Ph.D. Anthropology
Young Kim, Ph.D. May, 1996
Dissertation Title: The Commodification of a Ritual Process: An Ethnography of the Wedding Industry in Las Vegas
Rebecca Lachter, Ph.D. December, 1996
Dissertation Title: Distant Cousins: The Relationship Between Jews from the Former-Soviet Union and American Jewish Voluntary Associations in Los Angeles
Wilton Martinez, Ph.D. December, 1998
Dissertation Title: Imaging Alterity: Discourse, Pedagogy, and the Reception of Ethnographic Film
Joseph Hawkins, Ph.D. May, 1999
Dissertation Title: Invisible People: An Ethnography of Same-sexuality in Contemporary Japan
Carolyn Rouse, Ph.D. May, 1999
Dissertation Title: Engaged Surrender: Consciousness and Empowerment in the Conversion Experience of African-American Muslim women
Manuel Fernandez, Ph.D. August, 1999
Dissertation Title: An ethnography of the macho/loca relationship
Armida Ayala, Ph.D. December, 1999
Dissertation Title: Mexican Immigrant Women, Sex Work, and Health
Martin Muller, Ph.D. May, 2002
Dissertation Title: Endocrine Aspects of Aggression and Dominance in Chimpanzees of the Kibale Forest
Lene Pedersen, Ph.D. August, 2002
Dissertation Title: The Sphere of the Keris: Power and People in a Balinese Princedom
Sean Roberts, Ph.D. August, 2003
Dissertation Title: Uyghur Neighborhoods and Nationalisms in the former Sino-Soviet Borderland: An Historical Ethnography of a Stateless Nation on the Margins of Modernity
Stacy Rowe, Ph.D. August, 2003
Dissertation Title: Practicing Policy and Making Myth: Applied Anthropology and Homeless Service Delivery in Glendale, California
Pensri Ho, Ph.D. December, 2003
Dissertation Title: (E)racing the Model Minority: Racial Ideology Among Young Urbanized Asian American Professionals
Michelle Oram, Ph.D. December, 2003
Dissertation Title: The Culture of Beauty: Agency and Socialization within the Sorority System
Upjeet Chandan, Ph.D. December, 2004
Dissertation Title: A Place-in-Between: Narratives of Gender, Violence and Identity in a South African Township
Todd White, Ph.D. May, 2005
Dissertation Title: Out of Many…A Social History of the Homosexual Rights Movement as Originated and Continued in Los Angeles, California
Gaelyn Aguilar, Ph.D. December, 2005
Dissertation Title: Image(a)nation: Dance and the Parapolitics of Being in the Republic of Macedonia
Quinta Seward, Ph.D. December, 2005
Dissertation Title: Tracing My Father’s Footprints: Embracing a Legacy
Charles Scull, Ph.D. December, 2005
Dissertation Title: Identity Configurations: Re-inventing Samoan Youth Identities in Urban California
Pushpa Tulachan, Ph.D. December, 2005
Dissertation Title: The Lobas of Monthang: Loba Ethnography and Tourism as Development
Gerald (Jay) Hasbrouck Jr., Ph.D. May, 2006
Dissertation Title: Primitive Dissidents : Earth Liberation and the Making of a Radical Anthropology
Jeanne Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. August, 2006
Dissertation Title: Negotiating Modernity: Power, Gender, & Education in North India
Raquel Hernandez-Aguilar, Ph.D. December, 2006
Dissertation Title: Ecology and Nesting Patterns of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Issa, Ugalla, Western Tanzania
