Alumni Placements

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2023
  • Ph.D. Pablo Seward Delaporte, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University; 2024- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Saint Louis University
  • Ph.D. Koji Lau-Ozawa, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Ph.D. Nataya Friedan, Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
  • Ph.D. Aaron Neiman, Lecturer, Washington University
2022
  • Ph.D. Dean Chahim, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology-University of Texas, El Paso
  • Ph.D. Nathan Acebo becomes Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous and Native American Studies (NAIS) at the University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology
  • Ph.D. Grace Alexandrino Ocaña accepts the 2022-2023 Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship mentored by Professor Jon Daehnke in Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Ph.D. Paul Christians becomes the Cultural Heritage Research Manager, Royal Commission for AlUla
  • Ph.D. Tarik Nejat Dinc Northwestern University 2022-2023
  • Ph.D. Samuel Maull becomes a Teaching Fellow in Stanford Introductory Study's COLLEGE program
  • Ph.D. Jasmine Reid becomes a User Experience Research Intern, NewsBreak (Mountain View) and Museum Theory and Methodology Researcher, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  • Ph.D. Nestor Silva becomes Teaching Fellow in Stanford Introductory Study's COLLEGE program
2021
  • Ph.D. Grace Zhou, Postdoc President's Scholar-Ohio State University
  • Ph.D. Claire Maass, 1-year PD Forensic Anthropology Researcher, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Honololu
  • Ph.D. Claudia Liuzza, Visiting Research Scholar at the American University, Rome, Italy
  • Ph.D. Vibhav Mariwala, Kepler Cannon, Global Strategic Advisory firm in NY
  • Ph.D. Dean Chahim, Postdoc, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and Humanities-Princeton University
  • Ph.D. Laura Ng Grinnell, College, Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology
  • Ph.D. TianYu Xie, Facebook beginning Summer 2021, User Experience Researcher
  • Ph.D. Hannah Moots, Neubauer Collegium Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago, Working jointly with archaeologists and geneticists to study changing mobility practices in the Bronze and Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean
  • Ph.D. Camilla Mazzucato, Academic Officer, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies-University of Copenhagen
  • Ph.D. Alana Springer, Seasonal outdoor education position during summer 2021 before taking time off to explore the U.S. by van and sort out her next moves. 
2020
  • Ph.D. Kathryn Takabvirwa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
  • Ph.D. Gesualdo Busacca, Tutor/teacher with University of Catania, Italy
  • Ph.D. Claudia Liuzza, Duke University, Center for International and Global Studies, DUCIGS Rethinking Diplomacy Program Fellow
  • Ph.D. Cherkea Howery, National Archives. LC Copyright Specialist in the Visual Arts Division, examining registrability of intellectual property by federal government, international law and regulation. Library of Congress in the U.S. Copyright Office.
  • Ph.D. Dilshanie Perera, Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality, The Climate Museum New York City, New York
  • Ph.D. Nethra Samarawickrema, mediator and co-founded The Lab for Listening, which provides training in conflict resolution and difficult conversations. Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.
2019
  • Kathryn Takabvirwa, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Lauren Yapp, Brown University, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Tomonori Sugimoto, Yale University, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Samuel Holley-Kline, Florida State university Tallahasse, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Luis Muro, Adviser in the Office of the Minister, Ministry of Culture of Peru; and Lecturer in the Archaeology Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
  • Sabrina Papazian, Postdoctoral Associate in Critical Heritage Studies at Cornell University from 2019-2021, Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage from May to August 2020
  • Elandre Dedrick, The German Marshall Fund of the United State, Program Officer – Leadership Programs
2018
  • Kathryn Takabvirwa, University of Chicago, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020) and Assistant Professor 2020-
  • Stefanie Bautista, University of Rochester, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Aisha Ghani, University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor
  • David Gilbert, UCB, Environmental Science, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Jennifer Hsieh, Harvard Fairbank Center, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Yasemin Ipek, George Mason University, Assistant Professor
  • Vivian Lu, Yale University, African Studies, Postdoctoral Scholar

 

