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Here is a list of Graduate students (A - M) that were awarded their Ph.D. since approximately 1980.
Please contact Donna Duncan(dsd6@cornell.edu) if you have additional information to contribute to this list.
Name Date Awarded Field Location Dissertation Current Position CV
Alonso-Lorenzo, Rocio 2007 Brazil Golbal Policy in Anthropological Perspective: Racial Diversity, Affirmative Action and Social Responsibility in Brazilian Enterprises  
Barker, Joshua 1999 Indonesia The Tatoo and the Fingerprint: Crime and Security in an Indonesian City. Asst. Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Toronto  
Barton, Halbert Everett 1995 Puerto Rico The Drum-dance Challenge: an Anthropological Study of Gender, Race and Class Marginalization of Bomba in Puerto Rico. Asst. Prof., Long Island Univ. Brooklyn campus
Bennett, Beverly 1991   Illness and Order : Cultural Transformation Among the Machiguenga and Huachipairi. Asst. Prof. of Anthropology and Sociology, Goucher College Dept.
Berry, Kimberly 1997 India When Women Get Together : the Politics of Collective Identity and Difference in Village Women's Organizations of Kangra, India. Asst. Prof. and Program Leader, Humboldt State Univ.
Bigenho, Michelle 1998 Bolivia Sonorous Power: Making Ethnic and National Places Through Bolivian Music Performances. Asst. Prof. of Anthropology and Latin American, Hampshire College
Boretz, Avron 1996 Taiwan Martial Gods and Magic Swords : the Ritual Production of Manhood in Taiwanese Popular Religion. Asst. Prof. of Dept. of Asian Studies, Univ. of Texas in Austin
Brenner, Suzanne 1991 Indonesia Domesticating the Market History, Culture, and Economy in a Javanese Merchant Community. Assoc. Professor at UC San Diego
Brutsaert, Tom 1997 Bolivia Environmental, developmental, and Ancestral (Genetic) Components of the Wxercise Response of Bolivian High Altitude Natives. Asst. Prof., SUNY Albany
Byrnes, Dolores 2001 Mexico Being the State : Mobility and Public Policy in Guanajuato, Mexico. Post-Doctoral Fellow, John S. Knight Institute, Cornell Univ.
Carstens, Sharon 1980 Malaysia Images of Community in a Chinese Malaysian Settlement . Prof. of Anthropology and International Studies, Portland State Univ.
Chakraverti, Meenakshi 2001   Le Puy-en-Velay Locally, Community and Individualism in the Late Twentieth Century. Public Conversations Project
Chao, Antonia 1996 Taiwan Embodying the Invisible: Body Politics in Constructing Contemporary Taiwanese Lesbian Identities. Asst. Prof. of Sociology at Tunghai Univ., Taiwan
Chipman, Elana 2007 China and Taiwan Our Beigang: Ritual, Culture work, and Community in A Taiwanese Town Postdoctorate at the Fairbank Institute for Chinese Research at Harvard
Craig, Sienna R. 2006 On the 'Science of Healing': Efficacy and the Metamorphosis of Tibetan Medicine
Damonte, Gerardo Hector 2007 Andean Region The Constitution of Political Identities in the Andes: Mining, Rural Communities, Social Movements, and Protests in Bolivia and Peru.
Decoster, Jean-Jacques 1994 South America Cultural Production of Collective Identity in an Andean Community. Director, Colegio Andino, CBC, Cuzco
Denes, Alexandra 2006 Recovering Khmer Ethnic Identity from the Thai National past: An Ethnography of the localism Movement in Surin Province
Dominy, Michelle 1983 New Zealand Gender Conceptions and Political Strategies. Dean of the College; Prof. of Anthropology, Bard College
Eidson, John 1983 Germany Club-life, Local Identities, and Status Relations in a Contemporary West German Community. Postdoctorate Research Fellow, Research Associate, Max Planck Instutute for Social Anthropology
Emery, Katherine 1997   The Maya collapse : a zooarchaeological investigation. Asst. Prof., Archaeology at SUNY Potsdam
Feder, Lisa 2007 Brazil, USA, West Africa music of resistence, racism, the African Diaspora, action research
Fishel, Thamora 2001 Thailand Reciprocity and Democracy : Power, Gender, and the Provincial Middle Class in Thai Political Culture. Prof. at Cal State Long Beach
Fisher, Williams 1991 Brazil Dualism and its Discontents: Social Process and
Village Fissioning among the Xikrin-Kayapó of Central Brazil		 Assoc. Prof. in Dept. of Anthropology, the College of William & Mary
Fowler, Nicholas 1998 UK Publishing France : British Francophilia and the Mythical Places of France Magazine.  
