University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
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PhDs Awarded:

2001-2004 | 2000-1990 | 1989-1980 | 1979-1970
1969-1960
| 1959-1950 | 1949-1940 | 1939-1930 | pre 1930

Date Name Field Geographic Area Dissertation Title
1979 Barstow, Jean S/C LatAmer-Bolivia An Aymara Class Structure: Town and Community in Carabuco (Smith, Katz, T. Turner)
1979 Daniel, E. Valentine S/C SoAsia-India From Compatibility to Equipoise: The Nature of Subnstance in Tamil Culture (Marriott, V. Turner, T. Turner)
1979 De Veer, Henrietta Talvitie S/C LatAmer-Caribbean Sex Roles and Social Stratification in a Rapidly Growing Urban Area - May Pen, Jamaica (Smith, Sohn, Silverstein [Tambiah])
1979 Hall, Henry Arch Paleoanthro Antelope House: A Paleoscatological Perspective (Freeman, Klein, Butzer)
1979 Handler, Richard S/C NoAmer-Canada My Country is Winter: An Ethnography of Nationalism in Quebec (Smith, Cohn, Schneider, Stocking)
1979 Keil, Charles S/C Africa-W Africa Tiv Song (Schneider, Fallers, Zonis)
1979 Stone [Zimansky], Elizabeth Arch Near East The Social and Economic Organization of Old Babylonian Nippur (Adams, Sahlins, Civil, Gibson)
1979 Whitcomb, Donald Arch MidEast-Iran Trade and Tradition in Medieval Southern Iran (Adams, Braidwood, Wheatley, Gibson)
1978 Batteau, Allen S/C NoAmer-US Class and Status in an Egalitarian Community: A Study in the Structure of American Society [Appalachia]
1978 Bernstein, Howard S/C SoAsia-India Social Structure and Dravidian Kin Terminology in a Raj Gond Village of South Central India (Nicholas, Inden, Smith)
1978 Conkey, Margaret Arch Europe-Spain An Analysis of Design Structure: Variability among Magdalenian Engraved Bones in North Coastal Spain (Freeman, Fogelson, Klein)
1978 Dickie, Walter J S/C NoAmer-US Family and Polity in Atlantic England (Colonial New England] (Cohn, Stocking)
1978 Egnor, Margaret Trawick S/C SoAsia-India The Sacred Spell and Other Conceptions of Life in Tamil Culture (Marriott/Friedrich, Ramanujan, Lindholm)
1978 Harrold, Francis Arch Paleolithic A Study of the Chatelperronian (Freeman, Butzer, Klein)
1978 Hawkins, John S/C LatAmer-Guatemala Ethnicity and Family in Western Highland Guatemala (Smith, Nash, Tax)
1978 Moberg, David S/C NoAmer-US? Rattling the Golden Chains: Conflict and Consciousness of Auto Workers (T. Turner, Nicholas, Sahlins)
1978 Prell [Foldes], Riv-Ellen S/C NoAmer-US Strategies in Conflict Situations: Ritual and Redress in an Urban Jewish Prayer Community
1978 Prosnitz, David S/C NoAmer-US The Spirit in the Flesh: A Cultural Account of Urban American Pentecostalism (M. Singer, T. Turner, Smith)
1978 Rodgers, Susan S/C SEAsia-Indonesia Angkola Batak Kinship Through its Oral Literature (Cohn, Nash, Bruner)
1978 Rumsey, Alan S/C-Ling Oceania-Australia A Grammar on Ungarinjin with Special Reference to the Structure of Discourse [A language of Western Australia]
1978 Thornton, Robert S/C Africa-Tanzania The Iraqw of Northern Tanzania: The Spatial Order of Culture and Society (Nicholas, Stocking, Sahlins)
1978 Thorp, John S/C SoAsia-Bangladesh Masters of Earth: Conceptions of "Power" among Muslims of Rural Bangladesh (Nicholas, Marriott, Inden [Fallers, Tambiah])