Christian Anderson, Ph.D. May, 2007
Dissertation Title: Betel Nut Chewing Culture: The Social and Symbolic Life of an Indigenous Commodity in Taiwan and Hainan
Erica Angert, Ph.D. May, 2007
Dissertation Title: Hybrid Networks and Urban Spaces in Post-Socialist Cuba
Courtney Everts Mykytyn, Ph.D. May, 2007
Dissertation Title: Executing Aging: An Ethnography of Process and Event in Anti-Aging Medicine
Bartelt Brian, Ph.D. August, 2007
Dissertation Title: Healers and Witches in Oku: An Occult System of Knowledge in Northwest Cameroon
Ilda Jimenez y West, Ph.D. December, 2007
Dissertation Title: Good Hosts as Ideal Citizens: Crafting Identity on Isla de Mujeres, Mexico
Steven Rousso-Schindler, Ph.D. December, 2007
Dissertation Title: Israeli and Palestinian National Narratives: National and Individual Constructions, Social Suffering Narratives, and Everyday Performances
Claudia Cuevas, Ph.D. May, 2008
Dissertation Title: Organizational Development and Coalition Building Among Domestic Violence Agencies in California: Conflict and Compromise Between Grassroots Groups and Established Institutions
Sadie Moore, Ph.D. May, 2008
Dissertation Title: It’s Not Just Nice, It’s Necessary: Authentic Leadership in the New Economy
Jennifer Cool, Ph.D. December, 2008
Dissertation Title: Communities of Innovation: Cyborganic and the Birth of Networked Social Media
Teresa Kuan, Ph.D. December, 2008
Dissertation Title: Adjusting the Bonds of Love: Parenting, Expertise and Social Change in a Chinese City
Zhifang Song, Ph.D. December, 2008
Dissertation Title: Flow into Eternity: Patriarchy, Marriage and Socialism in a North China Village
Patricia Gilson, Ph.D. May, 2009
Dissertation Title: Rituals of a Nation’s Identity: Archaeology and Genealogy in Antiquities Museums of Rome
Scott Frank, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Lab Coats in the Dream Factory: Science and Scientists in Hollywood
Arianne Gaetano, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Off the Farm : Rural Chinese Women’s Experiences of Labor Mobility and Modernity in Post-Mao China (1984-2002)
M.A. Anthropology
Elan Glasser, M.A. Anthropology, 2002
M.A. Visual Anthropology (MAVA)
Christian Anderson, MAVA December 2004
Erica Angert, MAVA May 2007
Clark Arnwine, MAVA December 2003
Ilisa Barbash, MAVA May 1992
Brian Bartelt, MAVA May 2000
Kalanit Baumhaft, MAVA May 2001
Suzanne Benson, MAVA December 1992
Sharon Berman, MAVA May 2006
Robin Bernstein, MAVA May 1993
Alvaro (Perez) Betancourt, MAVA May 1993
Nila Bogue, MAVA December 1987
Mary Beth Bresolin, MAVA May 1996
Joseph Cha, MAVA August 2006
Hsiang-Ling Chao, MAVA December 1994
Mei-Juin Chen, MAVA December 1994
Shih-Ching Chiu, MAVA December 2002
Kaarina Cleverley, MAVA December 2001
Jennifer Cool, MAVA May 1994
Lauren Amanda Crane, MAVA December 1993
Kirsten Dougall, MAVA May 1995
Nancy da Silveira, MAVA May 1988
Gomez Duron, MAVA May 1996
Eva Egensteiner, MAVA December 1995
Jeanne Fitzsimmons, MAVA August 2006
Elise Fried, MAVA, August 1991
Ellen Frankenstein, MAVA December 1987
Monica Frota, MAVA December 1992
Jennifer Gaynor, MAVA August 1995
Gillian Goslinga, MAVA December 1996
