Dissertation Title Current Activities & Location
2009 Busby, Virginia Transformation and Persistence: The Nanticoke Indians and Chicone Indian Town in the Context of European Contact and Colonization Senior Cultural Resource Advisor (Archaeology), U.S. Department of the Army.
Schwartz, Jonathan Negotiated identity : maintaining aboriginality in Framlingham. Teaching Cultural Anthropology and Global History at Bard High School and Early College
2008 Norman, Neil An Archaeology of West African Atlanticization: Regional Analysis of the Huedan Palace Districts and Countryside (Benin), 1650-1727. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at William and Mary, 2008-present
2007 Abse, Edward Toward Where the Sun Hides: The Rise of Sorcery and Transformations of Mazatec Religious Life Instructor of Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Baltali, Sevil Architecture, Ritual Expression and Social Differentiation in Fourth Millennium North Mesopotamia. Assistant Professor, Yeditepe University, Department of Anthropology. Istanbul, Turkey
Chapple, Helen Dying to be Rescued: American Hospitals, Clinicians and Death Resident Faculty, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, and the School of Nursing, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.
Johnsen, Scott From Royal House to Nation: The Construction of Hinduism and Balinese Ethnicity in Indonesia
Reidinger, Melinda Islands of bourgeois self-realization in a sea of changes: a century of Czech cottaging. Living in Prague, The Czech Republic.
Schmitt, Jeffrey Uprooted referents : an ethnography of historical consciousness among the Bai nationality of the Dali Plain, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China No Record
2006 Fisher, Gareth Universal Rescue: Re-making Post-Mao China in a Beijing Temple Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University.
Galle, Jillian Strategic consumption : archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Project Manager, Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery, Monticello
Brand Polanco, Mieka Mapping race, erasing history : history, space and race in a U.S. historically black community Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, James Madison University
Freeman, Caren Forging Kinship across Borders: Paradoxes of Gender, Kinship & Nation between China and South Korea Coordinator, Summer Language Institute, University of Virginia
Wayland, Kent A Better Past Through Technology: World War II Warplanes as Cultural Heritage STS post doctoral fellow. School of Engineering, University of Virginia.
Wesch, Michael Witchcraft, statecraft, and the challenge of "community" in central New Guinea Assistant Prof of Anthropology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2005 Nevins, Eleanor "You find yourself in there" : hybridity, transposition and translation in White Mountain Apache discourse Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno
Epps, Patience A Grammar of Hup Assistant Professor, Linguistics, U. of Texas, Austin.
Mebane-Cruz, Anjana Walking between the worlds : AfraAmerIndians, identity, memory, categories of race Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology Farmingdale State College, Long Island, NY
Cohen, Daniel Narrative healing : ghost exorcism and memory Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Religious Studies University of Missouri, Columbia
Nevins, Thomas A world made of prayer : alterity and the dialectics of encounter in the invention of contemporary Western Apache culture Affiliated Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno
2004 Fesler, Garrett From houses to homes : an archaeological case study of household formation at the Utopia Slave Quarter, ca. 1675 to 1775 Partner and Senior Archaeologist for The James River Institute for Archaeology Inc. Williamsburg & Fredericksburg.
Colvin, Christopher Performing the signs of injury [electronic resource] : critical perspectives on traumatic storytelling after apartheid Researcher in South Africa
2003 Barber, Michael The Late Woodland Dan River people : a social reconstruction based on the study of bone tools at a regional scale State Archaeologist, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia
Bellows, Laura Traditional sex/modern meaning : desire and foreign influence in Bali Independent Scholar & Creator of Julsilver (www.julsilver.com).
Buckley, Liam Studio photography and the aesthetics of postcolonialism in the Gambia, West Africa Assistant Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University. Co-editor, Visual Anthropology Review
Fennell, Christopher Consuming mosaics : mass-produced goods and contours of choice in the upper Potomac region Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne
Fleisher, Jeffrey Viewing stonetowns from the countryside : an archaeological approach to Swahili regional systems, AD 800-1500 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University.
Fjord, Lakshmi Contested signs : discursive disputes in the geography of the pediatric cochlear implant, language, kinship, and expertise Postdoctoral Fellow, Associate Research Scientist Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health. University of California, Berkeley
Harvey, Tenibac K'iche' expressions of wellness and illness in disputed fields of care : a comparative analysis of Maya intra-cultural therapeutic and cross-cultural biomedical care Assistant Professor Anthropology Department at UC Riverside.
Nash, Rebecca Restating the family : kinship and care in the Czech Republic Senior Consultant, The Henley Centre (International Strategic Futures and Marketing Consultancy). London, England.
