PhDs Awarded by the Anthropology Department

Mariel Rivera-Piluso - 2025
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein & Sandra D. Lane
Reproductive Justice in Motion: Community Doula Work in Central New York

Tony John Chamoun - 2024 (Distinction)
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
Estranged Bodies, Race, and Sectarianism: An Historical Bioarchaeology of Ottoman and French Beirut

Taylor Harman - 2024 (Distinction)
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
Evolution on High: An Exploration of the distinct evolutionary trajectories of two native high-altitude populations, and the narrative representations of their physiologies

Katherine Elizabeth Hicks - 2024 (Distinction)
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
Landscapes of Life and Death: Placing the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in Nineteenth Century New York

Oluseyi Agbelusi - 2023
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860-1960

Andrew Korn - 2023 (Distinction)
Advisor - A. Peter Castro
Decentralization, Development, and Conflict in Central Mali: Examining the Role of Local Governance

Julia McDaniel-Bouley - 2023
Advisor - Hans Buechler
The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugee Women in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement

Moushumi Shabnam - 2023
Advisor - A. Peter Castro
American Islam Emerging: Ethnographic Explorations of Bangladeshi Diasporic Communities and Their Identity Politics, Piety Movements, and Meaning-Making in New York City Post 9/11

Ipshita Ghosh - 2022 (Distinction)
Advisor - Azra Hromadžić
Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Imaginaries of Care in global India

Matthew Clark Greer - 2022 (Distinction)
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
Assembling Enslaved Lives: Labor, Consumption, and Landscapes in the Northern Shenandoah Valley

Catherine Elizabeth LaVoy - 2022
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
Freyre’s Plantation Playground: The Changing Landscape of the Sugar Plantation Monjope

Sarah Platt - 2022
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
Entangled Lives in a Southern Metropolis: An Archaeology of Legacies at 87 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina (1734-1771)

Sean Hamilton Reid - 2022 (Distinction)
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in the Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana

Maria Smith - 2022
Advisor - Guido Pezzarossi
Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic

Alanna Louise Warner-Smith - 2022 (Distinction)
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
Working Hands, Indebted Bodies: Embodiment of Inequality and Labor in an Era of Progress

Samuel Amartey  - 2021
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500BC-AD1970

Terese Virginia Gagnon - 2021
Advisor - Azra Hromadžić
Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora

Aja Lans - 2021
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
♀ Negro: Embodied Experiences of Discrimination in Historic New York City

Lauren Hosek - 2020
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia

Taapsi Ramchandani - 2020
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM": A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad

Shaundel Sanchez - 2020
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein
Alhamdulilah, We Live in a Muslim Country: Searching for Safety and Constructing Belonging

Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros - 2019
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Southern Landscapes: Coastal Arequipa at the turn of the Peruvian Republic (1821-1879)

Alisa Weinstein - 2019
Advisor - Cecilia Van Hollen
Tailor Made in India: Jaipur's Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing

Carolina Arango-Vargas - 2018 (Distinction)
Advisor - John Burdick
Insist, Persist, and Resist: Feminist Activism and Political Violence in Antioquia, Colombia

Retika Desai - 2018
Advisor- Susan S. Wadley
Refugee Crossings: Everyday Geographies of Nepali-Bhutani Encampment and Resettlement  

Steven Christopher Johnson - 2018
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas

Jocelyn Killmer - 2018
Advisor - Cecilia Van Hollen
Village Doctors and Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, Medicine, and Risk in North India

Christopher Kurt Waters - 2018 (Distinction)
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Putting Forts in their Place: The Politics of Defense in Antigua, 1670-1785

Zachary James McCray Beier - 2017
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica (1763-1854)

Emera Bridger Wilson - 2017 (Distinction)
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Working for Dignity: The Authorized Sightseeing Rickshaw Drivers of Keoladeo National Park

Melinda Gurr - 2017 (Distinction)
Advisor- John Burdick
Limits of Liberation: Youth & Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement

William Suk - 2017 (Distinction)
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families

Lori Klivak - 2016 (Distinction)
Advisor - John Burdick
Que Salgamos más Adelante: Identity, Community, and the Desire for Development in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lori Ann Lee - 2016 (Distinction)
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
Consumerism, Social Practice, and Slavery: Consumer Practices Among Enslaved Laborers at Poplar Forest Plantation (1828-1861)

