2010 Erica L Williams (2010 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Spelman College. My book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in November 2013. In May 2013, I was inducted into the Beta Omega chapter of Phi Beta Delta honors society for international education. I won a fellowship for HBCU faculty from the Palestinian American Research Center to participate in a Faculty Development Seminar in Palestine from May 16-27, 2013. I also won the UNCF/ Mellon Faculty Residency fellowship to embark on a new research project on the roles that sexuality and Afro-Brazilian religiosity play in Afro-Brazilian feminist activism in Salvador, Bahia. In October 2013, I am marrying my partner, Terence L. Courtney in October, and gaining a 10-year old step-daughter, Kaeming Courtney. Claire Menke (2010 BA) Social Science Researcher, Department of
Anthropology, Stanford University. Helping an interdisciplinary initiative through the Woods Institute for the Environment to conduct an analysis of the current status of development in two counties of Costa Rica - Osa and Golfito. Lead team member for the education system analysis. Working to construct recommendations for the national and local governments, as well as for local actors. Liese Pruitt (2010 BA) Medical student, University of Chicago. I have recently been awarded a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for the upcoming academic year. I will be taking a one year leave of absence from medical school to return to Nigeria to continue my qualitative research on cultural and social barriers to breast cancer care in Southern Nigeria. Woubzena T Jifar (2010 BA) AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator at the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County youth program. Recruited more than 200 youth to volunteer for various non-profit organizations throughout Santa Cruz County over the last eight months. In August I will be headed to UCLA to start my M.A in African Studies. Nikhil Anand (2011 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College. I have just accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. In 2013-2014, I will be a residential fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Hannah C Appel (2011 PhD) Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UC Berkeley/Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellowship in Natural Resources. I've just finished my first year as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, and it's great to be back in the Bay Area. After one more year in this position, I'll start a tenure-track job in UCLA's Department of Anthropology (fall 2014). In the meantime, my husband and I are expecting a baby on May 1st.
Tiffany C Cain (2011 MA) PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. This year I was nominated as a Kolb Society Fellow and an F.S. Pepper Fellow in support of my continued study at UPenn. I also gave a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in March and have a book review in press. I will be beginning my field work on a communityorganized heritage project centered on the 19th century Maya Caste War this summer in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Peter G Kauhanen (2011 MA) Environmental Researcher at Environmental Defense Fund. Mimi Chau (2011 BA) Professional Research Assistant, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, Section of Emergency Medicine. I was admitted into medical school at the University of Colorado and am planning to pursue an MD/MPH. Gaylan Dascanio (2011 BA) Graduated in March 2011, elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, recent publication in University of California Anthropology Undergraduate Association Journal Spring 2011 Issue. Amy Dao (2012 BA) Student I will be receiving my paralegal certification mid-June from an American Bar Association approved university in Southern California. Misa Shikuma (2012 BA) Shortly after receiving my diploma last June, I moved to Paris where I just recently completed the Diplôme de Pâtisserie program at Le Cordon Bleu. I am currently adjusting to the rigorous demands of a French kitchen as an intern, and afterwards plans to travel east(ish) through north Africa, Asia and Oceania on my way back to California. Thoughts and photos on expat life, traveling and internship woes can be found on my personal website, misashikuma.com.
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and Society. I am a 3rd year PhD student in the MIT Program in History, Anthropology, & STS. I use feminist science studies and critical race theory to explore the politics of aid, rescue, and technology development in sex trafficking in the US and Southeast Asia. After earning my B.A. degrees in Feminist Studies and Anthropology from Stanford, I worked in the Philippines on a mobile health initiative to study young adult sexuality. I have also worked with Dr. Danah Boyd on Microsoft Research's Human Trafficking Project, exploring online forms of sex trafficking in the US. I am active with local groups supporting care for sexual trauma survivors and sex workers’ rights, especially among youth, queer, and immigrant communities. I am also an RA in an MIT dorm and enjoys mentoring undergrad engineering students on the merits of feminist humanities work and teaching them laughing yoga.