Vann, Elizabeth Made in Vietnam : producing brands and consuming production in Ho Chi Minh City Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
2002 Bwenge, Charles Codeswitching in political discourse in Tanzania : a case study of parliamentary proceedings Assistant Professor of African Languages, Coordinator, Program in African Languages, University of Florida
Lapham, Heather Deerskin production and prestige goods acquisition in Late Woodland and Early Historic Southwest Virginia Curator, Center for Archaeological Investigations; Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University.
Ninetto, Amy Local science, global knowledge : science and nation after socialism in the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, Russia Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Buresh, Scott Pesantren-based development : Islam, education, and economic development in Indonesia Lecturer in Anthropology Towson University & University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Feldman, Jeffrey Museum without a collection : Jewish culture in the new Italian multiculturalism Independent author, blogger, and political commentator, New York, NY at: www.frameshopisopen.com
Daskalova-Perkovska, Liliana Narrative tradition and culture : a study of Bulgarian ethnopoetics Adjunct Faculty, Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Perkins, Tracy Social organization and changing labor patterns in Anasazi prehistory Independent Scholar, occasional teaching
2001 Engelke, Matthew Live and direct : history, ritual, and biblical authority in an African Christian church Senior Lecturer (tenured), Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics.
Hellweg, Joseph The Mande hunters' movement of Côte d'Ivoire : ritual, ethics, and performance in the transformation of civil society, 1990-1997 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Florida State University
Fathman, Elizabeth Subterranean racism : how educational policies and practices subliminally maintain racial inequalities in U.S. schools Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Saint Louis University
Smith, Margo The Significance of Birthplace for Central Australian Aborigines in Aputula, Northern Territory Director, Kluge-Ruhe Museum, Charlottesville Va.
2000 Uzendoski, Michael The articulation of value among the Napo Runa of the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon Associate Professor, Anthropology, Florida State University
King, Alexander Trying to be Koryak : Soviet constructions of indigeneity in Kamchatka, Russia Lecturer of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Edberg, Mark Making a dent in the cosmos : narco-corridos and the narcotrafficker persona on the U.S.-Mexico border Associate Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Shott, Brian Space and society in the southern Balkans : understanding the *Caršija in Skopje, Macedonia Foreign Service Officer, currently Public Affairs Officer, US State Department, in Skopje, Macedonia.
Holmes, Teresa A house for the Kager : negotiating tribal identities in colonial Kenya Assistant Professor, Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Harrell, Margaret Brass rank and gold rings : class, race, gender, and kinship within the Army community Senior Social Scientist & Associate Director, Forces and Resources Policy Center, Rand Corporation
Bell, Alison Conspicuous production : agricultural and domestic material culture in Virginia, 1700-1900 Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Washington and Lee University
Turner, Molly The limits of enchantment : landscape and social conflict in New Mexico Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College/CUNY. I am working on a historical novel set in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and in San Francisco around the time of the earthquake.
Moore, Douglas Boundaries of "Germanness" : repatriation, development, and the practices of nation in the international system MA in Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Alvarado, Rafael The encompassment of the Jaguar : the symbolic structure of Classic Mayan kingship and sacrifice Associate Director of Social Science, Humanities, & Performing Arts Network of Technological Initiatives, University of Virginia.
1999 Adams, Abigail Word, work and worship : engendering evangelical culture between Highland Guatemala and the United States Associate Professor of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University
Lipten, Joseph Merit, morality, and money at the Taipei Palace of the Saintly Emperor No record; last worked for Voice of America
Thompson, Stephen A central Sicilian landscape : settlement and society in the territory of ancient Morgantina (5000 BC - AD 50) Partner & Owner of Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC, Charlottesville, Va.
Lee, Juliet Out of order : the politics of modernity of Indonesia Research Anthropologist at Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA. part of Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Gallivan, Martin The late prehistoric James River village : household, community, and regional dynamics Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of William & Mary, , Williamsburg, VA.
Agee, Eve Race, class and the change : a cultural analysis of American women's and biomedical care providers' conceptualizations of menopause Life Path Coaching, Holistic Health, Stress Reduction [a PDF file]
1998 Leeson, Whitney Following the Magdalen : the transformative power of myth for the repenties in medieval Avignon and their patrons Associate Professor Medieval France, historical anthropology, archaeology, Roanoke College
Warner, Mark Food and the negotiation of African American identities in Annapolis, Maryland and the Chesapeake Associate Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Justice Studies & director of Honors Program, University of Idaho
Napora, John Work and power in Northern Morocco Instructor, Anthropology, University of Southern Florida
Mallios, Seth In the hands of "Indian givers" : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown Professor, Department Chair, Anthropology, San Diego State University
Sullivan, Gerald Bali as it might have been known : Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Wolfgang Weck schizophrenia and human agency Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology at Collin College, McKinney, TX
Robbins, Joel Becoming sinners : Christian transformations of morality and culture in a Papua New Guinea society Professor and Chair; Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
Ford, Benjamin A profitable and creditable establishment: industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont Partner & Owner of Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC, Charlottesville, Va.
