Alumni Publications

Student & Alumni News: Our Recent Graduates

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”

February 2003 - May 2004

• Dr. Ana Aparicio: February 2004
  "Developing Politics in Quisqueya Heights: Local and National Trajectories of Dominican-American Organizing"
• Dr. Nancy V. Benignus: June 2004
  "(Re)Forming Family: Coming of Age in Foster Care"
• Dr. Su-Hong Chae: May 2003
  "Spinning Work and Weaving Life: The Politics of Production in a Capitalistic Multinational Textile Factory in Vietnam"
• Dr. Kitty Clarke: February 2003
  "From Aging Soviets to U.S. Citizens: Immigration, Aging, and the Cultural Construction of Old Age in New York City"
• Dr. Elena Cunningham: May 2003
  "The Use of Memory in Pithecia pithecia's Foraging Strategy"
• Dr. Alcira Forero-Peña: June 2004
  "Standing on Their Own: Women's College Education in Kerala, India"
• Dr. Khaled Furani: June 2004
  "When Poets Go to Sleep: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Modernizing of Poetic Forms in Arabic"
• Dr. Kelly McKinney: May 2003
  "Beyond Care and Control: Therapeutic Interventions for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma"
• Dr. Kieran McNulty: October 2003
  "Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Hominoid Craniofacial Morphology"
• Dr. Suzanne Scheld: October 2003
  "Clothes Talk: Youth, Modernities and Commodity Consumption in Dakar, Senegal"
• Dr. Jim Woollett: February 2003
  "An Historical Ecology of Labrador Inuit Culture Change"
• Dr. Kee Howe Yong: October 2003
  "The Paradox of Independence: Articulating the Eventfulness of the Cold War in Sarawak, Borneo"

2001 and 2002 Graduates

• Dr. Edward Tad Ballew: February 2002
  "Screening Modernity at Shanghai Television Station: An Ethnographic Study of Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identity-Making in Local Context"
• Dr. Douglas Broadfield: October 2001
  "Sex Differences in the Corpus Callosum of Macaca Fascicularis and Pan Troglodytes"
• Dr. Melanie Bush: May 2002
  "Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness"
• Dr. Julia Butterfield: February 2002
  "Tradition, Politics, and the Arts in Calcutta: Creating a Bengali Postcolonial Aesthetic"
• Dr. Geraldine Casey: May 2002
  "From Bootstrap to Shoulderstrap: Women Secretaries and Class, Culture, and Voice in Contemporary Puerto Rico"
• Dr. Raymond Codrington: October 2001
  "Sessions from the Big Smoke: Rap, Race, and Class in London"
• Dr. Telma Camargo da Silva: May 2002
  "Radiation Illness Representation and Experience: The Aftermath of the Goiania Radiological Disaster"
• Dr. Dana Davis: October 2001
  "Surviving Welfare Reform: Battered Black Women's Strategies for Survival in Poughkeepsie, New York"
• Dr. Molly Doane: October 2001
  "Broken Grounds: The Politics of the Environment in Oaxaca, Mexico"
• Dr. Tracy L. Fisher: October 2001
  "Shifting Ideologies, Social Transformations: Black Women's Grass-Roots Organization, Thatcherism, and the Flattening of the Left in London"
• Dr. Stephen Frost: October 2001
  "Fossil Cercopithecidae of the Afar Depression, Ethiopia: Species Systematics and Comparison to the Turkana Basin"
• Dr. Haviva Goldman: October 2001
  "Histocomposition and Geometry at the Human Mid-Shaft Femur"
• Dr. Kenneth Guest: October 2001
  "Walking on Water: Fuzhounese Immigrant Religious Communities in New York's Chinatown"
• Dr. Katerina Harvati: October 2001
  "The Neanderthal Problem: 3-D Geometric Morphometric Models of Cranial Shape Variation Within and Among Species"
• Dr. Patricia Kelly: October 2002
  "Sex Work in the 'Other' Chiapas: Prostitution, Morality, and Modernity in Urban Mexico"
• Dr. Samuel Marquez: February 2002
  "The Human Nasal Complex: A Study of its Anatomy, Function, and Evolution by CT, Comparative and Morphometric Methods"
• Dr. Charles Reavis Price: October 2001
  "No Cross, No Crown: Identity Formation, Nigrescence, and Social Change Among Jamaica's First and Second Generation Rastafarians"
• Dr. Kathleen Riley: October 2001
  "The Emergence of Dialogic Identities: Transforming Heteroglossia in the Marquesas, F.P."
• Dr. Aseel Sawalha: October 2002
  "Remembering the Old Good Days: The Reconstruction of Urban Space in Postwar Beirut"
• Dr. Sayida Self: February 2002
  "Daughters of the Soil: Gender and Nationalism in South Africa"
• Dr. Jonathan Shannon: February 2001
  "Among the Jasmine Trees: Music, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria."
• Dr. Bea Vidacs: May 2002
  "Visions of a Better World: Football in the Cameroonian Social Imagination"
• Dr. Danning Wang: May 2002
  "Fertility Decline and the Transformation of Working-Class Family Life in Tianjin, China, 1963-1970"
• Dr. Maritza Williams: October 2001
  "Lights! Camera! Action! The State, the Traffickers, the Association and the Pink Mealy Bug Crisis"

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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."