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PhD’s in Anthropology
| by Last Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Marissa Abbe (PhD – January 2011) |
“An Analysis of Cultural Competence, Cultural Difference, and Communication Strategies in Medical Care” |
Research Scientist Children’s Medical Center Emergency Department/Injury Prevention Program |
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Kathleen Joy Adams (PhD – August 1972) |
“The Barama River Caribs of Guyana Restudied: Forty Years of Cultural Adaption and Population Change” | |
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Sarah Adler (PhD – January 2008) |
“The Influence of Burmese Buddhist Understandings of Suffering on the Subjective Experience and Social Perceptions of Schizophrenia” | |
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Aylin Atillasoy (PhD – May 1996) |
“Daily Survival Versus the Threat of AIDS: Street Youth and the Street Economy in New York City “ | |
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Timi Barone (PhD -May 1997) |
“Perceived Stress and Health in British and Asian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients” |
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology & Sociology University of Nebraska |
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Donna Benson (PhD – 1987) |
“Pleasant Bottoms: The Cooperative Years, 1784-1826 (Ohio Decorative Arts, Folklore)” | |
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Yewoubdar Beyene (PhD – 1985) |
“An Ethnography of Menopause: Menopausal Experiences of Mayan Women in a Yucatan Village” |
Professor Institute for Health & Aging School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco |
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John Blangero (PhD – 1987) |
“Population Genetic Approaches to Phenotypic Microevolution in the Jirels of Nepal” |
Professor & Director, Genomics Computing Center, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
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Frederick Bloom (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, STD Division |
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Amy Blue (PhD – May 1991) |
“Culture, Nevra, and Institution: The Making of Greek Professional Ehtnopsychiatry” |
Interim Department Chair Associate Dean for Educational Affairs and Clinical Professor Associate Vice President for Interprofessional Education College of Public Health and Health Professions Department of Behavorial Science and Community Health University of Florida |
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Jeffrey Borkan (MD – 1984; PhD – 1987) |
“Occupational Health and Safety in Context: An Examination of Three Polyurethane Foam Plants in Israel” |
Physician-in-Chief of Family Medicine Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Family Medicine |
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Alex Bridges (PhD – May 2017) |
“Two Monasteries in Ladakh: Religiosity and the Social Environment in Tibetan Buddhism.” | |
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Sarah Bridges (Rundall) (PhD – January 2016) |
“Culture, Environment, and Experiences of Disability in Ladakh, India” |
Director of Faculty Grants, Office of Government Grants and Sponsored Programs Gustavus Adolphus College |
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Sherylyn Briller (PhD – May 2000) |
“Whom Can I Count on Today?: Contextualizing the Balance of Family and Government Old Age Support for Rural Pensioners in Mongolia” |
Associate Professor, Anthropology/STON Purdue University. |
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Elizabeth Carpenter-Song (PhD – August 2007) |
“Lived Experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families” |
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dartmouth University |
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Ariel Cascio (PhD – May 2015) |
” Biopolitics and Subjectivity: The Case of Autism Spectrum Conditions In Italy” |
Postdoctoral Fellow Neuroethics Research Unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM) |
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Brad Cassuci (PhD – August 2015) |
“A Cold Wind: Local Maasai Perceptions of the Common Health Landscape in Narok South” | |
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Sarah Chard (PhD – August 2001) |
“Ugandan Women’s Health Beliefs, Social Networks and Tuberculosis Treatment Seeking” |
Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Maryland Baltimore County |
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Shiuan Sanna Chen (PhD – January 2011) |
“Zuo Yue Zi Sitting the Month in Taiwan: Implications for Intergenerational Relations” | |
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Yunzhu Chen (PhD – May 2019) |
“The Revival of “Visiting Marriage” – Family Change and Intergenerational Relations Among Matrilineal Tibetans in Southwestern China.” |
Co-Principle Investigator Department of Anthropology Case Western Reserve University |
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Jacklyn Chisholm (PhD – May 2002) |
“Self-Identity and the Acquisition of Cultural Knowledge in University Settings” |
President and CEO Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (CEOGC) |
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Elizabeth Coker (PhD – January 2001) |
“The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols through Biomedical Discourse” |
Director of Community Research & Development Center for Strong Studies University of Washington, Tacoma |
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Margaret Cooney (PhD – May 2002) |
“The Experience and Knowledge of Menopause among Low-Income Cleveland Women” |
Data Quality Manager | Evaluator Frontline Service, formerly MHS |
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Robert Dirks (PhD – 1972) |
“Networks, Groups, and Local-Level Politics in an Afro-Caribbean Community” |
Professor Emeritus Illinois State University |
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Christopher Dole (PhD – May 2002) |
“Outlaws, Swindlers, and Authentic Healers: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey” |
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology Amherst College |
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Susan Dorsky (PhD – May 1981) |
“Women’s Lives in a North Yemeni Highland Town” | |
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Delia Easton (PhD – January 1998) |
