Congrats to our 2024-2025 Graduates!

Fall 2024

Dr. Shashank Saini, PhD

Dr. Clare Super, PhD

Spring 2025

Dr. Katey Mari, PhD

Dr. Charlotte Williams, PhD

Dr. Rachel Dickerson, PhD

Dr. Juliet Glazer, PhD

Dr. Sharon Jacobs

Seth Dorcus, MA

Summer 2025

Dr. Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo, PhD

 

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2024-2025 PhD Candidacy Examinations

Vivian Bi

Nipun Kottage

Ankita Reddy

Abhi Sanghani

Alessandra Laurer Rosen

Moriah McKenna

2025-2026 PhD Candidacy Examinations

Clara Secaira

Nipun Kottage

Ankita Reddy

Abhi Sanghani

Alessandra Laurer Rosen

Moriah McKenna

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2024-2025 Student Accolades

 

Sooah Kwak

Seol Broadcasting System Fellowship, 2025

 

Evan Tims

Department of South Asian Studies, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2025

 

Vivian Bi

Wenner Gren Dissertation Award, 2025

Penn Global Dissertation Grant, 2025

 

Ankita Reddy

2026 Dean's Scholar Award

 

Alessandra Laurer Rosen

Wenner Gren Dissertation Award, 2025

Rodin Research Award, 2025

 

Abhi Sanghani

Zwicker Research Award, 2025

Dissertation Research Award, 2025

CASI SOBTI Fieldwork Fellowship, 2025

 

Hakimah Abdul-Fattah

Sach's Project Support Grant for Senegalese Archival Film Project, 2025

Harold J Haskins Research Grant from Africana Studies Department, 2025

Kolb Society Junior Fellow, 2025

 

Moriah McKenna

Zwicker Research Award, 2025

 

Ross Perfetti

Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 2025 

Psycho Analytic Center of Philadelphia Fellowship, 2025

 

Katleho Shoro

CEE Multimodal Summer Research Grant, 2025

Harold J. Haskins Summer Research Grant, 2025

 

Tayeba Batool

Honorable Mention, Graduate Student Paper Prize, Critical Urban Anthropology Association

 

Xiao Schutte Ke

Society of Linguistic Anthropology Gumperz Graduate Prize, 2025

 

Chris LaMack

Zwicker Research Award, 2025

 

Chrisalyn Laurore

Research Assistantship with Heritage West, 2025

 

Rebecca Winkler

CETLI Fellow for Graduate Teaching Excellence, 2025

Netter Center PGAEF Fellowship, 2025

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative on behalf of KCAP, 2025

Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness on behalf of KCAP, 2025

 

Robert Bryant

Research Assistantship with Heritage West, 2025

 

Matthew Capps

Kolb Society Junior Fellow, 2025

 

Eric Hubbard

Kolb Society Junior Fellow, 2025

 

Chelsea Cohen

Runner Up, Society for Archaeology Jamie Chad Brandon Student Paper Prize, 2025

Kolb Society Junior Fellow, 2025

 

Autumn Melby

Explorers Club Pathfinder Grant, 2025

Cahokia Archaeological Society's 2025 Grant and Scholarship Opportunity, 2025

Kolb Society Junior Fellow, 2025

 

Jeanne Lieberman

Fullbright-Hays Fellowship, 2025