
Oluseyi Agbelusi
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
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
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

Madison Burhenn
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
M.A., University of Chicago
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

Aren Burnside
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
PhD Advisor:
Azra Hromadžić

Max Cameron
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
B.A., State University of New York, Oswego
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

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

Julissa Collazo Lopez
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
PhD Advisor:
Guido Pezzarossi

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

Avital Datskovsky
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
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

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


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

Steven Harris
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
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

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.”

Anna Mayo
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
M.A., University of Kentucky
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

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

Kia Taylor Riccio
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
PhD Advisor:
Douglas V. Armstrong

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

Kanwaljit Singh
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
B.A., University of California - Davis
PhD Advisor:
Robert A. Rubinstein

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