recent alumni
 Ben Luley |  Sarah Graff |  Rebecca Graff |  Steve Kosiba |  Hannah Chazin |
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 Tate Paulette |  Laura Popova |  Jason Ramsey |  Leann Pace |  Hu Lin |
 David Aftandilian |  Charles Musiba |  Ed Swenson |  Melissa Rosenzweig |  David Peterson |
 Lori Wright |  Geneviève Godbout |  Ian Straughn |  Maureen Marshall |  Alex Hartnett |
 Andrew Bauer |  Alan Greene |  Matthew Seddon |  Nicole Couture |  Santiago Giraldo |
 David Pacifico |  Alison Kohn |  Carolina Lopez-Ruiz |  Kay Scaramelli |  Kassandra Jackson Miller |
 Zach Chase |  Ann Pautnaude |  Megan Nutzman |  Toby Hartnell |  Kathryn Franklin |
 Karim Mata |  Elizabeth Fagan |  Kristyn Mahealani Hara |  Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer |  Hu Lin |
 Krista Lewis |  Franz Scaramelli |  Adela Amaral |  Brian Wilson |  Barra O'Donnabhain |
 Jason Ur |  Paul Keen |  Deborah Blom |  John Janusek |  Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria |
 Madeleine McCleester |  Magnus Fiskesjö |  Martin Giesso |  Mary Evins |  Namita Sugandhi |
 Joseph Baruffi |  Maria Cecilia Lozada-Cerna |  Brien Garnand |  Heather Stettler |  Anna Guengerich |
 Michelle Lelièvre |  Ryan Gray |  Mary Leighton |  Erika Jeck |  Joshua Vera |
 Peter Johansen |  James Pokines |  Joe Bonni |  Megan Edwards Alvarez |  Julie Hanlon |
 Natasha Ayers |  Chris Begley |  Michael Morse |  Aimee Genova |  Haeden Stewart |
 Lauren Zych |  Charles Hartley |  Elizabeth Rega |  Mudit Trivedi |  Kathryn Grossman |
 Samuel Harris |  Josh Cannon |  Chad Fauber |  Oren Siegel |  Claudio Sansone |
 Michael Fisher |  Anthony Lauricella |  Sarah Adcock |  Akiva Sanders |  Michael Johnson |
 Emily Wilson |  Mannat Johal |  Matthew Knisely |  Emma Hite |  Johanna Pacyga |
 Raghda "Didi" El-Behaedi |
Sarah Adcock
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2020): After the End: Animal Economies, Collapse and Continuity in Hittite and Post-Hittite Anatolia.
David Aftandilian
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2007): Animals, Agriculture, and Religion among Native Americans in Precontact Illinois: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Perception and Representation.
Natasha Ayers
NELC
PhD dissertation (2017): Cultural Change in Upper Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period: A New Analysis of the Ceramic Material.
Megan Edwards Alvarez
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2018): Transforming the Irish Spirit: Colonialism through the Commodification of "Drinkways" in Early Modern Ireland, c. 1540-1700.
Adela Amaral
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2015): The Archaeology of a Maroon Reduccion: Colonial Beginnings to Present Day Ruination.
Patricia Anderson
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1998): Yula, Yucatan, Mexico: Terminal Classic Maya Settlement and Political Organization in the Chichen Itza Polity.
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Jonah Augustine
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2019): Style, Aesthetics, and Politics: Polychrome Ceramic Iconography in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100.
Rozenn F. Baiieul-LeSuer
Egyptology
PhD dissertation (2016): The Exploitation of Live Avian Resources in Pharaonic Egypt: A Socio-Economic Study.
Joseph Baruffi
Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (1998): Amphibious Operations in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean and Near East.
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Andrew Bauer
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2010): Socializing environments and ecologizing politics: Social differentiation and the production of nature in Iron Age northern Karnataka.
Christopher Begley
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1999): Elite Power Strategies and External Connections in Ancient Eastern Honduras.