“The Cultural Context of Puerto Rican Adolescents’ Perception of HIV Risk” |
Evaluation Specialist Bureau of Immunization, NYSDOH |
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Michelle Eder (PhD – January 2006) |
“Parental Decision-Making About Children’s Participation in Clinical Research” |
Research Associate Center for Health Research Northwest Kaiser Permanente Northwest |
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Nadia El-Shaarawi (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 of Global Studies Colby College |
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Lillian Emmons (PhD – May 1989) |
“Determinants of Dieting Behavior and Eating Disorders in High School Students” | |
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Regina Feldman (PhD – January 1999) |
“Burning Ashes-An Anthropological Study of Intellectual and Moral Judgment in the Historian’s Debate” |
Humanities Faculty Montessori High School at University Circle |
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Maryann Foley (PhD – 1984) |
“Personal and Social Effects of Being a Carrier of Hepatitis B” | |
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Steven Folmar (PhD – May 1985) |
“Fertility and the Economic Value of Children in Pokhara Valley, Nepal” |
Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of Anthropology Wake Forest University |
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Joseph Galanek (PhD – January 2012) |
“The Social and Cultural Context of Mental Illness in Prison” |
Qualitative Researcher Population Health Sciences Division Scimetrika, LLC |
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John Garrity (PhD – May 1998) |
“The Ethos of Power: Navajo Religious Healing of Alcohol and Substance Abuse” |
Director of QI / Evaluation & Research Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board |
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Elisa Gordon (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” |
Research Associate Professor Division of Organ Transplantation Feinberg School of Medicine and Institute for Healthcare Studies Northwestern University |
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N’omi Greber (PhD – May 1976) |
“Within Ohio Hopewell: Analysis of Burial Patterns from Several Classic Sites” (Deceased) |
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Meghan Halley (PhD – January 2012) |
“Negotiating Sexuality: Ritual, Culture and Change in Rural Southern Tanzania” |
Assistant Research Anthropologist Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute |
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Charlotte Haney (Mueller) (PhD – May 2013) |
“Imperiled Femininity: Reconfiguring Gender in a Context of Heightened Violence Against Women” |
Visiting Lecturer University of Houston, Clear Lake |
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C. Jeff Jacobson, Jr. (PhD – May 2001) |
“Spirits, Demons, and Nightmares: Moral Images of Self and Other in Puerto Rican Life History and Religious Discourse” |
Associate Professor, Interim Department Head of A&S Anthropology; Research Assistant Professor Family Medicine & Anthropology University of Cincinnati |
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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 |
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David Kaawa-Mafigiri (PhD – May 2007) |
“Social Networks and Social Support for Tuberculosis Control in Kampala, Uganda” |
Lecturer Department of Social Work and Social Administration Makerere University |
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Julia Knopes (Balacko) (PhD – January 2019) |
“The Social Construction of Sufficient Knowledge at an American Medical School” |
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology Case Western Reserve University |
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Sarah Koopman Gonzalez (PhD – January 2017) |
“The Normalization of Everyday Violence: Rights, Education, and Violence Management in Salvadoran Children’s Lives” |
Research Associate Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods Case Western Reserve University |
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Yachun Gregory (Ku) (PhD – May 1991) |
“Chinese Rural Elderly in the Post Mao Era–Two Villages in Zhejiang Province” |
Instructor, Sociology Lorain County Community College |
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Sandra Laston (PhD – January 1992) |
“Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Village Children in Nepal” |
Associate Professor, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
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Lydia Lauritzen (PhD – January 2010) |
“The Making of Bioethical History” |
Assistant Nurse Manager After Care Clinic Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine |
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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” | |
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Elizabeth Lewton (PhD – August 1997) |
“Living Harmony: The Transformation of Self in Three Navajo Religious Healing Traditions” | |
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Heather Lindstrom (PhD – January 2004) |
“Aging and Modernization: A Field Study of the Determinants of Elders’ Social Status in American and Independent Samoa” |
Chief Epidemiologist Erie County Department of Health Research Assistant Professor |
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Sana Loue (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” | Professor Department of Bioethics, Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and International Health Case Western Reserve UniversityWeblink |
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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” | |
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Jonnie Marks (PhD – May 1998) |
“Gut Feelings, the Holy Spirit, and a Processed World: Embodied Knowledge of Breast Cancer Risks in African-American Women“ | |
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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 Lecturer Department of Sociology, Carroll University Online Instructor, College of Health Sciences Trident International |
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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” | |
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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 Education St. Louis University |
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Kathryn McGowan (PhD – January 2005) |