Madhura Lohokare - 2016 (Distinction)
Advisor - Cecilia Van Hollen
Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India

Linh Khanh Nguyen - 2016
Advisor - Azra Hromadžić
Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam

Edwin Kwame Otu - 2016 (Distinction)
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi, and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

Laurah E. Klepinger - 2015
Advisor - Cecilia Van Hollen
Flexible Labor in a Spiritual Economy: Peace, Work, and Inequality in Globalized Yoga

Sarah Elizabeth Loftus - 2015
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation

Ayse Ozcan - 2015
Advisor - Hans Buechler
Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque As The New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims

Dwayne Scheid - 2015
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From Plantation Industry to Craft Production

Wesley R. Willoughby - 2015
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
The Country's House: Examining Public Space and Community in St. Mary's City's Seventeenth-Century Town Center

Nicole Allyse Wilson - 2015
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India

Meredith Alyson Berman Ellis - 2014 
Advisor - Shannon A. Novak
The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood from a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation

Jamie Kathleen Johnson - 2014  (Distinction)
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Accommodating Conservation: Regulating Heritage in a Himalayan Tourist Town

Fethi Keles - 2014
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein 
Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective

Faris Ahmed Khan - 2014
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Khwaja Sira: Culture, Identity Politics and 'Transgender' Activism in Pakistan

Karen McNamara - 2014
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Valuing Health: Herbal Traditions, Pharmaceuticals, and Healing in Bangladesh

Matthew Connor Reilly - 2014 
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the 'Poor Whites' of Barbados

Ian Richard Wilson - 2014
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
A Variously Understood Past: Negotiating History and Identity in Eastern Rajasthan

Jesse Owen Harasta - 2013 (Distinction)
Advisor - John Burdick
In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language

Holly Kathryn Norton - 2013 (Distinction)
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion

Amy S. Roache-Fedchenko - 2013
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Technological Adaptation on the Frontier:  An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781

Rachel Wright - 2013
Advisor- John Burdick
Making a Living at Making a Difference: A Study of Employees in Nonprofit Social Service Organizations in Memphis, Tennessee

Gregory David Cook - 2012
Advisor - Christopher De Corse
The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana

Connie Etter - 2012
Advisor - Susan. S. Wadley
"Women With No One": Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter

Kassahun Haile Kebede - 2012
Advisor- Hans Buechler
Double Engagements: The Transnational Experiences of Ethiopian Immigrants in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area

Hong Anh Thi Vu - 2012
Advisor - A. Peter Castro
Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihoods Among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Jill Priest Amati - 2011
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein
Meeting of the Minds: Perceptions of and Experiences with School-Based Mental Health Services

David W. Babson - 2011
Advisor - Doug Armstrong
Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York

Rachel Lynelle Horlings - 2011
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Of His Bones Are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana

Chen-I Kuan - 2011
Advisor - Cecilia Van Hollen
Debates on Gender and Technology: Cesarean Births in Taiwan

Andrew T. Pietruszka - 2011
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana

Samantha Anne Rebovich - 2011
Advisor - Theresa Singleton
Landscape, Labor, and Practice: Slavery and Freedom at Green Castle Estate, Antigua

Paola A. Schiappacasse - 2011
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
Archaeology of Isolation: The 19th Century Lazareto de Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico

Ana Servigna - 2011
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Transforming the City: An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela

Jishnu Shankar - 2011
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition

Helen Blouet - 2010
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
Marking Life and Death on St. John, Virgin Islands, 1718-1950: An Historical Archaeology of Commemoration through Objects, Space, and Transformation

Liza A. Gijanto - 2010
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Change and the Era of the Atlantic Trade: Commerce and Interaction in the Niumi Commercial Center (The Gambia)

Stephan Timothy Lenik - 2010
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
Frontier Landscapes, Missions, and Power:  A French Jesuit Plantation and Church at Grand Bay, Dominica (1747-1763)

Pippin, Douglas - 2010
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
For Want of Provisions: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of the British Soldier at Fort Haldimand (1778-1784)

Marcos Souza - 2010  
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
Spaces of Difference: An Archaeology of Slavery and Slave Life in a 19th Century Brazilian Plantation

Kyungju Ju Ahn – 2009                             
Advisor - John S. Burdick
South Korean Transnational Mothers: Familism, Cultural Criticism and Education Project

