University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
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PhDs Awarded

PhDs Awarded:

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

DateNameFieldGeographic AreaDissertation Title
1989 Barrett, Anthony S/C Africa-Kenya Sacrifice and Prophecy in Turkana Cosmology (JeComaroff, Smith, Turner, L.E. Sullivan)
1989 Dusenbery, Verne S/C SoAsia-India Sikh Persons and Practices: A Comparative Ethnosociology (Stocking, Nicholas, Reynolds, M. Singer)
1989 Goldstein, Paul Arch LatAmer-Peru Omo, A Tiwanaku Provincial Center in Moquegua, Peru (Kolata, Buikstra, Mosley, Rice)
1989 Jacknis, Ira S/C Native America The Strange Box of Tradition: Museums, Anthropologists, and Kwakiutl Art, 1881-1981 (Munn, Stocking, Fogelson)
1989 Kostarelos, Frances S/C NoAmer-US A Social and Cultural Account of an Evangelical Store-Front Church in a Black Ghetto [Chicago] (Nicholas, JeComaroff, W.J. Wilson)
1989 Parker, Samuel S/C SoAsia-India Makers of Meaning: The Production of Temples and Images in South India (Cohn, Sahlins, Munn, Marriott)
1989 Segal, Daniel S/C LatAmer-Caribbean Nationalism in a Colonial State: A Study of Trinidad and Tobago (Smith, Stocking, Cohn)
1989 Webb, David Phys Primates The Function of the Upper Limbs in Human Walking (Tuttle, Buikstra, LaBarbera)
1989 Williams, Mary-Catherine Phys Dentition A Multivariate Analysis of Tooth Crown Measurements in Two Extant Human Populations (Tuttle, Bock)
1988 Alonso, Ana Maria S/C LatAmer-Mexico Gender, Ethnicity and the Constitution of Subjects: Accommodation, Resistance, and Revolution on the Chihuahuan Frontier (Smith, JeComaroff, Katz)
1988 Bowie, Katherine S/C SEAsia-Thailand Peasant Perspectives on the Political Economy of the Northern Thai Kingdom of Chiang Mai in the 19c: Implications for the Understanding of Peasant Political Expression (Nicholas, Valeri, Reynolds)
1988 Burgess, Robin Arch Geoarchaeology Cave Geoarchaeology in the American Southeast and Southern Africa: Contrasting Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological and Paleontological Contexts (Butzer, Adams, Rice, Klein, Freeman)
1988 Coville, Elizabeth S/C SEAsia-Indonesia A Single Word Brings to Life: The Maro Ritual in Tana Toraja [Indonesia] (JeComaroff, Friedrich, Nash, Silverstein)
1988 Diamond, Michael Phys Primates Cephalic Vascular Evolution and Development in Primates: The Stapedial Artery and its Companion Venous Sinuses (R. Singer, Allin Wible)
1988 Foster, Robert S/C Oceania-PNG Social Reproduction and Value in a New Ireland Society, Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea (Munn, Sahlins, Turner)
1988 Harkin, Michael S/C Native America Dialogues of History: Transformation and Change in Heiltsuk Culture 1790-1920 (Fogelson, Nash, Munn)
1988 Hutchinson, Sharon S/C Africa-Sudan The Nuer in Crisis: Coping with Money, War, and the State (Smith, JeComaroff, Munn)
1988 Kaplan, Martha S/C Oceania-Fiji Land and Sea and the New White Men: A Reconsideration of the Fijian Tuka Movement (Sahlins, Cohn, Fernandez)
1988 Kelly, John D. S/C Oceania-Fiji Bhakti and the Spirit of Capitalism in Fiji: The Ontology of the Fiji Indians (Sahlins, Cohn, Nicholas, Inden)
