Department of Anthropology
PhD Candidacy Examinations
◦ Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo
◦ Jimil Ataman
◦ Chelsea Cohen
◦ Jacob Nussbaum
◦ Rachael Stephens
◦ Charlotte Williams
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
◦ Aylar Abdolehzadeh -National Science Foundation DDRIG BCS-2029098. “DDRIG: Investigating Variability in the Frequency of Fire Use in the Archaeological Record of Late Pleistocene Europe.”
◦ Dina Asfaha - SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
◦ Irteza Binte-Farid - National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, 2020-2021; Career Exploration Fellowship at the Penn Museum of Anthropology
◦ Bina Brody - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Randy Burson- Associate Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Fellow at the Center for Public Health Initiatives
◦ Elizabeth Bynum - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022; SAS Dean’s Scholar, 2020-2021 AY
◦ Hei-Won Byun - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Sarah Carson - Three-Minute Thesis Competition, Grand Prize Winner, American Anthropological Association Meetings 2020; Social Sciences Graduate TED Talk Winner, 2020
◦ Aisha Chughtai - Presidential PhD Fellowship 2021-2022; Academic and Intellectual Life Graduate Fellow
◦ Chelsea Cohen - Kolb Society Junior Fellowship, Penn Museum, 2020-2021
◦ Ishani Dasgupta - Graduate Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center, 2021-2022
◦ Francisco Diaz - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022; Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 2021-2022
◦ Raquel Fleskes - American Association of Anthropological Genetics Outstanding Trainee Presentation in Anthropological Genetics by a Graduate Student, AJPA Editor’s Choice for her research article: Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis.
◦ Chris Green- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 2021-2022; Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Caroline Hodge - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Maris Jones- SSRC Award, 2021-22
◦ Chrislyn Laurore - Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2020-2021
◦ Autumn Melby- Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, 2021
◦ Paul Mitchell - Hamer Dissertation Fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
◦ Elliot Montpellier - Doctoral Research Fellowship for Social Science and Humanities Research Council of and Honours Canada (SSHRC), 2020-2022
◦ Jessica Peng- M.E.A. Stinner Fellowship, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
◦ Lise Puyo - Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2021-2022
◦ Sam Seyler - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Clare Super- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 2021-2022
◦ Benjamin Sieff - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Rachel Stephens - Presidential PhD Fellowship 2021-2022
◦ Clare Super- Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
◦ Charlotte Williams - Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 2021-2022
◦ Naomi Zucker - Dissertation Research Award, 2021-2022
Articles/Journals/Publications/Reviews
◦ Aylar Abdolahzadeh - McPherron, S. P., Abdolahzadeh, A., Archer, W., Chan, A., Djakovic, I., Dogandzic, T., Leader, G. M., Li, L., Lin, S., Magnani, M., Reeves, Z., Weiss, M., 2020. Introducing platform surface interior angle (PSIA) and its role in flake formation, size and shape. PLoS ONE. 15 (11) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241714
◦ Jane Leif Abell- Abell, JL, Marc Lamont Hill, Noura Aladjuani, 2021. “Blackface & Race Consciousness in Arab Popular Culture: An Analysis of Myriam Fares’ Goumi (Forthcoming)
◦ Dina Asfaha- in progress“ Agar HaQkaim, Medical Institution-Building, and Clinical Practice in Eritrea’s Liberation Struggle,” Everyday Design-MakerX: From Margins to the Center. edited volume with MIT Press.
◦ Ataman, Jimil- Ataman, J. 2021. “This Outfit is Political: The Politics and Resistance Practices of the Slow Fashion Community on Instagram” In SI: Materializing Activism, Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Publisher City (forthcoming).
◦ Irteza Binte Farid- 2020 McPherron, S. P., Abdolahzadeh, A., Archer, W., Chan, A., Djakovic, I., Dogandzic, T., Leader, G. M., Li, L., Lin, S., Magnani, M., Reeves, Z., Weiss, M., 2020.Introducing platform surface interior angle (PSIA) and its role in flake formation, size and shape. Plos One. 15 (11).https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241714
◦ Alex Chen- Chen, Chuan Hao. 2021. “Dis/Avowing Masks: Culture, Race, and Public Health Between the United States and Taiwan.” Medicine Anthropology Theory (under review)
◦ Elizabeth Clay- Elizabeth C. Clay. 2021. “Motéla”: Community-Engaged Plantation Archaeology in French Guiana. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Elizabeth C. Clay and V. Camille Westmont, editors (In review).
