Alumni News by Decade
1970s
Dr. Barbara Purdy, UF Professor Emerita (PhD '71), was profiled in the May 2005 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record . [posted 2005]
Richard W. Sapp (PhD 1976) is a freelance writer & photographer in Gainesville. [posted 2006]
Mercio Pereira Gomes (PhD '77) is now President of FUNAI, the Brazilian Indian Protection Service. [posted 2004]
1980s
Nicholas Honerkamp (PhD '80) is Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. [posted 2005]
Richard Pace (MA '83, PhD '87) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Middle Tennessee State University. [posted 2004]
Charles Ewen (PhD '87) was promoted to full professor in the Anthropology Department of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. [posted 2005]
Karen Ramey Burns (PhD '87) is Adjunct Professor, Universities of Georgia and Utah, and Consultant in Forensic Anthropology. She devotes most of her time to international human rights work, writing, and consulting. At present, she is working several months a year in Bogotá, Colombia with EQUITAS (el Equipo Colombiano Interdisciplinario de Trabajo Forense y Asistencia Psicosocial). [posted 2006]
Nawal H. Ammar (PhD '88) is Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Kent State University, and is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology at KSU. She is known for her work in restorative justice, Islamic jurisprudence, women and the law in Arab Islamic societies, and social service delivery.
Michael J. Evans (PhD '88) is a senior anthropologist for the Midwest region of the National Park Service. [posted 2004]
Bonnie G. McEwan (PhD '88), Director of the San Luis Archaeological and Historical site in Tallahassee, was awarded$1 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the San Luis research program and $2.6 million from the Florida legislature to reconstruct the 17 th century Spanish fort of San Luis. [posted 2005]
1990s
Kate Hoffman (PhD '90) is Vice-President of Janus Research, Inc., a historic preservation and archaeology consulting firm based in St. Petersburg. [posted 2005]
Elizabeth Higgs (PhD '90) is Assistant Professor at the
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. [posted 2007]
Jonathan Dain (MA '91) is the Student Development Coordinator and Instructor with the UF Center for Latin American Studies. [posted 2004]
Kathleen Barnes (MA '89, PhD '92) is a faculty member in the school of medicine at Johns Hopkins. [posted 2004]
Gloria B. Bryan (PhD '92) is a health education specialist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. [posted 2004]
Avecita Chicchon (PhD '92) is a Program Officer at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. [posted 2004]
Christopher McCarty (MA '85, PhD '92) is director of survey research at the UF Bureau of Business and Economic Research. [posted 2004]
Gene Ann Shelley (MA '88, PhD '92) is employed by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. [posted 2004]
Lee Ann Newsom (BA '82, MA '86, PhD '93) was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002 to further her research in how fossilized plant life in the Southeast and the Caribbean can provide insights into farming practices of early Amerindian societies. [posted 2004]
David Price (PhD '93) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Martin's University, Lacey, Washington. [posted 2006]
Holly Ann Williams (PhD '95), who works for the Malaria Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. [posted 2005]
Constance (Connie) Campbell (PhD '96) is a Social Science and Biodiversity Advisor with the USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade and the Office of Natural Research Management in Washington, DC. [posted 2004]
Karla Slocum (PhD '96) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [posted 2004]
Anthony Michelraj (PhD '97) is the chancellor of a diocese in southern India. [posted 2004]
J. Keith Akins (MA '95, PhD '98) is Assistant Professor of Criminology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. [posted 2004]
Peter Cronkleton (MA '93, PhD '98) is the Bolivia Adaptive Collaborative Management Coordinator at the Center for International Forestry Research in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. [posted 2004]
Christina Espinosa (MA '95, PhD '98) is the Assistant Director at the UF Center for Latin American Studies. [posted 2004]
Francisco Cartaxo Nobre (MA '98) is the Secretary for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension with the state of Acre, Brazil. [posted 2004]
Dr. R. Celeste Ray , UF Honors graduate (BA '98) and Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, was interviewed on National Public Radio's program, The Tartan Spangled Banner. Dr. Ray's UF Honor's thesis, "Erin Go Braugh," concerned Irish culture and society. [posted 2005]
2000s
Heather McIlvaine-Newsad (PhD '00) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Western Illinois University. [posted 2004]
Amanda Stronza (PhD '00) is Assistant Professor with the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science at Texas A&M University. [posted 2004]
Tara Boonstra (JD '01) is the Assistant General Counsel at St. John's Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. [posted 2004]
Kathryn (Katie) Lynch (PhD '01) is the Partner and President of the Institute for Culture and Ecology, Portland, Oregon. [posted 2004]
Mark Swanson (MA '91, PhD '01) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Kentucky. [posted 2004]
Tanya M. Peres (PhD '01) is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. [posted 2006]
Noemi Porro (PhD '02) is a post-doctoral researcher with the IDRC in Canada. [posted 2004]
Fred Smith (PhD '02), currently at Western Michigan University, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, starting Fall 2005. [posted 2005]
Rodney Stubina (MA '97, PhD '02) is a research scientist with the Global Public Policy and Programs Operations Evaluation Department with the World Bank. [posted 2004]
David Mayorga (BA '03) is Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the House of Representatives Committee on Science. [posted 2005]
Matthew McPherson (PhD '03) is the Caribbean regional research coordinator for the Nature Conservancy. [posted 2004]
John Schultz (PhD '03), Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida, appeared in the Discovery Channel's "Mummy Autopsy" programs. [posted 2005]
Ronaldo Weigand (PhD '03) is the Director of the Protected Area Program and the Secretariat for Coordination of the Amazon with Brazil's Ministry of the Environment. [posted 2004]
Richard Wallace (PhD '04) is working as a Researcher on a project with Brazilian universities and NGOs in a consortium funded by USAID-Brazil to support community forestry and links with markets in Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic Forest regions. [posted 2005]
Jamie Anderson-Waters's (MA '04) thesis research on the archaeology of children in colonial St. Augustine was featured in Science magazine's "Science for Kids" in May 2005. [posted 2005]
Christian Russell (PhD '05) is Research Scientist for the UF Land Use and Environmental Change Institute. [posted 2005]
Matthew C. Curtis (M.A. '95, Ph.D. '05) is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. [posted 2006]
William Schumann (PhD '05) has assumed an NEH- Endowed Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, Kentucky, where he will develop an ethnology of Appalachian and Welsh communities' post-coal economy. [posted 2005]