Gerard Chouin - 2009                              
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse      
Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology  of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Polity, Southern Ghana (c. 500-1900 A.D)

Mengistu Dessalegu Debela - 2009                        
Advisor - A. Peter Castro                               
Institutional Practices, Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Strategies in Mahur, Southwest Ethiopia

Brempong Osei-Tutu - 2009                          
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Slave Castles, African American Activism and Ghana’s Memorial Entrepreneurism

Paul Edward Derby - 2008                      
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley                              
Indian Trails, Military Roads, and Waterwheels: Cultural and Ecological Transformations at Glen Lake, New York

Shannon Monique Dunn - 2008                       
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong                           
"Little More Than a Winter Home": An Historical Archaeology of Irish Seasonal Migration at Slievemore, Achill Island

John Nicholas Leith Smith - 2008
Advisor – Christopher DeCorse
Archaeological Survey of Settlement Patterns in the Banda Region, West-Central Ghana: Exploring External Influences and Internal Responses in the West African Frontier

Sally Anne Steindorf - 2008                     
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley                              
Walking Against the Wind: Negotiating Television and Modernity in Rural Rajasthan

Vikas Choudhary - 2007                              
Advisor - A. Peter Castro      
Craft Producers and Intermediation by Government, NGOs and Private Business in Rural Rajasthan, India

George Farag - 2007                     
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein                             
Diaspora and Transnational Administration: Shiite Iraqi Diaspora and the Administration of Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq

Francesca Gaiba - 2007                      
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein                             
Straight Women and Gay Men Friends: A Qualitative Study

heather Renee Gibson - 2007                      
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong                              
Daily Practice and Domestic Economies in Guadeloupe: An Archaeological and Historical Study

Hadley Kruczek-Aaron - 2007                      
Advisor - Theresa Singleton                             
Struggling with Moral Authority: Religion, Reform and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century Smithfield, New York

Haripriya Narasimhan – 2007                
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Our Health is in our Hands: Women Making Decisions about Health Care in Tamilnadu, South India

Francois Gilles Richard – 2007               
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
From Cosaan to Colony: Exploring Archaeological Landscape Formations and Socio-Political Complexity in the Siin (Senegal), AD 500-1900

Brian R. Selmeski - 2007                      
Advisor - Hans C. Buechler                             
Multicultural Citizens, Monocultural Men: Indigeneity, Masculinity and Conscription in Ecuador

Sam Spiers - 2007                            
Advisor – Christopher DeCorse
The Eguafo Kingdom: Investigating Complexity in Southern Ghana

Sadaf Ahmad – 2006                             
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Al-Huda: The Story of 'Islamic' Revivalism Amongst Urban Pakistani Women

Robert John Cromwell - 2006                
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
"Where Ornament and Function are so Agreeably Combined": Consumer Choice Studies of English Ceramic Wares at Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver

Angela Katherine Herrald – 2006 (Distinction)                          
Advisor - Maureen Schwarz
Spiritual Itineraries: Journeying to Self via "Sacred India"

Frederick P. Lampe – 2006                                
Advisor - Deborah Pellow                              
Right Rites, Faith and the Corporate Good: Anglican Christianity and Social Change in Western Kenya

Suzanne Elizabeth Morrissey – 2006               
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein
Life Strategies: Motherhood, Urban Poverty, and the WIC Program in Syracuse, New York

Svetlana Peshkova – 2006                     
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein
Otinchalar in the Ferghana Valley: Islam, Gender and Power

Kerry Fosher – 2005                      
Advisor - Robert A. Rubinstein
"I'm Just Thinking Out Loud Here": Making United States Homeland Security at the Local Level

Mai Lin Gustafsson - 2005                  
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley   
War of the Shadow World: Angry Ghosts and Their Victims in Vietnam

Lisa Irene Knight – 2005                              
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Negotiated Identities, Engendered Lives: Baul Women in West Bengal and Bangladesh

Lee K. Cerveny - 2004                              
Advisor - Peter Castro      
Tourism and Transformations in the Alaska Frontier: A study of Tourism Growth and its Effects on Three Southeast Alaska Communities

Alicia Ory DeNicola - 2004                           
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley         
Creating Borders, Maintaining Boundaries: Traditional Work and Global Markets in Bagru's Handblock Textile Industry

