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Oluseyi Agbelusi

Oluseyi Agbelusi

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.S., University College London (Qatar Campus)

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

ooagbelu@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

British Anti-Slavery,State-SanctionedTrade,and Nascent Colonialism on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone

Alexander Anthony

Alexander Anthony

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

awanthon@syr.edu

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

MPhil, University of Ghana

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

sappiaha@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana

Joanna Behrens

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

jpbehren@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Digging the Great Trek: An historical archaeology of a Voortekker community, Limpopo, South Africa

Cullen Black

Cullen Black

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

cublack@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Moving bodies: Strutural vioence in the extended Life Course at La Verbena Cemetery, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Madison Burhenn

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University  of Chicago

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

mburhenn@syr.edu

Aren Burnside

Aren Burnside

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

abburnsi@syr.edu

Max Cameron

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., State University of New York, Oswego

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

mcamer02@syr.edu

Chamoun, T

Tony Chamoun

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

tjchamou@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

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

Julissa Collazo-Lopez

Julissa Collazo Lopez

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Cadiz

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

jcollazo@syr.edu

Melissa Darroch

Melissa Darroch

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

mmdarroc@syr.edu

Avital Datskovsky

Avital Datskovsky

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.S., SOAS University of London

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

asdatsko@syr.edu

Rachel Deal

Rachel Deal

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.S., Missouri State University

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

rbdeal@syr.edu

Ayşe Durakoğlu

Ayşe Durakoğlu

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Bilkent University

M.S., Middle East Technical University

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

adurakog@syr.edu

Ross Freedenberg

Ross Freedenberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Lars Rodseth

refreede@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Possessing the future: devine encounter, futures and the transitional in Kali Mai Mother-Goddess worship in Guyana and Queens, New York

Sally Greenfield

Sally Greenfield

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

smgreenf@syr.edu

Taylor Harman

Taylor Harman

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.S., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

tsharman@syr.edu

Steven Harris

Steven Harris

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

B.S., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Douglas V. Armstrong

sgharr01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Ironing out the Details: An Archaeological Investigation of Barbadian Iron at Trents Plantation, explored through elements of Knowledge, Practice, and Resistance

Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara

Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

odhernan@syr.edu

Katherine Hicks

Katherine Elizabeth Hicks

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Cincinnati

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

kehick01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Lanscapes of Life and Death: Placing the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in Ninteenth Century New York City

Brianna Hinkley

Brianna Hinkley

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., University of Maine at Farmington

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

bnhinkle@syr.edu

Zainab Khalid

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

Susan Snow Wadley

zmkhalid@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Building Community: Spiritual Care for Queer Muslims in North America

Hamza Khalil

Hamza Khalil

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

Susan Snow Wadley

hkhalil@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Territorialization: the case of gilgit-baltistan and under the influence of CPEC

Andrew Korn

Andrew Korn

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

A.H. Peter Castro

ankorn@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Development in Mopti, Mali: the impact of natural resource management development programs on participation, conflict, and identy

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Ajaya Mali

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Lars Rodseth

anmali@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“How Does Policy Develop? The 40-yr Checkered Modernization of Nepal’s Religiously Pivotal

Pashupati Area.”

Anna Mayo

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Kentucky

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

anmayo@syr.edu

Julia McDanile-Bouley

Julia McDaniel-Bouley

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.P.A., New York University

PhD Advisor:

A.H. Peter Castro

Hans C. Buechler

jumcdani@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Reproductie Healthcar of Resettled Congoleses and Somali Refugee Women in Syracuse, New York

David Okanlawon

David Okanlawon

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Ibadan

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

daokanla@syr.edu

Matthew O'Leary

Matthew O'Leary

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., University of North Georgia

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

molear03@syr.edu

Dana Olesch

Dana Olesch

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

B.A., Beloit College

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

dtolesch@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Constructing Inevitability in Evicatability: Revealing Indexes of Violence and Ineauality with the Former Fifteenth Ward of Syracuse

Kia Taylor Riccio

Kia Taylor Riccio

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Florida Atlantic University

PhD Advisor:

Douglas V. Armstrong

ktaylorr@syr.edu

Mariel Rivera

Mariel Rivera

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

Sandra D. Lane

mriver02@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Reproductive Justice in Motion: Community-Based Doula Work in Central new York

Moushumi Shabnam

Moushumi Shabnam

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Hans C. Buechler

mshabnam@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Emergence of "new" american Islam: anethograph research on first and second genertation Bangladesh Muslims living in Queens, NY in the post 9/11 era

Jay Sharma

Jay Sharma

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

Susan Snow Wadley

jasharma@syr.edu

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

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

ksingh22@syr.edu

Nimisha Thakur

Nimisha Thakur

Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

PhD Advisor:

Mona Bhan

Susan Snow Wadley

nithakur@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

River Song: Gendered articulations of indigeneity in the Brahmaputra River Valley, India

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