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PhD’s in Anthropology
by Last Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
Marisa Abbe (PhD – January 2011) |
“An Analysis of Cultural Competence, Cultural Difference, and Communication Strategies in Medical Care” |
Program Manager Children’s Medical Center, Dallas Injury Prevention Department |
Kathleen Joy Adams (PhD – August 1972) |
“The Barama River Caribs of Guyana Restudied: Forty Years of Cultural Adaption and Population Change” | |
Sarah Adler (PhD – January 2008) |
“The Influence of Burmese Buddhist Understandings of Suffering on the Subjective Experience and Social Perceptions of Schizophrenia” | |
Elizabeth Albert (Lewton) (PhD – August 1997) |
“Living Harmony: The Transformation of Self in Three Navajo Religious Healing Traditions” |
Senior Research Associate Case Western Reserve University Center for Community Health Integration |
Aylin Atillasoy (PhD – May 1996) |
“Daily Survival Versus the Threat of AIDS: Street Youth and the Street Economy in New York City” | |
Heather Baily (PhD – May 2020) |
“The Digital Labor Ward: Teleconsultation in Rural Ghana” |
Population/Health/Nutrition Foreign Service Officer United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
(PhD -May 1997) |
“Perceived Stress and Health in British and Asian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients” |
Associate Professor University of Nebraska, Omaha Department of Sociology & Anthropology |
Donna Benson (PhD – 1987) |
“Pleasant Bottoms: The Cooperative Years, 1784-1826 (Ohio Decorative Arts, Folklore)” | |
(PhD – 1985) |
“An Ethnography of Menopause: Menopausal Experiences of Mayan Women in a Yucatan Village” |
Professor University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health & Aging |
(PhD – 1987) |
“Population Genetic Approaches to Phenotypic Microevolution in the Jirels of Nepal” |
Professor Director, Genomics Computing Center University of Texas Rio Grande Valley South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute |
(PhD – January 1996) |
“Living in the HIV Spectrum: Life Stories and Illness Narratives of Gay Men” |
Deputy Associate Director of Science Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of STD Prevention |
(PhD – May 1991) |
“Culture, Nevra, and Institution: The Making of Greek Professional Ehtnopsychiatry” |
Clinical Professor University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions — Associate Vice President, Interprofessional Education UF Health Office |
Christine Borden-King-Jones (PhD – May 2021) |
“Storied Experience: Walking with Everyday Ghosts” |
Adjunct Minot State University |
(MD – 1984; PhD – 1987) |
“Occupational Health and Safety in Context: An Examination of Three Polyurethane Foam Plants in Israel” |
Assistant Dean, Primary Care-Population Health Chair and Professor Brown Medical School Department of Family Medicine |
Alex Bridges (PhD – May 2017) |
“Two Monasteries in Ladakh: Religiosity and the Social Environment in Tibetan Buddhism.” | |
(PhD – January 2016) |
“Culture, Environment, and Experiences of Disability in Ladakh, India” |
Assistant Dean of Research Director of Research and Sponsored Programs Gustavus Adolphus College |
(PhD – May 2000) |
“Whom Can I Count on Today?: Contextualizing the Balance of Family and Government Old Age Support for Rural Pensioners in Mongolia” |
Professor Purdue University Department of Anthropology |
(PhD – August 2007) |
“Lived Experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families” |
Research Associate Professor Dartmouth University Department of Anthropology |
(PhD – May 2015) |
“Biopolitics and Subjectivity: The Case of Autism Spectrum Conditions In Italy” |
Assistant Professor Central Michigan University College of Medicine |
Brad Cassuci (PhD – August 2015) |
“A Cold Wind: Local Maasai Perceptions of the Common Health Landscape in Narok South” | |
(PhD – August 2001) |
“Ugandan Women’s Health Beliefs, Social Networks and Tuberculosis Treatment Seeking” |
Chair University of Maryland, Baltimore County Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health |
Shiuan Sanna Chen (PhD – January 2011) |
“Zuo Yue Zi Sitting the Month in Taiwan: Implications for Intergenerational Relations” | |
(PhD – May 2019) |
“The Revival of “Visiting Marriage” – Family Change and Intergenerational Relations Among Matrilineal Tibetans in Southwestern China.” |
Co-Principal Investigator Case Western Reserve University Department of Anthropology |
