Anthropology Doctoral Students

Our Ph.D. students come from all over the world and study a diverse range of topics and anthropology subfields.

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Nikita Agarwal

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

LL.M., Columbia University

nagarw07@syr.edu

Alexander Anthony

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

Director, Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project

Research Associate, University of South Florida Institute for Digital Exploration

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

awanthon@syr.edu

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

MPhil, University of Ghana

Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

sappiaha@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana

Joanna Behrens

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

jpbehren@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

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

Madison Burhenn

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Chicago

Advisor:

Heather Law Pezzarossi

mburhenn@syr.edu

Julissa Collazo Lopez

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A., University of Cadiz

Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

jcollazo@syr.edu

Avital Datskovsky

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.S., SOAS University of London

Advisor:

Mona Bhan

asdatsko@syr.edu

Ayşe Durakoğlu

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

M.A., Bilkent University

M.S., Middle East Technical University

Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

adurakog@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

International brand, local meanings: "slow city" experiences in Seferihisar, Turkey

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Lilian Ferran Gonzalez

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Texas A&M University

lferrang@syr.edu

Ross Freedenberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Syracuse University

Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

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

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

smgreenf@syr.edu

Steven Harris

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A., Syracuse University

Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

Douglas V. Armstrong

sgharr01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Bajan Metallurgy: An Archival Exploration of Local Blacksmithing, 1600-1800s

Odlanyer Hernández de Lara

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Part-Time Instructor, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

odhernan@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Violence, Destruction, and Memory: An Archaeological Approach to State Terrorism in Dictatorial Cuba (1952-1958)

Daniel Hettrick

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., University of Iowa

djhettri@syr.edu

Sadam Hussain

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

B.A., Ashoka University

Advisor:

Mona Bhan

shussa14@syr.edu

Kimmie Johnson

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Hamilton College

kjohn132@syr.edu

Fiona Jones

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., SUNY University at Buffalo

fojones@syr.edu

Ajaya Mali

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

anmali@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

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

David Okanlawon

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

M.A., University of Ibadan

Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

daokanla@syr.edu

Dana Olesch

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

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

Vatya Raina

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Advisor:

Mona Bhan

varaina@syr.edu

Sythong Run

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.S., Syracuse University

srun01@syr.edu

Kanwaljit Singh

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

B.A., University of California - Davis

Advisor:

Mona Bhan

ksingh22@syr.edu

Emily Selby Smith

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Memphis

Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

esmith87@syr.edu

Jessica M. Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of South Carolina

Advisor:

Lauren Woodard

Hans C. Buechler

jmposega@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

(Re)Productive lives: exploring pro-choice activist life histories in Ireland and Norethern Ireland

Nora Stocovaz

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Dickinson College

npstocov@syr.edu

Nimisha Thakur

Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology Department

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

Advisor:

Mona Bhan

Susan Snow Wadley

nithakur@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

River song: Riverine values, ethics and cosmologies on the Brahmaputra floodplains

Ladislaus Tumbu

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

lntumbu@syr.edu

Ruoyang Wang

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.S., University of Amsterdam

Advisor:

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

rwang155@syr.edu

Ernestine Whitaker

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

MLitt, University of St. Andrews

Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

ebwhitak@syr.edu

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