MA in Anthropology Alumni

Miriam Franklin-Grinkorn, M.A. 2025
Thesis title: How Incorporating A Neurodiversity Perspective Through Folk Narrative Matters and Why It Needs to Happen
Current position: Manager and Researcher for The Language Science Station

Naomi Gage Jones, M.A. 2025
Thesis title: An Analysis of Ceramic Miniatures from Classic-Postclassic Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico, Understanding the Ollita
Current position: Field Technician, Cultural Resource Management, Chesepake/Mid-Atlanti

Arantxa Bertholet del Barrio, M.A. 2024
Thesis title: Interpreting Incoronata: Reconsidering Approaches and Comparing New Areas
Current position: PhD Candidate for Anthropology, University of Michigan

Andy Maria Demma, M.A. 2024
Thesis title: Dungeons & Dragons, An Analysis: The Structure Of Gameplay And The Power Of World Creation
Current position: Hall Director, University of Portland, Oregon

Anna Therese Fenzel, M.A. 2024
Thesis title: EXISTIENDO y RESISTIENDO: Understanding Guatemala's Departed as Agents in the Fight for Just Futures
Current position: Business Operations Specialist for the National Science Foundation

Erin Kislan, M.A. 2024
Thesis title: Living Historic Sites: Byproduct of Archaeological Reconstruction?
Current position: Archaeologist, Guam, Military Land Management

Avery Nennmann, M.A. 2024
Thesis title: The Physician-Soldier: Death, War, and Service in the Military-Industrial Complex
Current position: Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University

Denali Jane Graham, M.A. 2023
Thesis title: Signification, Semantics, and Synonymy: An Analysis of the Linguistic Qualities of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative Report

Tara Jennings, M.A. 2023
Thesis title: Evaluating Social Media as a Tool for Community Archaeology
Current position: Youth Development Volunteer, The Peace Corps

Anna C. Surman, M.A. 2023
Thesis title: Cataloging Offerings: A look at how people interact with the Slave Memorial at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Current position: Librarian, Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health& Science Charter School

Frances Lillian Barranco, M.A. 2022
Thesis title: Decolonized/ing Natural History and Ethnographic Museums: An Oxymoron
Current position: Development Associate, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York 

Nina Mellor, M.A. 2022
Thesis title: Belonging Outside the Lines: An Autoethnography
Current position: Tenement Museum, New York City

Ruth Flynn, M.A. 2021
Thesis title: Unlearning Discipline: Barriers to Treatment in Eating Disorder Recovery for Veteran Women
Current position: Senior Clinical Partnerships Representative for Equip, New York

Xianfeng Luo, M.A. 2021
Thesis title: Towards a More Accessible, Diverse, and Inclusive Wine Cultural Context

Briana Wojcik, M.A. 2021
Thesis title: Feminist Sub-Counterpublics in Digital White Power Discourses
Current position: Math Interventionist, Meridian Charter School

Inigo Chotirawe Acosta, M.A. 2020
Thesis title: Pacification through Pineapple: The Role of the Del Monte Plantation in American Colonialism and Land Rights Issues in Bukidnon, Philippines
Current position: PhD Candidate At University of Wisconsin - Madison

Emily Lew, M.A. 2020
Thesis title: The Making of Objects, Events, and the After: The 1986 Festival of American Folklife
Current position: Curator and Artifacts Lab Manager for Veterans Curation Program

Francine Elsa Margolis, M.A. 2020
Thesis title: Female Pelvic Variation, Its Causes and An Analysis of Six Populations
Current position: Field Archaeologist For WSP USA

Yaohan Wu, M.A. 2020
Thesis title: Using Entheseal Changes on Hands and Forearms to Interpret Early Hominin Tool Making
Current position: PhD Candidate for Anthropology, UC San Diego