Alumni

Alumni News

Over the past four decades, the Department of Anthropology has successfully transformed hundreds of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students into valued alumni. These graduates have gone on to successful careers in academia, public service, and the private sector.

As of October 2018, USF has conferred 523 graduate degrees in Applied Anthropology (188 PhD and 335 MA). MA graduates typically obtain jobs in anthropology-related professions, in the private consulting sector, for government programs (often in health-care fields) or in the public sector (museums, teaching, public education, social services etc.). PhD graduates move into academia, research positions for government agencies, or in a variety of other areas.

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Spring 2019 GRADUATES

 

PhD:
Ryan Logan, Advisor: Heide Castañeda
Dana Ketcher, Advisors: Linda Whiteford and Heide Castañeda
Anthony Tricarico, Advisor: Christian Wells
Ashley Maxwell, Advisor: Robert Tykot

MA:
Cheyenne Wagi (MA/MPH), Advisor: David Himmelgreen

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DANA KETCHER

Dr. Dana Ketcher, a Spring 2019 graduate, recently had an article published on May 20, 2019 in the Psychology, Health & Nedicine Journal:  "Social Networks of Caregivers of Patients with Primary Malignant Brain Tumor"

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Kristina Baines 

Congratulations to Kristina Baines who Received the Course Hero-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching

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Kaniqua Robinson

Dr. Kaniqua Robinson, a December 2018 graduate, has accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh effective August 2019.

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Lori Collins and Travis Doering

Congratulations to Lori Collins (Ph.D., 2007) and Travis Doering (Ph.D., 2007), Research Associate Professors and co-Directors of the Digital Heritage & Humanities Collection in the University of South Florida Libraries, on their work with Google Arts & Culture to form the Open Heritage Alliance, which will establish best practices and formal standards around 3D formats, approaches, ethics, digital preservation, and access.

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NOLAN KLINE

 

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Fall 2018 Graduates

 

PhD:
Kaniqua Robinson, Advisor: Antoinette Jackson

MA:
Donna Barth, Advisor: Nancy Romero-Daza

Spencer Bockover, Advisor: Tara Deubel

Gennifer Goad, Advisor: Erin Kimmerle

Rene Herrera, Advisor: Elizabeth Miller

John Pendygraft, Co-Advisors: Daniel Lende and Elizabeth Bird

Emily Weisenberger, Advisor: Antoinette Jackson

Justin Winn, Advisor: Rebecca Zarger

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Janelle Christensen

 

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Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister

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Summer 2018 Graduates