McKennan Postdoc Fellowship

The Robert A. 1925 and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology provides promising young scholars with an opportunity to research, write, and teach at Dartmouth college for a period of 2-3 years. In keeping with the four-field nature of our discipline and the department's commitment to an holistic vision of anthropology, postdoctoral fellows rotate between the subfields of sociocultural, archaeological, biological and linguistic anthropology.

Outcrop at the prehistoric quarry at the Stevens Site, Piscataquis County, Maine. Nathaniel R. Kitchel

2018-2020 Theresa E. Gildner

Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2018. "Life history tradeoffs between testosterone and immune function among Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador."

2018-2019 Nathaniel R. Kitchel

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 2016. "Tracing the Paths of Those Who Came First: An Evaluation of Continental Scale Colonization Models in the Glaciated Northeast."

2016-2017 Jeffrey Dobereiner

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2016. "Incorporative Frontiers of Formative Mesoamerica: Archaeology and Identity at Rancho Búfalo, Chiapas, Mexico."

2014-2016 Benjamin T. Valentine

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Florida, 2013. "Immigrant Identity in the Indus Civilization: A Multi-Site Isotopic Mortuary Analysis."

2012-2015 Chelsey Kivland

Ph.D. in Anthropology. University of Chicago, 2012. "We Make the State": Performance, Politick, and Respect in Urban Haiti."

2007-2012 Christopher Ball

Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropology. University of Chicago, 2007. "Out of the Park: Trajectories of Wauja (Xingu Arawak) Language and Culture."

2006-2007 Seth Dobson

Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005. "Comparative Study of Facial Mobility in Anthropoid Primates."

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2004-2006 Joanne Cullinane

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2004. "Domesticating AIDS: Illness, Identity, and Stigma in Contemporary Japan."

2003-2004 Brian Didier

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2001. "The Scars of Piety: Islam and the Dynamics of Religious Dispute on Androth Island, South India."

2002-2003 Paul Kockelman

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2002.

2000-2002 Kathryn Keith

Ph.D. in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, 1999. "Cities, Neighborhoods, and Houses: Urban Spatial Organization in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia."

1998-2000 Christine Kray

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1997. "Worship in Body and Spirit: Practice, Self and Religious Sensibility in Yucatán."

1996-1998 Michelle L. Goldsmith

Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1995.

1995-1996 Lindsay C. French

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 1994. "Enduring Holocaust, Surviving History: Displaced Cambodians on the Thai-Cambodian Border, 1989-1991."

1994-1995 Sangmee Bak

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 1994. "Professional Women's Work, Family, and Kinship in Urban Taiwan."

A test pit with a layer of tested chert blocks at the prehistoric quarry local at the Stevens Site, Piscataquis County, Maine. Nathaniel R. Kitchel
An example of a completed slide under the microscope. Theresa E. Gildner
Theresa E. Gildner processing Shuar participant fecal samples and preparing slides, which she examines using light microscopy to diagnose soil-transmitted helminth infections.