1978 Urban, Gregory P. S/C LatAmer-Brazil? A Model of Shokleng Social Reality (Fogelson, Shapiro, T. Turner, Silverstein)
1977 Beck, Lois Grant S/C Local Organization among Qashqa'i Nomadic Pastoralists in Southwest Iran (Smith, Yalman, Adams, Zonis [Fallers])
1977 Galaty, John S/C Africa-Kenya In the Pastoral Image: The Dialectic of Maasai Identity (Schneider, LeVine, Sahlins)
1977 Good, Byron J S/C MidEast-Iran The Heart of What's the Matter: The Structure of Medical Discourse in a provincial Iranian Town
1977 Hardin, Margaret S/C LatAmer-Mexico Structure and Creativity: Family Style in Tarascan Greenware Painting (Fogelson, Adams, Yngve, Sturtevant)
1977 Hinnant, John T. S/C Africa-Ethiopia The Gada System of the Guji of Southern Ethiopia (Nicholas, D. Levine, Sahlins)
1977 Ohel, Milla Arch Euopre-Britain The Clactonian-Acheulian Interface in Britain (Freeman, Butzer, R. Singer)
1977 Shoemaker, Robin Ernest S/C LatAmer-Peru The Peasants of El Dorado: A Study of Peruvian Frontier Society (Nicholas, Nash, Katz)
1977 Shore, Bradd S/C Oceania-Samoa A Samoan Theory of Action: Social Control and Social Order in a Polynesian Paradox (Schneider, Sahlins, Fogelson)
1976 Beeman, William O. S/C-Ling MidEast-Iran The Meaning of Stylistic Variation in Iranian Verbal Interaction (Friedrich, Perry, Marriott, Bateson)
1976 Brown, Jennifer S.H. S/C NoAmer-Canada Company Men and Native Families: Fur Trade, Social and Domestic Issues in Canada's Old Northwest (Stocking, Fogelson, Cohn)
1976 Cachel, Susan Phys Primates Origins of the Anthropoid Grade (Tuttle, Dahlberg, Freeman, Butzer)
1976 Cook, Della Collins Phys NoAmer-Midwest Pathologic States and Disease Process in Illinois Woodland Populations: An Epidemiologic Approach
1976 Dichter, thomas S/C MidEast-Morocco The Problem of How to Act on an Undefined Stage: An Exploration of Culture, Change, and Individual Consciousness in the Moroccan Town of Sefrou, with a Focus on Three Modern Schools
1976 Hecht, Julia S/C Oceania-Cook Is "Double Descent" and Cultural Symbolism in Pukapuka, Northern Cook Islands (Schneider, Sahlins, Lieber)
1976 Johnson, Clarke Phys Primates The Histogenetic Specificity of Embryonic Cartilage (Dahlberg, Tuttle, Graber, Garber)
1976 Mayhall, John Phys Dentition The Morphology of the Permanent Dentition of Prehistoric and Modern Central Arctic Eskimoid Peoples: A Study of their Biological Relationships
1976 Moffatt, Michael S/C SoAsia-India Cultural Continuity and Structural Replication in a South Indian Untouchable Community (Marriott, Nicholas, T. Turner)
1976 Pessar, Patricia R. S/C LatAmer-Brazil When Prophecy Prevails: A Study of Millenarianism in Brazil (V. Turner, T. Turner, Nicholas)
1976 Straus, (Anne S.) Terry S/C Native America Being Human in the Cheyenne Way (Tax, M. Singer, Fogelson)
1976 Susman, Randall Phys Primates Functional and Evolutionary Morphology of Hominoid Manual Rays II-V (Tuttle, Dahlberg, Butzer, Beck)
1976 Walker, Sheila S/C Africa-Ivory Coast Christianity African Style: The Harrist Church of the Ivory Coast (Smith, C. Long, Fogelson)
