
Oluseyi Agbelusi
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse
Dissertation Title

Alexander Anthony
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi

Siaw Appiah-Adu
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse
Dissertation Title
The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana
Dissertation Title
Digging the Great Trek: An historical archaeology of a Voortekker community, Limpopo, South Africa

Dissertation Title
Moving bodies: Strutural vioence in the extended Life Course at La Verbena Cemetery, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Dissertation Title
Estranged Bodies: Life and Death in Ottoman and French Beirut

Julissa Collazo Lopez
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi

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

Avital Datskovsky
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Rachel Deal
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse

Ayşe Durakoğlu
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
M.A., Bilkent University
M.S., Middle East Technical University
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Nicholas Fiorentino
M.A. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi
Deborah Pellow

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

Ipshita Ghosh
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
M.S., University of Oxford
M.P.A., Syracuse University
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Dissertation Title
Making Good(s): Social Enterpreneurs in Health and Development


Dissertation Title
Assembling Enslaved Life in the Shenandoah valley: a Historical Archaeology of Landscapes, Commodieits, and Emergence in Antebellum Virginia

Taylor Harman
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Shannon A. Novak

Steven Harris
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Douglas V. Armstrong
Dissertation Title
Ironing out the Details: An Archaeological Investigation of Barbadian Iron at Trents Plantation, explored through elements of Knowledge, Practice, and Resistance


Katherine Elizabeth Hicks
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Shannon A. Novak
Dissertation Title
Lanscapes of Life and Death: Placing the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in Ninteenth Century New York City

Brianna Hinkley
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein
Zainab Khalid
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Susan Snow Wadley
Dissertation Title
Building Community: Spiritual Care for Queer Muslims in North America

Hamza Khalil
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Susan Snow Wadley
Dissertation Title
Territorialization: the case of gilgit-baltistan and under the influence of CPEC

Dissertation Title
Development in Mopti, Mali: the impact of natural resource management development programs on participation, conflict, and identy
Dissertation Title
The Gossamer Threads of Social Change: Social networks and plantation slavery from colonial to modern in Pernambuco

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

Julia McDaniel-Bouley
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
A.H. Peter Castro
Hans C. Buechler
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
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Matthew O'Leary
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse

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

Mustapha Outbakat
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
M.A., Mohammed V University in Rabat
M.A., Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Giulia Perucchio
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić

Sarah Platt
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Theresa Singleton
Dissertation Title
Entangled lives in a Southern Metoplis: cosmopolitanism in Charleston South Carolina, 1720-1820

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

Mariel Rivera
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein
Sandra D. Lane
Dissertation Title
Reproductive Justice in Motion: Community-Based Doula Work in Central new York

Moushumi Shabnam
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Hans C. Buechler
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
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić
Susan Snow Wadley
Dissertation Title
Rethinking Subaltern Politics: Adivasi Assertion for the Sovereignty Over Land, Forrest and Water in Premnagar, India

David Sly
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Dissertation Title
Weaving Women into History: Textile Producers in Colonanial Peru

Kia Taylor Riccio
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Douglas V. Armstrong

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

Thomas Tolley
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Christopher DeCorse
Dissertation Title
Pacific Frontier: A Comparative Case Study of Alta California and Global Economy, 1760-1810