Kreg Ettenger - 2004                           
Advisor - A. Peter Castro      
Siipii, Uuchii, Minishtikw, Istchii (River, Mountain, Island, Land): Development, Conflict and Local Knowledge in Eeyou Istchee, Norther Quebec

John Tofik Karam - 2004                        
Advisor - John Burdick
Distinguishing Arabesques: The Politics and Pleasures of Being Arab in Neoliberal Brazil

Elizabeth Joan Keller - 2004                  
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
The Construction And Expression Of Identity: An Archaeological Investigation of the Laborer Villages at Adrian Estate, St. John, USVI

Christopher Gerard Ricciardi – 2004                  
Advisor – Christopher R. DeCorse
Changing Through the Century: Life at the Lott Family Farm in the Nineteenth-Century Town of Flatlands, Kings County, New York

Susan Catherine Runkle – 2004                             
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Becoming Cosmopolitan: Constructing Gender and Power in Post-Liberalization Bombay

Natalie Josephine Swanepoel - 2004                   
Advisor – Christopher DeCorse    
Too Much Power is Not Good: War and Trade in Nineteenth-Century Sisalaland, Northern Ghana

Anthony Kwame Harrison - 2003            
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Every Emcee's a Fan, Every Fan's an Emcee: Authenticity, Identity, and Power Within Bay Area Underground Hip-Hop

Benjamin Warinsie Kankpeyeng - 2003                
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
The Archaeology of Kpaliworgu: A Case Study of Culture Continuity and Change in Northern Ghana Before 1900

Kerri Olsen – 2003                                 
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
"We All Eat Pickles, Don't We?": Negotiating Identity in the City of Ajmer

Jason Christopher Pribilsky – 2003                           
Advisor – Hans Buechler            
La Chulla Vida: Men, Migration and the Remaking of Families in the Ecuadorian Andes and New York City

Valerie LaVerne Singer - 2003                          
Advisor – John Burdick     
From the Mouth of the Hummingbird: Values of Activism Among Popular Environmentalists in Bahia, Brazil

Margaret Mary Wehrer – 2003                        
Advisor – John Burdick
Race and Racism in Women-Dominated Progressive Organizations

Christopher R. Lee – 2002                         
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets

Kalyani Devaki Menon - 2002                             
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Dissonant Subjects: Women in Hindu Nationalist Movement in India

Sonali Sathaye – 2002                          
Advisor – Susan S. Wadley
Performing American Culture: Notions of Emotion and Self in Two American Theatres

Margaret C. Wood – 2002                      
Advisor – Douglas Armstrong
“Fighting For Our Homes”: An Archaeology of Women’s Domestic Labor and Social Change in a Working-Class, Coal Mining Community, 1900-1930

Edward Richard Carr - 2001                               
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse    
“They Were Looking For White Jobs” The Archeology Of Postcolonial Capitalist Expansion In Coastal Ghana

Theresa W. Devasahayam - 2001          
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Consumed With Modernity And "Tradition": Food, Women, & Ethnicity In Changing Urban Malaysia

Gregory Mark Feldman - 2001                
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Constructing The ‘Non- Estonian”: The Politics And Policies Of Ethnic And European Integration In Estonia

Mark William Hauser - 2001                              
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong 
Peddling Pots: Determining the Extent of Market Exchange in Eighteenth Century Jamaica Through the Analysis of Local Coarse Earthenware

Faith R. Warner – 2001                          
Advisor – Hans Buechler
Lives on the Threshold in the Place of Rocks and Hunger: The Impact of Displacement and Encampment on Q’eqchi’ Women in Maya Tecun, Mexico

Susan Irene Hamilton - 2000                  
Advisor - William Mangin   
Seeking Higher Ground: Housing Replacement Strategies of Families Displaced by the Yacyreta Project in Posadas, Argentina

Paul Chaise LaDousa - 2000                          
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Saraswati And Seacrest:  Schools and Language Medium Politics In North India

Yamuna Sangarasivam – 2000              
Advisor – Susan S. Wadley
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Cultural Production Of Nationalism And Violence: Representing the Integrity of Nation and the Choice for Armed Struggle

Lakshmi Goparaju - 1998                      
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Ignorance and Inequality: Youth Sexuality in India and its Implications to HIV Spread