Bickler, Simon Eating stone and dying : archeological survey on Woodlark Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Senior Archaeologist for Clough & Associates Ltd Heritage, Consultants, Auckland, New Zealand
Stassinos, Elizabeth Ruthlessly : Ruth Benedict's pseudonyms and the art of science writ large Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Criminal Justice, Westfield State College, Mass.
1997 Weissman, Karen Hidden treasures Adjunct Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, College of Charleston
Ho, Tsui-Ping Exchange, person and hierarchy : rethinking the Kachin Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Metcalf, Mary Civic spaces : architectural expressions of political organization in the prehistoric northern Southwest, A.D. 1000-1300 Co-Principal Investigator Clinical Tools, Inc. Chapel Hill, NC
Bamford, Sandra The containment of gender : embodied sociality among a south Angan people Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto
1995 Pietak, Lynne Trading With Strangers: Delaware and Munsee Strategies for Integrating European Trade Goods, 1600-1800 Director of Archaeological Services Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc. Smyrna, GA.
Jackson, Stephen Exchanging help : death self-similarity and social responsibility in a New Ireland community, Papua New Guinea No Record
Khandelwal, Meena Reconsidering sannyasa : the lives and reflections of female Hindu renouncers in Haridwar, North India Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Iowa
Lawson, Anna "The other half" : making African-American history at Colonial Williamsburg Chairwoman of The Nature Conservancy, Board member of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Murray, David "Martiniquais" : the construction and contestation of a cultural identity Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Sanford, Douglas The archaeology of plantation slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello: context and process in an American slave society. Chair/Associate Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, University of Mary Washington.
1994 Robins, Cynthia Producing people : industrial ideals and staff experience in a state-operated mental hospital Senior Study Director, Westat, A Contract Research Organization based in Rockville, Maryland
Cutbill, Catherine A postcolonial predicament : imagining Djibouti No Record, lives in Maryland
Dunham, Gary Common ground, contesting visions: the emergence of burial mound in late prehistoric central Virginia Director of the State University of New York Press
Klein, Michael An absolute seriation approach to ceramic chronology in the Roanoke, Potomac and James River Valleys, Virginia and Maryland Principal Investigator, Cultural Resources Inc.(a CRM firm) and Research Associate with Va. Museum of Natural History. Richmond, Va.
1993 Brear, Holly Steel women, stone womb : social reproduction at the Alamo Writer and teaching; working towards a degree in professional counseling. Resident in Rappahannock County, Va.
Richman, Karen They will remember me in the house : the Pwen of Haitian transnational migration Director of Migration and Border Studies Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
1992 Josephson, Bruce The leopard and the pangolin : power in the Biyenge chiefdom Taught for years in Korea; no current record.
1991 Furlong, Leslie Gold-dust and buckskins: an analysis of Calamity Jane as a symbol of luck and womanhood in the Black Hills Adjunct Professor Mary Baldwin College; Health Curriculum Coordinator for the Charlottesville Adult Education Program and Editor of the Multi-Cultural Brief. She also teaches Low Intermediate ESL.
Garrity-Blake, Barbara The meaning of work for black and white fishworkers of the United States menhaden fishmeal and oil industry Commissioner of the NORTH CAROLINA FISHERIES ASSOCIATION, Gloucester, North Carolina. Sometime Lecturer at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Very active Independent researcher on marine matters in N.C.,
McConnell, Mary Carter Capital and culture in Japan Independent Scholar; philanthropist, Orange, Virginia
Wadkins, Marsha The mortgage you buy may be your own Adjunct Professor, Anthropology, VCU & Set Execution Manager at the Southpark Mall JC Penney
Wilkerson, James Other islands of Chinese history and religion Associate Professor, Institute for Social Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
1990 Gable, Eric Modern Manjaco : the ethos of power in a West African society Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Mary Washington University, Fredericksburg
Gonçalves, Reginaldo Jose Rediscoveries of Brazil : nationalism and historic preservation as narratives Professor at Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology /Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and CNPq Researcher (National Council for Scientific Research Researcher)
Samanta, Suchitra Cognition and experience : the goddess Kali in the lives of her Bengali devotees Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Affiliated with Women’s Studies, Va. Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
1989 Nourse, Jennifer We are the womb of the world : birth spirits and the Laujé of Central Sulawesi Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, U. of Richmond
1988 Dalton, Douglas Inside and outside RAWA culture : a study of social symbolic process in Papua New Guinea Professor, Anthropology, Longwood College, VA.
Douglass, Carrie The bulls and Spain Professor of Anthropology, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va.
George, Marianne A Wosak Maraluon! : the Barok pidik of hidden power, and the ritual imaging of intent and meaning Principal Investigator in the Vaka Taumako Project & related Pacific Traditions Society, Hawaii.
