Doctoral Students

Oluseyi Agbelusi

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

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

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

Dissertation Title

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

Alexander Anthony

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

MPhil, University of Ghana

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

Dissertation Title

The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana

Joanna Behrens

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

Dissertation Title

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

Cullen Black

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

Dissertation Title

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

Tony Chamoun

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

Dissertation Title

Estranged Bodies: Life and Death in Ottoman and French Beirut

Julissa Collazo Lopez

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Cadiz

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

Melissa Darroch

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

Avital Datskovsky

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.S., SOAS University of London

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

Rachel Deal

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.S., Missouri State University

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

B.A., Temple University

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

Deborah Pellow

Ross Freedenberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Syracuse University

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

Sally Greenfield

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

Matthew Greer

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

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

M.S., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

Steven Harris

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

B.S., Syracuse University

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

Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

Katherine Elizabeth Hicks

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Cincinnati

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

B.A., University of Maine at Farmington

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

Andrew Korn

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

A.H. Peter Castro

Dissertation Title

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

Catherine LaVoy

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

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

M.P.A., New York University

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