Alumni Publications

Student & Alumni News: Publications, Conferences, and Other Recent Activities

For a look at new and archived publications by Archaeology faculty and students – including material submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals, book chapters, monographs, excavation reports, laboratory reports, magazine articles, and more, please see the NABO webpage.

A group of CUNY archaeology students organized and carried off a special session at the 2008 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, Canada, with papers by Seth Brewington, George Hambrecht, Ramona Harrison, Aaron Kendall, Albina Palsdottir, and Konrad Smiarowski. The session was packed and attracted a lot of favorable attention. George Hambrecht has organized a follow-on (expanded) publication project for the new online Journal of the North Atlantic (JONA) focusing on post-medieval archaeology and paleoecology in the North Atlantic. (posted 10/08)

Alum Roberto Abadie (PhD 2007) is the author of the book Historias de Picos: Narrativas sobre el consumo de drogas intravenosas en los tiempos del SIDA, published in 2003 by Frontera Editorial, Uruguay.  He has recently signed a book contract with Duke University Press for the publication of his manuscript entitled A Guinea Pig’s Wage: Risk, Body Commodification and the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Research in America. (posted 10/08) 

Dr. Maria Luisa Achino-Loeb (PhD 1990) is the editor of Silence: the Currency of Power, published in 2006 by Berghahn Books.“This book is about silence, power, and their interaction. We argue that only by studying how silence works can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. (…)  [W]e look at how silence works in the perception and manipulation of sound, of speech, and of perspective in areas as disparate as music, language, race, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects.”The book was reviewed in the May 2008 issue of American Ethnologist. (posted 10/08)

Alessandro Angelini published “Spaces of Good Hope: Inscribing Memory, Territory and Urbanity in District Six, Cape Town” in the Dark Roast Occasional Paper Series no. 13. Cape Town: Isandla Institute, 2003. His translation from the French first draft of Between East and West by Luce Irigary was published by Columbia University Press in 2001.

Dr. Ana Aparicio (PhD 2004) is the author of Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (part of the New World Diasporas series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida, 2006), which received the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Honorable Mention. She is also the co-editor of Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy (Greenwood, 2004). Currently she is working on a manuscript that focuses on the role of Latino youth in social and racial justice work. (posted 10/08)

Alum Sylvia Atsalis’ (PhD 1998) research on menopause in captive gorillas has been in the news. It was in the New York Times Science section (1/3/06) and was also written up on the National Geographic news website. She hasalso published two books recently: A natural history of the brown mouse lemur, 2007 (in part based on her 1998 dissertation); and Primate Reproductive Aging (Karger, 2008), ed. S. Atsalis, S. Margulis and P. Hof. (posted 10/08)

Alum Karen Baab (PhD 2007) has two papers out in the Journal of Human Evolution. One, part of her dissertation, argues that Homo erectus is best considered a single widespread species including other putative species such as Homo ergaster and Homo georgicus; this work used a novel approach to geometric morphometrics and statistical sampling comparing cranial shape variation in fossil humans to that in fossil and modern primate populations. The second is a comment on a paper in Nature which identified a new fossil from East Turkana, Kenya, as a member of Homo erectus, but in this case Baab suggests that her analysis argues against this identification. She also co-authored a review encyclopedia entry on “Fossil humans” with Prof. Eric Delson in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th ed., 2007. She is now a postdoc in Anatomy at Stony Brook University. (posted 10/08)

Dr. Cristiana Bastos (PhD 1996) published an article entitled “Medical Hybridisms and Social Boundaries: Aspects of Portuguese Colonialism in Africa and India in the Nineteenth Century,” in 2007 in the Journal of Southern African Studies. (posted 10/08)

Alum Hugo Benavides (PhD 1999) has three books out with the University of Texas Press, the most recent in 2008.  They are Melodrama and Culture  Politics Latin American Style (2008), The Politics of Sentiment: Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil (2006), and Making Ecuadorean Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power (2004). (posted 10/08)

Dr. Sally S. Booth (PhD 1997) is the recipient of the 2006 Courtney Sale Ross Award for teaching. She recently co-authored, with Jeffrey E. Cole (PhD 1993) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 10/08)

Alum Julian Brash (PhD 2006) published “Invoking Fiscal Crisis: Moral Discourse and Politics in New York City” in Social Text 76, pp 59-84, 2003, and “The Work of 9-11: Myth, History, and the Contradictions of the Post-Fiscal Crisis Consensus” in Critique of Anthropology 24(1), pp 75-99, 2004.  He has a book contract with Cornell University Press in a series edited by Professor Jeff Maskovsky.

