UConn Anthropology Graduates by Year

2020

• Olivia Marcus: Ayahuasca Therapies: The Making and Remaking of Traditional Healing in Global Context

 

2018

• Madelynn von Baeyer: Seeds of Complexity: An Archaeobotanical Study of Incipient Social Complexity at Late Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük, Turkey
• Jordan Kiper: Propaganda and Mass Violence in the Yugoslav Wars: A Post-Conflict Ethnography

 

2017

• Bill Farley: Pequot Cultural Entanglement in 17th-Century Connecticut
• Ronnie Shepard: Soaking in Manhood: (Re)Negotiating Masculinities and Sexualities in the Spas of Quito, Ecuador
• Zachary Singer: The Paleoindian Occupation of Southern New England: Evaluating Sub-Regional Variation in Paleoindian Lifeways in the New England-Maritimes Region.
• Jackie Meier: Tracing economic, ritual, and social pathways to Neolithization in the southern Levant through human-animal relationships at Kfar HaHoresh.
• Jennifer Cook: Legal permanent migration, strategic il/legalization, and intergenerational social mobility in a transnational migrant network.

 

2016

• Melissa Kerr Chiovenda: Cultural Trauma, History Making, and the Politics of Ethnic Identity among Afghan Hazaras
• David Leslie: Stable Isotopic Evidence for Landscape Environmental Reconstructions, Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.
• Richard Colon: Fraternal Force: A Cultural Intervention to Alter the Way Fraternities Communicate and Conceptualize Sexual Violence.
• Catherine Buerger: Claiming the State: The Impact of Human Rights Education and Legal Mobilization on Ghanaian Political Subjectivity.
• Sylvia Jalil-Gutierrez: Health Care Experiences of the Uninsured at the Dawn of the 21st Century.
• Shir Lerman: ‘Un Pueblo tan Dulce’: Diabetes, Depression, and Obesity Syndemics in Puerto Rico.

 

2015

• Marie Brault: Married Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low-Income Communities in Mumbai, India.
• Nicholas Blegen: The Middle Stone Age on the Margins: Chronological and archaeological contexts for hominin behavioral evolution in the Middle and Late Pleistocene of East Africa.
• Jamie Grant: Geomorphology of the Connecticut River, as a Spatial-Temporal Context for Understanding Pre-contact Settlement Patterns.
• Martin Gabriel Hrynick: Wabanaki Architecture in Historical and Archaeological Context
• Rebecca Nelson: Giving Ideas, Taking Photos: Volunteer Tourism and Cultural Production in a Guatemalan Women’s Weaving Cooperative.
• Rita Offiaeli: When the Kola nut (Cola acuminata) Meets The Electric Slide: Constructing Transnationalisms.
• Dianne M. Schindler: Transgender Kinship: Transforming Family.

 

2014

• Robert Allen Booth: Museums at the Margins of Europe: Slovenian Museums as Sites of Identity Apprehension.
  • Cyndi Frank: HIV Infection: Solitary Work, Silent Suffering: Beliefs about Responsibility for Health and the Ability to Impact Disease Progression.
  • Philip Jacob Glauberman: Middle Palaeolithic Regional Land-Use and Behavior in Dutch and Belgian Limburg: Integrating Data from Upland Open-Air Sites.
  • Ruthanne Marcus: Women’s Discourse on the Homeless Experience: It’s About Love and Loss.
  • Tiziana Matarazzo: Micromorphological Analysis of Activity Areas at the Early Bronze Age (EBA) Village of T.A.V. Afragola in Southern Italy.
  • Bayla Ostrach: In the Wake of Policy Change: Women’s Experiences with Obstacles to Care Following Implementation of Publicly Funded Abortion in Catalunya.

 

2013

• Marisa L. Prosser: Cultural Identity in Costa Rica: Implications for the Well- being of Nicaraguan Immigrants.
  • Katharine Brooks Richards: International Trials, Rule of Law and Local Legal Consciousness in Croatia: Can International Justice Transform Local Norms?

 

2012

• Nicola Bulled: (Re) distribution of blame: Politics of HIV knowledge among youth in Lesotho.
  • Anna Marie Nicolaysen: Empowering Small Farmers in India through Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation.
  • Benjamin Grant Purzycki: Finding Minds in the Natural World: Dynamics of the Religious System in the Tyva Republic
  • John H. Shaver: The Behavioral Ecology of Fijian Religion.
  • Nathan Wales: Ancient DNA from Archaeobotanical Remains: The Next
  Generation.

 

2011

• Traci H. Abraham: Struggling Toward al-Andalus: An Exploration of Attitudes in Andalusia Toward Immigration from Morocco.
  • Shan-Estelle Brown: Cultural Models of Genetic Screening and Perceptions of Sickle Cell Disease in High-Risk Guadeloupean French Communities.
  • Philip J. Graham: Ubaid Agriculture at Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey.
  • Sarah Patricia Sportman: Halcyon Days: The Historical Archaeology of
  Community and Identity at Hammondville, New York, 1870-1900.

2010

• Ann M. Cheney: The Contours of Womanhood: Living with “Eating Disorders” in Southern Italy.
  • Rebecca Beebe: Cultural Normalization of Violence among a Detention Population.
  • Asha Cat Srinivasan Shipman: Mate Selection in Modern India.
  • Susan DiVietro: “Sanctions and Sanctuary” Revisited: Domestic Violence and
  Cultural Models of Intervention.
  • Kateryna Maltseva: Values and Norms of Prosocial Behavior in Modern Sweden.

 

2009

• Elaine M. Bennett: Understanding Childhood Malnutrition in a Maya Village in Guatemala: A Syndemic Perspective.
  • Blaire Ort Gagnon: Powwow Arts and Crafts Markets and the Engendering of Social Relationships.
  • Jason Richard Mancini: Beyond Reservation: Indian Survivance in Southern New England and Eastern Long Island, 1713-1861.
  • Lara Louise Watkins: Beyond Ethnicity as Risk Factor: Biocultural Context and Correlates of Type 2 Diabetes in a Cambodian American Community.

 

2008

• Akeia A. Benard: The Free African American Cultural Landscape at Newport, RI, 1774-1826.

 

2007

• James Cedric Woods: Contemporary Native American tribes of southern New England: the Mashantucket Pequot of Connecticut and the Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts.

 

2006

• Candace Storey Alcorta: Youth, Religion, and Resilience.