(PhD – May 2002) |
“Self-Identity and the Acquisition of Cultural Knowledge in University Settings” |
President and CEO Step Forward |
Elizabeth Coker (PhD – January 2001) |
“The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols through Biomedical Discourse” |
Independent Consultant Olympia, Washington |
Margaret Cooney (PhD – May 2002) |
“The Experience and Knowledge of Menopause among Low-Income Cleveland Women” |
Data Quality Manager | Evaluator Frontline Service, formerly MHS |
(PhD – 1972) |
“Networks, Groups, and Local-Level Politics in an Afro-Caribbean Community” |
Professor Emeritus Illinois State University |
(PhD – May 2002) |
“Outlaws, Swindlers, and Authentic Healers: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey” |
Professor Amherst College Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
Susan Dorsky (PhD – May 1981) |
“Women’s Lives in a North Yemeni Highland Town” | |
Delia Easton (PhD – January 1998) |
“The Cultural Context of Puerto Rican Adolescents’ Perception of HIV Risk” |
Research Scientist New York State Department of Health |
(PhD – January 2006) |
“Parental Decision-Making About Children’s Participation in Clinical Research” |
Research Associate Kaiser Permanent Northwest Center for Health Research Northwest |
(PhD – January 2012) |
“Living an Uncertain Future: An Ethnography of Displacement, Health, Psychosocial Well-Being and the Search for Durable Solutions Among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt” |
Assistant Professor Colby College Global Studies |
Lillian Emmons (PhD – May 1989) |
“Determinants of Dieting Behavior and Eating Disorders in High School Students” | |
(PhD – January 1999) |
“Burning Ashes-An Anthropological Study of Intellectual and Moral Judgment in the Historian’s Debate” |
Program Director Metro Montessori Middle School |
Maureen Floriano (PhD – May 2021) |
“Models of Addiction and Health Seeking Behaviors: Understanding Participant Utilization of an Overdose Education and Naloxone” |
Lecturer Baldwin Wallace University |
Maryann Foley (PhD – 1984) |
“Personal and Social Effects of Being a Carrier of Hepatitis B” | |
(PhD – May 1985) |
“Fertility and the Economic Value of Children in Pokhara Valley, Nepal” |
Associate Professor and Chair Wake Forest University Department of Cultural/Applied Anthropology |
Joseph Galanek (PhD – January 2012) |
“The Social and Cultural Context of Mental Illness in Prison” |
Senior User Experience Researcher AnswerLab |
(PhD – May 1998) |
“The Ethos of Power: Navajo Religious Healing of Alcohol and Substance Abuse” |
Executive Director Mental Health & Recovery Board of Portage County |
(PhD – May 1999) |
“If it’s not Broke, Don’t Fix It: Patients’ and Clinicians’ Decision Making for Treatment of End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States” |
Professor Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
N’omi Greber (PhD – May 1976) |
“Within Ohio Hopewell: Analysis of Burial Patterns from Several Classic Sites” (Deceased) |
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(PhD – January 2012) |
“Negotiating Sexuality: Ritual, Culture and Change in Rural Southern Tanzania” |
Research Scholar Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics |
(PhD – May 2023) |
“Patients, Practice, and the Social Construction of Transgender among Adults” |
Director of Operations The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland |
(PhD – May 2013) |
“Imperiled Femininity: Reconfiguring Gender in a Context of Heightened Violence Against Women” |
Teacher Carnegie Vanguard High School |
(PhD – May 2001) |
“Spirits, Demons, and Nightmares: Moral Images of Self and Other in Puerto Rican Life History and Religious Discourse” |
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies University of Cincinnati Department of Anthropology |
Ben Jiao (PhD – May 2001) |
“Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet” |
Senior Researcher Tibet Academy of Social Sciences |
Brooke V. Jespersen (PhD – May 2023) |
“In Search of Tranquility: Migration and Older Puerto Rican Adults’ Quests for a Good Old Age” | |
(PhD – May 2007) |
“Social Networks and Social Support for Tuberculosis Control in Kampala, Uganda” |
Lecturer Makerere University Department of Social Work and Social Administration |
Kelley Kampman (PhD – May 2021) |
“Mothering on MATs: The Influence of Intensive Mothering and Biomedicalized Addiction Treatment on Opioid Addicted Women’s Mothering Practices” | |
