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IDPAS Alumni/ae:

Year of graduation and initial placement or current position (if known)

1989
Mary Maas, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

1990
Mark Gruber, Professor, St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, PA 
Edward M. Luby, Director, the University Museum, San Francisco State University; Professor and Director, Museum Studies Program, San Francisco State University; former Associate Director, Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California, Berkeley 
David Daegling, Professor, University of Florida, Gainsville
Liza Shapiro, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

1991 
Maria Messina, Principal Research Associate, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. New York
Zhusheng Wang, deceased 
Suzanne Strait, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington

1992
Peter Ungar, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Linda Barber, Professor, Anthropology, Suffolk Community College, Selden

1993
Francis Ahern, Social Studies Teacher, Northport HS, Northport
Diane Waddle Stock, Assistant Dean, Quinnipiac College, Connecticut
Jayne Howell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach
Todd C. Rae, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Roehampton, UK
Elizabeth Dumont,  Dean, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced 

1994
Nikos Stamatakis, Greece

1995 
Frank Turano, Retired Teacher, Three Village School District, Long Island
Christine Wall, Associate Research Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham
Lillian Spencer, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Glendale Community College
Daniel Schmitt, Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham
Margaret Lewis, Professor of Biology, Stockton College, NJ
Theodore M. Cole, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Mark Spencer, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University

1996
Kaye Reed, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe
William Scott McGraw, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Pierre Lemelin, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, University of Alberta, Edmonton

1997
Michele Goldsmith, Chair, Department of Science, Southern New Hampshire University
Sharon Gursky-Doyen, Professor of Anthropology, Texas A & M, College Station
Elizabeth McGee, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose
Osbjorn Pearson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1998
David Buchman, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra University, New York 
Brian Richmond, Senior Data Scientist, Product Intelligence, Aura Health
David Strait, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis 
Buichero Watanabe, Assistant Professor, Nihon University, Mishima, Japan 
Roshna Wunderlich, Professor, Department of Biology, James Madison University

2000
Kamla Ahluwalia, Assistant Professor, Samuel Merritt College, Oakland, CA
Robert Asher, Senior Lecturer and Curator, University Museum of  Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
Cherubim Quizon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Seton Hall University

2001
Jennifer Callans
Michael Lague, Associate Professor of Biology, Stockton College, NJ
John Polk, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Leila Porter, Professor and Chair,  Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University
Chia Tan, Director of China Programs, San Diego Zoological Society, San Diego

2002
Jonah Henri Ratsimbazafy, Program Officer for Durrell Institute in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Zelalem Assefa, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Yin-Man Lam, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Pablo Roberto Stevenson, Professor, Universidad De Los Andes, Ciencias Biologicus Bogota, Colombia.

2003
Natasha Faith Shah
Brenda J. Bradley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington
Nancy J. Stevens, Professor, Ohio University
Jennifer Marie Cole, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Scott A. Suarez, Assistant Professor, San Diego Mesa College, California
Christopher P. Heesy, Professor, Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona
Roberto Fajardo, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas at San Antonio
Lisa Paciulli, Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Denne Reed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

2004
Rebecca Stumpf, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Tanya Smith, Professor, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution and the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia

2005
Yoshiko Abe, International Development Consultant, Kokusai Kogyo, Yokohama, Japan

2006
Naomi Cleghorn, Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Texas at Arlington
Mitchell T. Irwin, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
Kate Treatman-Clark 
Anthony Olejniczak, Co-Founder & Director of Scholarly Research, Academic Analytics, LLC 
Jason Kamilar, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Summer Arrigo-Nelson, Associate Professor, California University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, California, PA
Ben Hirsch, Lecturer, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Australia

2007
Alfredo Varela
Mark Coleman, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Lincoln Memorial University, Tennessee
Sireen El Zaatari, Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Paleoanthopology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

