Students

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

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

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

awanthon@syr.edu

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

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A., University of Cadiz

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

jcollazo@syr.edu

Melissa Darroch

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

mmdarroc@syr.edu

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

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.S., Missouri State University

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

rbdeal@syr.edu

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

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

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

smgreenf@syr.edu

Taylor Harman

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.S., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

tsharman@syr.edu

Steven Harris

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

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

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

odhernan@syr.edu

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

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

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

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

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

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

M.A., University of Kentucky

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

anmayo@syr.edu

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