Aarti Saihjee – 1998                             
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Structures of Constraint : Engendering the Household, State and Economy in Jharkand, India

Susan Birns – 1997                               
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
Formerly Battered Women: When and Why They Leave

Neema Caughran - 1997                       
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
The Potter, the Brahm, and the Butcher’s Ghost: Caste and Family Dynamics in North India

Fei-Wen Liu – 1997                               
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Women Who De-Silence Themselves: Male-Illegible Literature (Nushu) and Female-Specific Songs (Nuge) in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China

Matthew Bruce Reeves – 1997               
Advisor – Douglas Armstrong
“By Their Own Labor”: Enslaved Africans’ Survival Strategies on Two Jamaican Plantations

Shubhra Gururani - 1996                       
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Fuel, Fodder, And Forests: Politics of Forest Use and Abuse In Uttarakhand Himalaya, India

Sunil K. Khanna – 1995                              
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Gender Discrimination, Maternal Health, and Pregnancy Outcomes in North India

Bhavana Rao – 1995                             
Advisor –   Susan S. Wadley
“Is She or is She Not?”: Female Sexuality, Gender Ideologies and Women’s Health in Tehri Garhwal, North India

Poonam Singh - 1995                            
Advisor – Susan S. Wadley
Modernization of a Craft Tie-Dyeing in Rajasthan, India

Kathleen Nora Skoczen – 1995                   
Advisor – Hans Buechler
Processing Change in Almost Paradise: The Political Economy and Discourse of Healing In Samana, Dominican Republic

Teresa Ann Hubley - 1994                     
Advisor - Michael Freedman
Bridges and Barriers: The World of Indigenous Paraprofessionals in a Public Health Program

Showkat H. Khan - 1992                        
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Voluntarism, Rural Leadership and Rural Development in Bangladesh

Ann M. Miles - 1991                                   
Advisor - Hans Buechler
“Our Culture Depends On Yours:” Poor Families and the Social Construction of Class and Gender Ideologies in Cuenca, Ecuador

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh – 1990                             
Advisor - Michael Freedman
Impact of Agricultural Development on the Social Status and Work Patterns of Women in Palitpur

Ali Manwar - 1990                                 
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Social Structure of Capital Formation in Bangladesh: A Micro-Level Study in the Village Community

William Thomas Waters – 1990              
Advisor –  A. Peter Castro
Haitian Cultivators in Flux: Traditional and Modern Farming Practice In Pasbwadum, Haiti

Kazuko Matsuzawa – 1989                    
Advisor - Michael Freedman
The Social and Ritual Supremacy of the First-Born: Paiwan Kinship and Chieftainship

Aditya K. Tyagi – 1989                          
Advisor – Susan S. Wadley
A Study of Tourist Culture in India: Insight and Implications

Betty Bernice Faust – 1988                   
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Cosmology and Changing Technologies of the Campeche Maya

Nandini Azad – 1987                             
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Creating Bases of Women’s Solidarity: A Study of the Grassroots Credit Groups of the Working Women’s Forum in India

Ahm Zehadul Karim - 1987                    
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
The Pattern of Rural Leadership in an Agrarian Society: A Case Study of the Changing Power Structure in Bangladesh

Richard Lee Warms - 1987                     
Advisor – Deborah Pellow
Continuity and Changes in Patterns of Trade in Southern Mali

Dorothy Rose Hauk – 1986                    
Advisor – William Mangin
The Implementation of 1978 New York Laws Chapter 468 – The Padavan Site Selection Law: An Ethnography

Janice Suzanne Hyde – 1986                  
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Local Associations and Non-Formal Education for Women in Rajasthan, India

Kathleen Hughes Wright - 1986              
Advisor – Michael Freedman
Teenage Abortion and Family Structure: A Case Study in Erie, New York

Charles Russell Deburlo- 1984              
Advisor - Glynn Cochrane                      
Indigenous Responses and Participation in Tourism in a Southwest Pacific Island Nation, Vanuatu

Helaluddin Khan Shamsul Arafeen – 1983        
Advisor - Agehananda Bharati
Changing Agrarian Structure in Bangladesh Shimulia: A Study of a Periurban Village

David Lansing Beatty – 1983                 
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
Development Implications of Technology Levels: The Printing Industry in India

Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Roggenkamp – 1982    
Advisor - Glynn CochraneGermans and Gastarbeiter: A Study of Prejudice