Alumni are listed alphabetically by last name.
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- Tok Save (pronounced “toke SAH-vay) is a phrase from Melanesian Tok Pisin, the major lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, dialects of which are also spoken in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It means “news” as a noun, and “to inform [e.g., someone of something important]” as a verb.
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Caroline Archambault (’98) married Joost de Laat (economics ‘98) and is currently doing her fieldwork on the role of education among the Maasai, primarily in Kenya but also in Tanzania, for her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Brown.
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Leah Barth (’01) lives in Burlington, VT, and works as a behavior specialist for middle and high school students; she plans to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.
Maria Bayona (’04) is working as an administrative assistant in the computer center at Brown U.
Megan Bronson (’00) is attending University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for graduate work in African Studies.
Betsy Brownell (’99) got her MA in social anthropology from the U. of Wales, Lampeter, and is now getting a PhD in epidemiology at U Rochester.
Jen Bunton (’04) is attending Simmons College in Boston, MA.
Becky Chartier (’03) just completed an internship at the Smithsonian Institution?s new National Museum of the American Indian, in the conservation department, preparing objects for exhibition and installing them in the new museum on the National Mall.
William Clifford (’95) is Director of Marketing and Business development for Salans Attorneys in NYC.
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Jessa Davis ‘08: I’m currently doing an internship with the Chicago Botanic Gardens conservation and land management program, which sets people up with different government agencies that deal with land stewardship. So I’m out here in southern Oregon hanging out with cowboys and firefighters, working for the Bureau of Land Management. I deal mostly with threatened and endangered plants, but I’ve done a lot of work with cultural plants and the local tribes. As for the future, I’ll be applying to grad programs in horticulture/ecological restoration for the fall of 2010. Jessa can be reached at: davis.jessa@gmail.com.
Brettan deWeese (’05) is pursuing her PhD in underwater archaeology at Florida State U.
Laura Dix (’06) recently began working in the ethics department of the United Nations.
Jun Ebersole (’98) spent two years in Science City, a science center in Birmingham, Ala., and is now running the Alabama Collections Center, a small natural history museum in Hoover, Ala.
Tabitha Feldman DeHays (’95) is teaching ESL in Massachusetts for pre-K to 12th grade students.
Laura Festine (’08) is currently living in Albany, NY, where she is pursuing a masters in Information Science with a concentration in Library and Information Services at the University at Albany. She’s a graduate assistant at the New York State Library in the Division of Library Development. She’s planning on getting into the academic library scene after graduation, and hopefully will work in reference as a research instruction librarian. Email: lefestine@gmail.com
Alejandro Figueroa (’04) is working at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History doing archaeology, ethnology, and cultural heritage management; he was recently accepted for graduate studies to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
Valerie Foster (’98) Won a Fulbright IIE Fellowship to do her Ph.D. fieldwork working with AIDS widows in Tanzania, for U. Michigan in cultural anthropology and is now back in the US writing her dissertation.
Shannon Freire ‘08: just entered the graduate program in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Shannon can be reached at: skfreire@uwm.edu.
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Shannon Glazer (’01) is a MA candidate at SUNY/Binhamton in archaeology.
Brittany Goss (’08) is a Teach for America corps member teaching second grade in Denver, Colorado… and has wonderful students.
Zach Green (’99) is beginning his fifth season as a Segment Producer for the television show Survivor; he hopes to use the experience to move eventually into (anthropologically correct, we hope!) documentaries for such networks as Discovery and National Geographic.
Lisa Guccione (’89) is the State Program Director of the Arizona Office of the Corporation for National and Community Service, working as Tribal Liaison for various programs with Native American tribes in Arizona, including the San Carlos Apache.
Mara Guccione (’94) got her MA in International Education from Harvard in 2000, and will be taking a position at Goldman Environment Prize in San Francisco, CA.
Laura Hacker-Durbin (’85) still travels the Pacific and Indonesia writing freelance travel pieces for yachting and cruising magazines.
Marlise Hernandez (’08) is pursuing a doctorate in Physical Therapy in Potsdam, NY at Clarkson University and volunteering with the local fire and rescue department. She hopes to graduate in two years and specialize in pediatric physical therapy.
