Alumni Updates surgery residency at the University of Utah with a focus on global surgery.
Redescription in Cultural Heritage,' edited by Kathryn Lafrenz-Samuels and Trinidad Rico, will be published around August 2015 with the University Press of Colorado.
Erica L Williams (2010 PhD) Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College. I was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in April 2015. My first book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements, was published in November 2013 by the University of Illinois Press. On a personal note, my husband and I are expecting a baby boy in late May 2015 (my first child)!
Damian Satterthwaite Phillips (2011 PhD) [Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips] Owner, Phillips Research & Analytics, Inc. Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips, Nohra MateusPinilla, Jan Novakofski. (2014). Fatty acid analysis as a tool to infer the diet in Illinois river otters (Lontra canadensis). Journal of Animal Science and Technology 56. Nelda A. Rivera, Jan Novakofski, Hsin-Yi Weng, Amy Kelly, Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips, Marilyn O. Ruiz, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla. (2015). Metals in obex and retropharyngeal lymph nodes of Illinois white-tailed deer and their variations associated with sex and CWD status. Prion. Samantha K. Carpenter, Nohra E. Mateus-Pinilla, Kuldeep Singh, Andreas Lehner, Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips, Robert D. Bluett, Nelda A. Rivera, Jan E. Novakofski. (2014). River otters as biomonitors for organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, and PBDEs in Illinois. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 100:99-104. Lead scientist and author for the Northwest Arctic Borough's “Subsistence Mapping Project” and atlas, Alaska (in prep for June, 2015)
Kelsey Broderick (2011 BA) Master of Science in Foreign Service Candidate, Georgetown University, Class of 2016. After graduating from Stanford University I lived and worked in China for three years (Hunan Province, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu) before entering graduate school for international affairs. Tiffany C Cain (2011 MA) PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. I am in the third year of the doctoral program in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and have recently passed my PhD qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy. I will be beginning my dissertation fieldwork in Quintana Roo, Mexico, in association with the Maya community of Tihosuco, this April. This is a communitybased heritage preservation and development project whose historical archaeology program I will be spearheading. As a partnership between the Museo de La Guerra de Castas, the Ejido of Tihosuco, and the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the project is anchored by community and scholarly interest in the Caste War (or Maya Social War) of Yucatan, one of the most successful indigenous uprisings in the Americas.
Elif M Babul (2012 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Mt. Holyoke College. Won an ACLS Fellowship for sabbatical in 2015-2016 academic year. - Article published in the American Ethnologist 2015 February issue: “The Paradox of Protection: Human Rights, the Masculinist State and the Moral Economy of Gratitude in Turkey.” Hannah Grune (2012 BA) Program Coordinator with the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Trinidad Rico (2011 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University at Qatar. In the current academic year I was awarded two Qatar National Research Fund NPRP grants: 'Materiality and Preservation in Islamic Contexts' (2015-2017) and 'Cool Living Heritage in Qatar: Sustainable alternatives to air-conditioned urban development' (2015-2018) I joined the editorial Board for the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology in late 2014. I became editor for a new book series titled 'Heritage Studies in the Muslim World,' Palgrave MacMillan Pivot, starting in 2015. Our edited volume 'Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and
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Rita K Lomio (2012 MA) Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section. Susannah R Poland (2012 BA) Associate Director at Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions. After graduation Susannah researched contemporary African women artists and African feminisms as a curatorial assistant at the National Museum of African Art. She left D.C. in spring '13 to conduct ethnographic research on Mount
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Everest for a project on decision-making in extreme environments with Umea University. She recently moved to southern Vermont, and now designs and directs global educational programs for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions, including programs in Nepal, Rwanda, and France. Austin G Zeiderman (2012 PhD) Assistant Professor of Urban Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science. I recently took up a tenure-track position in the Department of Geography & Environment at the LSE in London. I'm enjoying my adoptive disciplinary home and have started teaching courses on urban studies, ethnographic methods, and race to both undergraduates and master's students. I'm also putting the finishing touches on my book manuscript, Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (working title), which will be published by Duke University Press. I had to miss the AAAs in 2014, but I'm looking forward to catching up in Denver in November! Adrian T Myers (2013 PhD) Archaeologist & Project Manager, Amec Foster Wheeler. Adrian graduated with a PhD in May 2013. He is now an Archaeologist and Project Manager with the global engineering firm Amec Foster Wheeler. Adrian lives in Vancouver with his wife Stephanie and son Leo. Bruce O'Neill (2013 PhD) Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University. Elizabeth Rosen (2013 BA) English Language Assistant at the French Ministry of Education. Brianna N Kirby (2014 BA with honors) Teacher at Bing Nursery School, Stanford University. Anna Malaika G Ntiriwah Asare (2014 BA) MPhil student at the University of Cambridge - Multidisciplinary Gender Studies. I've mainly been busy pursuing my MPhil degree, my research focuses on Black feminism and culturally relevant pedagogy. My ultimate goal is to be a cultural critic and public intellectual and I recently became a blogger for the Huffington Post which is a big part of this overall goal. Hantian Zhang (2014 PhD) Quantitative researcher, MSCI.