Steve Grossman , MAVA May 1992
Rebecca Hantin, MAVA December 1991
Gerald (Jay) Hasbrouck Jr., MAVA May 2000
Joseph Hawkins, MAVA May 1999
Susan Henson-Smith, MAVA May 1994
Tiffany Hope, MAVA December 1996
Mark Hornish, MAVA December 1993
Julie James, MAVA December 1999
Kevin Kelpin, MAVA December 1993
Ursula Koch, MAVA December 1983
Bernd Knoll, MAVA May 1997
Michael Kowalski, MAVA December 1992
Anita Kumar, MAVA July 2005
Catherine LaBore, MAVA May 1995
Joan LaDuca , MAVA August 1995
Jesse Lerner, MAVA December 1991
Susan Lewak, MAVA August 1996
Charmaine Lewis, MAVA August 1998
Thomas Luehrsen, MAVA December 1989
Barhara Malcolm, MAVA May 1991
Daniel Marks, MAVA December 1989
Wilton Martinez, MAVA May 1992
Chad Minnich, MAVA December 1999
Ahrin Mishan, MAVA May 1994
David Orenstein, MAVA December 1992
Sarina Pearson, MAVA August 1995
Luis Perez-Tolon, MAVA December 1987
Laura Reiter, MAVA May 1999
Sean Roberts, MAVA December 2001
Jennifer Rodes, MAVA December 1992
SoYun Roe, MAVA May 1994
Nicholas Rothenberg, MAVA May 1994
Nicole Rousso-Schindler, MAVA December 1998
Steven Rousso-Schindler, MAVA December 1998
Anirban Roy, MAVA May 1997
Patricia (Mercedes) Salazar, MAVA December 1993
Laura Scheerer, MAVA December 1987
Simon Schorno, MAVA December 1999
Laura Schroeter, MAVA May 1995
Sylvia Sensiper, MAVA December 1989
Kaaren Shalom, MAVA December 1995
Christine Snyder, MAVA May 2006
Claudia South, MAVA December 1998
Karin Stellwagen, MAVA August 1994
Scott Sterling, MAVA December 1992
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, MAVA May 1992
Pushpa Tulachan, MAVA December 1993
Micah Van der Ryn, MAVA December 1991
Cindy Hing-yuk Wong, MAVA December 1989
Julie Wright, MAVA December 1989
Pilar Wright, MAVA December 1999
Ju-Hua Wu, MAVA May 1997
M.A. Visual Anthropology (MVA)
2010
Christian Maltbaek
Eric O’Connell
Jamie Schreiber
Christina Strunk
Briana Young
2011
Maren Elwood
Dalton Gaudin
Kai M. Green
Nicole Hernandez
Sarah Kirby
Alyssa Lucca
Jim Monahan
Parisa Rezvani
Emma Roll
2012
Audrey Fok
Rachel Quaill
Jessica Roberts
2013
Brittany V. Gates
Bianca Hernandez
Rachel Elizabeth Jones
Nicole Miyahara
Jazmin Ontiveros
Candice Rusch
Sabrina Skau
Michele Sullivan
James Watson
Ted Woods
2014
Kara Clemins
Samantha Close
Jessie Davidson
Patrick Gadut
Mirtha Garcia
Adrienne Gerard
Stephanie Mulcihy
Robert Raad
Shirin Raban
Francesca Santos
George Villanueva
2015
Lucy Copp
Wanwan Lu
Julie C. Perrin
Amy Lynn Wolpert
Qingzhi Zhang
2016
Toni A. Bell
Ileana de Cardenas
Joe Garrett
Andie Lee
Jiaqi Yu
2017
Luli Garcia
Dayna Jessie Meyer
Jack Sample
Marika Stanford-Moore
2018
Sean David Christensen
Christina Keller
Kevin Pobjoy
Matthew Purifoy
Chong Zhang
2019
Amanda Broder-Hahn
Marissa Dimitrion
Maleia Mikesell
Kayla Sotomil
Rebecca Truszkowski
Qihao Wang
Yehoshua Zepeda
2020
Alejandra Chaisson
Apryl Lundsten
Ashley Ascencio
Betty Gebregzabheir
Ekua Armah
Ithalia Price
Lydia Erickson
Yumeng He
2021
Faith Dearborn
Yiwei Lu
Sophie Pegrum
Alejandro Perez
Jack Sukimoto
Daniel Venegas
2022
Sanaya Dhablania
Symon Braun Freck
Monique Yamaguchi
Chandler Owen Zausner
2023
Rachael Geary
Eric Hensley
Fefe Smith
Anna Weiler