Check the March 2004 issue (24:1) of Critique of Anthropology, composed entirely of essays by PhD Program in Anthropology graduate students and graduate students from Teacher’s College. Our writers include Julian Brash and Molly Hurley and James Trimarco (co-authors), with an opening essay by Professor Ida Susser.

Archaeology graduate students Seth Brewington, Ramona Harrison, Ruth Maher, and Konrad Smiarowski presented papers at the 2008 NABO meetings at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in September 2008.  All were well received and Konrad’s poster won the award for “best data” in a very competitive field. (posted 10/08)

Dr. Elizabeth E. Brusco is the author of The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia, 1995. (posted 10/08)

Dr. John Burdick (PhD 1990) is the author of Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Christianity in Brazil, 1998; and Looking for God in Brazil, 1996; and The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil’s Religious Arena, 1996. (posted 10/08)

Alum Melanie Bush (PhD 2002) is the author of the book Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2004. She is Associate Editor of the Newsletter of the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association.

Anthropology alumni Telma Camargo da Silva (PhD 2002) and Hugo Benavides (PhD 1999) were the organizers of the panel “A Pesquisa Antropológica e o Futuro das Populações com quem se Trabalha: Uma Reflexão Crítica” at the June 2004 meeting of the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA), “Nação e Cicadania.” Both presented papers as well: “Envolvimento, Representação e Poder: o Trabalho de Campo em Contexto de Sofrimento Social” (da Silva) and “Los Placeres del Poder: El Pasado y su Visión Hegemónica” (Benavides). The panel included two other Anthropology Program alums, Yvonne LaSalle (PhD 1996) and Bernice Kurchin (PhD 1999).

Alum Gus Carbonella (PhD 1998) has published a book entitled Fierce Localism: The Politics of Ethnicity, Class and Locality in a New England Town (Berghahn, 2006).

Stephanie Campos is currently in Peru conducting preliminary research for her dissertation on neoliberalism, gender and incarceration. (posted 10/08)

Chris Caruso published a review of Anthony Marcus’s Where Have All the Homeless Gone? in Anthropological Quarterly (80:1).

Dr. Elizabeth Chin (PhD 1996) is the author of Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture, 2001.  In 2007, she was honored by the American Anthropological Association with its prestigious Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. (posted 10/08)  According to the association, Chin is being recognized for her role as an educator and mentor to students both inside and outside the classroom. A cultural anthropologist, she teaches courses concerned with children, the Caribbean (with emphasis on Haiti), consumerism, urban culture, and the anthropology of dance. She has led student groups on one study trip to Cuba and two to Haiti, developed a project to teach anthropological methods to fifth-graders, and designed curriculum for a gang intervention and prevention program. Her research topics include the consumer lives of inner city African American children, the cultural politics of the Barbie Doll, and traditional Haitian dance. She is now working with a professional company maintaining the legacy of Katherine Dunham, an African-American dancer who died recently. Chin has shared her views on anthropology and teaching through multiple commentaries on NPR’s “Tavis Smiley Show.” (posted 10/08)

Dr. Jeffrey E. Cole (PhD 1993) co-authored, with Sally S. Booth (PhD 1997) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 10/08)

Dr. Gerald Creed has recently published The Seductions of Community: Emancipations, Oppressions and Quandaries, 2006; his earlier book is Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village, 1998. (posted 10/08)

Alum Arlene Dávila’s (PhD 1996) most recent book is Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City, published in Spring 2004 by the University of California Press. She is also the author of Latinos, Inc.: The Making and Marketing of a People (University of California, 2001). Dr. Dávila is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at NYU.

