Sewanee's Anthropology majors have a high success rate in gaining admittance to their chosen graduate programs.
If you are a Sewanee Anthropology Graduate, we would like to hear from you! E-mail your news and a photo to: dmurdock@sewanee.edu
Carrie Parris '08 is working towards a Ph.D. in Mesoamerican Archaeology at Tulane.
Lauren Alston '07 is pursuing a graduate degree in Archaeology in Illinois.
Annie Cheek '07 is working at an advertising agency in Tampa, FL.
Almire Sidik '07 is pursuing a degree in Conflict Resolution.
Shawn Means '06 has been inducted as a Junior Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Washington, DC. She is one of only ten undergraduates nationwide to receive this honor. She will begin a graduate program at the University of Virginia in Fall of 2006 in Urban and Environmental Planning.
Eva Rocke '06 spent the summer after graduation pursuing ecological research in Brazil and has now completed an internship with the Sierra Club. She plans to become a lobbyist for environmental, health and reproductive rights issues.
Ted Smith '06 is now earning his degree in Dentistry.
 Lillian Azevedo-Grout '05 has received the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship that will enable her to pursue a Ph.D. in underwater archaeology at the University of Southampton in England. The Cooke Scholarship is highly competitive and is awarded through a nationwide selection process. Lillian founded the scuba club at Sewanee, has previously excavated a Civil War Blockade Runner, the Denbigh, in Galveston Bay through an internship with the institute Nautical Archaeology and has taught diving in Key Largo. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude.
Chris Honeycutt '05 is working for for an environmental NGO in Seattle and is going to Africa with the Peace Corps.
David Zeman '05 is doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Case Western (fully funded).
Mona Scruggs '04 is in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica.
Haley Shelton '04 is working for a human rights NGO in Houston and applying to law schools.
Jill Birdwell '04 and Ben Marsee '05 both obtained law degrees at UT Knoxville and are married and practicing in Cookeville, TN.
Ethan Pinney '04 is teaching special education in New York City and pursuing a graduate program in Education.
Barbie Green '04 is teaching English in Japan.
Kate Graves '03 has worked for the World Wildlife Federation researching climate change, and has studied people living in high risk conditions in volcanic regions of Ecuador and Guatemala. She completed a Masters at the University of Michigan in Spring 2007 and now works for Island Press in Washington D.C.
Beth Weinman '03 earned a Masters in Museum Studies and is Registrar at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas.
Maryann Wong '03 taught English in Poland and completed a Master's Degree at Columbia University.
Elizabeth Mann '03 is a lawyer.
Charlotte Hutton '03 has earned a Masters in Historic Preservation at George Washington University, was a museum intern mounting an exhibition in Amsterdam and now works in Hawaii.
Kate O'Mara '02 has earned her Masters in Journalism at Columbia University and works in Washington, D.C.
Beth Jacobs '02 has earned a Masters in Applied Anthropology at the University of Memphis.
Ian Scott '01 was awarded a Watson Fellowship to travel for a year in Ireland, Senegal, Switzerland, and Martinique to study cognitive mapping, native perceptions of the environment, and landscape painting. He then completed a masters degree in landscape architecture at the University of Georgia in Athens and is now working for a landscape architecture firm in Boulder Colorado.
Yuki Ito '01 Graduated with a Master's degree in public health from Columbia University in New York City, May 2003 and now works in New York City Hospitals.
Patrick Hayden '01 is a doctoral student at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His interests lie in the Caribbean, Neo-liberalism, marxist theory and the making of political identities. He has begun work with the UGTG, a militant labor organization in Guadeloupe, the Overseas Department of France. In December, Hayden will be returning to Guadeloupe for an international conference concerning Transnational Labor Solidarity. Hayden has also become active in the Graduate Employee Labor Movement here in the United States, serving as Vice-President for the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (AFT #3544); he also sits on the Lane County Labor Council here in Oregon. His rock band, Deke Falcon, released an album entitled Sand in the Shower, Rust on the Road in 2005, to decidedly mixed reviews.
Rachel Hall 01' earned her Master's degree in medical anthropology at Oxford, England, earned another master's in Public Health at Boston University and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Boston University in 2008. This is a photo of her conducting research in Aldea Xotonox, Tecpan, Guatemala.
Beth Saer '01 is pursuing a Master's in Sociology at Vanderbilt
Hilary Larson '00 received her M. A. in medical anthropology from the University of Colorado in December of 2003.
She now works for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in the Nutrition and Physical Activity program.
She is the coordinator of the Asthma, Diabetes and Tobacco portion of the "Steps to a Healthier Colorado program ".
Natalie Nimerala '00 is practicing law.
Leslie Burton '00 has finished a Master's in Anthropology at London School of Economics and now works for Marshall University.
Samantha Sutphin '99 is working in environmental law.
Jessica Rosein '99 is now working for NGOs in Washington, D.C. and the Philippines. (Click her name to read about her experiences.)
Amber Pewitt '99 served as a Peace Corps volunteer from September 1999 to December 2001 teaching chemistry and physics at Nangwanda Girls' Secondary School in Newala, Tanzania, located in the southeast corner of the country near the Mozambique border. She is now studying for Medical School.
Dr. Niklas Hultin '97 is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in May of 2007. His dissertation—Information, Legality, and the Making of the Public Subject in Africa’s Human Rights Capital (The Gambia)—examined the making of human rights discourse by international and local actors in The Gambia and the ways in which this discourse is shaping perceptions of personhood and subjectivity through various debates over issues such as freedom of speech and children’s rights. He returned to the Gambia in summer of 2007 to start a new research project on finance and legal consciousness, and is also developing smaller projects on e-waste and on cultural expectations of what constitutes “personal” information in Sweden. http://www.swarthmore.edu/x8984.xml
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