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Kathleen Joy Adams
(Ph.D., 1972)
The Barama River Caribs of Guyana Restudied: Forty Years of Cultural Adaption and Population Change

Aylin Atillasoy
(Ph.D., May 1996)
Daily Survival Versus the Threat of AIDS: Street Youth and the Street Economy in New York City

Timi Barone
(Ph.D., 1997)
Perceived Stress and Health in British and Asian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Nebraska

Donna Benson
(Ph.D., 1987)
Pleasant Bottoms: The Cooperative Years, 1784-1826 (Ohio Decorative Arts, Folklore)

Yewoubdar Beyene
(Ph.D., January 1985)
An Ethnography of Menopause: Menopausal Experiences of Mayan Women in a Yucatan Village
Associate Adjunct Professor
Institute for Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, SF

John Blangero
(Ph.D., 1987)
Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal

Scientist, Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research and Southwest National Primate Research Center

Frederick Bloom
(Ph.D., January 1996)
Living in the HIV Spectrum: Life Stories and Illness Narratives of Gay Men

Amy Blue
(Ph.D., May 1991)
Culture, Nevra, and Institution: The Making of Greek Professional Ehtnopsychiatry
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Curriculum & Evaluation
College of Medicine
University of South Carolina

Jeffrey Borkan
(M.D., 1984; Ph.D., 1987)
Occupational Health and Safety in Context: An Examination of Three Polyurethane Foam Plants in Israel
Professor and Chair
Department of Family Medicine
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island

Sherilyn Briller
(Ph.D., May 2000)
Whom Can I Count on Today?: Contextualizing the Balance of Family and Government Old Age Support for Rural Pensioners in Mongolia
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Department
Wayne State University

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
(Ph.D., August 2007)
Lived Experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School


Sarah Chard
(Ph.D., August 2001)
Ugandan Women's Helath Beliefs, Social Networks and Tuberculosis Treatment Seeking
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Jacklyn Chisholm
(Ph.D., March 2002)
Self-Identity and the Acquisition of Cultural Knowledge in University Settings
Vice President of Planning and Institutional Relations
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland

Elizabeth Coker
(Ph.D., January 2001)
The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols through Biomedical Discourse
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
The American University in Cairo

Margaret Cooney
(Ph.D., May 2002)
The Experience and Knowledge of Menopause among Low-Income Cleveland Women

Robert Dirks
(Ph.D., 1971)
Networks, Groups, and Local-Level Poitics in an Afro-Caribbean Community
Professor Emeritus
Illinois State University

Christopher Dole
(Ph.D., May 2002)
Outlaws, Swindlers, and Authentic Healers: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Amherst College

Susan Dorsky
(Ph.D., May 1981)
Women's Lives in a North Yemeni Highland Town

Delia Easton
(Ph.D., December 1997)
The Cultural Context of Puerto Rican Adolescents' Perception of HIV Risk
Behavioral Scientist
HIV Division
Center for Disease Control

Lillian Emmons
(Ph.D., May 1989)
Determinants of Dieting Behavior and Eating Disorders in High School Students
President
Body Profile, Inc.

Regina Feldman
(Ph.D., January 1999)
Burning Ashes--An Anthropological Study of Intellectual and Moral Judgment in the Historian's Debate

Maryann Foley
(Ph.D., 1984)
Personal and Social Effects of Being a Carrier of Hepatitits B


Steven Folmar
(Ph.D., May 1985)
Fertility and the Economic Value of Children in Pokhara Valley, Nepal
Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
Wake Forest University

John Garrity
(Ph.D., May 1998)
The Ethos of Power: Navajo Religious Healing of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Director, Evaluation & Research
Nord Center, Lorain

Elisa Gordon
(Ph.D., 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
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Health Policy
Assistant Director of Research at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Loyola University of Chicago

N'omi Greber
(Ph.D., 1976)
Within Ohio Hopewell: Analysis of Burial Patterns from Several Classic Sites
Curator of Archaeology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

C. Jeff Jacobson, Jr.
(Ph.D., May 2001)
Spirits, Demons, and Nightmares: Moral Images of Self and Other in Puerto Rican Life History and Religious Discourse
Assistant Professor
Family Medicine & Anthropology
University of Cincinnati

Ben Jiao
(Ph.D., May 2001)
Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet
Tibet Academy of Social Sciences

David Kaawa-Mafigiri
(Ph.D., May 2007)
Social Networks and Social Support for Tuberculosis Control in Kampala, Uganda
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Departments of Anthropology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University