Congratulations to alum Dana Davis (PhD 2001) for the publication of her book, Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, with SUNY Press in its African American Studies Series. In Fall 2008, the book was reviewed by Jafari Sinclaire Allen in American Anthropologist (110:3). (posted 10/08)

Rebecca de Guzman is co-author of “‘Hormones is not Magic Wands’: Ethnography of a Transgender Scene in Oakland, CA” (S. Eyre, R. de Guzman, A. Donovan, and C. Boissiere) in Ethnography 5:2, 2004.

Alum Kirk Dombrowski (PhD 1998) recently took over as co-editor, with fellow Graduate Center alum Anthony Marcus, of Dialectical Anthropology, founded by Stanley Diamond in 1975. Kirk is the author of Against Culture: Development, Politics, And Religion in Indian Alaska (University of Nebraska Press, 2002). (posted 10/08)

Dr. Walter A. Ewing (PhD 1997), a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center, published “Beyond Border Enforcement: Enhancing National Security Through Immigration Reform,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. V: 427. (posted 10/08)

Alum Susan Falls (PhD 2005) chaired a panel, “You’ve Either Got It or You Don’t: Gender, Sexuality, and Flexible Institutions,” at the April 2004 SANA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. She also presented a paper, “Bling! The Meaning of Diamonds.” Susan was one of two students to present a talk (“Meaning and Danger in Postmodern America”) at The Graduate Center’s American Studies Certificate Program Dissertation Colloquium in May 2004.

In Summer 2008, archaeology graduate students Frank Feeley, Aaron Kendall, and Konrad Smiarowski participated in a special arctic survival and wilderness medicine course run by Polar Services Inc. for NSF in the mountains near Boulder, Colorado. Subsequently, all three survived a six-week season in Greenland working with Danish and Greenlandic colleagues on Konrad’s doctoral project on Norse Greenland. (posted 10/08)

Alum Nancy Flowers (PhD 1983) and her book, The Xavante in Transition, were recipients of the 2003 General Anthropology Award for exemplary cross-field scholarship. The award was presented at the General Anthropology Division Business Meeting at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago, November 2003.

Graduate student Christine Folch's research report "Fine Dining: Race in Prerevolution Cuban Cookbooks" has been published in Latin American Research Review 34(2): 205-224. (posted 10/08)

Alum Judith N. Freidenberg, now at the University of Maryland’s Department of Anthropology, has published Memorias de Villa Clara (Antropofagia, Buenos Aires, 2005).  The book has been reviewed in Intersecciones en Antropología (December/January 2006). (posted 10/08)

Dr. Khaled Furani (PhD 2004) has published an article in American Ethnologist (May 2008) entitled “Rhythms of the Secular.” (posted 10/08)

Alum Kenneth Guest (PhD 2001) is the author of God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Immigrant Community, published by NYU Press in 2003.

Dr. Murphy Halliburton (PhD 2000) recently received tenure in the Anthropology Department at Queens College.  He has a contract for his forthcoming book with Left Coast Press; the book is tentatively titled Mudpacks and Prozac: Psychiatric Healing and Medical Pluralism in South India. It is an ethnographic analysis of treatment in biomedical, ayurvedic, and religious psychiatric healing centers, and offers insights about pleasure, modernity, and time. (posted 10/08)

Tina Harris has an article forthcoming in India Review and a book review in Gender, Place and Culture in 2008. (posted 10/08)

Alum Katerina Harvati (PhD 2001) has received extensive coverage in the Greek daily press on her research on a Neanderthal tooth from her field site at Lakonis, Greece, where she has conducted research since graduate school. To read news articles on Dr. Harvati’s research on the mobility of Neanderthal populations, see: MSNBC or USA Today. (posted 10/08)