“A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States” | |
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Carmit McMullen (PhD – May 2003) |
“Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity among African-American Elders” |
Investigator Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research |
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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 Evansville |
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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 Professor Department of Anthropology University of Victoria |
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Michelle Nebergall (PhD – August 2014) |
“Understanding Perceptions of Risk Among Youth in a South African Township” |
Clinical Trials Manager Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
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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 Anthropology History, Sociology, and Anthropology Southern Utah University |
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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 Anthropology University of Alabama |
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Gregory Pappas (MD – 1986; PhD – May 1986) |
“The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community” |
Senior Deputy Director DC Department of Health HAHSTA HAHSTA, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, TB Administration Department of Health District of Columbia |
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Isabel Parraga (PhD – May 1992) |
“Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children“ |
Emeriti Associate Professor Department of MS in Public Health Nutrition Case Western Reserve University |
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Micah Parzen (PhD – January 2001) |
“Culturally Appropriate” Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy for Navajo Youth” |
Chief Executive Officer, San Diego Museum of Man |
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Jessica Price (PhD – May 2002) |
“Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in a Central African Town” | |
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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, Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
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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 Campus Ohio University |
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Charles Rwabukwali (PhD – May 1997) |
Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors” |
Professor Sociology |
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Christina Saunders Sturm (PhD – May 2002) |
“Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living with Breast Cancer “ | Research Professional |
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John Scarry (PhD – 1984) |
“Fort Walton Development: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Southeast“ |
Research Associate Professor Research Labs of Archeology / Anthropology |
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Allison Schlosser (PhD – 2018) |
“Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the United States.” |
Postdoctoral Fellow School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University |
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Robert Schrauf (PhD – May 1995) |
“Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory “ |
Professor / Head of Department Department of Applied Linguistics Pennsylvania State University |
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Anita Shankar (PhD – 1995) |
In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children “ |
Research Associate School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University |
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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 Researcher Southcentral Foundation Anchorage, Alaska |
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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 Investigation School 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) “ | |
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Preecha Upayokin (Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Treatment Choice, Disease Outcome and Stigma: An Investigation of Leprosy Patients and Illness Behavior in Thailand “ |
Associate Professor Director of the Center for Academic Services Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai |
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Colleen Walsh (Ph.D., May 2011) |
“Gardening Together: Social Capital, Health Inequality, and the Cultivation of Urban Community “ |
Assistant Professor, School of Health Science College of Science and Health Professions Cleveland State University |
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Jing Wang (PhD – May 2018) |
“Growing Old with Daughters: Aging, Care, and Change in the Matrilocal Family System in Rural Tibet.” |
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnology Yunnan University |
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Nancy White (Ph.D., 1982) |
“The Curlee Site (8Ja7) and Fort Walton Development in the Upper Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Florida, Georgia, Alabama“ |
Professor Department of Anthropology University of South Florida |
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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 Institute Director, Edinburg Regional Academic Health Center Professor, School of Medicine University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
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Margaret Winchester (Ph.D., January 2011) |
“Living with Globalization: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Treatment in Uganda” |
Research Associate and Coordinator
Pan University Network for Global Health Pennsylvania State University |
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Nyamdorf Yandag (Ph.D., may 2000) |
“Basal Metabolic Rate of Mongolian Pastoral Nomads” | |
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Pamela Zahorik (Ph.D., January 1991) |
“Juvenile Diabetes: A Study of Children’s Perceptions of their Illness (Diabetes)“ | |
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Maggie Zraly (Ph.D., January 2008) |
“Bearing: Resilience Among Genocide-Rape Survivors in Rwanda” |
Child Protection Advisor ChildFund International |