Little, W. Kenneth Inventing circus clowns : the irony of parody and pastiche in the modern European circus Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Stallings, Jim Home Movies: The Politics of Idealization & The Paradoxicality of Oscillating Institutions Writing Fiction; Senior Editor, Reuters-Thomson (retired); living in San Antonio, Texas.
Taylor, Christopher C. Milk, honey and money : changing concepts of pathology in Rwandan popular medicine Professor and Chair, Anthropology and Social Work, U. of Alabama, Birmingham, Al.
1987 Suthers, Ellen Perception, knowledge, and divination in Djimini society, Ivory Coast Senior Research Associate, the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability, Falls Church, Va.
Zeghlache, Hamza The Medina as an expression of social values Professor, Departement d'Architecture, Université de Sétif. Algeria.
1986 Arafa, Mohamed Communication structure and social structure in an Egyptian village. District Communications Officer, Dept of Transportation, State of Georgia, Atlanta; and President, GLOBAL MEDIA CONSULTANTS.
Camino, Linda Ethnomedical illnesses and non-orthodox healing practices in a Black neighborhood in the American South : how they work and what they mean Senior Scientist, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Catlin, Mark Regional research designs in the study of prehistoric culture change: an analysis of Late Archaic adaptations in the Middle Atlantic Piedmont No record; last thought to be in Illinois
Givechian, Fatemeh Work in retirement : an inquiry into the persistence of an American collective representation Associate Professor at Az-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran, until 1996. Currently teaches in French and English in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the University of Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
Piot, Charles Production, exchange and symbolic forms among the Kabre Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
1985 Murphy, Christopher Feasting and fasting : the meaning of Muslim food in Delhi Professor of Anthropology, Dept of History, Anthropology and Philosophy, Augusta State University, Augusta Georgia.
1984 Culbertson, Roberta A. Small successes : accommodating failures in the midst of things Director, Research and Education, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville
Toomey, Paul Food from the mouth of Krishna : sacred food and pilgrimage at Mount Govardhan Deceased
1983 Gottlieb, Alma Village kapok, forest kapok : notions of separation, identity and gender among the Beng of Ivory Coast Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Swensen, Stephen Symbol and sanction : social change and the vitality of Moroccan Islam Saratoga Springs, NY
1982 Frese, Pamela Holy matrimony : a symbolic analysis of the American wedding ritual Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, College of Wooster
Kania, Richard Discipline in Small Police Departments Department Head and Professor of Criminal Justice at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
Moser, Daniel Physician-patient consultations : communications and patient outcomes Omaha, NE
1980 Jones, Barbara A. Consuming society : food and illness among the Faiwol No Record
1979 Mabe, Anne Witchcraft, conjuring, and root work : a study in the anthropology of experience Deceased. Sociology and Anthropology, Mansfield University, Pa.
Poe, Karen Land and labor in the Titicaca basin: an ethnohistory of a highland Aymara community No Record
Schloss, Marc The hatchet's blood: spirts and society among the Ehing of Sénégal Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Bucknell University.
Azoy, Whitney Buzkashi--so that his name shall rise. Kabul Center Director and Senior Research Fellow of American Institute of Afghan Studies.
1978 Scherrer, Carole Fisherfolk of the desert: an ethnography of the Elmolo of Kenya No Record
Driver, Rebecca Social differentiation and cohesion in an Appalachian community Timberville, VA.
Howell, David A quest for community: aspects of social and cultural change in a Dutch farming neighborhood Deputy Chief, Office of Policy and Strategy, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
1977 Cleland, James Chalcolithic and Bronze Age chipped stone industries of the Indus region: an analysis of variability and change Principal Archaeologist, EDAW, San Diego, CA.
1976 Mackey, Wade "Spike" Parameters of paternity: a cross-cultural analysis Visiting Professor, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama
1974 Karp, Ivan The dialectics of change among the Southern Iteso National Endowment of the Humanities Professor and co-director of the Center for the Study of Public Policy, Emory University.
1973 Fleming, Randolph Rural-ruban migration of blacks: changing social organization in Memphis No Record
1971 Barnes, Annie The black family in Golden Towers. Professor (retired) Department of Sociology, Norfolk State University, Va.
1970 Arens, Bill Mto wa Mbu: a study of a multi-tribal community in rural Tanzania Professor, Anthropology, Dean, International Academic Programs, Stony Brook, SUNY
Oostingh, Roelof van Zeeveld The pegawai negeri of Bandung: structure and process in Indonesia No Record
1969 Seaman, Catherine Kinship and land tenure in Piedmont County : a diachronic study of heterogeneous community in the South Retired from Department of Anthropology, Sweet Briar College.