PhD’s in Anthropology
Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
Francis Manzella (PhD – May 2019) |
“What Medical Tourism Tells Us About Global Health Diplomacy and Governance: An Organizational Analysis of Civil Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil” | |
Jonnie Marks (PhD – May 1998) |
“Gut Feelings, the Holy Spirit, and a Processed World: Embodied Knowledge of Breast Cancer Risks in African-American Women“ | |
Kate E. Masley, Ph.D., CD (DONA) (PhD – August 2007) |
“Living the ‘Latina Paradox’: An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexican Immigrants in Northeast Ohio” |
Adjunct LecturerDepartment of Sociology, Carroll UniversityWeblinkOnline Instructor, College of Health SciencesTrident International |
Dale McCall (PhD – 1976) |
“A Study of the Relationship between the PTC Tasting Polymorphism and the Peroxidase of Human Saliva with Reference to Extrathyroidal Metabolism of Iodine” | |
Stephanie McClure (PhD – May 2013) |
“It’s Just Gym: African-American Adolescent Girls Enacting Physicality-Informed Identity in School Settings” |
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science & Health EducationSt. Louis University |
Kathryn McGowan (PhD – January 2005) |
“A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States” | |
Carmit McMullen (PhD – May 2003) |
“Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity among African-American Elders” |
Investigator Kaiser Permanente Center for Health ResearchWeblink |
Hillary Melchiors (Ph.D., August 2014) |
“Subjective Well-Being, Bicultural Citizenship and Identity: An Ethnography of Turkish-German Adolescent Girls in Berlin, Germany” |
Doula, Doula Group of EvansvilleWeblink |
Sarah Miller-Fellows (Ph.D., May 2019) |
“Making Medicine Amish” |
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Lisa Mitchell (PhD – May 1993) |
“Making Babies: Routine Ultrasound Imaging and the Cultural Construction of the Fetus in Montreal, Canada” |
Associate ProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of VictoriaWeblink |
Michelle Nebergall (PhD – August 2014) |
“Understanding Perceptions of Risk Among Youth in a South African Township” |
Clinical Trials ManagerFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Elizabeth Olson (PhD – August 2009) |
“Nahua People of the Sierra of Manantlan Biosphere Reserve: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in Mexico” |
Assistant Professor of AnthropologyHistory, Sociology, and AnthropologySouthern Utah UniversityWeblink |
Kinuko Omori (PhD – January 1994) |
“Sociocultural Influences on Child Health and Nutritional Status in Karen Highlanders of Thailand” (Deceased) |
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Kathryn Oths (PhD – May 1991) |
“Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes” |
Professor, Department of AnthropologyUniversity of AlabamaWeblink |
Gregory Pappas (MD – 1986; PhD – May 1986) |
“The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community” |
Senior Deputy DirectorDC Department of Health HAHSTAHAHSTA, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, TB AdministrationDepartment of Health District of Columbia |
Isabel Parraga (PhD – May 1992) |
“Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children“ |
Emeriti Associate ProfessorDepartment of MS in Public Health NutritionCase Western Reserve University |
Micah Parzen (PhD – January 2001) |
“Culturally Appropriate” Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy for Navajo Youth” |
Chief Executive Officer, San Diego Museum of ManWeblink |
Jessica Price (PhD – May 2002) |
“Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in a Central African Town” | |
Bruce Rippeteau (PhD – August 1973) |
“The Principles and Theory of Radiocarbon Chronology and a Radiocarbon Chronology for LIthic Variation in the Northeastern United States during 3,000 to 500 Calendrical Years B.C.” |
Adjunct Faculty, AnthropologyUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln |
James Ross (PhD – June 1981) |
“Hindu and Tibetan Reproduction and Fertility in Northwestern Nepal: A Study of Population, Ecology, and Economics” (Deceased) |
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Sarah Rubin (Ph.D., August 2014) |
“Struggling and Coping with Life: Maternal Emotional Distress in a South African Township” |
Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine-Cleveland CampusOhio University |
Charles Rwabukwali (PhD – May 1997) |
Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors” |
ProfessorSociology
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Christina Saunders Sturm (PhD – May 2002) |
“Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living with Breast Cancer “ |
Research Professional |
John Scarry (PhD – 1984) |
“Fort Walton Development: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Southeast“ |
Research Associate ProfessorResearch Labs of Archeology / Anthropology
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Allison Schlosser (PhD – |
“Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the United States.” |
Postdoctoral FellowSchool of MedicineCase Western Reserve University |
Robert Schrauf (PhD – May 1995) |
“Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory “ |
Professor / Head of DepartmentDepartment of Applied LinguisticsPennsylvania State UniversityWeblink |
Anita Shankar (PhD – 1995) |
In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children “ |
Research AssociateSchool of Public HealthJohns Hopkins UniversityWeblink |
Jennifer Shaw (PhD – August 2013) |
“Navigating at a Double Crossroads: The Role of Subsistence in the Subjective Wellbeing of Dena’ina Athabascan Youth in Alaska“ |
Senior ResearcherSouthcentral FoundationAnchorage, Alaska |
Joanna Skilogianis (Ph.D., January 2001) |
“Great Expectations vs. State Expectations: Fertility Limitation among Women in Urban Greece ” (Deceased) |
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James Spilsbury (Ph.D., January 2002) |
“Hazards and Help-Seeking in Inner-City Cleveland: The Child’s Perception of Neighborhood Danger, Safety, and Support “ |
Assistant Professor and Director Center for Clinical InvestigationSchool of Medicine
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David Stothers (Ph.D., 1974) |
The Princess Point Complex” (Deceased) |
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Dorice Tentchoff (Ph.D., January 1977) |
Speech in Louisiana Cajun Community ” (Retired) |
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Elena Tempeanu (Ph.D., August 1993) | “The Rise of Complex Society in the Eastern Carpatho-Danubian Region (Last Millennium B.C.)(Romania, Iron Production, Dacia) “ | |
Preecha Upayokin (Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Treatment Choice, Disease Outcome and Stigma: An Investigation of Leprosy Patients and Illness Behavior in Thailand “ |
Associate ProfessorDirector of the Center for Academic ServicesMae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai |
Colleen Walsh (Ph.D., May 2011) |
“Gardening Together: Social Capital, Health Inequality, and the Cultivation of Urban Community “ |
Assistant Professor, School of Health ScienceCollege of Science and Health ProfessionsCleveland State University |
Jing Wang (PhD – May 2018) |
“Growing Old with Daughters: Aging, Care, and Change in the Matrilocal Family System in Rural Tibet.” |
Postdoctoral FellowDepartment of EthnologyYunnan University |
Nancy White (Ph.D., 1982) |
“The Curlee Site (8Ja7) and Fort Walton Development in the Upper Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Florida, Georgia, Alabama“ |
ProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of South FloridaWeblink |
Sarah Williams-Blangero (Ph.D., May 1987) |
“Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal” |
Director, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity InstituteDirector, Edinburg Regional Academic Health CenterProfessor, School of MedicineUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
Margaret Winchester (Ph.D., January 2011) |
“Living with Globalization: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Treatment in Uganda” |
Research Associate and CoordinatorPan University Network for Global HealthPennsylvania State UniversityWeblink |
Nyamdorf Yandag (Ph.D., may 2000) |
“Basal Metabolic Rate of Mongolian Pastoral Nomads” | |
Pamela Zahorik (Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Juvenile Diabetes: A Study of Children’s Perceptions of their Illness (Diabetes)“ | |
Maggie Zraly (Ph.D., January 2008) |
“Bearing: Resilience Among Genocide-Rape Survivors in Rwanda” |
Child Protection AdvisorChildFund International |