PhD Program in Anthropology alums have authored a key study which shows that Neanderthals were not the ancestors of modern humans.  Katerina Harvati (PhD 2001), Stephen Frost (PhD 2001), and Kieran P. McNulty (PhD 2003) “combined their separately-collected data in order to solve a long-held question in paleoanthropology,” writes Professor Eric Delson. “Are Neanderthals best considered a subspecies of our own species...or members of a separate species? Their study, based on advanced methods in statistical analysis of three-dimensional data (geometric morphometrics) argues forcefully for the latter result.” Dr. Harvarti is currently at the Max Planck Institute, Dr. Frost is a Postdoctoral Associate in Anatomy at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, and Dr. McNulty is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Baylor University in Texas. Their research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has garnered press coverage from The New York Times and elsewhere.

Dr. Jonathan Hearn (PhD 1997) has published two books: Rethinking Nationalism: a Critical Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 and Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture, Polygon, 2000. (posted 10/08)

Alum Rebecca Jabbour (PhD 2008) co-authored the monograph “Medial mandibular ramus: ontogenetic, idiosyncratic, and geographic variation in recent Homo, great apes, and fossil hominids” (GR Richards, RS Jabbour, JY Anderson). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 2003. (posted 10/08)

Nathan Jones is the author of “From Order to Oblast: The German Presence in Kaliningrad,” published in Schatzkammer 27:173-90, 2001.

In Spring 2007, cultural anthropology students Banu Karaca and Ceren Özgül co-organized an interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled “Historical Continuities, Political Responsibilities: Unsettling Conceptual Blind-Spots in Ottoman and Turkish Studies” together with other students from The Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU. Addressing the scholarly and political legacies of Ottoman and national historiographies in studies of Turkey, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, this two-day conference featured over 30 presentations by participants from the U.S., Canada, Turkey and Germany. It was sponsored by a professional development grant from the Graduate Center’s Provost’s Office, the Department of Anthropology, the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC), the Doctoral Student Council (DSC), the Middle East Studies Organization (MESO). Co-hosted by the Wilf Department of Politics (MA Program) at New York University, the conference received additional support from the Center for International History at Columbia University. For more information please visit http://unsettlingblindspots.info.

Alum Patty Kelly (PhD 2002) now an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University, is the author of Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel (University of California Press, 2008).  In this ethnographic study, Kelly examines the personal histories and experiences of women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital city of Chiapas. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unnoticed, she documents the modernization of the sex industry in the city of Tuxtla during the neoliberal era and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by the government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico’s poorest and most conflict-laden states.

Dr. Kelly also had an editorial appear in the Los Angeles Times on March 13, 2008: “Legalize Prostitution: Paying for sex is common. Mexico has decriminalized it. So should the US.” (posted 10/08)

Dr. Aisha Khan (PhD 1995), Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University, published Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trindidad, with Duke University Press in 2004.

Dr. Anru Lee (PhD 2000),Assistant Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, is the author ofIn the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan´s Economic Restructuring (SUNY Press, 2004).  With Catherine Farris and Murray Rubenstein, she is the editor of Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society. (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). (posted 10/08)

Martha Lincoln published an article entitled “Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club: A Map of Guantanamo Bay,” as well as a review of Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums in the journal Socialism & Democracy.  She has also reviewed Alexander Hinton’s “Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide,” in American Anthropologist, and Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s “Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life,” which is forthcoming in Socialism and Democracy.  Her article “Biopower, Bodies…The Exhibition, and the Spectacle of Public Health,” co-authored with Hsuan L. Hsu, is forthcoming in Discourse: A Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Winter 2008. (posted 10/08)

Marlene Linville is co-editor with Raymundo A.C.F. Dijkhoff of the book The Archaeology of Aruba: The Marine Shell Heritage. Oranjstad, Aruba: The Archaeological Museum of Aruba, September 2004.