◦ Elizabeth Clay- V. Camille Westmont and Elizabeth C. Clay. 2021. Introduction: Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora. To appear in a thematic issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Elizabeth C. Clay and V. Camille Westmont, editors.
◦ Elizabeth Clay- Cheryl White, Daniel Sayers, Theresa Urbainczyk, Antonio Bly, and Elizabeth C. Clay. 2021. Defying Slavery. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Slavery, Mark Leone and Jane Webster, editors. Oxford: Oxford UP.
◦ Elizabeth Clay- James A. Delle, Kristen R. Fellows, and Elizabeth C. Clay. 2021. Disease, Death, and Healthcare: The Role of the Plantation Hospital at Marshall’s Pen in 19th c. Jamaica. Intended for submission to the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Ishani Dasgupta- Dasgupta, I.2020? “Stateless Citizens: Affective Citizenship of a Deterritorialized Tibetan Nation.” American Ethnologist.
◦ Rachel Dickerson - Dickerson, R.R., Hammerl, E.H., “Differences in development of the deciduous dentition between Gorillagorilla and Gorilla berengei ” American Journal of Primatology (In preparation).
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes, Kimberly P. 2021. “Madness and Resilience: Nethnographic Perspectives on Finding and Forming Community. Journal (In review).
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes, Kimberly P. 2021. “(Dis)ability, Sports and Educational Selves Outside School: Extracurricular Activities for Disabled Children in India.” Journal (In review).
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes, Kimberly P. and Rabani Garg. 2020. “Anxiety and the Politics of Child Well-Being During COVID-19.” NEOS: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group.
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes, Kimberly P., and Tanushree Sarkar. 2021. “Beyond Vulnerable/Tragedies: Educational Access for Disabled Children During COVID-19 in India. Journal of Underrepresented and Minority Progress Special Issue (In review).
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes, Kimberly P. “There Are No Special Children Here: Inclusive Education and the Production of the Normate Child.” Children’s Geographies Special Issue In review).
◦ Kimberly Fernandes- Fernandes K. 2021. Book Review of “Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities” by Karen Soldatic and Shaun Grech (eds). Disability Studies Quarterly (forthcoming).
◦ Kimberly Fernande s- Fernandes, Kimberly P. 2021. “Disability, Assistive Technologies and the ‘Special’ Needs of Children.” Critical Childhood and Youth Studies Collective.
◦ Raquel Fleskes- Fleskes, R. E., Ofunniyin, A. A., Gilmore, J., Poplin, E., Abel, S. M., Bueschgen, W. D., Suarez, C., Oubre, L., Cabana, G. S., Schurr, T. G. 2020. Ancestry, Health, and Lived Experiences of Enslaved Africans in 18th Century Charleston: An Osteobiographical Analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24149
◦ Raquel Fleskes - 2020 Fleskes, R. The Tip of the Iceberg: Structural Violence in the Archaeological Record. The Thinking Republic Magazine.
◦ Raquel Fleskes - 2020 Fleskes, R., Joanna Gilmore, J., Grant Mishoe, G., La'Sheia Oubré, L., and Schurr, T.Stories about the Anson Street Ancestors and the Legacy of Dr. O. The Gullah Society Blog.
◦ Raquel Fleske s- 2020 Historical Genetics: Insights from Ancient DNA to the study of early Colonial America. West Chester University, Anthropology & Sociology Department Colloquium Series. 16 November 2020.
◦ Amber Henr y- Henry, Amber. 2020. “The March of the Fruit Bowls: Digital Modes of Black Women’s activism in Colombia,” In Contemporary Movements Around Black/African Women’s Bodies, Msia Kibona Clark, Ed., African Books Collective: City (Forthcoming 2020)
◦ Caroline Hodge - Hodge CC, 2020. “Side Affects: The ‘Ignored’ Embodied Experiences of the Pill in the United States,” Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online(special issue)
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin- Jamaludin, N. 2020. “Mobile Refugee: Rohingya Refugees’ Practices of Imaginary Citizenship in Klang Valley, Malaysia.” American Behavioral Scientist 64(10): 1444 –1457.