1988 Knight, James A. S/C Africa-Niger Being Twareg: Social Order and Process in Central Niger (Cohn, Adams, JL Comaroff)
1988 Mandel, Ruth S/C Europe-Ger/Turkey We Called for Manpower, but People Came Instead: The Foreigner Problem and Turkish Guestworkers in West Germany (Friedrich, JL Comaroff, Fernandez)
1988 Nugent, Daniel F S/C LatAmer-Mexico Land, Labor and Politics in a Serrano Society: The Articulation of State and Popular Ideology in Mexico
1988 Schwartzman, Stephan S/C LatAmer-Brazil The Panara of the Xingu National Park: The Transformation of a Society (Turner, Sahlins, JL Comaroff)
1988 Zimmerman, Ellen S/C-Ling SoAsia-India Grammatical Categories and Sociocultural Variables in the English of Hyderabad (Friedrich/Masica, Aronson, Nicholas) JtDeg
1987 Albert, Steven S/C Oceania-PNG The Work of Marriage and of Death: Ritual and Political Economy among the Lak [Southern New Ireland, PNG] (Munn, Valeri, Sahlins, Lewis)
1987 Coronil, Fernando S/C LatAmer-Venezuela The Black Eldorado: Money, Fetishism, Democracy and Capitalism in Venezuela (Turner, Cohn, Coatsworth)
1987 Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn Allwarden Arch Faunal Analysis Minimum Number of Individuals and other Quantitative Methodologies of Faunal Analysis (Klein, Butzer, Freeman, Rice, Thisted)
1987 Dabezies, Carlos S/C Europe-England Domestic Service in 19th Century England (Fogelson, Cohn, Stocking, Schneider)
1987 Evett, Daniel Arch Europe-Italy A Test of Generalizations Regarding Mesolithic Euorpe: The Italian Case (Freeman, Klein, Rice)
1987 Franke, Judith Arch MidEast-Iraq Artifact Patterning and Functional Variability in the Urban Dwelling: Old Babylonian Nippur, Iraq (Adams, Braidwood, Buikstra)
1987 Lampland, Martha S/C EEurope-Hungary Working through History: Ideologies of Work and Agricultural Production in a Hungarian Village, 1918-1983 (JL Comaroff, Kligman, Cohn)
1987 Lengyel, Thomas S/C-Ling LatAmer-Mexico The Cultural Organization of Language in a Mayan Community (McQuown, Friedrich, Silverstein, Sadock)
1987 Murray, David W. S/C Native America Navajo Ritual and Ritual Language: A Study in Classification and Usage (Silverstein, Schneider, Friedrich)
1987 Pandya, Vishvajit S/C SoAsia-India Above the Forest: A Study of Andamanese Ethnoanemology, Cosmology, and the Power of Ritual [Andaman Islands off the coast of India] (Nicholas, Fogelson, Zide)
1987 Robotham, Donald K. S/C Africa-Ghana Moneystone: Consciousness and Kinship among Miners in Ghana (Smith, Stocking, Cohn, Nash)
1987 Rogers, J. Daniel Arch Native America Culture Contact and Material Change: Arikara and Euro-American Interactions in the 18th & 19th Centuries (Fogelson, Rice, Brown)
1987 Sax, William S. S/C SoAsia-India Chaya Maya: The Songs and Journeys of Nanda Devi (Nicholas, Marriott, Friedrich)
1987 Schrempp, Gregory S/C Oceania-NewZeal Maori Cosmogonic Thought (Sahlins, Valeri, Schneider, Stocking)
1987 Takahashi, Lilian Phys Primates Morphometric and Allometric Analyses of the Forelimbs of Hylobates and Ateles (Tuttle, Dahlberg, Lande)
1987 Velte, Margaret Phys Primates A New Biomechanical Model of the Vertebral Column in Anthropoid Primates (Tuttle, Singer, LaBarbera)