2008
Biren Patel, Associate Professor of Clinical Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Jesse Young, Associate Professor, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine
Christopher Gilbert, Associate Professor,  Dept. of Anthropology, Hunter College, NY
Abigail Derby, Conservation Ecologist, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Aryeh Grossman, Professor, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona
Mireya Mayor, Ultimate Explorer Correspondent, National Geographic and Director of Public Relations, Centre Valbio

2009
Amanuel Beyin, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Amy Lu, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Amy Pokempner, Senior Program Manager, National Geographic
Danielle Royer, Associate Professor,  Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado

2010
Brandon Wheeler, Senior Lecturer, School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent, UK
Daria Merwin Historic Preservation, Survey and Evaluation Unit at NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Benedicte Leclerque, Unesco Program Director, Madagascar

2011
Matthew Sisk, GIS/Anthropology Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries, Notre Dame University
Anja Deppe, Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Anne Su, Associate Professor, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Sara Martin, Department Analyst, Office for a Healthy Environment, Cleveland Clinic; Adjunct faculty, Cuyahoga Community College

2012
Andrea Baden, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York
Wendy Erb, Research Associate, Rutgers University; Instructor, Columbia University; Visiting Scientist, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Clara Scarry, Assistant Professor, California State University at Sacramento

2013
Matthew Banks, Research Fellow, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Alice Elder, Long term substitute teacher, Austin Independent School District
David Fernandez-Sobrado, Senior Lecturer, HAS - Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Ashley Gosselin-Ildari, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
Emranul Huq,  Associate Professor,  Department of Bio-Medical Sciences - PCOM South Georgia 
Eileen Larney, Project Manager, Zoological Society London, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Roberta Salmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Elizabeth St. Clair, Instructor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Wallace, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2014
Jessica Lodwick, Instructor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Helen Malko, Associate Director, Stanford Humanities Center
Kerry Ossi-Lupo, Lecturing Fellow, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University
 
2015
Abdulameer Al-Dafar, (1967-2022), former Minister of Culture of Iraq
Gurcu Arzu Demirergi, Equity Impact Team and Infant & Early Childhood Family Associate, Association of Infant Mental Health, Tennessee
James Herrera, Researcher and Program Coordinator, Duke Lemur Center SAVA Conservation Program, Duke University, Madagascar
Nicholas Holowka, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Rachel Jacobs, Forensic Scientist for Mammals, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ashland, OR
Stephanie Maiolino, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University
Stephanie Rost, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College, NY
 
2016
Peter Fernandez, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University
Amanda Kingston,  Department of Anatomy, University of Michigan Medical School
Thadd Nelson, Assistant Director of Instructional Support, Student Accessibility Support Center, Stony Brook University
Erik Otarola-Castillo, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
Julie Winchester, Research Scientist, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
 
2017
Allison Nesbit, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia
Justin Pargeter, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,  New York University
 
2018
Jennifer Everhart,  Faculty Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Washington University at St. Louis, MO
 
2019
Hilary Duke, Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Ryan Gardner-Cook, Research Analyst, NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, NY
Carrie Mongle, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University
Jesse Wolfhagen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
 
2020
Dorien DeVries, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Salford, UK 
Lauren Petrullo, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Deming Yang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Spatio-Temporal Isotope Analytics Lab, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah.
 
2021
Steven Heritage, Postdoctoral Scholar - Teaching Fellow, Keck School of Medicine of Usc
Evelyn Pain, Postdoctoral Associate Lecturer
Rachel Perlman, Senior Grant Program Manager
 
2022
Katharine Thompson, Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University; Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Faculty of Climate, Columbia Climate School and Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
 
2023
Marcy Ekanayake Weber, Postdoctoral Associate, Public Health Modeling Unit Yale School of Public Health 
Jacob Feder,  NSF SBF Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Researcher, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & Research Affiliate, Institute of Human Origins Walton Center for Planetary Health (ISTB7)
David Vanier, Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroscience, University of Calgary