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin- Nursyazwani Jamaludin and Aslam A. Jalil. 2020. “‘Grateful Politics’ on Social Media: Exploring Rohingyas Use of Social Media in the time of pandemic. For New Media in the Margins: Lived realities and experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries (edited by Benjamin Loh and James Chin).
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin- Nursyazwani Jamaludin & Prasse-Freeman, Elliott. 2020. “Hidden Rohingya Heterogeneity.” New Mandala. Retrieved from: https://www.newmandala.org/the-hidden-heterogeneity-of-rohingya-refugees/
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludi n- Nursyazwani Jamaludin. 2020. “Moral Refugeeness, Malaysia and Covid-19.” Collecting Covid-19. Retrieved from: https://anthrocovid.com/6-2/contributions-from-malaysia/.
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - Titling as a contested process: conditional land rights and subaltern citizenship in South India.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Co-authored with Ryan Stock and Karan Misquitta, expected in January 2021)
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - The Neighbourhood Effect: Coexistence of Residential and Occupational Opportunities in ‘Muslim Neighbourhoods’ of Hyderabad,” in Muslims in Telangana edited by G. Sudhir, Abdul Bari, Amir Ullah Khan and Abdul Shaban, Springer Press. (Expected in March 2021)
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - Interview with Kregg Hetherington on The Government of Beans, CaMP Anthropology Blog, <https://campanthropology.org/2021/01/11/kregg-hetherington/>.
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda- 2020 “Urban Local Bodies are critical in the fight against COVID-19.” Hyderabad Urban Lab Blog >. (with Ayesha Minhaz, <https://hydlab.in/blogposts/strengthen-urban-local-bodies>
◦ Alexandra Kralick - Alexandra E. Kralickand Babette S. Zemel. 2020. Evolutionary perspectives on the developing skeleton and implications for lifelong health. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 11: 99. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00099
◦ Alexandra Kralick - Arch and Anth Podcast Interview on May 13, 2020 titled “Episode 125: How do orangutan skeletons grow? What are some fun biological anthropology facts. https://archandanth.com/episode-125-interview-with-alexandra-kralick/]
◦ Katey Mari- Holder, S., Reitsema, L. J., Dupras, T. L., Jankauskas, R., & Mari, K.(2020). Marching on their Stomachs: Reconstructing Dietary Life Histories of Napoleonic Soldiers through Stable Isotope Analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171: 122-123.
◦ Katey Mari- Mari, Katey. 2020. “ICE’s Forced Hysterectomies Expose the Uneven Nature of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the US.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal.
◦ Moriah McKenna- Thompson, D.M., Fixler, S.A., Marshall, A.E., McKenna, Federico, C., Koenig, S 2020. The impact of large-wood additions on bed mobility on the Narraguagus River, Maine. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.(in review).
◦ Moriah McKenna- McKenna, Moriah. 2020. “Selling Science.” In Northeastern Anthropological Association Bulletin Undergrads in the Workplace: The Many Hats of Anthropology Alumni, edited by Jessica Skolnikoff and Bridget Fitzpatrick, pp. 50-52.
◦ Paul Mitchell- Mitchell, P.W. 2020. “Human Rewilding and Anthropocene Chronotopes.” In: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities, edited by Bethany Wiggin, Patricia Eunji Kim, Carolyn Fornoff. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis.
◦ Elliot Montpellier - Book review: The Shi’a in Modern South Asia, Religion, History and Politics, edited by Justin Jones and Ali Usman Qasmi. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 274): 686-688.
◦ Elliot Montpellier - “Pakistani Vernacular Languages”, Diversity in the Stacks series, Penn Libraries (October 2020) [Online publication:]
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Diserens Morgan, Kasey and Richard M. Leventhal. 2020. “Maya of the Past, Present, and Future: Heritage, Anthropological Archaeology, and the Study of the Caste War of Yucatan.” Heritage 3(2): 511-527.
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Diserens Morgan, Kasey and Tiffany C. Fryer, eds. 2021. Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives. University Press of Colorado: Boulder (In press).
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Morgan, Kasey and Tiffany C. Fryer. 2021. “Introduction: Characterizing an Archaeology of Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands” in Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives. University Press of Colorado: Boulder (In press).
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Diserens Morgan, Kasey. 2021.“The Cycle of the Living Dead: Ruins, Loss, and Preservation in Tihosuco, Quintana Roo” in Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives. University Press of Colorado: Boulder (In press).