1976 Wheatcroft, Wilson S/C Oceania-PHG The Legacy of Afekan: Cultural Symbolic Interpretations of Religion among the Tifalmin of New Guinea
1975 Conkling, Robert S/C SEAsia-Indonesia Bureaucracy in Makassar, Indonesia: The Political Anthropology of a Complex Organization
1975 Cook, Thomas Arch NoAmer-Midwest Koster: An Artifact Analysis of Two Archaic Phases in West-Central Illinois (Struever, Freeman, Adams, Brown)
1975 Davis, Marvin S/C SoAsia-India Rank and Rivalry in Rural West Bengal (Cohn, Marriott, Nicholas)
1975 Gerald, Rex Arch NoAmer-US Drought Correlated Chjanges in Two Prehistoric Pueblo Communities in Souteast Arizona (Adams, Eggan, Freeman)
1975 Glander, Kenneth Phys Primates Habitat and Resource Utilization: An Ecological View of Social Organization in Mantled Howling Monkeys
1975 Hotchkiss, John C. S/C LatAmer-Mexico The Dynamics of Patronage in Teopisca: A Setting of Integration of Ladinos and Indians in Chiapas, Mexico (McQuown, Adams, Tay)
1975 Hyman, Gerald S/C SEAsia-Indonesia Economics in Krian (Nash, Nicholas, Tambiah)
Mullings, Leith Patricia S/C Africa-Ghana Healing, Religion and Social Change in southeastern Ghana (Smith, Cohn, V. Turner [Fallers, LeVine]
1975 Oliphant, Peter S/C Af/LatAm-Ghana Household Composition in Ghana and British Guiana (Smith, Schneider, Nash)
1975 Sewell, Dorita S/C NoAmer-US Knowing People: A Study of a Mexican-American Group's Person Concepts (Tax, Freidrich, Leslie)
1975 Straus, Lawrence Arch Europe-Spain A Study of the Solutrean in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain (Freeman, Butzer, Klein)
1975 Wahrhaftig, Albert S/C Native America In the Aftermath of Civilization: The Persistence of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (Tax, Eggan, Fogelson)
1975 Whitehead, Harriet S/C NoAmer-US What Does Scientology Auditing Do? (Schneider, M. Singer, T. Turner)
1974 Austin-Broos, Diane S/C LatAmer-Caribbean Symbols and Ideologies of Class in Urban Jamaica: A Cultural Analysis of Class (Smith, Cohn, Fallers)
1974 Buchdahl, David S/C NoAmer-US American Realities: Anthropological Reflections from the 'Counter Culture' (Schneider, Cohn, M. Singer, V. Turner)
1974 Cramer, Douglas Phys Primates Cranio-facial Form in Two African Pongidae with Special Reference to the Pygmy Chimpanzee, pan paniscus
1974 Drummond, J. Lee S/C LatAmer-Guyana The Outskirts of the Earth: A Study of Amerindian Ethnicity on the Pomeroon River, Guyana (Smith, Fogelson, Schneider)
1974 Feinberg, Richard S/C Oceania-Solomon Is Social Structure of Anuta [Solomon Islands] (Eggan, Sahlins, R. Green)
1974 Fritz, John M. Arch NoAmer-Arizona The Hay Hollow Site Subsistence System: East Central Arizona (Adams, Eggan, M. Singer, J. Hall)
1974 Hopkins, Joseph Arch LatAmer-Mexico Irrigation and the Cuicatec Ecosystem: A Study of Agriculture and Civilization in North Central Oaxaca, Mexico
1974 Johanson, Donald C. Phys Primates An Odontological Study of the Chimpanzee (Dahlberg, Howell, Merbs, Tuttle)
1974 Korey, Kenneth Phys
The Estimation of Admixture and the Detection of Natural Selection: An Evaluation Using Monte Carlo Techniques