David Hoffman (’97) has defended his dissertation (’The Subversion of Comanagement of a Marine Protected Area: The Case of Xcalak Reefs National Park, Mexico) at CU-Boulder. In addition, his book Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World has just been published by Waveland Press. David now works for the University for Peace in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica.
heresa Hyland (’05) is doing her PhD coursework at U Massachusetts, Amherst; she’ll soon start her fieldwork in Ireland on language acquisition among immigrants.
Tanya Justham (’01) is working as a geologist doing environmental site assessments and environmental impact studies in Maine, and applying to grad schools in geo-archaeology.
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Shara Korn (Multifield ‘00) is teaching elementary school and working on her MA in education in Boulder, CO.
Renee Koster (’01) currently putting together a dissertation proposal at Syracuse University to study changes in Native American settlement in the Upper St. Lawrence Valley during the early stages of European exploration and trade in the area (16th and 17th centuries); she’s also working with us at SLU this year teaching Cultural Anthropology.
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Denise LaBar (’03) received her MA in Counseling from SLU, and just landed a job as a middle school counselor at the Potsdam Middle School.
Jenny Larter Coughlin (’87) lives in Cazenovia with her husband and two small children.
Sara Lewis (Multifield ‘03) just entered U. Chicago’s MA program in Social Science.
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Sherry Marchand (’99) has recently completed her fieldwork and is writing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology at Australia National University, working on Intercultural land management negotiations in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Queensland.
Megan McCarthy (’05) attended Stetson U College of Law in Gulfport, FL this year, studied abroad at the Hague and in Freiburg, Germany and has now transferred to Case Western Reserve U School of Law in Cleveland.
Kim Miller (’99) completed a stint in the Peace Corps and is now doing an MA in international development and social change at Clark University in Worcester, MA.
Chris Monahan (’86) lives in Hawaii (tough duty!) with his wife and two children, and does contract archaeology for Scientific Consultant Services, Inc.
Rob Murano (’01) got his MA in secondary education and is teaching Global Studies and coaching girl’s basketball at Oneida HS, near Syracuse.
Owen Murphy (’03) did a nine month stint as a teacher for an environmental education non-profit named Nature’s Classroom, based in Charlton, MA, and three months as a teacher for Ecology Project International in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador; he’s back in the North Country now, working at Birdsfoot Farm and St. Lawrence Tree Nurseries in Potsdam.
Joshua Nelson (’06) recently finished his MEd in Educational Policy Research and Administration from UMass Amherst, and now works as the Assistant Director of Student Programs at Mount Holyoke College.
His primary role is to provide leadership education for student organizations.
Matt O’Brien (’00) finished his MA at U Wyoming, and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the U. of Wyoming in archaeology and physical anthropology.
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James Rossi (’96) received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Yale, with a thesis titled Ontogeny, Homology, and Phylogenetic Significance of Anthropoid Paranasal Sinuses, and is currently a Rea Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
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Keenan Sheridan (’95) got a MA in TEOSL from U. Texas/Austin, and is currently teaching English as a Second Language in Massachussetts.
Claire Staby (’06) is applying for the Peace Corps and hopes to be placed in South America, Asia, or the Pacific Islands.
Abby Stamm (’99) attended Marquette University and has recently returned from a stint in Malawi with Peace Corps Response and will soon be moving to central Virginia to work at a residential school for troubled teens.
Emily Stanfill ‘08: Is working in Sioux Falls, SD with Kogel & Associates, an independent archaeological consulting firm surveying for power or cell towers, but occassionally wind farms and the like. Emily can be reached at: emstan04@stlawu.edu.
Tracy Sumner Sesselberg (’93) received her MA in Medical Anthro. From U. Conn. And lives in Rochester, NY.
Kelly Thayer (’00) will be joining the Peace Corps on June 14, 2009 for 27 months in Tanzania. Until then, she plans to travel from her kayaking stint in Florida to Washington mid-April (anyone want to road trip??) and then be home for a bit before she flies out in June. Kelly will hopefully have lots of time to visit with folks before she goes.
Rebecca Watters (’99) is pursuing graduate studies with Yale University’s Forestry and Environmental Studies program.
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