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Fryer, Tiffany C. and Kasey Diserens Morgan. 2021. “Subversive Heritage, Indigenized Tourism, and Heritage Activism in Maya Quintana Roo” in Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, ed. Christopher Barton. University Press of Florida: Gainesville (In press).
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan - Diserens Morgan, Kasey. “Controlling the Façade: Resistance to Heritage Protections and Government Interventions in Post-conflict Quintana Roo.” In Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Cooperation, Edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon Daehnke. University Press of Florida; Gainesville (In press).
◦ Jake Nussbaum - Nussbaum, J. 2021. What the Drums Do, Exhibition Catalogue Article for Milford Graves: A Mind Body Deal at the IA Philadelphia, Inventory Press (Forthcoming).
◦ Jessica Peng - Peng, Jessica H. 2021. “The Potentials of Fieldwork in a Pandemic: Navigating Shifting Landscapes of the Indonesian Fishery Industry.” SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (In press).
◦ Lise Puyo - Puyo, L. 2021. Indigenous Negotiations with the Divine: The Huron-Wendat Wampum Belt at Chartres.” In: Fluctuating Alliances: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Modern Era, edited by Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira. Berlin: De Gruyter Press (In press).
◦ Sara Rendell - Giles ML, Mason EM, Muñoz FM, Moran A Lambach P, Mertens S, Diaz T, Baye, M, Mathai M, Pathirana J, Rendell S, Tunçalp Ö, J Hombach, Roos N. 2020. Antenatal care service delivery and factors affecting effective tetanus vaccine coverage in low-and middle-income countries: results of the Maternal Immunisation and Antenatal Care Situational Analysis project. (accepted pending minor revisions Vaccine)
◦ Sara Rendell - Giles ML, Mantel C, Muñoz FM, Moran A, Roos N, Yusuf N, Diaz T, Ahun M, Nic LochlainnLM, Wootton E, Pathirana J, Rendell S, Tuncalp Mingard Ö, Perut M, Hombach J, Mertens S, Lambach P. 2020. Vaccine implementation factors affecting maternaltetanus immunization in low-and middle-income settings: results of the Maternal Immunisation and Antenatal Care Situational Analysis (MIACSA) project. (accepted pending revisions Vaccine).
◦ Sara Rendell - Munoz FM, Giles ML, Merten S, Mantel C4, Mason E, Baye M, Mathai M, Moran AC, Nic Lochlainn LM, Wootton E, Ahun M, Pathirana J, Rendell S, Yusuf N, Tuncalp Mingard Ö, Perut M, Diaz T1, Hombach J, Roos N, Lambach P. . 2020. Maternal Immunization and Antenatal Care Situation Analysis (MIACSA): The Need for Integrating Service Delivery in Low and Middle Income Countries. Vaccine (In press)
◦ Katleho Shoro – K. Shoro. 2021. The Constant Reader: Reviews and Reflections of Contemporary South African Poetry (collection of essays), Co-editors: Dr Raphael D’Abdon, Vus’umuzi Phakathi & Katleho Kano Shoro (Forthcoming).
◦ Katleho Shoro - Shoro, Katleho Kano, Denise Newfield, and Deirdre Byrne, Eds. 2020. "Decoloniality in/and Poetry” Special Issue, Education as Change 24
◦ Katleho Shoro- Shoro, Katleho Kano. 2020. “Love Poem to Papa I & II”, “Daughter Notes”, “Funeral Sounds”, “A Young Debriefing for Sankara”, “Spit Not Swallow”, “Spade” The Only Magic We Know: Se-lected Modjaji Poems 2004 to 2020, edited by Marie Beyers, Modjaji Books, 2020, pp. 47, 106, 152, 160 & 183
◦ Katleho Shoro - Shoro, Katleho Kano. “The Long Sweat”. Ritual, down river road, August 2020, pp. 78
◦ Robbie Vigar- Vigar, Robert J. 2020. Book Review: Trafficking culture: new directions in researching the global market in illicit antiquities.” Antiquity 94(374): 557-559.
◦ Leniqueca Welcome- Welcome, L. 2020. “The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (In Press).
