PhD's in Anthropology
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Marissa Abbe
(PhD - January 2011)
DISSERTATION TITLE:
"An Analysis of Cultural Competence, Cultural Difference, and Communication Strategies in Medical Care"
CURRENT POSITION:
Graduate Programs Coordinator
University of North Texas
Kathleen Joy Adams
(PhD - August 1972)
DISSERTATION TITLE:
"The Barama River Caribs of Guyana Restudied: Forty Years of Cultural Adaption and Population Change"
Sarah Adler
(PhD - January 2008)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Influence of Burmese Buddhist Understandings of Suffering on the Subjective Experience and Social Perceptions of Schizophrenia"
Aylin Atillasoy
(PhD - May 1996)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Daily Survival Versus the Threat of AIDS: Street Youth and the Street Economy in New York City "
Timi Barone
(PhD -May 1997)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Perceived Stress and Health in British and Asian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients"
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Nebraska
Donna Benson
(PhD - 1987)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Pleasant Bottoms: The Cooperative Years, 1784-1826 (Ohio Decorative Arts, Folklore)"
Yewoubdar Beyene
(PhD - 1985)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"An Ethnography of Menopause: Menopausal Experiences of Mayan Women in a Yucatan Village"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, SF
John Blangero
(PhD - 1987)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal"
CURRENT POSITION:
Staff Scientist
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Frederick Bloom
(PhD - January 1996)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Living in the HIV Spectrum: Life Stories and Illness Narratives of Gay Men"
CURRENT POSITION:
Deputry Associate Director of Science
Centers for Disease Control, STD Division
Amy Blue
(PhD - May 1991)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Culture, Nevra, and Institution: The Making of Greek Professional Ehtnopsychiatry"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Provost for Education, Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Jeffrey Borkan
(MD - 1984; PhD - 1987)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Occupational Health and Safety in Context: An Examination of Three Polyurethane Foam Plants in Israel"
CURRENT POSITION:
Chair, Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Sherilyn Briller
(PhD - May 2000)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Whom Can I Count on Today?: Contextualizing the Balance of Family and Government Old Age Support for Rural Pensioners in Mongolia"
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Anthropology Department
Wayne State University
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
(PhD - August 2007)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Lived Experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families"
CURRENT POSITION:
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Dartmouth University
Sarah Chard
(PhD - August 2001)
DISSERATION TITLE:
Ugandan Women's Helath Beliefs, Social Networks and Tuberculosis Treatment Seeking
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Shiuan Sanna Chen
(PhD - January 2011)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Zuo Yue Zi Sitting the Month in Taiwan: Implications for Intergenerational Relations"
Jacklyn Chisholm
(PhD - May 2002)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Self-Identity and the Acquisition of Cultural Knowledge in University Settings"
CURRENT POSITION:
Vice President of Planning and Institutional Relations
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
Elizabeth Coker
(PhD - January 2001)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols through Biomedical Discourse"
Margaret Cooney
(PhD - May 2002)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Experience and Knowledge of Menopause among Low-Income Cleveland Women"
Robert Dirks
(PhD - 1972)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Networks, Groups, and Local-Level Poitics in an Afro-Caribbean Community"
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor Emeritus
Illinois State University
Christopher Dole
(PhD - May 2002)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Outlaws, Swindlers, and Authentic Healers: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey"
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Amherst College
Susan Dorsky
(PhD - May 1981)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Women's Lives in a North Yemeni Highland Town"
Delia Easton
(PhD - January 1998)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Cultural Context of Puerto Rican Adolescents' Perception of HIV Risk"
CURRENT POSITION:
Evaluation Specialist
Bureau of Immunization, NYSDOH
Michelle Eder
(PhD - January 2006)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Parental Decision-Making About Children's Participation in Clinical Research"
Nadia El-Shaarawi
(PhD - August 2011)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Living an Uncertain Future: An Ethnopgraphy of Displacement, Health, Psychosocial Well-Being and the Search for Durable Solutions Among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt"