Deborah Blom
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1999): Tiwanaku Regional Interaction and social Identity: A Bioarchaeological Approach.
Joe Bonni
Anthropology
PhD Dissertation (2018): Everything if Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empire.
Josh Cannon
NELC
PhD dissertation (2020): Painted Ceramic Traditions and Rural Communities in Hittite Anatolia.
Zachary Chase
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2016): Performing the Past in the Historical, Ritual, and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochirí, Perú (ca. AD 1400-1700).
Hannah Chazin
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2016): The Politics of Pasture: The Organization of Pastoral Practices and Political Authority in the Late Bronze Age in the South Caucasus.
Nicole Couture
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2002): The construction of power: monumental space and elite residence at Tiwanaku, Bolivia.
Anne Cunningham
Raghda "Didi" El-Behaedi
NELC
PhD dissertation (2024): A Story of Resilience: Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geophysical Techniques to Reconstruct Paleolake and Settlement Development in the Egyptian Fayum Depression.
Mary Evins
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1998): Reorganization and Intensification on the Mesopotamian Periphery: Late Prehistoric Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Karababa Basin, Southeastern Turkey.
Elizabeth Fagan
NELC
PhD dissertation (2015): Narratives in the Landscape: Political Discourses of Authority and Identity in the Armenian Highland, ca. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.
Chad Fauber
History
PhD dissertation (2002): Archaic Kerkyra: An Historiographic Examination of the Formation and Formulation of an Ancient Greek Polis
Michael Fisher
NELC
PhD dissertation (2017): The Late Chalcolithic 1 Period in Northern Mesopotamia: Tell Zeidan, Syria, in Regional Context.
Magnus Fiskesjö
Kathryn Franklin
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2016): This World is an Inn: Cosmopolitanism and Caravan Trade in late Medieval Armenia.
Brien Garnand
Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (2006): The Use of Phoenician Infant Sacrifice in the Formation of Ethnic Identities.
Aimee Genova
History
PhD dissertation (2018): Strategies of Resistance: Cretan Archaeology and Political Networks During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century.
Martin Giesso
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2000): Stone Tool Production in the Tiwanaku Heartland: The Impact of State Emergence and Expansion on Local Households.
Santiago Giraldo
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2009): Lords of the Snowy Ranges: Politics, Place, and Landscape Transformation in Two Tairona Towns in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Geneviève Godbout
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2016): A House in Waiting: Food and Hospitality on Antiguan Plantations, 1783-1904.
Rebecca Graff
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2011): The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Consumption, Tourism, and the Archaeology of Event in Chicago's Jackson Park.
Sarah Graff
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2006): Economy and Society: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the Political and Informal Economy of Northwestern Syria in the Third Millennium BC.
Ryan Gray
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2012): Effacing the "Imagined Slum": Space, Subjectivity, and Sociality in the Margins of New Orleans.
Alan Greene
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2013): The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Ceramic Production, Distribution, and Consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus.
Kathryn Grossman
Anna Guengerich
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2014): Monte Viudo: Residential Architecture and the Everyday Production of Space in a Chachapoya Village.
Julie Hanlon
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2018): Jain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Early Historic South India.
Kristyn Nicole Mahealani Hara
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2017): Institutionalizing Incorporation: Foodways, Sectarian Pluralism, and Royal Authority at the Capital Āśramas of Angkor, Cambodia.
Charles Hartley
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2019): Community, Pottery, and Political Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE.
Toby Hartnell
NELC
PhD dissertation (2012): Persepolis in context: A landscape study of political economy in ancient Persia.
Alexandra Hartnett
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2010): The Virtues of Vice: Colonialism, Consumption and the Politics of Identity in Late and Post-Medieval Galway, Ireland.
Emma Hite
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2023): Into the Pastoral Fold: Assembling a Xiongnu Social World at Elst Ar.
John Janusek †
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1994): State and local power in a prehispanic Andean polity : changing patterns of urban residence in Tiwanaku and Lukurmata, Bolivia.