1986 Abercrombie, Thomas S/C LatAmer-Bolivia The Politics of Sacrifice: An Aymara Cosmolgy in Action (Sahlins/Turner, Coatsworth, Taussig, Rice)
1986 Allison, Anne S/C EAsia-Japan Sexuality as Ideology in Present-Day Japan (Cohn, Schneider, Harootunian)
1986 De Bernardi, Jean S/C SEAsia-Maylasia Heaven, Earth and Man: A Study of Chinese Spirit Mediums [Hokkien Chinese in Penang] (Friedrich, Turner, Sahlins)
1986 Farquhar, Judith S/C EAsia-China Knowledge and Practice in Chinese Medicine (Nicholas, Cohn, JeComaroff, Dalby)
1986 Gray, Christine S/C SEAsia-Thailand Thailand: The Soteriological State in the 1970s (Nicholas, Valeri, Reynolds)
1986 Hendrickson, Carol S/C LatAmer-Guatemala Handmade and Thought-Woven: The Construction of Dress and Social Identity in Tecpan, Guatemala (Munn, McQuown, Silverstein, M. Singer)
1986 Hoffecker, John Arch Paleolithic Upper Paleolithic Settlement in the Russian Plain (Klein, Freeman, Butzer)
1986 Kammerer, Cornelia S/C SEAsia-Thailand Gateway to the Akha World: Kinship, Ritual, and Community Among Highlanders of Thailand (Cohn, Friedrich, Reynolds)
1986 Lee, Benjamin S/C EAsia-China The Objectification of Subjectivity [Chinese concepts of the person/ethics] (M. Singer, T. Turner, Silverstein)
1986 Maxwell, Joseph A. S/C Native America The Conceptualization of Kinship in an Inuit Community (Fogelson, Eggan, Silverstein)
1986 Peters, Irene Rakoff S/C NoAmer-US Natural Object, Social Subject: The Mountaineers of Puget Sound (Munn, Cohn, Fogelson)
1986 Schlesinter, Lee  S/C SoAsia-India  The Castes in a Village, Caste, and the Village: A Social Phenomenology of Terms and Talk in a Mahrashtran Community (Marriott, Cohn, P. Wheatley
1986 Stanton, Gregory S/C Africa-Ivory Coast Symbolic Generalization: Religion, Health and Modernization among the Ebrie of the Ivory Coast (Marriott, Nicholas, Fogelson [V. Turner, Fallers])
1986 Taylor, Katherine E. (Alum only) S/C  
1986 Wilson, Samuel Arch LatAmer-Caribbean The Conquest of the Caribbbean Chiefdoms: Sociopolitical Change on Prehispanic Hispaniola (Rice, Adams, Klein)
1985 Betteridge, Anne S/C MidEast-Iran Ziarat Pilgramage to the Shrines of Shiraz [Iran] (T. Turner, Nash, Zonis [V. Turner, Tambiah])
1985 Chun, Allen J. S/C EAsia-Hong Kong Land is to Live: A Study of the Concept of Tsu in a Hakka Chinese Village, New Territories, Hong Kong (Cohn, Schneider, Dalby)
1985 Cooper, Rex S/C NoAmer-US The Promises made to the Fathers: A Diachronic Analysis of Morman Covenant Organization with Reference to Puritan Federal Theology (Stocking, Cohn, Smith)
1985 Gutierrez-Marquez, Antonio S/C Europe-Spain The Creation of Industrial Cooperatives in the Basque Country: A Case Study (Nash, Laumann, Friedrich)
1985 Leavitt, John H. S/C SoAsia-Nepal? The Language of the Gods: Discourse and Experience in a Central Himalayan Ritual (Friedrich, JeComaroff, Nicholas)
1985 Li Puma, Edward S/C Oceania-PNG The Gift of Kinship: A Study of Maning [of Highland New Guinea] Social Organization (Sahlins, Schneider, Smith)
1985 Olsen, Steven S/C NoAmer-US The Mormon Ideology of Place: Cosmic Symbolism of the City of Zion, 1830-1846
