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  • 2023-2024: 8 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed
    Emily Dawson Winter for Eight Months, Hell for Four: Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience on the Spanish Colonial Frontier in New Mexico Enrique Rodriguez Research Assistant (Denver Museum of Nature & Science)  
    Julia Earle The Sacred Valley, Peru (1000-1532 CE): Social Change and Geopolitics During Inka State Formation Ronald Covey Lecturer (Central Michigan University)  
    Megan Gette Impermanent Basin:Felt Zones and Technologies of Ephemerality Marina Peterson Postdoctoral Fellow - Taft Research Center (University of Cincinnati)  
    John Duncan Hurt Urban Planning, Roman Influence, and Discourses of Built Space in the Castros of Northwest Iberia: A Digital Archaeology of Architecture in Oppidum-Type Hillforts Using Settlement-Scale Spatial Analysis in GIS Maria Franklin, Mariah Wade Staff Archaeologist (Baer Engineering and Environmental Consulting, Inc) Principal Investigator and Environmental Permitting Coordinator (Baer Engineering and Environmental Consulting, Inc)
    Sardar Hussain Museumifying a Walled City Kamran Ali    
    Qui'chi Patlan Pursuing a Voice with Poetic-Economic Freedom in a Hemispheric Indigenous Marketplace: Exploring Otavalan Runa Linguistic and Visual Creations in a Global Economy Anthony Webster, Courtney Handman Visiting Assistant Professor - Anthropology (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)  
    Domenic Romanello Protected area effectiveness : wildlife conservation and human well-being in Kirindy Mitea National Park, Madagascar Rebecca Lewis Associate Director of Conservation and Policy (The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk); Adjunct Professor (Unity Environmental University, Maine)  
    Lara Sanchez Morales A Historical Ecology of Precolonical Alluvial Landscapes in Northcentral Boriken (Puerto Rico) Arlene Rosen Assistant Professor - Anthropology (NYU)  
  • 2022-2023: 9 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed
    Krishantha Fedricks Accessibility of Nirvāṇa : the language and media of Sri Lankan Buddhist televangelists and their followers Courtney Handman, Anthony Webster Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sinhala (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)  
    Hannah Foster Opening new doors: English Language Learning and entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan's capital Courtney Handman, Anthony Webster Student Services Coordinator (University of Alabama at Birmingham)  
    Christina Gonzalez Forging a Moral Community: Taíno Subject Formation, Marronage and Worlding among Transnational Puerto Ricans Circe Sturm Bridge to Faculty Research Assistant in Anthropology (University of South Carolina)  
    Anya Gruber  Microbotanical Investigations of Subsistence and Identity in Colonial Massachusetts Households, c. 1620-1700 Arlene Rosen Public Engagement Specialist - Center for Research in Programmable Plant Systems (Cornell University)  
    Lilia Loera U.S. Detention and Deportation: The Politics of Invisibility, Violence and Death Martha Menchaca Student Success Coach (Dallas College)  
    Katherine Maddox Situating Syria in France: Displacement and Resettlement in Paris Sofian Merabet  Senior Lecturer - Department of Languages and Cultures (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)  
    Lauren Springs From the Bay to Belize: narratives of identity from the past to present Maria Franklin, Deborah Bolnick Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Integrative Biology  (UT-Austin)  
    Nora Tyeklar Publics otherwise: the poetics of exclusion facing Roma communities in illiberal Hungary Elizabeth Keating Postdoctoral Scholar for DEI Initiatives (University of Maine at Augusta)  
    Camille Weinberg  Holocene Landscape Change and Human Subsistence Vulnerability to Resource Variability at Jahuay (200 BCE–150 CE), Topará Quebrada, Peru Arlene Rosen Athletics Tutor (UT-Austin)  
  • 2021-2022: 9 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed
    James Beveridge Huibana : cultivating Bobonaza Quichua and forest animal relations of mutual care and utility Craig Campbell Teaching Assistant Professor in Anthropology (Appalachian State University)  
    Jordan Bowers Analysis of factors influencing Castro Culture settlement locations : a fairly puzzling arrangement Mariah Wade LAITS Postgraduate Associate for Student Success (UT-Austin)  
    Christopher Farrell Hard lines : affect and aging in post-industrial place  Kathleen Stewart Associate Scientific Editor (Elsevier)  
    Allison McNamara Wild primate locomotor and quadrupedal variability  Liza Shapiro Learning Specialist with Athletics (UT-Austin) Senior Academic Advisor in Cockrell School of Engineering (UT-Austin)
    Patricia Neuhoff-Malorzo Analyzing ancient Maya settlement spaces : integrating existing data and geophysical survey to understand creation of space in ancient Maya spatial patterns Fred Valdez Staff Archaeologist (SWCA Environmental Consultants)  
     Benjamin Kofi Nutor The Landscapes of Transatlantic Contacts and Slavery at Peki in Eastern Ghana, c.1600-1900 Maria Franklin, James Denbow Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and ACES Fellow (Texas A&M University) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Texas A&M University)
    Nicole Payntar Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning for Visual Content Analysis Across Archeological Heritage Landscapes in Peru Alan Covey AI/ML Data Engineer (Modern Intelligence, Austin) Technical Program Analyst (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense)
    Deina Rabie Linguistic Infrastructures: Language and Gendered Mobilities in an Imminent Post-Oil United Arab Emirates Courtney Handman, Elizabeth Keating Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Hamilton College) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (University of Arizona)
    Nelson Yang Ordinary finance  Kathleen Stewart User-Centered Researcher (Blink UX)  
  • 2020-2021: 8 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed
    Manuel Galaviz Border Security Infrastructure Projects : Space, Access, and Mobility in the San Diego-Tijuana Transborder Region Martha Menchaca Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Cal State Fullerton)  
    Danielle Good  Water Like Glass: Illness and Recovery Along the Gulf John Hartigan Senior Research Associate (Comagine Health)  
    Noe Lopez Sovereign subjects : same-sex desire and national formation in the Ñuu Savi diaspora Martha Menchaca Adjunct Professor, International and Global Studies (Portland State University) Senior UX Research Analyst (American Express)
    Ingrid Lundeen Living at extremes: the effects of latitudinal, environmental, and elevational extremes on the anatomy and diversity of euarchontoglirans Christopher Kirk Doctoral Lecturer - Anthropology, (Hunter College-CUNY)  
    Amely Branquinho Martins A Phylogenomics and Population Genomics study of the Robust Capuchin Monkey (Sapajus) Radiation: First Genus-Wide Analyses of Admixture and Species Boundaries in Neotropical Primates Anthony Di Fiore Environmental Analyst/Primate Conservationist (Chico Mendes Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity/National Center for Research and Conservation of Brazilian Primates)  
     Ana Maria Navas Mendez Raw Materials for the Construction of a City: Ceramic Production and Consumption in the Configuration of Communities of Practice in Colonial Panama Enrique Rodriguez Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor (New College of Florida) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Illinois State University)
    Vasilina Orlova Citizens of the future : infrastructures of belonging in post-industrial Eastern Siberia Craig Campbell Life Coach (Happier & Freer); Mental Health Counselor Master's Student (Midwestern State University)  
     Lia Morgan Siewert Nishnaabemwin, English, and Language Vitality through Stories and Performance in an Anishinaabe Community Pauline Strong,  Anthony Webster Visiting Instructor (St. Mary's College of Maryland) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Cal State Dominguez Hills)
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