(PhD – January 2019) |
“The Social Construction of Sufficient Knowledge at an American Medical School” |
Research Associate Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
(PhD – January 2017) |
“The Normalization of Everyday Violence: Rights, Education, and Violence Management in Salvadoran Children’s Lives” |
Research Scientist Case Western Reserve University Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods |
Yachun Gregory (Ku) (PhD – May 1991) |
“Chinese Rural Elderly in the Post Mao Era–Two Villages in Zhejiang Province” |
Instructor Lorain County Community College Sociology |
(PhD – January 1992) |
“Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Village Children in Nepal” |
Associate Professor of Research University of Texas Rio Grande Valley South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute |
(PhD – January 2010) |
“The Making of Bioethical History” |
Assistant Nurse Manager University of Washington After Care Clinic |
Anthony Layng (PhD – 1976) |
“The Carib Population of Dominica” (Deceased) |
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Ellen Lazarus (PhD – January 1984) |
“Pregnancy and Clinical Care: An Ethnographic Investigation of Perinatal Management for Puerto Rican and Low Income Women in the United States” | |
Yi Li (PhD – May 2023) |
“An Ethnographic Study of ‘The Eastern March of Tibetan Buddhism’ In Shenyang, Northeastern China” | |
(PhD – January 2004) |
“Aging and Modernization: A Field Study of the Determinants of Elders’ Social Status in American and Independent Samoa” |
Research Director and Research Assistant Professor University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Epidemiology and Environmental Health |
(PhD – August 2004) |
“Perceptions of Partner Violence among a Sample of Self-Identified Puerto Rican and Non-Hispanic White Men and Women in Cuyahoga County” |
Vice Dean, Faculty Development and Professor Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
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” |
Special Lecturer Oakland University School of Health Sciences |
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” | |
(PhD – May 2013) |
“It’s Just Gym: African-American Adolescent Girls Enacting Physicality-Informed Identity in School Settings” |
Assistant Professor University of Alabama Department of Anthropology |
Kathryn McGowan (PhD – January 2005) |
“A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States” | |
(PhD – May 2003) |
“Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity among African-American Elders” |
Senior Investigator Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research |
(Ph.D., August 2014) |
“Subjective Well-Being, Bicultural Citizenship and Identity: An Ethnography of Turkish-German Adolescent Girls in Berlin, Germany” |
Co-Founder The Birth Geeks — Doula and Childbirth Educator Doula Group of Evansville |
(Ph.D., May 2019) |
“Making Medicine Amish” |
Director of Impact Girls Empowerment Network |
(PhD – May 1993) |
“Making Babies: Routine Ultrasound Imaging and the Cultural Construction of the Fetus in Montreal, Canada” |
Associate Professor Emeritus University of Victoria Department of Anthropology |
Michelle Nebergall (PhD – August 2014) |
“Understanding Perceptions of Risk Among Youth in a South African Township” |
Clinical Trial Manager Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
(PhD – August 2009) |
“Nahua People of the Sierra of Manantlan Biosphere Reserve: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in Mexico” |
Associate Professor Southern Utah University Anthropology |
Kinuko Omori (PhD – January 1994) |
“Sociocultural Influences on Child Health and Nutritional Status in Karen Highlanders of Thailand” (Deceased) |
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(PhD – May 1991) |
“Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes” |
Professor Emeritus University of Alabama Department of Anthropology |
Gregory Pappas (MD – 1986; PhD – May 1986) |
“The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community” |
Administrator Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
Isabel Parraga (PhD – May 1992) |
“Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children“ |
Emeriti Associate Professor Case Western Reserve University Department of MS in Public Health Nutrition |
(PhD – January 2001) |
“Culturally Appropriate” Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy for Navajo Youth” |