1985 Raheja, Gloria Goodwin S/C SoAsia-India Kinship, Caste, and Auspiciousness in Pahansu (Marriott, Nicholas, Inden)
1985 Rosen, Arlene Miller Arch Geoarchaeology Cities of Clay: The Geoarchaeology of Tells (Butzer, Adams, Stager)
1985 Stanish, Charles S. Arch LatAmer-Peru Post-Tiwanaku Regional Economies in the Otora Valler, Southern Peru (Rice, Moseley, Turner)
1985 Torres, Judith Stern S/C LatAmer-Puerto Rico Mirasol: Participation and Leadership in a Planned Rurla Community (Smith, Nash, Tax)
1985 Vincent, William S/C LatAmer-Brazil Daxsea Mahsa: Cosmology and Material Culture among the Tukana Indians of Brazil (Munn, Fogelson, Kracke)
1984 Bell, Amelia Rector S/C Native America Creek Ritual: The Path to Peace (Fogelson, Munn, Hamp, JL Comaroff)
1984 Bowen, John S/C SEAsia-Indonesia The History and Structure of Gayo Soceity: Variation and Change in the Highlands of Aceh [Sumatra, Indonesia] (Sahlins, Valeri, Cohn, Wheatley)
1984 Caton, Steven S/C-Ling MidEast-Yemen Tribal Poetry as Political Rhetoric from Khawlan at-Tiyal, Yemen Arab Republic (Silverstein, Friedrich, Smith)
1984 Cederquist, (Karl) Robert Phys Human Variation Long-Term Effects of Orthopedic Force on Midfacial Growth (Dahlberg, Tuttle, Goepp)
1984 Conner, Michael Phys NoAmer-Midwest Population Structure and Biological Variation in the Late Woodland of West Central Illinois (Tuttle, Klein, Dahlberg, Struever, Buikstra)
1984 Delaney, Carol S/C MidEast-Turkey Seed and Soil: Symbols of Procreation-Creation of a World: An Example from Turkey
1984 Fedida, Michael S/C MidEast- Honor, Kinship and Marriage in Arab Culture (Nicholas, Nash, Schneider, E. Marx, Silverstein)
1984 Gold, Ann Grodzins S/C SoAsia-India Life Aims and Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (Nicholas, Marriott, Schneider, M. Singer)
1984 Greenberg Hanessian, Linda S/C LatAmer-Guatemala Illness and Curing Among Mam Indians in Highland Guatemala: Cosmological Balance and Cultural Transformation (Nicholas, Schneider, Tax, JeComaroff, I Rosenberg)
1984 Guy, Cynthia S/C MidEast-Israel The Bnei Israel Indian Community of Midbarit, Israel (Schneider, M. Singer, Marriott, JL Comaroff)
1984 Moreno Arcas, Manuel S/C SoAsia-India Murugan, God of Healing Poisons: The Physics of Worship in a South Indian Center for Pilgrimage
1984 Nagatoshi, Konrad Phys Primates Systematics and Paleoecology of European Tertiary Apes (Tuttle, Klein, Dahlberg, Butzer)
1984 Stephens, Sharon S/C Europe-Finland
1984 Urciuoli, Bonnie S/C-Ling NoAmer-US The Cultural Construction of Linguistic Variation [Urban US/Hispanics] (Friedrich, Silverstein, Cohn, Smith)
1984 Zuckerman, Steven S/C Oceania-PNG Incorporating the World System: Culture and Historical Transformation among the Kamano of Papua New Guinea (Sahlins, Smith, Nicholas, Fogelson)
1983 Ayers, Mary C S/C Oceania-PhNG This Side, That Side: Locality and Exogamous Group Definition in Morehead Area, Southwestern Papua
1983 Bourgeois, Robert S/C Europe-Greece Polity and Society in the Epics of Homer: An Anthropological Study (Friedrich, Silverstein?, Shils, Redfield, Adkins)
1983 Brightman, Robert S/C Native America Animal and Human in Rock Cree Religion and Subsistence (Fogelson, Silverstein, Straus, Eggan, Hamp)