1974 Luchterhand, Kubet Emil Phys EAsia-Paleoanthro Mid-Pleistocene Hominid Distribution and Adaptation in Eastern Asia (Freeman, Tuttle, Butzer)
1974 Maeda, Narifumi S/C SEAsia-Maylasia The Changing Peasant World in a Melaka Village: Islam and Democracy in the Malay Tradition
1974 McGilvray, Dennis B. S/C SoAsia-Sri Lanka Tamils and Moors: Caste and Matriclan Structure in Eastern Sri Lanka (Cohn, Yalman, Marriott)
1974 Merten, Don E. S/C NoAmer-US Up Here and Down Home: Appalachian Migrants in Northtown (Fallers, Nash, M. Singer)
1974 Montague, Susan S/C Oceania-Trobriands The Trobriand Society (T. Turner, Cohn, Wagner)
1974 Possehl, Gregory Arch SoAsia-India Variation and Change in the Indus Civilization: A Study of Prehistoric Gujarat with Special Referenbce to the Post Urban Harappan (Adams, Braidwood, Inden, Freeman)
1974 Rosen, Charles S/C Africa-Ethiopia Warring with Words: Patterns of Political Activity in a Northern Ethiopain Town (Nicholas, D Levine, Nash)
1974 Seeger, Anthony S/C LatAmer-Brazil Nature and Culture and Their Transformations in the Cosmology and Social Organization of the Suya, a Ge-Speaking Tribe in Central Brazil (V. Turner, T. Turner)
1974 Smith, James G.E. S/C Native America Kindred, Clan and Conflict: Continuity and Change among the Southwestern Ojibwa (Fogelson, Eggan, Nicholas)
1973 Alexander, (Henry) Jack S/C LatAmer-Caribbean The Culture of Middle-Class Family Life in Kingston, Jamaica (Smith, Schneider, Cohn)
1973 Attinasi, John S/C-Ling LatAmer-Mexico Lak T'an: A Grammar of the Chol (Mayan) Word (Friedrich, McQuown, Ramanujan)
1973 Bialor, Perry A. S/C Europe-Greece A Century and a Half of Change: Transformations of a Greek Farming Community in the N.W. Peloponessor, Greece
1973 Blank, Judith S/C SoAsia-India The Story of Chou Dance of the Former Mayurbhanj State, Orissa (M. Singer, Marriott, Ramanujan)
1973 Boon, James A. S/C SEAsia-Indonesia Dynastic Dynamics: Caste and Kinship in Bali Now (Schneider, M. Singer, Friedrich)
1973 Duben [Dubetsky], Allen S/C MicEast-Turkey A New Community in Istanbul: A Study of Primordial Ties, Work Organization, and Turkish Culture
1973 Fischer, Michael S/C MidEast-Iran Zoroastrian Iran Between Myth and Praxis (Yalman, Smith, Schneider, M. Singer, Zonis)
1973 Friedlander, Judith S/C LatAmer-Mexico What It Means to be Indian in Cualpan, Morelos: A Study of Symbolic Exploitation (Friedrich, V. Turner, S. Freed, Adams)
1973 Kemper, Steven S/C SoAsia-Sri Lanka The Social Order of the Sinhalese Buddhist Sangha (Yalman, Marriott, Reynolds)
1973 Kracke, Waud S/C LatAmer-Brazil Emotions and Personality in Parintintin Politics: A Study of Political Structure and Commotive Leadership in an Amazon Indian Tribe
1973 Mackenzie, Margaret S/C Oceania-Cook Is Cultural and Social Aspects of Preschool Children's Health in Rarotonga, Cook Ilsnads [Polynesia]
1973 Masry, Abdullah Hassan Arch MidEast-Arabia Prehistory in Northeastern Arabia: The Problem of Interregional Interaction (Adams, Braidwood, Fallers)
1973 Murray, Peter F. Phys Primates The Anatomy and Adaptive Significance of Cheek Pouches (Bursae Buccales) in the Cercopithecinae, Cercopithecoidea