CURRENT POSITION:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Duke Univeristy
Lillian Emmons
(PhD - May 1989)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Determinants of Dieting Behavior and Eating Disorders in High School Students"
Regina Feldman
(PhD - January 1999)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Burning Ashes-An Anthropological Study of Intellectual and Moral Judgment in the Historian's Debate"
Maryann Foley
(PhD - 1984)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Personal and Social Effects of Being a Carrier of Hepatitits B"
Steven Folmar
(PhD - May 1985)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Fertility and the Economic Value of Children in Pokhara Valley, Nepal"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Wake Forest University
Joseph Galanek
(PhD - January 2012)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Social and Cultural Context of Mental Illness in Prison"
CURRENT POSITION:
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Washington State University, St. Louis
G. Warren Brown School of Social Work
John Garrity
(PhD - May 1998)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Ethos of Power: Navajo Religious Healing of Alcohol and Substance Abuse"
CURRENT POSITION:
Director of QI/Evaluation & Research
Alcohol, Drug Addication, and Mental Health Services Board
Elisa Gordon
(PhD - May 1999)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"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"
CURRENT POSITION:
Research Associate Professor
Division of Organ Transplantation
Feinberg School of Medicine and Institute for Healthcare Studies
Northwestern University
N'omi Greber
(PhD - May 1976)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Within Ohio Hopewell: Analysis of Burial Patterns from Several Classic Sites"
Meghan Halley
(PhD - January 2012)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Negotiating Sexuality: Ritual, Culture and Change in Rural Southern Tanzania"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Research Anthropologist
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
C. Jeff Jacobson, Jr.
(PhD - May 2001)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Spirits, Demons, and Nightmares: Moral Images of Self and Other in Puerto Rican Life History and Religious Discourse"
CURRENT POSITION:
Director Graduate Studies
Research Assistant Professor
Family Medicine & Anthropology
University of Cincinnati
Ben Jiao
(PhD - May 2001)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet"
CURRENT POSITION:
Tibet Academy of Social Sciences
David Kaawa-Mafigiri
(PhD - May 2007)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Social Networks and Social Support for Tuberculosis Control in Kampala, Uganda"
CURRENT POSITION:
Lecturer
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Makerere University
Yachun Ku
(PhD - May 1991)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Chinese Rural Elderly in the Post Mao Era--Two Villages in Zhejiang Province"
CURRENT POSITION:
Instructor
Lorain County Community College
Executive Director, Cleveland Chinese Senior Citizens Association
Sandra Laston
(PhD - January 1992)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Village Children in Nepal"
CURRENT POSITION:
Staff Scientist II
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Lydia Lauritzen
(PhD - January 2010)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Making of Bioethical History"
Anthony Layng
(PhD - 1976)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Carib Population of Dominica"
Ellen Lazarus
(PhD - January 1984)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Pregnancy and Clincial Care: An Ethnographic Investigation of Perinatal Management for Puerto Rican and Low Income Women in the United States"
Elizabeth Lewton
(PhD - August 1997)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Living Harmony: The Transofrmation of Self in Three Navajo Religious Healing Traditions"
Heather Lindstrom
(PhD - January 2004)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Aging and Modernization: A Field Study of the Determinants of Elders' Social Status in American and Independent Samoa"
CURRENT POSITION:
Research Assistant Professor
Social and Preventive Medicine
University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
Sana Loue
(PhD - August 2004)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Perceptions of Partner Violence among a Sample of Self-Identified Puerto Rican and Non-Hispanic White Men and Women in Cuyahoga County"
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor
Department of Bioethics, Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and International Health
Case Wester Reserve University
DISSERATION TITLE:
"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)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Living the 'Latina Paradox': An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexican Immigrants in Northeast Ohio"
CURRENT POSITION:
Adjunct Lecturer
Department of Sociology
Carroll University
Online Instructor, Health Sciences
Cleveland State University and Trident International
R. Dale McCall
(PhD - 1976)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"A Study of the Relationship between the PTC Tasting Polymorphism and the Peroxidase of Human Saliva with Reference to Extrathyroidal Metabolism of Iodine"