◦ Charlotte Williams - Williams, Charlotte M. 2021. Book Review: Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galapagos Islands: A legacy of human occupation. Peter Stahl, Fernando J. Astudillo, Ross Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, and Florencio Delgado. Journal (Forthcoming).
◦ Charlotte Williams -Williams, Charlotte M. 2021. Museum Anthropology [2019] Cara G. Tremain and Donna Yates. The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Precolumbian Antiquities. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Museum Anthropology (Forthcoming).
◦ Rebecca Winkler- Baker, L., Blaine, S., Winkler, R. 2020. “Mahouts and elephant protection, conservation, and ecotourism: A case study of safari-style tourism in Thailand.” In The Elephant Tourism Business, Scott, N. and Law, E, ed. CABI
◦ Rebecca Winkler- Baker, L., Blaine, S., Winkler, R. 2020. “Case 13: Mahouts Elephant Foundation Case Study, Thailand” in Sustainable development of Wildlife Tourism in Asia and the Pacific: Good Practices and their Implications, Noel Scott ed. United Nations World Tourism Organization (Forthcoming)
◦ Rebecca Winkler-Baker, L., Winkler, R. 2020. “Asian elephant rescue, rehabilitation and rewilding”. Animal Sentience 28(1). 2020.
◦ Tali Ziv - Ziv, Tali. 2020. “Surveillance and Practice: On the racialization of U.S. urban informality.” American Anthropologist (Submitted).
Talks & Presentations
◦ Aylar Abdolahzedah - McPherron, S. P., Abdolahzadeh, A., Archer, W., Chan, A., Djakovic, I., Dogandzic, T., Leader, G. M., Li, L., Lin, S., Magnani, M., Reeves, Z., Weiss, M., 2020. Introducing platform surface interior angle (PSIA) and its role in flake formation, size and shape. Plos One. 15 (11).https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241714
◦ Jane Leif Abell - “Do Black Lives Matter to Arab Muslims?: The Anti-Racist Ummah in Theory vs. Practice in Philadelphia.” Middle East Studies Association, virtual conference, 7 October 2020
◦ Jane Leif Abell - Moderator, “Blackness in the Middle East: A Virtual Discussion Panel.” The Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania, 16 September 2020: https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2020/09/16/blackness-middle-east.
◦ Jimil Ataman - Ethical Fibers: Negotiating Capitalism through Slow Fashion, Guest Lecture in Small BusinessAnthropology – February 2021
◦ Jimil Ataman - The Politics and Practices of Slow Fashion Community Members on Instagram, Theorizing the Web, Paper presentation – October, 2020
◦ Tayeba Batool - “Applying an Archaeological Lens on Rituals & Processions: A Case Study of Arba’een.” Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase (GIAS)Virtual Paper. Fatima Jinnah University Rawalpindi, Pakistan, October 2020.
◦ Robert Bryant - Computer Applications in Archaeology, Oxford, England (Paper Accepted –Conference Pending) Stress Testing the Limits of Photogrammetric Capture of Excavation Trench Data: A Methodology for a Time-saving and Efficient Means of Acquiring Traditional Archaeological Data at Higher Precision and Accuracy. 2020
◦ Robert Bryant - Title of Paper. American Schools for Oriental Research, Boston, Massachusetts (Paper Accepted –Conference Pending) Remotely Sensing the Landesque Capital of Naxchivan’s Kahriz Systems, 2020
◦ Randy Burson - Burson II RC. Invited Course Lecture:“Space, Place, & Health.” Introduction to Medical Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania. September 2020.
◦ Randy Burson - Burson II RC. Boxed-In & Beside: (Un)Situating Indigenous & Biomedical Health Infrastructures in Wall Mapu/La Araucanía, Chile. Oral Presentation presented at: EASST+4S Joint Conference; Virtual Conference, August 2020
◦ Sarah Carson - “The New Girls’ Club: Gendered Leadership, Political Party Culture, and the Women Changing the Face of U.S. Politics”Raising Our Voices 2020–American Anthropological Association Meeting [Virtual Poster] Online November 2020
◦ Elise Cavicchi- “Postcards from Italy: Slow Violence After the Belice Earthquake,” Society forEthnomusicology Annual Conference, Virtual. October 2020.
