Graduate Student Accomplishments

Congrats to our 2023-2024 Graduates!

December 2023

Kristina Nielsen

Aisha Chughtai

Volney Friedrich

Elliot Montpellier

Dina Asfaha

Chuan Hao “Alex” Chen

Justin Reamer

May 2024

Mariana Irby

Francisco Diaz

Caroline Hodge

Robbie Vigar

Kim Fernandes

Stephanie Mach

Emily Sutcliffe

Nooshin Sadeghsamimi

Gillian Maris Jones

2023-2024 PhD Candidacy Examinations

Hakimah Abdul-Fattah

Matthew Capps

Jeanne Lieberman

Katleho Shoro

2023-2024 Student Accolades

Adwaita Banerjee

University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Scholar 2023-2024; University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Research Award 2024

Aliyah Bixby-Driessen

Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Dissertation Fellowship 2024

Ankita Reddy,

Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowship at the Netter Center 2023-2025

Autumn Melby

Southeastern Archaeology Conference: Charles Hudson Award; Southeastern Archaeology Conference: Public Outreach Grant

Caroline Hodge

Social Sciences Representative Speaker, 2024 Graduate Division of Arts and Sciences Commencement; Association for Feminist Anthropology, 2023 Dissertation Award

Charlotte Williams

Mellon Fellow, Democracy and Landscape Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks 2024

Chelsea Cohen

Hamer Fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Chrislyn Laurore

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2023-2024

Dina Asfaha

Postdoctoral Associate, Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elliot Montpellier

Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Hakimah Abdul-Fattah

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2023-2024

Jake Nussbaum

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia

Jamaludin (Wani) Nursyazwani

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2024-2025; University of Pennsylavania Dissertation Research Award 2024; H+U+D Graduate Student Research Grant 2023; Penn Global Dissertation Grant

Jeanne Lieberman

University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Research Award 2024; Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2024-2025

Jimil Ataman

Tenure-Track Position as Assistant Professor of Sustainable Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta

Justin Reamer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College

Katey Mari

University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024

Katleho Shoro

University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Research Award 2024; Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2024-2025; Women at Work Fieldwork Grant 2024

Kim Fernandes

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Human Computer Interaction in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto 2024

Kristina Nielsen

Lecturer, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Mariana Irby

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for 2024-2025

Gillian Maris Jones

Nancy M. Farriss Award from the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for the paper: “Gifts from the Ancestors: Plant Wisdom, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Intergenerational Teachings” 2024

Moriah McKenna

Kolb Society 2024; Thomas Zwicker Funds 2024

Nipun Kottage

Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students 2023-2024

Rebecca Winkler

Provost’s Netter Center Academic Engagement Fellowship 2024-2026

Ross Perfetti

University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Research Award 2024; Wenner-Gren Foundation 2023, National Science Foundation Recipent, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics

Stephanie Mach

Curator of North American Ethnographic Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Tayeba Batool

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship 2024-2025; Mitchell Center and PPEH Grad Fellow 2023-2024; Thomas Zwicker Funds 2024

Xiao Ke