Alumni Publications

Alumni News: Our Recent Graduates

September 2009 - June 2010

• Dr. Ragnar Edvardsson: February 2010
  "The Role of Marine Resources in the Medieval Economy of Vestfirdir, Iceland"
• Dr. Christine M. Hegel: September 2009
  "Breach of Trust: Customary/Commercial Documents and Practices of Private Law in an Egyptian Port"
• Dr. Russell Hogg: June 2010
  "Dental Microstructure and Growth in the Cebid Primates"
• Dr. Yoko Ikeda: September 2009
  "Digging up the Earth in New York City: A Community-Based Environmental Movement"
• Dr. Laura Eve Kaehler: September 2009
  "Nation-States, Capital Market Managers, and Sovereignty: An Ethnographic Case Study in Malaysia"
• Dr. Masako Kato: September 2009
  "Bilingual Motherhood: Language and Identity Among Japanese Mothers in New York City"
• Dr. Tina Lee: February 2010
  "Stratified Reproduction and Definitions of Child Neglect: State Practices and Parents' Responses"
• Dr. Ruth Maher: September 2009
  "Landscapes of Life and Death: Social Dimensions of a Perceived Landscape in Viking Age Iceland"
• Dr. Joshua Milton Moses: September 2009
  "Religion, Mental Health and Disaster Response in a New Age of Anxiety "

September 2008-May 2009

• Dr. Colin Amundsen: September 2008
  "Culture Contact, Ethnicity and Food Practices of Coastal Finnmark, Norway (1200 to 1600 A.D.)"
• Dr. Edith Gonzalez-Scollard: September 2008
  “Raising Cane: Sugar, People and the Environment in Nineteenth-century Antigua, West Indies”
• Dr. Christina Honjo Harris: May 2009
  “Silk Roads and Wool Routes: the Social Geography of Tibetan Trade”
• Dr. Nicole Laborde: February 2009
  “Raising Children the American Way: Court-Mandated Parenting Education in Alameda, California”
• Dr. Abraham Lotha: May 2009
  “Articulating Naga Nationalism”
• Dr. Amy Schreier: February 2009
  “The Influence of Resource Distribution on the Social Structure and Travel Patterns of Wild Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas) in Filoha, Awash National Park, Ethiopia”
• Dr. Cosimo Sgarlata: February 2009
  “The Upland Archaeology of West Rock Ridge in South-Central Connecticut: Small Stemmed Point Tradition Land-use Intensification”
• Dr. Gerard Weber: February 2009
  “Forsaken Generation: Stress, Social Suffering and Strategies among Working-Class Pensioners in Post-Socialist Moldova, Romania”
• Dr .Gabriela Zamorano: February 2009
  “Reimagining Politics: Video and Indigenous Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia”

October 2007-May 2008

• Dr. Milton Herrera: May 2008
  "Milk Insufficiency in Esmeraldas, Ecuador: A Multidisciplinary Approach"
• Dr. Rebecca Jabbour: May 2008
  “Postcranial skeletal diversity and ecomorphology of African apes”
• Dr. Hannah Jopling: February 2008
  “Making a Way Out of No Way: Relations Between Blacks and Whites in Annapolis, MD., 1902-1952”
• Dr. Terese Lawinski: October 2007
  “Welfare Restructuring in Suburban New York”
• Dr. Joshua Matthew Linder: May 2008
  “Differential vulnerability of primates to hunting in Korup National Park, Cameroon: Implications for primate conservation”
• Dr. Suzana Moura Maia: October 2007
  “Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York: Desire and National Identity”
• Dr. Rachel L. Nuger: February 2008
  “The Influence of Climate on the Obstetrical Dimensions of the Human Bony Pelvis”
• Dr. Andrea Queeley: October 2007
  “A Dream Derailed: The English Speaking Caribbean Diaspora in Revolutionary Cuba”
• Dr. Mary N. Taylor: February 2008
  “The Politics of Culture: Folk Critique and Transformation of the State in Hungary”
• Dr. Aysecan Terzioglu: February 2008
  “Experiencing and Explaining Cancer: A Critical Study of Turkish Modernity Through the Cancer Patients’ Narrative”
• Dr. Nelson Ting: May 2008
  “Molecular systematics of red colobus monkeys”
• Dr. Johanna Warshaw: October 2007
  "Primate Bone Microstructural Variability: Relationships to Life History, Mechanical Adaptation and Phylogeny"

