cadena, advisor) |
University of California Cooperative Extension |
"Tea Party Technologies and Imaginaries: The Emergence of a Conservative Network Politics." (A. Klima, advisor) |
User Experience Research Manager, Clover Health |
2012
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Family, Nation, and Colonial Belonging in the Iraqi Diaspora." (S. Joseph, advisor) |
Interim Associate Dean, Global and Distance Education, Worcester State University, Providence, Rhode Island |
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"After Disasters: The Persistence of Insecurity in Sri Lanka." (S. Srinivas, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota |
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Clint Cole |
"Prehistoric Archaeology and the Fremont Frontier at North Meadow Valley Wash, Eastern Nevada." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Principal investigator, Kautz Environmental Consulting, Reno, NV |
"From Banks to Bricks: Architecture, Investment and Neighborhood Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina." (D.L. Donham, advisor) |
Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University |
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"Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a Honey-Collecting Tribe and the Ecology of Cultural Knowledge Transmissions. (B. Winterhalder, advisor) |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boise State University, Idaho |
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"Errant Journals: Stories of Movement of African Foreigners Suspended in Dakar, Senegal." (S. Sawyer, advisor) |
Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia |
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“Human Behavioral Responses to Middle Holocene Climate Changes in Northern Argentine Patagonia.” (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Assistant Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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Cassandra Gilmore |
"A Comparative Context for the Interpretation of Antemortem Tooth Loss in the Fossil Record: Implications for the Evolution of Human Behavior and Longevity.” (T.D. Weaver, advisor) |
Adjunct Faculty, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, California |
"A Zooarchaeological and Ethnographic Investigation of Subsistence Change Through Time at Iita, Northwest Greenland" (C.M. Darwent, advisor) |
Adjunct Faculty, Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, California |
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"Human Ecology and Social Organization in the Prehistoric California Delta: An Examination of 87Sr/86Sr Isotope Ratios in the Human Burial Population at CA-CCO-548." (J.W. Eerkens, advisor) |
Cultural Resource Specialist, Archaeologist, and Tribal Liaison, Bureau of Land Management, Arcata, California |
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"C4 rice and Hoping the Sun Can End Hunger: Tales of Plants, Evolution, Transgenics, and Crisis.” (J.A. Dumit, advisor) |
Sessional Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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“Bohemia and Belonging in a Middle of Nowhere Somewhere” (D.L. Donham, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Worcester State University, Providence, Rhode Island |
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Robert Nash |
"The Role of Maize in Low-Level Food Production among Northern Peripheral Fremont Groups in the Northeastern Uinta Mountains of Utah.” (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Project Manager, Bighorn Archaeological Consultants, Santa Clara, Utah
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Kristin Rauch |
"Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Assortative Mating." (R. McElreath, advisor). |
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento |
"Technological Plasticity and Cultural Evolution along the Central Coast of California.” (J.W. Eerkens, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento |
2011
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Reproductive Politics at the Border: Pronatalism, Intermarriage and Moral Movements in Ladakh, India." (S. Srinivas, advisor) |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Oregon |
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Won Choi Deceased in 2009 (degree awarded posthumously)
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"Emergence of Agricultural Society: A Chronological Review of the Early and Middle Bronze Age on the Korean Peninsula." (R. L. Bettinger, advisor) |
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"Primate Anti-Predator Behavior toward Snakes: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications." (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Lecturer, Departments of Anthropology, Sacramento City College, Sacramento State University, and UC Davis. |
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“Sumud: A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation.” (S. Joseph, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University, Palestine |
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"Effects of a Narrative: Humanitarian Aid and Action in the Northern Ugandan Conflict." (C.A. Smith, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Hawai'i Pacific University |
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Gowoon Noh |
"Life on the Border: Korean-Chinese Negotiating National Belonging and Transnational Capitals in the Global Economy." (L. Zhang, advisor) |
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento |
Matthew Preston |
"Anthropogenic Disturbance of Forests, its Effects on Primates, and Conservation in West Usambara, Tanzania." (A.H. Harcourt, advisor) |
Presidential Management Fellow/ National Science Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC |
"Ancient DNA in North America and the Effects of Migration on Prehistoric Populations." (D.G. Smith, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula |
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"Subjects of Prevention: Risk, Threat and Anticipation in Canadian Policing.” (J.A. Dumit, advisor) |
Associate Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
2009
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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"Early Food Production in China's Western Loess Plateau." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Research Scientist, Dudek, San Juan Capistrano, California |
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"Ecology and Genetics of Color Vision in Callicebus brunneus, a Neotropical Monkey.” (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Senior Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
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Micah Hale |
"Santa Barbara and San Diego: Contrasting Adaptive Strategies on the Southern California Coast." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Senior Cultural Project Manager, Dudek, Encinitas, California |
"How Pollution Comes to Matter: The Science and Politics of Twenty-First Century Mining in Peru." (S. Sawyer, advisor) |
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada |
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"Human Behavioral Ecology and the Individual in Society." (B. Winterhalder, advisor) |
Head of Special Initiatives, National Cancer Institute, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
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Kari Britt Schroeder |
"Genetic Perspectives on Population Prehistory in the Americas." (D.G. Smith, advisor) |
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"The Development of Intensive Foraging Systems in Northwestern California." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology/ Assistant Director, Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman |
2008
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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Brianne Beisner |
"The Effects of Ground Substrate on the Behavior and Well-being of Outdoor Captive Groups of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)." (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Colony Director, Field Station, Emory National Primate Research Center, Georgia |
“Feeding competition and social relationships in two female-resident primate species: Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and gray-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena).” (L.A. Isbell, advisor) |
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and Anthropology & Sociology, West Chester University, Pennsylvania |
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Susan Glover |
“Behavioral Ecology of Silver Prospectors in late 19th century Gothic, Colorado: Migration, Group Formation and Central Place Foraging.” (B. Winterhalder, advisor) |
Adjunct Faculty, Denison University, Granville, Ohio |
“Guerilla Auditors: Transparency, Democracy and Rural Politics in Paraguay.” (M. de la Cadena, advisor) |
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec |
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Robert Stallman |
“The Pace and Processes of Early Divergence and Stasis: Morphological Evolution in Isolated Populations of the Sulawesi Boot Macaque, Macaca ochreata (Cercopithecidae) |
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“The Role of Human Predation in the Structuring of Prehistoric Prey Populations in Northwestern California.” (R.L. Bettinger and C.M. Darwent, advisors) |
Principal Investigator, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California |
2007
Name | Thesis | Current Position |
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“Women's Islamic Movements in Question: Reconsidering Desire, Religion and Secularism” (S. Joseph, advisor) |
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside |
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