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Recent Graduates and Placement

We celebrate the achievements of our graduates. The career opportunities they have found after completing our PhD program are endless. Listed below are the last ten years of graduate placements.  Although only recent graduates are listed at this time, we maintain information about all of our graduates. Please send updates about our alumni at anthro.grad.program@umich.edu.

2024

Roxana Aras (Anthropology and History)
Orthodoxy as Way of Living: Religion, Sect, and Crisis in Lebanon

Yeon-Ju Bae (Linguistic)
Better Life, Better Nature: The Politics of Ethical Interaction in a Korean Buddhist Return-to-the-Farm Village

Andrew Bernard (Biological)
Primate distribution dynamics and the effects of contemporary climate change along an elevational gradient in Indonesian Borneo

Katie Berringer (Anthropology and Social Work)
Scales of Care: Reproducing LGBTQ+ Safety, Knowledge & Practice in Detroit

Kristen Conner (Anthropology and History)
States of the Sky: Meteorology and Rainmaking in Uganda, 1860-Present

Benjamin Finkel (Biological)
The challenges of senescence for adult male chimpanzees

Elliot Greiner (Biological)
Mammalian Paleoecology of the Tugen Hills Succession, Baringo Basin, Kenya

Vitalis Im (Anthropology and Social Work)
The Art of Negotiation: How Artmaking Practices Mediate Experiences of Violence in Michigan Prisons

James Meador (Linguistic)
Making Chinese Orthodox: Imperial Religion in Sino-Russian Contact

Swapna Nelaballi (Biological)
Exploring Fruit-Frugivore Interactions and Post-Dispersal Seed Fate of Large-Seeded Plants in the
Lowland Rainforests of Indonesian Borneo

Emma Nolan-Thomas (Anthropology and History)
Practicing the Prophet's Medicine: Health, Illness, and Islamic Therapeutics in Indonesia

Alex Norwood (Biological)
Novel approaches to ungulate enamel isotope analysis for the reconstruction of human paleoenvironments

Ronke Olawale (Anthropology and Social Work)
Ebola in Liberia: The Intersection of Culture, Care and Infectious Disease

Yeori Park (Sociocultural)
Tasteful Old Age:The Identity of the Aged Middle-Class, Nursing Home Tours, and Marketized Eldercare in China

Lauren Pratt (Archaeology)
Human Ecology in the Early Prehistory of the Eastern Andes, Peru

Richard Reinhardt (Anthropology and History)
Subject in All Things’: Scenes of Conversion in the Capuchin-Franciscan Atlantic

Puninder Singh (Linguistic)
Linguistic Encounters: Language and Experience in Sikh Devotional Practice

Taylor Spencer (Biological)
Exploring Stress, Allostatic Load, and Disparities in Black Womxn's Reproductive Health

Kimberly Swisher (Archaeology)
The Averett Culture: Migration, Mississippianization, and Community Practice in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley

Saquib Usman (Sociocultural)
Blindness and Water Divination in the Saharan West