Abraham Lotha published History of Naga Anthropology, 1832-1947 (Chumpo Museum Publication, Dimapur, Nagaland, 2007). This monograph, based on Lotha’s research for his master’s degree in cultural anthropology, deals with writings by British colonial administrators and ethnographers about the inhabitants of the far northeastern part of India. Nagas first came in contact with the British in 1832; the contact ended in 1947, the year the Raj dissolved and the British officially left the Naga Hills. Reviewing the book in The Morung Express on February 14, 2008, Paul Pimomo called Abraham Lotha “a meticulous scholar and a reliable commentator on Naga history and cultures.” He added, “The book is a must read for all scholars in Naga studies, not just Naga anthropologists. Its brevity does not take away from the merits of the book, chief of which is Abraham Lotha’s ability to condense a century’s worth of historical information into two chapters, followed by a critique of colonial anthropology and its legacy in contemporary Nagaland written with remarkable critical candor.” (posted 4/08)

Adrienne Lotson’s sermon “The Moment of Truth: Leaving the Garden” has been published in The African American Pulpit’s 10th anniversary special edition issue (Summer 2007) celebrating the best works published over the past ten years.  She shares this honor with, among others, Harvard theologian Peter J. Gomes and renowned sociologist Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes. The African American Pulpit is a quarterly journal that serves as a repository for the very best of African American preaching. (posted 10/08)

In 2004, Adrienne Lotson was selected to present a paper at the African Studies Association conference, November 11-14, 2004, in New Orleans. Her paper is “OSWENKA: Fashion Competition as Protest.”

Alum Anthony Marcus (PhD 1998) is, with David Burner, the author of America Firsthand: Volumes One and Two, published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006, and of Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis. NY: Berghahn Press, 2005.

Alum Samuel Marquez (PhD 2002) has an entry in the four-volume encyclopedia set Countries and Their Cultures (The Gale Group). Dr. Marquez’s contribution was for Colombia, his parents’ country of birth.

Alum Erin Martineau is,with Cheryl C. Smith and Judith Summerfield, co-editor of the forthcoming volume Transformative Spaces: Designing Creative Sites for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.  The volume, under contract with Springer Publishing, is anticipated in June 2009. (posted 10/08)

Alum Kate McCaffrey (PhD 1999) is the author of Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico, published in 2002 by Rutgers University Press.

Shannon McFarlin (PhD 2007) Johanna Warshaw (PhD 2007), graduate Haviva Goldman (PhD 2001), and Timothy Bromage published “Circularly polarized light standards for investigations of collagen fiber orientation in bone” in The Anatomical Record: The New Anatomist 274B:157-168 2003.

Dr. Eric McGuckin (PhD 1997) has most recently published “Conspicuous Experience: Extreme Travel and Competitive Leisure in the 21st Century,” in Loisir et Liberte en Amerique du Nord (2008, University of Paris Press). His dissertation was “Postcards from Shangri-La: Tibetans, Tourism and the Politics of Cultural Production.” (posted 10/08)

Alum James McMahon (PhD 1999) has recently published “Neonatal pain facial expression: Evaluating the primal face of pain” in Pain, and “Intranasal transmission of hepatitis C virus: Virological and clinical evidence” in Clinical Infectious Diseases, 47:931-934. He is also currently involved in numerous research projects, including “Cognitive Rehabilitation for Substance Abusers: Towards HIV Prevention,” “Diffusion of HIV-1 in Emerging Male Sex Work Venues in Southeast Asia (R01),” and “Barriers to Treatment-Based HIV Prevention for IDU Couples (R21).”

Alum Cameron McNeil (PhD 2006) was featured in the article “Before Kisses and Snickers, It Was the Treat of Royalty” (The New York Times, 6/10/03), for her work on the chocolate exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. “It is a piece of chocolate the size of a nickel and more than 1,500 years old, scraped from the bottom of a pot from an ancient Maya tomb in Honduras,” the article begins. “Cameron L. McNeil...has collected residues, including the one at the museum, from ceramics found in the tombs of the first rulers of Copán, a Maya city-state in Honduras founded in the fifth century.”