Yachun Ku
(Ph.D., May 1991)
Chinese Rural Elderly in the Post Mao Era--Two Villages in Zhejiang Province
Executive Director
Cleveland Chinese Senior Citizens Association

Sandra Laston
(Ph.D., January 1992)
Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Village Children in Nepal
Staff Scientist
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

Anthony Layng
(Ph.D., 1976)
The Carib Population of Dominica
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology

Ellen Lazarus
(Ph.D., January 1984)
Pregnancy and Clincial Care: An Ethnographic Investigation of Perinatal Management for Puerto Rican and Low Income Women in the United States
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Case Western Reserve University

Elizabeth Lewton
(Ph.D., August 1997)
Living Harmony: The Transofrmation of Self in Three Navajo Religious Healing Traditions
Research Associate II
Forum on Health Policy
University of Michigan Medical Center

Heather Lindstrom
(Ph.D., January 2004)
Aging and Modernization: A Field Study of the Determinants of Elders' Social Status in American and Independent Samoa
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sana Loue
(Ph.D., 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 Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Wester Reserve University

Jonnie Marks
(Ph.D., May 1998)
Gut Feelings, the Holy Spirit, and a Processed World: Embodied Knowledge of Breast Cancer Risks in African-American Women
Executive Director
Public Health Productions, Inc.

Kate E. Masley, Ph.D., CD (DONA)
(Ph.D., 2007)
Living the 'Latina Paradox': An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexican Immigrants in Northeast Ohio
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Sciences
Cleveland State University


R. Dale McCall
(Ph.D., 1976)
A Study of the Relationship between the PTC Tasting Polymorphism and the Peroxidase of Human Saliva with Reference to Extrathyroidal Metabolism of Iodine
Department Chair
Professor of Biological Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Kathryn McGowan
(Ph.D., January 2005)
A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States

Carmit McMullen
(Ph.D., January 2003)
Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity among Afican-American Elders
Senior Researcher
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Medical Informatics & Health Services

Lisa Mitchell
(Ph.D., May 1993)
Making Babies: Routine Ultrasound Imaging and the Cultural Construction of the Fetus in Montreal, Canada
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Victoria

Kinuko Omori
(Ph.D., January 1994)
Sociocultural Influences on Child Health and Nutritional Status in Karen Highlanders of Thailand
Deceased

Kathryn Oths
(Ph.D., May 1991)
Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Alabama

Gregory Pappas
(M.D., 1986; Ph.D., May 1986)
The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community
Associate Professor, Adjunct
School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Isabel Parraga
(Ph.D., May 1992)
Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children
Assistant Professor
Nutrition
Case Western Reserve University

Micah Parzen
(Ph.D., November 2000)
"Culturally Appropriate" Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy for Navajo Youth
Labor and Employment Attorney
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP


Jessica Price
(Ph.D., May 2002)
Pharmaceuticals in Popular Medical Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in a Central African Town
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Department
Wayne State University

Bruce Rippeteau
(Ph.D., 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.
Director; State Archaeologist
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology
University of South Carolina

James Ross
(Ph.D., June 1981)
Hindu and Tibetan Reproduction and Fertility in Northwester Nepal: A Study of Population, Ecology, and Economics
Institute for HIV/AIDS
Family Health International

Charles Rwabukwali
(Ph.D., May 1997)
Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Makerere University

Christina Saunders Sturm
(Ph.D., May 2002)
Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living with Breast Cancer
Adjunct Assistant Professor

John Scarry
(Ph.D., 1984)
Fort Walton Development: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Southeast
Research Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Robert Schrauf
(Ph.D., May 1995)
Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Linguistics
Pennsylvania State University

Anita Shankar
(Ph.D., 1995)
In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children
Assistant 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., May 2002)
Hazards and Help-Seeking in Inner-City Cleveland: The Child's Perception of Neighborhood Danger, Safety, and Support
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Division of Behavioral Pediatric Psychology
Case Western Reserve University

David Stothers
(Ph.D., 1974)
The Princess Point Complex
Director
Archaeological Research Program
University of Toledo

Dorice Tentchoff
(Ph.D., 1977)
Speech in Louisiana Cajun Community
Retired


Elena Tempeanu
(Ph.D., 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

Associate Professor
Director of the Center for Academic Services
Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai

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

Sarah Williams-Blangero
(Ph.D., 1987)
Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal
Chair
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

Nyamdorf Yandag
(Ph.D., May 2000)
Basal Metabolic Rate of Mongolian Pastoral Nomads
Executive Director
Institute of Medicine
University of Medicine
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Pamela Zahorik
(Ph.D., 1991)
Juvenile Diabetes: A Study of Children's Perceptions of their Illness (Diabetes)