1973 Reminick, Ronald S/C Africa-Ethiopia The Manze Amhara of Ethiopia: A Study of Authority, Masculinity, and Sociality (R. LeVine, D. Levine, Shapiro)
1973 Rodman, William S/C Oceania-N.Hebrides Men of Influence, Men of Rank: Leadership and the Graded Society on Aboa, New Hebrides (Fogelson, Cohn, Schneider)
1973 Scheinfeld, Daniel S/C NoAmer-US Dominance, Exchange and Achievement in a Lower Income Black Neighborhood (LeVine, Fallers, Tax, M. Singer)
1973 Tobias, Stephen S/C SEAsia-Thailand Chinese Religion in a Thai Market Town (Schneider, Reynolds, Tambiah)
1973 Wadley, Susan S/C SoAsia-India Power in the Conceptual Structure of Karimpur Religion (Marriott, M. Singer, Friedrich)
1973 Walker, Phillip L. Phys Primates Great Ape Feeding Behavior and Incisor Morphology (Dahlberg, Merbs, Tuttle, Freeman)
1972 Blu, Karen I. S/C Native America "We People": Understanding Lumbee Indian Identity in a Tri-Racial Situation (Fogelson, Eggan, Schneider)
1972 Buikstra, Jane E Phys Paleopath Hopewell in the Lower Illinois River Valley: A Regional Approach to the Study of Biological Variability and Mortuary Activity
1972 David, Kenneth S/C SoAsia-Sri Lanka The Bound and the Nonbound: Variations in Social and Cultural Structure in Rural Jaffna, Ceylon (Marriott, Singer, Yalman)
1972 Dubisch, Jill S/C Europe-Greece The Open Community: Migration from a Greek Island Village (Cohn, Fallers, Yalman)
1972 El-Zein, Abdul Hamid S/C Africa-Sudan? The Sacred Meadows: A Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African Town (Fallers, Smith, Yalman)
1972 Fisher, James S/C SoAsia-Nepal Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society and Cultue in Northwest Nepal (Nash, Yalman, Marriott, Tax, Fallers, Singer)
1972 Goss, James A. S/C-Ling Native America Ute Lexical and Phonological Patterns (McQuown, Friedrich, Hamp)
1972 Hagens, Elizabeth S/C NoAmer-US A Historical, Cultural and Organizational Analysis of Ozark Ethnic Identity (Fogelson, Singer, Schneider, Cohn)
1972 Hylander, William Phys Primates The Adaptive Significance of Eskimo Craniofacial Morphology (Dahlberg, Merbs, Howell, Graber)
1972 Kershaw, Gretha S/C Africa-Kenya The Land is the People: A Study of Kikuyu Social Organization in Historical Perspective (Fallers, Eggan, Smith)
1972 Labby, David S/C Oceania-Carolines The Anthropology of Others: An Analysis of the Traditional Ideology of Yap, Western Caroline Islands (Schneider, Fogelson)
1972 Price (Paul) David S/C-Ling LatAmer-Brazil? Nambiquara Society (Friedrich, Fogelson, Shapiro)
1972 Salzman, Philip S/C MidEast-Iran? Adaptation and Change Among the Yarahmadzai Baluch (Yalman, Adams, Fallers)
1972 Schieffelin, Edward S/C Oceania-PNG The Gisaro: Ceremonialism and Reciprocity in a New Guinea Tribe
1972 Varenne, Herve S/C NoAmer-Midwest Individualism, Community and Love in a Small Midwestern Town: A Structural Analysis (M. Singer, Fallers, Schneider)
1971 Allman, John Phys Primates The Representation of the Visual Field in the Cerebral Cortex of the Owl Monkey (actus trivirgatus)
1971 Anderson, Robert S/C SoAsia-India The Life of Science in India: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Research Institutes (M. Singer, Shils, Schneider)