Dr. Cameron McNeil (PhD 2006) has published a volume on cacao, Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao, with University Press of Florida.  In Spring 2008, Cameron’s volume received the Mary Klinger Outstanding New Book award by the Society for Economic Botany, which is among the society’s highest honors. Chair of the Awards Committee Dr. Daniel F. Austin said “While many of us have worked in forests with wild Theobroma, and in areas of cultivation, most of us have a limited exposure to the cultural history of the plants. By bringing together distinct fields into one single resource, Dr. McNeil has done everyone a great service. The story of chocolate is as savory as the product!”  The Mary W. Klinger Book Award was established in 1996 and is annually awarded by the Society for an outstanding book publication. The Society for Economic Botany is the largest international scientific organization fostering and encouraging research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people.  Additionally, Dr. McNeil was selected in 2008 to be the Archaeological Institute of America's Borowski lecturer on Maya topics; the AIA is flying her to three lecture sites, including the Natural History Museum of Cleveland.  Dr. McNeil’s second book, The Ch’orti’ Area: Past and Present on the Southeastern Maya Periphery, is in press with the University Press of Florida, Gainesville, and is expected in Spring 2009. (posted 10/08)

Dr. Charles Menzies (PhD 1998), a Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, has founded New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. Dr. Menzies is also coauthor of BC First Nations Studies, and editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). The latter book examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities and highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world. (posted 10/08)

Alum Maureen O’Dougherty (PhD 1997) is the author of Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Life in Brazil, Duke University Press, 2002.

Dr. Sophia Perdikaris (PhD 1998) was the keynote speaker at The Graduate Center’s Student Orientation on August 19, 2008.  She held a named professorship for two years (Leonard and Claire Tow Professor) and is now (2008–11) an Honorary Fellow of the School of Science and Engineering, Department of Geoscience, University of Edinburgh, UK. She has two forthcoming publications: a chapter in a book entitled “Beyond the Catch” and a chapter in a UCLA edited volume: “Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective.” For the last five years, under a Gates Foundation-funded initiative called STAR— a partnership between Brooklyn College and Erasmus High School—she has been teaching a series of seminars and workshops to high school students preparing them for college. She has also been teaching for the Honors College for four years and gives regular seminars at the American Museum of Natural History and the Long Island Children’s Museum. (posted 10/08)

Alum Warren Perry (PhD 1996), Associate Director for Archaeology for the African Burial Ground Project, played an integral role in the African Burial Ground Reinterment Tribute held on October 3rd, 2003, at the Wall Street Pier and African Burial Ground Memorial Site in New York. The event was the culmination of years of research studying the remains of individuals from the burial ground. Dr. Perry is a Professor of Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University.

In 2008, Gail Perry-Ryder attended the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “African American Civil Rights Struggles in the 20th Century,” organized by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.  (posted 10/08)

Jolie Preau has published an article entitled “Gentrification in Tourist Cities: Evidence from New Orleans Before and After Hurricane Katrina” in Housing Policy Debate 19:1. (posted 10/08)

2000 graduate Sabyiha Prince’s book, “Constructing Belonging: Class, Race, and Harlem’s Professional Workers,” has been published by Routledge.

Gerald Sawyer was a featured participant on Connecticut Public Television’s broadcast, “Slavery & Freedom in New England.” The 90-minute program, which aired February 9, 2003, featured six historians and educators, including Gerald, whose work explores Connecticut’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. On the CPTV show, Gerald discussed his research on a large plantation worked by slaves in 18th century southeastern Connecticut. An article based on work he presented at a conference at the University of Michigan was included in the 2003 volume on African Diaspora Archaeology by the University of Michigan Press.

Gerald Scharfenberger (PhD 2005) published extensively in 2004. Articles include “A Needle in a Haystack: A Late Woodland Site in a Cell Tower Footprint” in Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, Vol. 56; “People Who Work in Glass Houses: The Eighteenth-Century Stanger Glassworks” in Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, Vol. 57; “Recent Evidence for Broad Window Glass in 17th and 18th-Century America” in Historical Archaeology, 2004, Vol. 38, no. 4, pp 58-71; “Stoneware Vessels on the Iowa Frontier: The Early 19th-Century Frazier-Hiatt Site” in Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society, 2004; “Archaeology, Compliance and the Section 106 Process” (co-authored with Robert Jacoby) in Environmental Law in New York, September 2004, Vol. 15, no. 9, pp 179-183; and “Remnants of Testing at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, Sandy Hook, New Jersey” in Scientific Instruments and Warfare, edited by Steven A. Walton. Boston: Brill Academic Publishing.

Katrina Scott has been been in New Orleans since late summer 2008 conducting her dissertation research. Her research looks at the role and the impact of the local news media in the redevelopment of New Orleans post-Katrina. She was an organizer of the Black Feminisms conference, sponsored by the Africana Studies Group, at The Graduate Center on March 12, 2004. (posted 10/08)

Cosimo Sgarlata published an article about his field research in Hamden, Connecticut, in the Connecticut Historical Preservation Commission Newsletter. The fieldwork included the discovery of a previously unidentified Middle Archaic site (7,000-8,000 years old).

Alum Jonathan Shannon (PhD 2001) gave the TIAA-CREF Distinguished Lecture at Hunter College in Spring 2008.  He is the author of Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) in which he explores how music in Syria shapes debates about Arab society and culture. He was the recipient of the 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences. (posted 10/08)

Rob Siebert is the student representative to the New York Academy of Sciences’ Anthropology Section.

Nandini Sikand has a review of Media Worlds (Ginsburg, Abu-Lughod, Larkin, eds.) in the Fall 2004 edition of Visual Anthropology Review.

First-year Amy Starecheski is the author of three review articles, respectively titled “In Our Own Words: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans, Brooklyn Historical Society,” forthcoming in the Journal of American History; “Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education,” forthcoming in The Public Historian, and, with Vincent Russo, “Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories and Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina,” forthcoming in the Oral History Review. (posted 10/08)

First-year student Nomi Stone is publishing her first book.  Entitled Stranger’s Notebook, the volume of poetry is based on Nomi’s fieldwork in a Jewish community in North Africa.  It is forthcoming in November 2008 from TriQuarterly Books at Northwestern University Press. (posted 10/08)

Melissa Tallman collaborated with postdoc Will Harcourt-Smith, alum Steve Frost (PhD 2001), adjunct Prof. James Rohlf, Prof. Eric Delson and colleague David Wiley (UC Davis) on a chapter describing a new approach to individualization of bones using geometric morphometrics. It appeared in the book edited by alums Eric J. Sargis and Marian Dagosto: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Szalay was a professor in the program for many years. The book forms part of the series Vertebrate Paleobiology & Paleoanthropology, published by Springer (Dordrecht, Netherlands) and edited by Prof. Delson and adjunct Prof. Ross MacPhee. Melissa is also writing a chapter with Harcourt-Smith for a book she is editing in this series with Prof. Elizabeth Harmon. (posted 10/08)

Aysecan Terzioglu (PhD 2008) co-edited a special issue of the semi-academic journal Istanbul on the subject of “Istanbul’s Health.” In addition, her article “Conception of Anatolia by the Doctors who Studied Medicine in Istanbul” appeared in the journal in January 2004.  Aysecan taught a session, “Qualitative Research Methods,” at a seminar in April 2004 at the Florence Nightingale College for Nurses in Istanbul and moderated a panel in January 2004 titled “Health Issues in Today’s Istanbul.”

Lawrence F. Van Horn (PhD 1977) was awarded, on April 28, 2007, the prestigious Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award for “exemplary achievement” by the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Van Horn is the fifteenth annual recipient of this award, which recognizes his current editorship of the internationally known journal Applied Anthropologist, his book reviews and articles in various professional anthropological journals, and his ethnographic reports over the years as a U.S. National Park Service anthropologist of American Indians, African Americans, and other groups with cultural heritage links to what are now units of the National Park System. A long-time anthropology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Omer Stewart (1908–91) was a pioneer in applied anthropology. (posted 10/08)