October 2006-May 2007

• Dr. Roberto Abadie: October 2006
  “A Guinea Pig’s Wage Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America”
• Dr. Karen Baab: May 2007
  “Cranial Shape Variation in Homo erectus”
• Dr. Richard Bergl: October 2006
  “Conservation Giology of the Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)”
• Dr. Julian Brash: October 2006 “The Bloomberg Way: Development Politics, urban Ideology, and Class Transformation in Contemporary New York City”
• Dr. Terence Capellini: May 2007
  “PBX Genes in Vertebrate Limb Development and the Implications of Their Study to Primate Evolution”
• Dr. Elsa Davidson: October 2006
  “Success Stories: Young People’s Aspirations and the Politics of Class in Post-Boom Silicon Valley”
• Dr. Reiko Matsuda Goodwin: February 2007
  “Behavior and Ecology of the Mona Monkey (Cercopithecus mona Schreber, 1774) in the seasonally dry Lama Forest of Republic of Benin, West Africa”
• Dr. Maria Gutierrez: May 2007
  “All that is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Carbon Sinks Under the Kyoto Protocol”
• Dr. Michelle Hay: October 2006
  “Social and Economic Adjustment of Afro-Cubans in the United States: Racial and Ehnic Considerations”
• Dr. Laure Levine: February 2007
  “Defending Children’s Rights: Global Discourse and Local Interpretations Among Palestinian Camp Refugees in Jordan”
• Dr. Kelley McFarland: May 2007
  “Ecology and conservation of Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli) on Afi Mountain, Cross River State, Nigeria”
• Dr. Shannon McFarlin: October 2006
  "Ontogenetic investigation of bone histology & life history in catarrhines"
• Dr. Cameron McNeil: October 2006
  “Maya Interactions With the Natural World: Landscape Transformation and Ritual Plant Use at Copan, Honduras”
• Dr. Wosenyelesh Mekuria: October 2006
  “Modern-Day Griots: Imagining Africa, Choreographing Experience In a West African Performance in New York”
• Dr. David Vine: October 2006
  “Empire’s Footprint: Expulsion and the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia”

October 2005 – May 2006

• Dr. Susan Falls: October 2005
  “The Configuring of Diamonds: A Study of Consumption”
• Dr. Larisa Honey: May 2006
  “Transforming Selves and Society: Women, Spiritual Health, and Pluralism in Post-Soviet Moscow”
• Dr. G. Derrick Hodge: October 2005
  ”Colonization of the Cuban Body: Nationalism, Economy, and Masculinity of Male Sex Work in Havana”
• Dr. Marlene Linville: October 2005
  “Marine Shell as Medium in Amerindian Aruba”
• Dr. Pellegrino Luciano: October 2005
  “Shades of Dispossession: Neoliberalism and the Social Production of Credibility in Macchu Piccu, Peru”
• Dr. Erin Martineau: May 2006
  “‘Too Much Tolerance’: Hang-Around Youth, Public Space, and the Problem of Freedom in the Netherlands”
• Dr. Gerard Scharfenberger: October 2005
  “The Old Scots Burying Ground: A Case Study in the Archaeology of Religion”
• Dr. Danielle Whittaker: October 2005
  “Evolutionary Genetics of Kloss’s Gibbons (Hylobates klossii): Systematics, Phylogeography, and Conservation”
• Dr. Jarrett Zigon: February 2006
  “Five Muscovites: Narratives of Moral Experience in Contemporary Russia”

October 2004-May 2005

• Dr. Diana Agosta: October 2004
  “Naming the Future: How Salvadoran Community Radio Builds Civil Society and Popular Culture”
• Dr. Leon Arredondo: May 2005
  “Liberalism, Working-Class Formation and Historical Memory: Dockworkers in a Colombian Frontier”
• Dr. Eliza Darling: October 2004
  “Accommodating Wilderness: Gentrification and the Production of Nature in the Adirondack Park”
• Dr. Friederike Fleischer: May 2005
  “Housing China’s Emerging Classes: Competing Interests in a Beijing Suburb”
• Dr. M. Alfredo Gonzalez: October 2004
  “Sexuality and Love in the Lives of Homeless Men in New York”
• Dr. Johanna Gorelick: February 2005
  “Uncovering and Recovering Identity: An Historical Ethnography of the Cultural Politics of Museum Building at Ak-Chin Him-Dak”
• Dr. Christopher Lawrence: May 2005
  “The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: ‘Albanian’ Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece”
• Dr. Carmen Medeiros: February 2005
  “The Right ‘to Know How to Understand’: Coloniality and Contesting Visions of Development and Citizenship in the Times of Neo-Liberal Civility”
• Dr. Arthur Rostoker: February 2005
  “Dimensions of Prehistoric Human Occupation in the Southern Ecuadorian Oriente”

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This departmental publication supplements the official Bulletin of The Graduate School as well as the current Graduate Center Student Handbook and "Announcement of Courses."