1983 Cortright, Gerald Phys Primates The Relative Mass of Hindlimb Muscles in Anthropoid Primates: Functional and Evolutionary Implications
1983 Dittemore, Margaret R. Arch MidEast-Turkey Zemzemiye: An Ethno-Archaeological Study of a Turkish Village (Adams, Butzer, Braidwood)
1983 Hanks, William F. S/C-Ling LatAmer-Mexico Deixis and the Organization of Interactive Context in Yucatec Maya (McQuown/Silverstein, Sadock, JL Comaroff) JtDeg
1983 Howard-Greene, Daniel S/C Europe-Denmark Black Square: An Ethnographic Study of Middle Class Radicalism in Post-War Denmark (Smith, Sahlins, Schneider)
1983 Manheim, Bruce S/C-Ling LatAmer-Peru Structural Change and the Structure of Change: The Linguistic History of Cuzco Quechua in Relation to tis Social History (Friedrich, Silverstein, Hamp [McQuown, Sahlins])
1983 McKinnon, Susan S/C SEAsia-Indonesia Hierarchy, Alliance, and Exchange in the Tanimbar Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Sahlins, Valeri, Schneider)
1983 Moore, Melinda S/C SoAsia-India Taravad: House, Land and Relationship in a Matrilineal Hindu Soceity (Nicholas, Inden, Marriott)
1983 Mueller-Wille, Catherine Flataker Arch Europe-Spain Analysis of Varibility Among Mousterian Industries in Eastern and Southern Spain (Freeman, Butzer, Klein)
1983 Rosen, Steven Arch MidEast-Israel Lithics in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Israel (Butzer, Klein, Freeman, Stager, Bar-Yosef)
1983 Schuldenrein, Joseph Arch MidEast-Jordan Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Lower Jordan Valley
1983 Watts, David Phys Primates Foraging Strategy and Socioecology of Mountain Gorillas (Pan Gorilla berengei) (Tuttle, Klein, Beck)
1982 Becker, Mary Druke S/C Native America Structure and Meaning of Leadership among the Mohawk and Oneida during the Mid-18th Century
1982 Blanchard, David S/C Native America Patterns of Tradition and Change: The Recreation of Iroquois Culture at Kahnawake (Fogelson, Tax, V. Turner, Straus)
1982 Buckley, Thomas S/C Native America Yurok Realities in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Fogelson, Friedrich, Silverstein, Straus)
1982 Denny, Rita Phys Primates To Talk or Be Silent: Functional Specialization in a System Regulating the Sequence of Talk in Conversation (Tuttle, S. Duncan, Silverstein)
1982 Gaffney, Patrick S/C MidEast-Egypt Shaykh, Khutba and Masjid: The Role of the Local Islamic Preacher in Upper Egypt (Nicholas, Cohn, Turner, Zonis)
1982 Goldsmith, Peter S/C NoAmer-US Afro-American Denominationalism: Ideology and Class Consciousness in a Coastal Georgia Community
1982 Kan, Sergei S/C Native America Wrap Your Father's Brother in Kind Words: An Analysis of the 19th Century Tlingit Mortuary and Memorial Rituals
1982 Maxwell, Judith S/C-Ling LatAmer-Mexico How to Talk to People Who Talk Chekel "Different": The Chuj Mayan Solution (McQuown, Sadock, Silverstein) JtDeg
1982 Prindle, Carol S/C SoAsia-Bangladesh Rank Among Muslims in Chittagong, Bangladesh (Nicholas, Marriott, Smith)
1982 Routt, William D (Alum only)


1981 Briggs, Charles S/C-Ling NoAmer-US Our Strength is the Land: The Structure of Hierarchy and Equality and the Pragmatics of Discourse in Hispano (Spanish-American) Talk about the Past