2017
  • Damien Droney accepts a 2-year postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago's Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
  • Eda Pepi accepts offer as assistant professor at Yale University
  • Amanda Wetsel accepts lecturer position at Duke University
  • Firat Bozcali accepts postdoctoral position at UPenn for 2017 -2018 , and assistant professor position at U Toronto for 2018-2019
  • Madeline Brown accepts offer at Penn State University
  • Hilary Chart accepts position as a visiting instructor at Macalester College
  • Alejandro Feged accepts position at the Universidad del Rosario Coordinador Programa de Gestión y Desarrollo Urbanos.- Ekística
  • Jennifer Hsieh accepts postdoctoral scholar position at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  • Eugene Richardson accepts position as lecturer in the Division of Global Health Equity and an Associate Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Meredith Reifschneider accepts offer as assistant professor at San Francisco State University

 

2016
  • Patrick Gallagher accepts offer as assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Maria Escallon accepts tenure-track position at University of Oregon
  • Jacob Doherty accepts offer as a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut
  • Anna West accepts offer as assistant professor at William Paterson University
  • Francesca Fernandini accepts position at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
  • Michael Price accepts postdoctoral scholar fellowship at Pennsylvania State University
  • Mark Gardiner accepts lecturer position in Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University
  • Allison Mickel accepts lecturer position in Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University

 

2015
  • Maria Fernanda Escallon accepts offer as the black studies dissertation fellow at Black Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Helen Human accepts offer to be the International Scholarship and Fellowship Advisor at Washington university in St. Louis
  • Lindsay Montgomery accepts postdoctoral scholar offer from Denver museum of nature and science
  • Adrian Myers accepts offer as an archaeologist at AMEC Environment & Infrastructure
  • Lisa Poggiali accepts postdoctoral fellow offer from Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania
  • Elly Power accepts offer as the Omidyar Fellow from Santa Fe Institute

 

2014
  • Hannah Appel accepted tenure-track offer from University of California at Los Angeles
  • Robert Samet accepts tenure-track offer from Union College
  • Guido accepts tenure-track offer from Syracuse University
  • Austin Zeiderman accepts tenure-track offer from London School of Economics

 

2013
  • Corisande Fenwick accepts offer from Brown University
  • Dolly Kikon accepts offer from Stockholm University
  • Adrian Myers accepts position from AMEC Environment & Infrastructure
  • Bruce O'Neill accepts tenure-track offer from Saint Louis University
  • Alexandra Kelly accepts offer from University of Wyoming
  • Rachel Engmann accepted tenure-track offer from Hampshire College
  • Nikhil Anand accepts tenure-track offer from University of Minnesota

 

2012
  • Elif Babul accepts tenure-track offer from Mount Holyoke
  • Brian Codding accepts tenure-track offer from University of Utah
  • Jason Lewis accepts offer from Rutgers
  • Serena Love accepts postdoctoral fellowship in Archaeology at Brown University
  • Ramah McKay accepts tenure-track offer from University of Minnesota
  • Robert Samet accepts offer from the Legal Studies Program at UMass Amherst
  • Joshua Samuel accepts offer from North Dakota State University
  • Rania Sweiss accepts tenure-track offer from Bates College
  • Austin Zeiderman will be a research fellow at LSE Cities, London School of Economics

 

2011
  • Tania Ahmad accepts tenure-track offer from Franklin and Marshall
  • Lalaie Ameeriar accepts tenure-track offer from University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Hannah Appel accepts postdoctoral fellowship in Global Thought at Columbia University
  • Ashish Chadha accepts tenure-track offer in Film Media at University of Rhode Island
  • Mun Young Cho accepts tenure-track offer from Yonsei University
  • Jocelyn Chua accepts tenure-track offer from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Yoon Jung Lee accepts tenure-track offer from University of Toledo
  • Ramah McKay accepts postdoctoral research fellowship at Princeton University and tenure-track offer from University of Minnesota
  • Zhanara Nauruzbayeva accepts postdoctoral fellowship from Columbia University
  • Kathryn Lafrenz Samuel accepts tenure-track offer from North Dakota State University
  • Rania K Sweiss accepts postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Contemporary Arab studies, Georgetown University
  • Tomas Matza accepts postdoctoral fellowship from Duke University

 

2010
  • Tania Ahmad accepts postdoctoral fellowship in the Humanities, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
  • Nikhil Anand accepts tenure-track offer from Haverford College
  • Ramah McKay accepts postdoctoral research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson School

 

2009
  • Aisha Beliso-De Jesus accepts tenure-track offer from Harvard Divinity School
  • Stacey Camp accepts tenure-track offer from Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies at the University of Idaho in Moscow
  • Jocelyn Chua accepts postdoctoral offer with the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Kristin Monroe accepts postdoctoral offer from Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University
  • Erica Williams accepts tenure-track offer from Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA