PhD in Anthropology Alumni

Ferhan Guloglu, Ph.D. 2026
Dissertation title: Birthing the Natural, Reproductive Politics and Childbirth in Turkey

Robert Hildebrandt, Ph.D. 2026
Dissertation title: Work, Reciprocity, and Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Jisr al-Zarqa, Entangled Labor, Entangled Lives

Michael Kaplan, Ph.D. 2026
Dissertation title: Muslim Mobilities and Everyday Aspirations in Istanbul, Cultivating the Umma.
Current position: Editor-in-Chief and Publications Manager, Northern Virginia Community College system

Emma Louise Backe, Ph.D. 2025
Dissertation title: Breathing Through the Wound, Co-opting Care and Surviving Intimate Partner Violence in Cape Town, South Africa.
Current position: Post Doctoral Fellowship, Center of Criminology, University of Cape Town

Matthew DeMaio, Ph.D. 2024
Dissertation title: Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lafayette College

Karleen Claire Ronsairo, Ph.D. 2024
Dissertation title: Crafting an Urban Society: A Study of Raw Material Procurement for Pottery Production at Yucuita and Etlatongo in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico
Current position: Senior Associate Archaeologist, Wetland Studies and Solutions Inc.

Dana I. Burton, Ph.D. 2023
Dissertation title: Evidencing Life: Thresholds of Biology and Scientific Operations Beyond Earth.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research

Sarah L. Richardson, Ph.D. 2023
Dissertation title: Viviendo la Impunidad: State Crime, Impunity, and the Materials of Meaning-Making in Early Post-Accord Colombia.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Scott Andrew Ross, Ph.D. 2023
Dissertation title: Networks of Protection: Infrastructures of Intervention in Northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Current position: Lecturer in Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University

Victor Emmanuel Salazar Chavez, Ph.D. 2023
Dissertation title: The Milpa and the Feast: A Study of Early Village Life in the Early Formative Community of Etlatongo in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca
Current position: Assistant Project Archaeologist, SWCA Environmental Consultants

Shweta Krishnan, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation title: Ethical Kinships: Religious Assemblages and Relatedness in the Indo-China Borderlands
Current position: Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University

Gorkem Aydemir Kundakci, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation title: Eventful Things of a “Frozen Conflict”: Contingency, Materiality, and Movement in the Contested Periphery of Georgia
Current position: Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Lara Rodriguez-Delgado, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation title: Becoming Seismic: Subsurface Geoscience and Everyday Political Struggles in Oklahoma’s Fracking-Earthquakes Controversy
Current position: Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Anthropology

Evy Vourlides, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation title: Creation from Krisis: Regenerative Design and (Re)Making the Oikos in Austerity Greece.
Current position: Director, CCS Fundraising, NYC

Jessica Sujata Chandras, Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation title: Multilingual Practices, Education, and Identity in Pune
Current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, University of North Florida

Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation title: The Social Life of REDD and the New Carbon-Based Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique
Current position: Slave Wrecks Project, Smithsonian Institution and the George Washington University

Devin Proctor, Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation title: On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space.
Current position: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Elon University, North Carolina

Chloe Ahmann Kessler, Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation title: Cumulative Effects: Reckoning Risk on Baltimore's Toxic Periphery.
Current position: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University