Erika Jeck
History
PhD dissertation (2018): Producing a Province: Suburbanization and Agriculture in the Social Landscape of Roman Greece.
Mannat Johal
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2022): Tempered by time: Ceramics and the fabric of time in medieval (12th-14th century) South India.
Peter Johansen
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2009): A Political Economy of Space: Social Organization and the Production of an Iron Age Settlement Landscape in Northern Karnataka.
Michael Johnson
NELC
PhD dissertation (2020): Crafting Culture at Alalakh: Tell Atchana and the Political Economy of Metallurgy.
Paul Keen
Classics: Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (2012): Land of Experiment: The Ptolemies and the Development of Hellenistic Cyprus, 312–58 BC.
Matthew Knisely
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2021): Historical Landscapes of the Sandawe Homeland, Central Tanzania.
Alison Kohn
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2010): Of Bricks and Blood: Vernacular Spatial Practice and Social Relations in the City of LaPaz, Bolivia
Steven Kosiba
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2009): Becoming Inka: The Transformation of Political Place and Practice during Inka State Formation (Cusco, Perú).
Anthony Lauricella
NELC
PhD dissertation (2020): Reuse to Ruin: The Persistence of the Umayyad Built Landscape.
Mary Leighton
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2014): Uneven Fields: Transnational Expertise and the Practice of Andean Archaeology.
Michelle Lelièvre
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2012): "Ajiwsin (You move from one place to another)": Mobility, Emplacement and Politics in (Post-)colonial Nova Scotia.
Krista Lewis
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2005): Space and the Spice of Life: Food, Politics and Landscape in Ancient Yemen.
Hu Lin
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2009): Urban Landscape and Politics: The Making of Liao Cities in Southeast Inner Mongolia.
Carolina López-Ruiz
Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (2004): The Sons of Earth and the Starry Heaven: Greek Theogonic Traditions and their Northwest Semitic Background.
Maria Cecilia Lozada-Cerna
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1998): The Senorio of Chiribaya: A Bio-archaeological Study In the Osmore Drainage of Southern Peru.
Ben Luley
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2011): Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: The Impact of the Roman State in Southern Gaul.
Maureen Marshall
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2014): Subject(ed) bodies: A bioarchaeological investigation of Late Bronze Age - iron I (1500-800 B.C.) Armenia.
Karim Mata
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2017): Values Materialized: An Interdisciplinary Archaeology of Socio-historical Transformation in the Celto-Germanic Iron Age and Roman Period.
Madeleine McLeester
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2017): Moving Mosaics: Locating the Mobile Foundations of Chicago's Late Prehistoric Landscapes.
Kassandra Jackson Miller
Classics: Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (2016): A Doctor on the Clock: Hourly Timekeeping and Galen’s Scientific Method.
Michael Morse
History of Science
PhD dissertation (1999): Redefining the Celts: Rival Disciplinary Traditions and the Peopling of the British Isles, 1706-1904,
Charles Musiba
Anthropology
PhD Dissertation (1999): Laetoli Pliocene Paleoecology: A Reanalysis via Morphological and Behavioral Approaches.
Megan Nutzman
Classics: Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World
PhD dissertation (2014): A Hotbed of Healing: Ritual Cures in Roman and Late Antique Syria-Palestine.
Bara O'Donnabhain
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2001): Immigrants and Indigenes: Morphological Variability and Irish-Viking Interactions in the Early Historic Period.
Leann Pace
NELC
PhD dissertation (2011): Consuming Transitions: A Study of Ceramic Vessels Associated with Cooking and Serving Practices in the Levant during the Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age Transition.
David Pacifico
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2014): Neighborhood Politics: Diversity, Community, and Authority at El Purgatorio, Peru.
Johanna Pacyga
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2021): Missionization, Colonialism, Gender & Religion, West Africa, North America, French Empire, Human-Plant Relationships, Archives, Archaeology.
Ann Patnaude
Art History
PhD dissertation (2014): Locating Identity: Mixed Inscriptions and Multiple Media in Greek Art.
