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.

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."