◦ Elizabeth Clay-Title TBD Lunchtime lecture,. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University, 4 March 2021
◦ Chelsea Cohen - Movement, Mobility, and the Journey: Ancient Actions and Perspectives. Organizing Committee Member, Chair of Space. Center for Ancient Studies Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
◦ Chelsea Cohen - Cohen, C. Woodand Water: The Materiality of Ships as Environmental Artifacts. Invited keynote for the Friends of Fairfax County Archaeology Symposium, Alexandria, VA., 2020 [Postponed]
◦ Chelsea Cohen - Movement, Mobility, and the Journey: Ancient Actions and Perspectives. Organizing Committee Member, Chair of Space. Center for Ancient Studies Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, 2020.
◦ Ishani Dasgupta - “Surviving Without Papers: The Tibetan Response to the Restrictions of Statelessness,” Invited symposium presentation at South Asia in Motion: Mobility, Movement, Bodies; Annual Conference of South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Oct 2020 (Postponed to 2021).
◦ Stacey Espenlaub - “NAGPRA at the Penn Museum,” Art Law and Cultural Heritage Class, Penn Law, University of Pennsylvania, 17 November 2020
◦ Kimberly Fernandes - “Making the Disabled Body Legible: Biometrics, Documentary Evidence and the Indian State.” Society for Social Studies of Science, Prague (virtual participant), August 2020.
◦ Raquel Fleskes - 2021 Fleskes, R., Brown, D., Schurr, T. Ancient DNA Research during a Global Pandemic: Insights from Fieldwork at St. Mary’s Basilica in Norfolk, VA. Annual Meeting of the Society for HistoricalArchaeology.January8. (online).
◦ Volney Friedrich- “Mitochondrial Haplogroup Involvement in Cervical Precancer Development”. Podium presentation at the Human Biology Association. Virtual, 31 March 2021.
◦ Christopher Green - “As I Understand It: The Selective Citations of the Past in the Independence Politics of NC. Proposed paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association, St. Louis, MO, November 2020
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin - “Refugee Playfulness: Rohingya’s Everyday Strategies in Living Malaysia.” Association for Asian Studies Virtual Annual Conference. Panel organizer for “Rethinking Political Subjectivity: Creative Play and Everyday Politics.” 21 –26 March 2021
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin - “Digitizing Legibility: A Case of Rohingyas in Malaysia.” Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Emerging Scholars Network Annual Workshop, 10 –13 November 2020
◦ Nursyazwani Jamaludin- [Invited] (with Dr. Oh Su Ann) “Visualizing Temporality in Forced Displacement.” Workshop on Migration Methodologies: Challenges, Innovations and Conceptual Implications for Asian Migrations. Organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 30 –31 August 2021
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - “Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: property and the construction of urban space,” University of Pennsylvania Graduate Urban Studies Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, , 19 November 2020:
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - 2021“Multimedia Geographies of the State”, co-organized with Karan Misquitta and Saumya Vaishnava at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting: Virtual Session, 2021
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - “Ethnography and Environmental Futures”, at Placing: New Approaches to the Environment organized by Penn EnviroLab: Virtual Session, 2021.
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - “’Useless’ land titles and subaltern citizenship in Hyderabad, India,” Upenn Andrea Mitchell Center for Democracy Graduate Workshop: Philadelphia, PA, 2021
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda - 2020 “Slum-making,” Penn EnviroLab Workshop: Philadelphia, PA.
◦ Indivar Jonnalagadda- 2020 “Enregistering ‘Private Ownership’ in Informal Settlements of Hyderabad, India,” Sixth IIHS PhD Workshop: Bengaluru, India.
◦ Xiao Ke - “Concerning the Fish-ness of Fish: How Fish Complicates Human Ethics in a Sino-Tibetan Frontier”, at AAS-in-Asia, Kobe, Japan, August 2020 (online)
◦ Alexandra Kralick - Alexandra E. Kralick, Eden Mackereth, Matthew W. Tocheri. A 3D quantitative comparative analysis of trapezium and trapezoid morphology in Gorilla and Pan. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Poster. 7-28 April 2021, Virtual.
◦ Stephanie Mach- “Caring for Change: Negotiating Care as a Process of Decolonization at the Field Museum.”Panel speaker at “Indigenous Interventions: Reshaping Archives and Museums”symposium hosted by the Field Museum, The Newbery, and Northwestern Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. November 13, 2020.