1971 Clark, Geoffrey A. Arch Europe-Spain The Asturian of Cantabria [Spain]: A Reevaluation (Freeman, Adams, Braidwood)
1971 DeMallie, Raymond S/C Native America Teton Dakota Kinship and Social Organization (Eggan, Stocking, Fogelson, Friedrich)
1971 Eickelman, Dale S/C MidEast-Morocco Secret of the Ancestors: A Study of the Secularization of a Moroccan Religious Lodge (Adams, Yalman, Fallers)
1971 Foner, Nancy S/C LatAmer-Caribbean Social Mobility and Social Change in a Jamaican Rural Community (Smith, Cohn, Fallers)
1971 Harwood, Frances S/C Oceania-Melanesia The Christian Fellowship Church: A Revitalization Movement in Melanesia
1971 Kamau, Lucy Jayne S/C NoAmer-US Systems of Belief and Ritual in Christian Science (Fogelson, Marriott, Geertz)
1971 Ostor, Akos S/C SoAsia-India The Play of the Gods among Men: Society, Locality, and Ideology in the Symbolism of Myths and Rituals in a Bengali Town
1971 Redman, Charles Arch
Controlled Surface Collection as an Integral Element in Archaeological Research Strategies
1971 Salovesh, Michael S/C LatAmer-MesoAm The Political System of a Highland Maya Community: A Study in the Methodology of Political Analysis (McQuown, Fallers)
1970 Aronson, Daniel S/C Africa-Nigeria Cultural Stability and Social Change Among the Modern Ijebu Yoruba (LeVine, Fallers, Nash)
1970 Barnett, Stephen S/C SoAsia-India The Sturctural Position of a South Indian Caste: Kontaikkatti Velalars in Tamilnadu (Marriott, M. Singer, Geertz, Tax)
1970 Benedict, Peter S/C MidEast-Turkey Ula: An Anatolian Town, The Decline of a Mediating Center (Fallers, Adams, Tax, Yalman, Nash)
1970 Cartmill, Matthew Phys Primates The Orbits of Arboreal Mammals: A Reassessment of the Arboreal Theory of Primate Evolution
1970 Daniels, Robert E. S/C Africa-Kenya By Rites a Man: A Study of the Societal and Individual Foundations of Tribal Identity among the Kipsigis of Kenya
1970 Meeker, Michael S/C MidEast-CentAsia The Black Sea Turks (Fallers, Spiro, Yalman)
1970 Ortner, Sherry B. S/C SoAsia-Nepal Food for Thought: A Key Symbol in Sherpa Thought (Yalman, Geertz, Marriott)
1970 Owens, Raymond S/C SoAsia-India Peasant Entrepreneurs in a North Indian Industrial City (Cohn, Nash, Marriott, M. Singer)
1970 Paul, Robert A. S/C SoAsia-Nepal Sherpas and Their Religion (M. Singer, Nash, Yalman)
1970 Rabinow, Paul S/C MidEast-Morocco The Social History of a Moroccan Village (Geertz, Yalman, M. Singer)
1970 Radhakrishnan, R (Alum only)


1970 Smith, Patricia Phys Dentition Dental Morphology and Pathology in the Natufians: The Dental Evidence for Dietary Specialization (Dahlberg, Howell, Merbs)
1970 Szanton, David S/C SEAsia-Philippines Entrepreneurship in a Rural Philippine Community (Eggan, Fallers, Yalman, Geertz, Marriott)
1970 Wilson, Donald Phys Primates A Functional Morphology of the Tail, Ischial Callosities, and Pelvocaudal Musculature in Macaca (Tuttle, Howell, Oxnard, R. Singer)
1970 Winzeler, Robet S/C SEAsia-Malaysia Maylay Religion, Society and Politics in Kelantan (Fallers, Yalman, Nash)
1970 Witherspoon, Gary S/C Native America A Cultural and Social analysis of Navajo Kinship and Social Organization (Eggan, Smith, V. Turner, Schneider)