Friedman, Sara L. 2000 China Reluctant Brides and Prosperity's Daughters: Marriage, Labor, and Cultural Change in Southeastern China's Hui'an County. Asst. Prof., Sociocultural and Women's Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis 2006 South Asia Sacrifice, ahimsa, and Vegetarianism: pogrom at the Deep End of Non-Violence
Gurung, Om 1996 Nepal Customary Systems of Natural Resource Management Among Tarami Magars of Western Nepal General Secretary of the Federation of Ethnic and Indigenous people & Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology, Tribhuvan Univ.
Haberkorn, Tyrell C. 2007 Thailand States of Transgression: Violence, Politics, and Agrarian Transformation in Northern Thailand
Hanson, Douglas 1988 U.S. Subsistence Change and Biological Adaptation : a Microradiographic Analysis of Cortical Bone Remodeling in Three Prehistoric Populations from the Lower Illinois Valley. Vice-President of Information Systems, The Forsyth Institute
Harms, Erik Lind 2006 Saigon's Edge: Transforming Time and Space on Ho Chi Minh City's Rural-Urban Margin
Hausner, Sondra 2002   Wandering in Place : Body, Space, and Time for Hindu Renouncers. Sexuality Research Assessment, Social Science Research Council
Hemment, Julie 2000 Russia Between 'Private' and 'Public': NGOs and the Creation of Post-Communist 'Civil Society' in Russia. Asst. Prof., Anthropology Dept. at Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Henry, Dixie 2001 USA Cultural Change and Adaptation among the Oneida Iroquois, AD1000-1700. Administrator, Maryland Commission on Indian Affair
Hepburn, Sharon 1997 Nepal To See the World : Vision, Tourism, Anthropological Practice, and Ethnic Politics in Nepal. Assoc. Prof. at Trent University
Hien, Nina M. 2007 Vietnam Reanimating Vietnam: Photography, Image making & Iconicity in Ho Chi Minh City
Holland, James 1997 Japan Allusion, Performance, and Status: The Social and Aesthetic World of Elite Practitioners of the Japanese Tea Ceremony.  
Holmberg, David 1980 Nepal Lama, Shaman, and Lambu in Tamang Religious Practice. Anthropology Dept. Chair at Cornell Univ.
Hubbert, Jennifer 1999 China The Long March to Modernity: Intellectuals, Generations, and Moral Authority in post-Mao China. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Lewis and Clark College
Hui, Yew-Foong 2007 Indonesia Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West kalimantan, Indonesia
Ibrahim, Farhana 2006 Mobility, Territory, and Memory in Kachchh: The making of a region in Western India
Ivy, Marilyn 1988 Japan Discourses of the Vanishing in Contemporary Japan. Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology Columbia Univ.
Jackson, Fatimah Linda 1981 Africa The Relationship of Certain Genetic Traits to the Incidence of Malaria in Liberia West Africa. Prof. of Anthropology Univ. of Maryland
Jonsson, Hjorleifur 1996 Thailand Shifting Social Landscape: Mien (Yao) Communities and Histories in State-Client Settings. Asst. Prof. of Anthropology, Arizona State Univ.
Lahiri, Smita 2002 Philippines Materializing the Spiritual : Christianity, Community, and History in a Philippine Landscape . Asst. Prof. of Social Anthropology at Harvard Univ.
Lake, Obiagele 1990 Africa A Taste of Life : Diaspora African Repatriation to Ghana. Asst. Prof of Dept. of Anthropology at Iowa Univ.
Ledgerwood, Judy 1990 Khmer Changing Khmer Conceptions of Gender: Women, Stories and the Moral Order. Assoc. Prof. of Dept. of Anthropology at Northern Illinois Univ.
Lee, Doreen 2007 Amherst College
Lovell, Nancy 1987   Skeletal Pathology of Wild-shot Pongids : Implications for Human Evolution. Prof. and Chair of Anthropology, Univ. of Alberta
Luke (Roosevelt), Christina 2002 Mexico Ulúa Style Marble Bases. Research Fellow of the Dept. of Archaeology at Boston Univ.
Maiale, Brenda 2007 Hobart William Smith
Malik, Shabnam 2003 Pakistan Gender Bias in Agricultural Technology and its Effect on Women's Productivity in the Rain-fed (barani) Punjab, Pakistan. Field work based in a village in Chakwal. Assistant Prof. At COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbotabad, Pakistan. (starting Fall, 2007).
Martins, Lêda Leitão 2004 Brazil From Cabocos to Indians: The Political Movement of the Macuxi Indians Lecturer, Harvard University
McVeigh, Colleen 2003 Nepal Can pastoralists Protect our Parks? Linking Biodiversity Conservaton and Sustainable Use in Nepal's Langtang Valley Instructor of Anthropology at Malaspina Univ.- College
Morrow, Phyllis 1987 Alaska Making the Best of Two Worlds : An Anthropological Approach to the Development of Bilingual Education Materials in Southwestern Alaska Dean/Prof.; Liberal Arts, College of Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks