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Dr. Ara Wilson has been appointed an Associate Professor with tenure in Women's Studies at Duke University, where she is the Director of Sexuality Studies, a certificate progam in Women's Studies. She took up this appointment in fall 2006.

Dr. David Vine was recently appointed Public Anthropologist in Residence at American University.

Dr. Ana Aparicio (PhD 2004) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She is also an affiliate of the Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Policy.

Dr. Leslie Brett (PhD 1990) is Executive Director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Connecticut General Assembly.

Dr. Douglas Broadfield (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Melanie Bush (PhD 2002) is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Brooklyn College.

Dr. Gus Carbonella (PhD 1998) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Anthropology Department of the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland. His dissertation was "The Reimagined Community: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class in Jay/Livermore Falls, Maine, 1900-1988."

Dr. Raymond Codrington (PhD 2001) is Director of the Julian Dixon Institute of Cultural Studies, and Assistant Curator in Anthropology, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Dr. Telma Camargo da Silva (PhD 2002) is on the faculty of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Brazil.

Dr. Elena Cunningham (PhD 2003) has a full time position in the NYU School of Dentistry's Department of Anatomy.

Dr. Arlene Davila (PhD 1996) is a tenured faculty member of the American Studies Department of New York University. Her dissertation was "Making and Marketing National Identities: Culture, Politics and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico."

Dr. Dana Davis (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY-Purchase.

Dr. Marilynne Diggs-Thompson (PhD 2000) is a research associate and project director at the Center for the Advancement of the Study of Education (CASE). Her dissertation was "Selective Modernization and Self-Transformation: The Third Demographic Transition in Guadeloupe, French West Indies."

Dr. Molly Doane (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track member of the faculty of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dr. Tracy Fisher (PhD 2001) has a tenure-track position in in the departments of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Stephen Frost (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Anthropology Department of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Dr. Haviva Goldman (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor at Drexel University's MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, a position she began in Fall 2002. She teaches anatomy and histology to first-year medical students.

Dr. M. Katherine (Katy) Gonder (PhD 2000) is a faculty research associate / lab manager in the Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation was "Evolutionary Genetics of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) in Nigeria and Cameroon."

Archaeology student Edith Gonzalez de Scollard (ABD) is the Director of Education Programs at the Long Island Children's Museum.

Dr. Kenneth Guest (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor in Baruch College's Department of Sociology/Anthropology.

Dr. Murphy Halliburton (PhD 2000) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Queens College. His dissertation was "Possession, Purgatives, or Prozac? Illness and the Process of Psychiatric Healing in Kerala, South India."

Dr. Katerina Harvati (PhD 2001) has moved from New York University to assume a tenure-track position equivalent to assistant professor in the Department of Paleoanthropology at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Dr. Aisha Kahn (PhD 1995) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Her dissertation was "Purity, Piety, and Power: Culture and Identity Among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad."

Dr. Anru Lee (PhD 2000) is an assistant professor in cultural anthropology at John Jay College. Her dissertation was "In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Recent Economic Restructuring."

Dr. Samuel Marquez (PhD 2002) is a tenure-track assistant professor of anatomy at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. Kate McCaffrey (PhD 1999) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her dissertation was "Culture, Power and Struggle: Anti-Military Protest in Vieques, Puerto Rico" and a new book, Military Pwer and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico, was published in 2002 by Rutgers University Press.

Dr. James McMahon (PhD 2000) is a project director at the National Development and Research Institute Inc., for a NIH-funded project studying the spread of HIV and hepatitis B and C in East Harlem. His dissertation was "Nomological Mechanisms of Anthropoid Nasomaxillary Diversity."

Dr. Kieran McNulty (PhD 2003) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Baylor College.

Dr. Sabyiha Robin Prince (PhD 2000) is an assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at American University. Her dissertation was "Negotiating Difference and Constructing Belonging: Urban, African American Professional-Managerial Workers."

Dr. Allyson Purpura (PhD 1997) was the co-curator of an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, February - November 2004. "Insights" featured more than 30 artworks by nine contemporary artists. Dr. Purpura is a curatorial research specialist at the museum.

Dr. Kelley Ready (PhD 2000) was promoted to Associate Director of Academic Programs in Sustainable International Development in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Her dissertation was "Between Transnational Feminism, Political Parties and Popular Movements: 'Mujeres Por La Dignidad y La Vida' in Postwar El Salvador."

Dr. Alfred Rosenberger (PhD 1979) joined the physical anthropology faculty at Brooklyn College in Fall 2003. He is a specialist on the evolution and systematics of New World monkeys.

Dr. Eric Sargis (PhD 2000) is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale, a ten-year appointment he began in 2001. His dissertation was "The Functional Morphology of the Postcranium of Ptilocercus and Tupaiines (Scandentia, Tupaiidae): Implications for the Relationships of Primates and Other Archontan Mammals."

Dr. Aseel Sawalha (PhD 2002) is a tenure-track assistant professor of anthropology at Pace University. Her dissertation was "Remembering the Old Good Days: The Reconstruction of Urban Space in Postwar Beirut."

Dr. Suzanne Scheld (PhD 2003) holds a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge.

Archaeology student Cosimo Sgarlata is performing lithic analysis as a consultant for a CRM company in Connecticut.

Dr. Jonathan Shannon (PhD 2001) is an assistant professor of anthropology at Hunter College. His dissertation was "Among the Jasmine Trees: Music, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria."

Dr. Brian Stafford (PhD 2000) is a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the Howard University College of Medicine. His dissertation was "Taxonomy and Ecological Morphology of the Flying Lemus (Dermoptera, Cynocephalidae)."

Dr. Kathy Sullivan (PhD 1998) is an assistant professor in the Department of OB/GYN at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is conducting research in the area of HIV/STD prevention at the Teen Health Clinics. She writes, "Medical anthropology and sociology are two areas that are expanding quietly and yet rapidly as medical schools seek to conduct community-based studies and more health utilization inquiries that understand the larger social/cultural reasons behind health-seeking behaviors." In 2003 she was a scholar at the nine-month Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership, sponsored by the CDC/ASPH.

Cultural Anthropology student Aysecan Terzioglu has a Fall 2004 teaching position at Fordham University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Dr. Bea Vidacs (PhD 2002) is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Baruch College.

Dr. Suzanne Walker (PhD 1993) is an assistant professor of anthropology at Southwest Missouri State University. Her dissertation was "Positional Adaptations and Ecology of the Pitheciini."

Dr. Danning Wang (PhD 2002) is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Dowling College on Long Island, New York.

Dr. Alisse Waterston (PhD 1990) is an associate professor in cultural anthropology at John Jay College. Her dissertation was "Aspects of Street Addict Life."

Dr. Maritza Williams (PhD 2001) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Colby College in Maine.

Dr. Jim Woollet (PhD 2003) is a tenure-track prehistoric archaeologist in the Department d'Histoire, Université Laval, in Québec City, Québec, a position he begann in May 2004.

Dr. Kee How Yong (PhD 2003) has a one-year substitute assistant professorship in the Department of Anthropology at Brooklyn College.

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