Jose Vasquez is conducting dissertation research on the politics of veteran status in contemporary American society.  With Iraq Veterans Against the War, Jose has been active as an organizer of a campaign called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, collecting veteran and civilian testimony regarding wartime atrocities.  Additionally, Jose is the author of an article entitled “Seeing Green: Visual Technology, Virtual Reality and the Experience of War,” published in a special issue of Social Analysis.  Berghahn Books will publish this volume as a book called An Anthropology of War: Views from War Zones, forthcoming in November 2008.  Additionally, Jose headed up the verification team of the Winter Soldier organizing committee and represented Iraq Veterans Against the War in the editing process for a volume entitled Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, published by Haymarket Books and based on transcripts of the Winter Soldier event in March 2008. (posted 10/08)

Alum Bea Vidacs (PhD 2002) has an article titled “The Image of France in the Cameroonian Football Imagination” scheduled for publication in Football in Africa, Giulianotti and Armstrong, eds. Another article, “Postcolonialism and the Level Playing Field in the 1998 World Cup,” appeared in Postcolonialism and Sport, John Bale and Mike Cronin, eds., Oxford.

Dr. David Vine (PhD 2006) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University.  While still a student, he published an article titled “Billions for Brooklyn—No Questions Asked: The Borough’s New Power Brokers” in the Brooklyn Rail; the article received an award from the Independent Press Association/New York Ethnic and Community Press Awards.  He also published an article in the Washington Post titled Island Of Injustice.  David’s book, Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia, will be coming out in March 2009 with Princeton University Press.  Additionally, David has published an article on Diego Garcia in Mother Jones magazine’s online edition as part of a feature on US military bases abroad. (posted 10/08)

Dr. Alisse Waterson (PhD 1990) is a tenured Professor of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She has two new edited volumes: An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontlines (Berghahn Books 2008) and, with Maria D. Vesperi, Anthropology of the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (Wiley Blackwell 2009). Dr. Waterston also serves as Chair, AAA Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing charged with guiding policy on the AAA's transition to digital publishing. (posted 10/08)

Danielle Whittaker (PhD 2005), Susan Lappan of NYU, and graduate Elena Cunningham (PhD 2003) co-organized the symposium “Wild Gibbons as Members of Populations: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology, Population Genetics, Phylogeography, and Conservation” at the International Primatological Society’s biennial meeting in Turin, Italy, in August 2004.

Alumn Ara Wilson (PhD 1997)is author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the World City, University of California Press, 2004. (posted 10/08)

Janette Yarwood presented a paper entitled Negotiating Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa at The Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA) in October 2008.  She has also recently published two articles, the first of which is entitled “Deterritorialized Blackness: (Re)making Coloured Identities Among Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa” and appears in Transnational Blackness.  Janette’s second article is entitled “Deterritorialized Blackness: (Re)making Coloured Identities in South Africa,” and it appears in Postamble. (posted 10/08)

Dr. Jarrett Zigon (PhD 2006) has a forthcoming book, Morality: An Anthropological Perspective which will be published by Berg Press (2008). He has published the following chapters in edited collections: “Moral Responses to an HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Comparison of Russian Orthodox Church, Secular NGO and Russian Government Discourse and Practice,” in Health Capital and Sustainable Economic Development, Patricia Cholewka, ed., (CRC Press, 2008); “The Russian Orthodox Church and Harm Reduction,” in Effective and Conclusive Narcology in the Epoch of HIV (Media Press, 2008); “Aleksandra Vladimirovna: Moral Narratives of a Russian Orthodox Woman,” in Reclaiming the Sacred, Catherine Wanner and Mark Steinberg, eds., (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, forthcoming); “Life-History and Personal Experience: The Moral Conceptions of a Former Heroin Addict,” in The Anthropology of Moralities, Monica Heinz, ed., (Berghahn Press, forthcoming).  His journal articles include: “Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand: A Theoretical Framework for an Anthropology of Moralities,” Anthropological Theory (2007); and   “Developing the Moral Person: The Concepts of Human, Godmanhood, and Feelings in some Russian Articulations of Morality,” Anthropology of Consciousness (forthcoming). (posted 10/08)

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