Chief Executive Officer Museum of Us |
Raakhee Patel (PhD – May 2021) |
“An Ethnographic Study of Doctor-Patient Communication within Biomedicine and Its Indian Variant in Mumbai” | |
Jessica Price (PhD – May 2002) |
“Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in a Central African Town” | |
(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 Professor University of Nebraska, Lincoln Anthropology |
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” |
Associate Professor Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine |
(PhD – May 1997) |
Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors” |
Professor Makerere University Department of Sociology |
Christina Saunders Sturm (PhD – May 2002) |
“Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living with Breast Cancer “ | Research Professional |
(PhD – 1984) |
“Fort Walton Development: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Southeast“ |
Research Associate Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Archaeology / Anthropology |
(PhD – 2018) |
“Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the United States.” |
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska Omaha |
Megan Schmidt-Sane (PhD – May 2020) |
“Men Managing Uncertainty: The Political Economy of HIV in Urban Uganda“ |
Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Development Studies, Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform |
(PhD – May 1995) |
“Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory “ |
Professor Pennsylvania State University Department of Applied Linguistics |
(PhD – 1995) |
In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children “ |
Associate Scientist Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health |
(PhD – August 2013) |
“Navigating at a Double Crossroads: The Role of Subsistence in the Subjective Wellbeing of Dena’ina Athabascan Youth in Alaska“ |
Senior Researcher Southcentral Foundation |
Joanna Skilogianis (Ph.D., January 2001) |
“Great Expectations vs. State Expectations: Fertility Limitation among Women in Urban Greece ” (Deceased) |
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(Ph.D., January 2002) |
“Hazards and Help-Seeking in Inner-City Cleveland: The Child’s Perception of Neighborhood Danger, Safety, and Support “ |
Associate Professor Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
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 ” (Deceased) |
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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) “ | |
(Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Treatment Choice, Disease Outcome and Stigma: An Investigation of Leprosy Patients and Illness Behavior in Thailand “ |
Associate Professor Mae Fah Luang University |
(Ph.D., May 2011) |
“Gardening Together: Social Capital, Health Inequality, and the Cultivation of Urban Community “ |
Associate Professor Cleveland State University College of Sciences and Health Professions |
(PhD – May 2018) |
“Growing Old with Daughters: Aging, Care, and Change in the Matrilocal Family System in Rural Tibet.” |
Postdoctoral Fellow Yunnan University Department of Ethnology |
(Ph.D., 1982) |
“The Curlee Site (8Ja7) and Fort Walton Development in the Upper Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Florida, Georgia, Alabama“ |
Professor University of South Florida Department of Anthropology |
(Ph.D., May 1987) |
“Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal” |
HEB Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and Genomics Director, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute Professor, School of Medicine University 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” | Independent Consultant |
Nyamdorj Yandag (Ph.D., may 2000) |
“Basal Metabolic Rate of Mongolian Pastoral Nomads” |
Social Secretary Embassy of India, Ulaanbaatar |
Pamela Zahorik (Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Juvenile Diabetes: A Study of Children’s Perceptions of their Illness (Diabetes)“ | |
Yan Zhang (PhD – May 2020) |
“A Landscape of Dementia Care: Politics, Practices, and Morality in Shanghai, China” |
Research Fellow Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine |
Maggie Zraly (Ph.D., January 2008) |
“Bearing: Resilience Among Genocide-Rape Survivors in Rwanda” |
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support & Equity Advisor The MHPSS Collaborative |