Graduate student awards:
The following students have received the AY 23–24 Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Awards:
- Fu Yu Chang
- Teniel Rhiney
- Lara Sabra
- Alana Zanardo Mazur
The following students have received the Graduate School Dissertation Writing Completion Grant SM24
- Victoria Bochniak
- Joohyeon Han-Johnson
- Catie Kitrinos
- Brie Shaw
- Ana Smith-Aguilar
The following student has received a Anthropology Summer Writing Fellowship
- Meredith Degyansky
- Reid Ellefson-Frank
- Eleanor Finley
- Amanda Fuchs
We are excited to announce the following students who received awards, fellowships, and grants.
Armelagos-Swedlund Graduate Awards:
Tabitha Dorshorst - Graduate Research Award $500
Sofiya Shreyer - Graduate Dissertation Writing Award $12,000
Anthropology Department Dissertation Writing Award:
Ryan Rybka $12,000
Cary Speck $12,000
Sylvia Forman Scholarship Award:
Ana Smith-Aguilar $12,000
Volha Verbilovich
Nat Smith Community Service Award:
Abigail Thomsen
Kay Mattena
Nathalie F.S. Woodbury Distinguished Service Award:
Allyson Schmidt
Oriol Pi-Sunyer Dissertation Award:
Julie Woods
Johnnetta Betsch Cole Award for Engaged Public Scholarship:
Lara Sabra
Volha Verbilovich
"Worlding" Anthropology Award:
Brie Shaw
PhD and Masters Degree Recipients:
PhD's completed 2023-2024:
Dr. Peteneinuo Rulu
Title: Sociocultural and familial factors associated with symptom experience at midlife among women in Nagaland, India
Advisor: Dr. Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Dr. Sarah Mathena
Title: PUBLIC HEALTH, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TUBERCULOSIS OUTCOMES AMONGST WOMEN IN 19th-20th CENTURY CLEVELAND
Advisor: Dr. Brigitte Holt
Dr. Anna Weyher
Title: Behavior and Ecology of the Kinda baboon
Advisor: Dr. Jason Kamilar
Dr. Julie Woods
Title: THE POSSIBILITIES OF PROTOCOLS: PATHWAYS TO RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A SETTLER COLONIAL CONTEXT
Advisor: Drs. Sonya Atalay and Jane Anderson
Dr. Jonathan Hill
Title: Removal on the Mainstream Musical Frontier: Indigenous Production and the Politics of Silence in Popular Music Industries
Advisor: Dr. Jean Forward
MA’s completed 2023-2024:
Teniel Rhiney - General Exam
Advisor: Dr. Krista Harper
Reid Ellefson-Frank-General Exam
Advisor: Haeden Stewart
Abigail Thomsen-General Exam
Advisor: Sonya Atalay
Charlie Sullivan-General Exam
Advisor: Dr. Krista Harper
PhD's completed 2022-2023:
Dr. Ying Li
Title: Ethnicity in the Clouds: Heritage Governance in Post-Disaster Qiang Communities in Sichuan Province, China
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Krause
Dr. Claudia Morales
Title: The survivors of the train: disability, testimonio, and activism in migrants with disabilities
Advisor: Dr. Felicity Aulino
Dr. Justin Helepololei
Title: The Abolition of Care: An Engaged Ethnography of the Progressive Jail Assemblage
Advisor: Dr. Jacqueline Urla
MA’s completed:
Kathleen Crotty -General Exam
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Krause
Meera Ramakrishnan -CERP program
Advisor: Dr. Krista Harper and Jen Sandler