Tate Paulette
NELC
PhD dissertation (2015): Grain storage and the moral economy in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC).
David Peterson
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2007): Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Eurasian Steppes and Caucasus, ca 3000-1500 BCE.
James Pokines
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1997): Microfaunal Indicators of Paleoenvironment from El Juyo, Santander, Spain.
Laura Popova
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2006): Political Pastures: Navigating the Steppe in the Middle Volga Region (Russia) during the Bronze Age.
Jason Ramsey
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2015): Spaces of Possession: Negotiating 'Ruin' at the Mexican Periphery.
Elizabeth Rega
Anthropology
PhD Dissertation (1995): Biological Correlates of Social Structure in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin (former Yugoslavia).
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2002): Food, Eating and Objects of Power: Class Stratification and Ceramic Production and Consumption in Colonial Mexico.
Mara Elena Rosenthal
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1991): Realms of Ritual: The Form and Rise of Civitas and Urbs in Southeastern Viti Levu, Fiji.
Melissa Rosenzweig
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2014): Imperial environments: The politics of agricultural practice at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey in the first millennium BCE.
Akiva Sanders
NELC
PhD dissertation (2021): Confrontation and Innovation Between Highland and Lowland: the Upper Euphrates Region in the Early Third Millennium BCE.
Claudio Sansone
Comparative Literature
PhD dissertation (2021): Poetics of Unease: Affect and Labor in Ancient Greek, near Eastern, and Indic Poetry.
Franz Scaramelli
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2004): Material Culture, Colonialism, and Identity in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela. 2004 Edward Swenson, Ritual and Power in the Urban Hinterland: Religious Pluralism and Political Decentralization in Late Moche Jequetepeque, Peru.
Kay Scaramelli
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2006): Picking Up the Pieces: Ceramic Production and Consumption on the Middle Orinoco
Colonial Frontier.
Matthew Seddon
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1998): Ritual, Power, and the Development of a Complex society: The Island of the Sun and the Tiwanaku State.
Kirsten Anderson Segal
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2001): Bioarchaeological Analysis of St. Jorgensgard, A Medieval Leprosy Hospital in Odense, Denmark.
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Oren Siegel
NELC
PhD dissertation (2020): Walls of the Rulers: The Development of Monumental Enclosure Walls in Ancient Egypt Prior to the New Kingdom
Heather Stettler
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1998): Material Culture and Behavioral Change: Organic Artifacts from the Site of El Juyo and the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic.
Haeden Stewart
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2019): In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine.
Ian Straughn
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2006): Materializing Islam: An Archaeology of Landscape in Early Islamic Period Syria (c. 600- 1000 CE).
Namita Sugandhi
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2008): Between the Patterns of History: Rethinking Muaryan Imperial Interaction in the Southern Deccan.
Edward Swenson
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2004): Ritual and Power in the Urban Hinterland: Religious Pluralism and Political Decentralization in Late Moche Jequetepeque, Peru.
Mudit Trivedi
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2020): The Archaeology of Virtue: Tradition, Islam and the Materiality of Conversion in Medieval North India.
Jason Ur
NELC
PhD dissertation (2004): Urbanism and Society in the Third Millennium Upper Khabur Basin.
Joshua Vera
History
PhD dissertation (2018): How to Move a God: Shifting Religion and Imperial Identities in Roman Athens.
Ann Webster
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1993): The Role of the Camelid in the Development of Tiwanaku State.
Emily Wilson
Classics
PhD dissertation (2018): What’s in a name? Identity, Difference, Archaeology, and the Ionian Experience in the Archaic Period.
Lori Wright
Anthropology
PhD Dissertation (1994): The Sacrifice of the Earth? Diet, Health and Inequality in the Pasion Maya Lowlands.
Lauren Zych
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2019): Hybrid Objects and InterculturalL Assemblages: Low-Fired Handmade Earthenwares in Colonial New Orleans.