Anthropology Doctoral Students

Our Ph.D. students come from all over the world and study a diverse range of topics and anthropology subfields.

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Alexander Anthony

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for European Studies

Director, Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project

Research Associate, University of South Florida Institute for Digital Exploration

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

awanthon@syr.edu

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

MPhil, University of Ghana

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

sappiaha@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

The Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Northern Ghana

Joanna Behrens

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

jpbehren@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Digging the Great Trek: An historical archaeology of a Voortekker community, Limpopo, South Africa

Cullen Black

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

cublack@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Moving bodies: Strutural vioence in the extended Life Course at La Verbena Cemetery, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Madison Burhenn

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of Chicago

PhD Advisor:

Heather Law Pezzarossi

mburhenn@syr.edu

Aren Burnside

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

abburnsi@syr.edu

Tony Chamoun

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

tjchamou@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Modern Strangers, Pious Burials: Strangerhood, Religion, and Archaeological Knowledge

Julissa Collazo Lopez

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A., University of Cadiz

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

jcollazo@syr.edu

Melissa Darroch

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

mmdarroc@syr.edu

Avital Datskovsky

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.S., SOAS University of London

PhD Advisor:

Mona Bhan

asdatsko@syr.edu

Ayşe Durakoğlu

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

M.A., Bilkent University

M.S., Middle East Technical University

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

adurakog@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

International brand, local meanings: "slow city" experiences in Seferihisar, Turkey

Ross Freedenberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

refreede@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Possessing the future: devine encounter, futures and the transitional in Kali Mai Mother-Goddess worship in Guyana and Queens, New York

Sally Greenfield

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

smgreenf@syr.edu

Steven Harris

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

Douglas V. Armstrong

sgharr01@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Bajan Metallurgy: An Archival Exploration of Local Blacksmithing, 1600-1800s

Odlanyer Hernández de Lara

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Part-Time Instructor, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Theresa Singleton

odhernan@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Violence, Destruction, and Memory: An Archaeological Approach to State Terrorism in Dictatorial Cuba (1952-1958)

Brianna Hinkley

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

B.A., University of Maine at Farmington

PhD Advisor:

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

bnhinkle@syr.edu

Ajaya Mali

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

PhD Advisor:

Shannon A. Novak

anmali@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

“How Does Policy Develop? The 40-yr Checkered Modernization of Nepal’s Religiously Pivotal Pashupati Area.”

David Okanlawon

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

M.A., University of Ibadan

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

daokanla@syr.edu

Matthew O'Leary

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Christopher DeCorse

molear03@syr.edu

Dana Olesch

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Guido Pezzarossi

dtolesch@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Constructing Inevitability in Evicatability: Revealing Indexes of Violence and Ineauality with the Former Fifteenth Ward of Syracuse

Mariel Rivera-Piluso

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Lecturer, SUNY Brockport, Departments of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies

M.A., Syracuse University

PhD Advisor:

Robert A. Rubinstein

Sandra D. Lane

mriver02@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Reproductive Justice in Motion: Community-Based Doula Work in Central new York

Jay Sharma

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

MPhil, University of Delhi

M.A., Tata Institute of Social Science

PhD Advisor:

Azra Hromadžić

Susan Snow Wadley

jasharma@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

Rethinking Subaltern Politics: Adivasi Assertion for the Sovereignty Over Land, Forrest and Water in Premnagar, India

Kanwaljit Singh

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

B.A., University of California - Davis

PhD Advisor:

Mona Bhan

ksingh22@syr.edu

Jessica M. Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

M.A., University of South Carolina

PhD Advisor:

John Marshall Townsend

Hans C. Buechler

jmposega@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

(Re)Productive lives: exploring pro-choice activist life histories in Ireland and Norethern Ireland

Nimisha Thakur

Ph.D Candidate, Anthropology Department

Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center

M.A., Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

PhD Advisor:

Mona Bhan

Susan Snow Wadley

nithakur@syr.edu

Dissertation Title

River song: Riverine values, ethics and cosmologies on the Brahmaputra floodplains

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