◦ Paul Mitchell- Mitchell P. Redacting Human Unity: on a Newly Discovered Draft of Crania Americana(Morton, 1839). History of Science Society (Virtual). October 2020.
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan- Diserens Morgan, Kasey. “A Promise without Work: The Politicization of Heritage in Rural Mexico.” Latin American Studies Association virtual conference, May 2021. Abstract accepted.
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan- Diserens Morgan, Kasey. “Politicizing Heritage: How Government Protections Use Heritage Assets to Control the Maya Past.” Society for American Archaeology virtual conference, April 2021. Abstract accepted.
◦ Kasey Diserens Morgan- Diserens Morgan, Kasey. “Adapting and Improvising: Materiality and the Politicization of Historic Structures.” Society for Historical Archaeology virtual conference, 6-9 January 2021.
◦ Lizzie Oakley- “Leveraging Your Stengths to Grow Virtual Audiencs”: Pennsylvania’s Statewide Museum Association, Service in Uncertainty, PA Museums 2021 Conference, 21 April 2021.
◦ Erica Redner- “Navigating Mobility: Professional Trajectories and Experiences of First-Gen BIPOC Graduates of Top U.S. Universities.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference, November 2020.
◦ Erica Redner- “‘A Great Place and A Great Opportunity’: The Appeal of Employment at Sunoco’s Philadelphia Area Oil Refineries.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference, November 2020.
◦ Clare Super- “Hygiene practice impact on microbiome acquisition in highland Peru”. Poster presentation at the Human Biology Association. Virtual, 30 March 2021
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◦ Robbie Vigar- “Dams, Digging and Dispossession in Egyptian Nubia”. Presented at the Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s internal speaker series. University of Pennsylvania. Presented remotely. October 2020.
◦ Robbie Vigar- “Communities of Ambivalence: Archaeology, Antagonism, and Looting Practices in Upper Egypt”.Paper accepted to the Society for Africanist Archaeologists (SafA) Annual Meeting, Oxford, UK. Postponed until August 2021.
◦ Leniqueca Welcome- 2020. “Surviving the Legacy of the Plantation: The Making of Criminal Life in Trinidad.” Presentation at the Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities, Struggles Conference, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 2020 (forthcoming).
◦ Charlotte Williams- Haverford College. Guest Lecture for Decolonizing the History of Mathematics Paper Title: “Khipu and Inka Political Economy.” 22 October 2020
◦ Charlotte Williams- History of Science Society. “Smuggling the Sacred as Specimen: Objects, Instruments, and the ‘Scientifically Valuable’ in the Peruvian Expedition of Hiram Bingham,” October 2020.
Other Academic Work
◦ Jane Leif Abell- Editor, Race & Islam volume (Routledge)
◦ Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo- Muuch Xiinbal. Mexico, Community Service and Volunteering
◦ Dina Asfaha - SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Contributing editor of Transform Anthropology
◦ Tayeba Batool- Member of Organizing Committee for Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s Annual Conference
◦ Elise Cavicchi - Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology
◦ Alex Chen - Member of the Trustee Committee on Facilities and Campus Planning, Graduate Student Representative of the University Council on Facilities
◦ Elizabeth Clay- DAACS-NEH Fellow at Monticello Archaeology Lab, John Carter Brown Library Fellow at Brown University
◦ Chelsea Cohen - Member of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences
◦ Kimberly Fernandes - Contributing Editor of Platypus –The CASTAC Blog
◦ Jake Nussbaum - (re)Sounding, with Adam Tinkle and Angus McCullough, Bennington Museum, Bennington VT
Graduates
◦ Cassandra Dinh, MA; August 2021
◦ Dina Pacheco, MA; May 2021
◦ Aisha Chughtai, MPH; May 2021
◦ Stacey Espenlaub, PhD; August 2021
◦ Raquel Fleskes, PhD; August 2021
◦ Marshall Knudson, PhD; August 2021
◦ Megan Postemski, PhD; August 2021
◦ Leniqueca Welcome, PhD; August 2021
◦ Tali Ziv, PhD; August 2021
◦ Josh Franklin, MD; May 2021
◦ Sara Rendell, MD; May 2021
◦ Lee Young, MD; May 2021
Employment
Tenure-Track Positions
◦ Leniqueca Welcome (Trinity College)
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
◦ Raquel Fleskes (UConn)
◦ Tali Ziv (Johns Hopkins)