1981 Daniel, Cheryl Boggs S/C SoAsia-India
1981 Downey, Gary L S/C NoAmer-US Political Action in the Opposition to Nuclear Power Plants: The Role of the Liberation Ideology in the Organization of Nonviolent Direct Action Groups
1981 Errington, (James) Joseph S/C-Ling SEAsia-Indonesia Changing Speech Levels Among a Traditional Javanese Elite Group [JtDeg]
1981 Gouzoules, Sarah Manly Phys Primates Social Relationships of Adult Female Japanese Monkeys (Macaca fuscate) (Tuttle, Beck, Klein)
1981 Kurin, Richard S/C SoAsia-Pakistan Person, Family and Kin in Two Pakistani Communities (Nicholas, Marriott, Naim)
1981 Masur, Jenny S/C Europe-Spain Work, Leisure and Obligation in an Andalusian Town [Southern Spain] (Nicholas, Smith, Cohn, Freeman)
1981 McCracken, Grant S/C Europe-EnglandHist Dress and Demeanor in the Elizabethan Period: "And That Was Our Difference" (Sahlins, Schneider, Kishlansky)
1981 Parmentier, Richard S/C Oceania-Gilbert Is The Sacred Remains: An Historical Ethnography of Ngeremlengui, Palau (Sahlins, Silverstein, Schneider)
1981 Pugh, Judy S/C SoAsia-India Person and Experience: The Astrological System of North India (Marriott, Nicholas, V. Turner)
1981 Soiffer, Stephen M. S/C LatAmer-Brazil The Dialectics of Domination: Social Structure and Economics in Rural Northeastern Brazil (Smith, T. Turner, Schneider)
1981 Volman, Thomas P Arch Africa-SoAfrica The Middle Stone Age in the Southern Cape Province, South Africa (Klein, Freeman, Butzer, Tuttle, Deacon)
1981 Wood, Ananda S/C SoAsia-India Traditional Education in Modernizing Kerala (M. Singer)
1980 Carucci, Laurence S/C Oceania-Marshall Is The Renewal of Life: A Ritual Encounter in the Marshall Islands (Sahlins, Schneider, Stocking)
1980 Davis-Roberts, Christopher (Ms) S/C Africa-Zaire Mungu na Mitishamba: Illness and Medicine among the Batabwa of Zaire (Smith, Cohn, V. Turner)
1980 Early, Evelyn S/C MidEast-Egypt Baladi Women of Cairo, Egypt: Sociability and Therapeutic Action (Cohn, JeComaroff, Abu Lughod, Singer [Fallers])
1980 Erdman, Joan S/C SoAsia-India The Artist in Indian Society: Patrons and Performers in Rajasthan (Cohn, M. Singer, S. Rudolph)
1980 Ewing, Katherine P S/C SoAsia-Pakistan The "Pir" or Sufi Saint in Pakistani Islam (Marriott, Smith, Nicholas)
1980 Fienup-Riordan, Ann S/C Native America Social Structure and Ritual Distribution of the Nelson Island Eskimo (Sahlins, Fogelson, Schneider, Van Stone)
1980 Foldes, Stephen S/C LatAmer-Mexico The Conceptualization of Complex Society: Union Politics between Mexico City and a Modern Industrial Town
1980 Gorman, Edward Michael S/C NoAmer-US A New Light on Zion: A Study of Three Homosexual Religious Congregations in Urban America
1980 Kirkpatrick, John S/C Oceania-Yap?? The Marquesan Notion of Person (Schneider, Sahlins, Cohn [Sahpiro])
1980 Larsen, Curtis Arch Geoarchaeology Holocene Land Use Variations on the Bahrain Islands (Adams, Butzer, Gibson)
1980 Munson, Henry L. S/C MidEast-Morocco Islam and Inequality in Northwest Morocco (Smith,. Nash, Abu-Lughod)
1980 Roberts, Allen F S/C Africa-Zaire Herioc Beasts, Beastly Heroes: Princeiples of Cosmology and Chiefship among the lakeside Batabwa of Zaire