Kathryn McGowan
(PhD - January 2005)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States"
Carmit McMullen
(PhD - May 2003)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity among Afican-American Elders"
CURRENT POSITION:
Investigator
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Lisa Mitchell
(PhD - May 1993)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Making Babies: Routine Ultrasound Imaging and the Cultural Construction of the Fetus in Montreal, Canada"
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Victoria
Elizabeth Olson
(PhD - August 2009)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Nahua People of the Sierra of Manantlan Biosphere Reserve: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in Mexico"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Development
Department of Environmental Science
Allegheny Colleg
Kinuko Omori
(PhD - January 1994)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Sociocultural Influences on Child Health and Nutritional Status in Karen Highlanders of Thailand"
(Deceased)
Kathryn Oths
(PhD - May 1991)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes"
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Alabama
Gregory Pappas
(MD - 1986; PhD - May 1986)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community"
CURRENT POSITION:
Senior Deputy Director
DC Department of Health HAHSTA
HAHSTA, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, TB Administration
Department of Health District of Columbia
Isabel Parraga
(PhD - May 1992)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children"
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Department of MS in Public Health Nutrition
Case Western Reserve University
Micah Parzen
(PhD - January 2001)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Culturally Appropriate" Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy for Navajo Youth"
CURRENT POSITION:
Chief Executive Officer
San Diego Museum of Man
Jessica Price
(PhD - May 2002)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in a Central African Town"
CURRENT POSITION:
Country Director
Population Concil, Lusaka
Bruce Rippeteau
(PhD - August 1973)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"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."
James Ross
(PhD - June 1981)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Hindu and Tibetan Reproduction and Fertility in Northwester Nepal: A Study of Population, Ecology, and Economics"
(Deceased)
Charles Rwabukwali
(PhD - May 1997)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors"
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor
Sociology
Makerere University
Christina Saunders Sturm
(PhD - May 2002)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living with Breast Cancer "
John Scarry
(PhD - 1984)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Fort Walton Development: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Southeast"
CURRENT POSITION:
Lecturer
Research Labs of Archeology / Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Robert Schrauf
(PhD - May 1995)
DISSERATION TITLE:
"Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory "
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor / Head of Department
Department of Applied Linguistics
Pennsylvania State University
Anita Shankar
(PhD - 1995)
"In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children "
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Scientist
School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Joanna Skilogianis
(Ph.D., January 2001)
"Great Expectations vs. State Expectations: Fertility Limitation among Women in Urban Greece "
Deceased
James Spilsbury
(Ph.D., January 2002)
"Hazards and Help-Seeking in Inner-City Cleveland: The Child's Perception of Neighborhood Danger, Safety, and Support "
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor
CTR Clinical Investigation
Case Western Reserve University
David Stothers
(Ph.D., 1974)
"The Princess Point Complex"
Deceased
Dorice Tentchoff
(Ph.D., January 1977)
"Speech in Louisiana Cajun Community "
Retired
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 "
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor
Director of the Center for Academic Services
Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai
Colleen Walsh
(Ph.D., May 2011)
"Gardening Together: Social Capital, Health Inequality, and the Cultivation of Urban Community "
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
Nancy White
(Ph.D., 1982)
"The Curlee Site (8Ja7) and Fort Walton Development in the Upper Apalachicola-Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Florida, Georgia, Alabama"
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
Sarah Williams-Blangero
(Ph.D., May 1987)
"Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal"
CURRENT POSITION:
Chair, Scientist
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Margaret Winchester
(Ph.D., January 2011)
"Living with Globalization: The Intersection of Intimiate Partner Violence and HIV Treatment in Uganda"
CURRENT POSITION:
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Geography
Pennsylvania State University
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"
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
Utah State University