Alumni and Placements

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2022

NameThesisCurrent Position
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 Sha􀤣b: Exploring the Fears and Hopes of Popular Sovereignty in Post-Revolution
Tunisia through the Public Arts

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

NameThesisCurrent Position
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

NameThesisCurrent Position
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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Maya Costa-Pinto

"The City in Flux: Navigating Urbanism(s) through Waterways in Goa, India." (S. Srinivas, advisor)

 

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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Gregory Burns

"Evolution of Shell Bead Money in Central California: An Isotopic Approach." (J.W. Eerkens, advisor)

 

Meghan Donnelly

"Practices of Perserverance: Violence, Impossible Information, and Critical Journalism in Mexico." (J.A. Dumit and M. de la Cadena, advisors)

 

Rachel Feldman

"The Third Temple Movement: An Ethnography of Messianic Activism." (S. Joseph, advisor)

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies/Judaic Studies, Franklin and Marshall College

Adam Liebman 

 “Turning Trash into Treasure: Shadow Economies and Toxic Ecologies in Kunming, China.”  (L. Zhang, advisor)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

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)

 

Adrian Yen

"The Life After Life: Pills, Peace and Cen in Postwar Northern Uganda." (A. Klima, advisor)

 

2017

NameThesisCurrent Position

Carlos Andrés Barragán

"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

 

Dena Clink

"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)

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

Jorge Núñez

"Markets of Excitement: Debt, Speculation, and Catalonia." (A. Klima, advisor)

Faculty and co-founder, Centro de Etnografía Interdisciplinaria de Université Cuenca and FLACSO, Ecuador

Xinjun Zhang

"Zoonotic Malaria in Southeast Asian Macaques." (D.G. Smith, advisor)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

 

2016

NameThesisCurrent Position

David Katz

“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

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

Camilo Sanz

"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

Carly Whelan

"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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Jacob Culbertson

"Recombinant Indigeneities: Maori Environmental Design and the Architecture of Biculturalism." (A. Klima, advisor)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania

Vanessa deKoninck

"Disruption, Transformation, and Division: Negotiation Joint-Management in Northern Australia." (S. Sawyer, advisor)

Executive Director, Centre for Race and Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Stefanie Graeter

"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)

Bascom Guffin

"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

Jieun Lee

"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

Rima Praspaliaskiene

"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

Andrew Tremayne

"The Origin and Development of Maritime Foraging Systems in Northern Alaska." (C.M. Darwent, advisor)

Regional Archaeologist, National Park Service, Anchorage, Alaska

 

2014

NameThesisCurrent Position

Katie Feilen

"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)

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

Cody Ross

"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

Ryan Schacht

"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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Kristina Lyons

"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

Rossio Motta Ochoa

"Psychiatric Technologies Under Neo-Liberal Restructuring in a Peruvian Psychiatric Hospital." (M. de la Cadena, advisor)

University of California Cooperative Extension

Charles Pearson

"Tea Party Technologies and Imaginaries: The Emergence of a Conservative Network Politics." (A. Klima, advisor)

User Experience Research Manager, Clover Health

 

2012

NameThesisCurrent Position

Madeline Otis Campbell

"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

Vivian Choi

"After Disasters: The Persistence of Insecurity in Sri Lanka." (S. Srinivas, advisor)

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

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

Nicholas D’Avella

"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

Kathryn Demps

"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

Jonathan Echeverri

"Errant Journals: Stories of Movement of African Foreigners Suspended in Dakar, Senegal." (S. Sawyer, advisor)

Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Raven Garvey

“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

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

Trine Johansen

"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

Gina Jorgenson (Munson)

"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

Christopher Kortright

"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

Timothy Murphy

“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

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

 

Kristin Rauch

"Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Assortative Mating." (R. McElreath, advisor).

Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento

Nathan Stevens

"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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Jennifer Aengst

"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

Won Choi

Deceased in 2009 (degree awarded posthumously)

 

"Emergence of Agricultural Society: A Chronological Review of the Early and Middle Bronze Age on the Korean Peninsula." (R. L. Bettinger, advisor) 

 

Stephanie Etting

"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.

Lena Meari

“Sumud: A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation.” (S. Joseph, advisor)

Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University, Palestine

Ayesha Nibbe

"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

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

Meradeth Snow

"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

Michelle Stewart

"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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Loukas Barton

"Early Food Production in China's Western Loess Plateau." (R.L. Bettinger, advisor)

Research Scientist, Dudek, San Juan Capistrano, California

John Bunce

"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

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

Fabiana Li

"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

Carl McCabe

"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

Kari Britt Schroeder

"Genetic Perspectives on Population Prehistory in the Americas." (D.G. Smith, advisor)

 

Shannon Tushingham

"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

NameThesisCurrent Position

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

Rebecca Chancellor

“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

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

Kregg Hetherington

“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

Robert Stallman

“The Pace and Processes of Early Divergence and Stasis: Morphological Evolution in Isolated Populations of the Sulawesi Boot Macaque, Macaca ochreata (Cercopithecidae)

 

Adrian Whitaker

“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

NameThesisCurrent Position

Sherine Hafez

“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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