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Here is a list of Graduate students (N - Z) 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
Newell, Sasha 2003 France/ Côte d'Ivoire Fashioning ModernityCôte d'Ivoire: Consumption, Migration, and the Production of Ivorian Identity. Visiting Asst. Prof. Cornell
Norvell, John 2003 Brazil Race Mixture and the Meaning of Brazil: Race, Class, and Nation in the Zona Sul of Rio de Janeiro. Visiting Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at Cornell Univ. & Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard Univ.
Ogawa, Akihiro 2004 Japan The Failure of Civil Society?: An Ethnography of NPOS and The State In Comtemporary Japan Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Finished 2 years as a postdoctorate fellow at Harvard. Finished an appointment of Advanced Research Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard (2004-2005)
Onta-Bhatta, Lazima 2000 Nepal Street Children's Subcultures and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Nepal. National Program Manager for a UNDP- funded Community Owned Primary Education Program in Nepal
Orr, Julian 1990 U.S. Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job. Work, Practice, and Technology Associates, Pescadero C.A.
Pacini Hernandez, Deborah 1989 Latin America & U.S. Music of Marginality: Social Identity and Class in Dominican Bachata. Assoc. Prof. of the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Tufts Univ.
Pemberton, John 1989 Indonesia The Appearance of Order : a Politics of Culture in Colonial and Postcolonial Java Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology at Columbia Univ.
Philen, Robert 2001 U.S., Mexico This is Where it All Comes Together: The Border, Gay community, and HIV Prevention in El Paso/Juarez. Instructor of Anthropology at the Univ. of West Florida
Pigg, Stacy 1990 Nepal Disenchanting Shamans: Representations of Modernity and the Transformation of Healing in Nepal. Assoc. Prof. ofDept of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University
Poe-Kennedy, Shannon 2004   Capitalizing Gender in Mitra Karya East Java:Indonesian Women in International and National Development  
Rasnake, Roger 1982 Bolivia The Kurahkuna of Yura: Indigenous Authorities of Colonial Charcas and Contemporary Bolivia. Senior Research Assoc. at Aguirre International
Reichel, Elizabeth 1997 Colombia The Eco-politics of Yukuna and Tanimuka Cosmology. Prof. in the Universidad de los Andes.
Reichman, Daniel R. 2006 Broken idols: Migration, Globalization, and Cultural Change in Honduras U. Rochester
Ries, Nancy 1993 Russia Mystical Poverty and the Rewards of Loss : Russian Culture and Conversation During Perestroika. Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology at Colgate Univ.
Robert, Christophe 2005 Vietnam Social Evils and the Question of Youth in Post-War Saigon Visiting Assistant Prof., Pricenton University
Robertson, Jennifer 1985 Japan The Making of Kodaira; Being an Ethnography of a Japanese City's Progress. Prof of Anthropology at Univ. of Michigan
Robinson, Cabeiri 2003 Pakistan Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir: Refugees, Militant Politics, and Political Morality in a Disputed Territory." Asst. Prof. of the Jackson School at Univ. of Washington
Rodriguez, Yasha N. 2007 Puerto Rico Social Life of Bateyes: Archaeology, Preservation, and Heritage in Puerto Rico CV
Rosenthal, Judy 1993 Togo Personhood, Possession and the Law in Ewe Gorovodu Culture. Asst. Prof. in Sociology at University of Michigan - Flint
Roth, Joshua Hotaka 1999 Japan Defining Communities: The Nation, the Firm, the Neighborhood, and Japanese-brazilian Migrants in Japan. Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke Univ.
Russ, Ann J. 1999   Giving, dying, and the practice of care in aids hospice.  
Rutherford, Danilyn 1997 Indonesia Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: Power, History and Difference in Biak, Irian Jaya. Asst. Prof., Dept. Anthropology at Univ. of Chicago
Sandweiss, Daniel H. 1989 Peru The Fishermen of Chincha, Peru: An Archeological Investigation of Late Prehispanic Coastal Specialization Dean and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary & Climate Studies, Univ. of Maine
Schiller, Ann 1987 Indonesia Dynamics of Death : Ritual, Identity, and Religious Change Among the Kalimantan Ngaju. Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Prof. at North Carolina State Univ.
Schwede, Laurel 1991 Indonesia Family Strategies of Labor Allocation and Decision-making in a Matrilineal, Islamic Society : the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia.  
Shapiro, Toni 1994 Cambodia Dance and the Spirit of Cambodia. Community Projects Director Folklore Project in Philadelphia
Shiraishi, Saya 1992 Japan Young Heroes: the Family and School in New Order Indonesia.  
Senders, Stefan 1999 Germany Mimetic Identifications: Ethnic German Repatriation in Post Cold War Berlin. Asst. Prof. at Hobart and William Smith College
Smith, Eric 1980 Canada Evolutionary Ecology and the Analysis of Human Foraging Behavior: An Inuit Example from the East Coast of Hudson Bay. Prof. of Dept. of Anthropology at Univ. of Washington.; Assoc. Director, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology
Sponsel, Leslie 1981 Amazon The Hunter and the Hunted in the Amazon: An Integrated Biological and Cultural Approach to the Behavioral Ecology of Human Predation. Prof. at Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa Dept. of Anthropolgy
Spurling, Geoff Prof. History Dept., Univ. of British Columbia
Tamang, Mukta Singh 2007
Tan, Leshan   China Economic Change in Tailue Villages in Sipsong Panna, 1950s-1980s. Deputy Director of the British Save the Children Program
Tihanyi, Krisztina 2003 Africa The Future of Reconciliation in South Africa: Voices and Views of the Young Generation.  
Truitt, Allison Jean 2005 Vietnam Open Doors: money and Conversions of Value in Reform-era Vietnam  
Vail, Peter 1998 Thailand Violence and Control: Social and Cultural Dimensions of 'Muai Thai' Boxing Obtaining Ph. D. in Linguistics at Georgetown Univ.
Vergara, Benito, Jr. 2000 California Betrayal, Class Fantasies, and the Filipino Nation in Daly City Asst. Prof.of Asian American Studies and Anthropology; Ethnic Studies Dept.
Volkman, Toby A. 1980   The pig has eaten the vegetables : ritual and change in Tana Toraja. Program Officer of the Education, Media, Arts and Culture Program of The Ford Foundation in New York
Warner, Deborah Jane. 1995 China International Tourism in China : the Production of Difference.  
Weix, Gretchen 1990 Indonesia Following the Family/Firm : Patronage and Piecework in a Kudus Cigarette Factory. Prof. of Anthropology at the Univ. of Montana
Yamamoto, Yoshiko(Miko) 1986   A Sense of Tradition - An Ethnographic Approach to Nias Material Culture. Director of the Adan E. Treganza Anthropology Museum at San Francisco State
Zablocki, Abraham 2005 Nepal, India, Taiwan, USA The Global Mandala: the Transnational Transformation of Tibetan Religion, Politics and Culture. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Agnes Scott College
Zehner, Edwin 2003 Thailand Unavoidably hybrid: Thai Buddhist Conversions to Evangelical Christianity  
Zeserson, Jan 1996 Japan Language of Menopause: The Change in Japan. Visiting Scholar, East Asia Program, Cornell Univ.
Zhang, Li 1998 China Strangers in the City: Space, Power, and Identity in China's " Floating Population" Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Director of the East Asian Studies Program, Univ. of California at Davis
Zorn, Elayne 1997 South America Marketing Diversity : Global Transformations in Cloth and Identity in Highland Peru and Bolivia. Prof. of Anthropology at Univ. of Central Florida