Outcomes

Students from the Anthropology department are at the forefront of addressing critical social and political issues of our time. With a grounding in cutting-edge empirical, historical, and ethnographic scholarship, our Anthropology students are accepted to prestigious PhD programs or find employment working in their area of study.

• Master’s Alumni

  Our MA alumni continue to doctoral study at The New School for Social Research and other top universities, including:

  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • Stanford University
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Cornell University
  • New York University
  • Duke University

  They have also found employment in a variety of industries:

  Design, Tech, and Urban Planning

  • Vice president, PlanGrid
  • Civic designer, Be'er Sheva I-team
  • Senior UX researcher, Freshly
  • Senior consultant, C Space
  • Operations manager, Malai

  Education

  • Teacher, Phoenix Academy Charter Network

  Nonprofits and NGOs

  • Program manager, Accion in the U.S.
  • Regional communications coordinator, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  • Assistant director of corporate and foundation relations, West Point Association of Graduates

  Policy Research

  • Senior research analyst, MDRC
  • Evaluation coordinator, Edible Schoolyard NYC
  • Research programs director, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

  Science

  • Founder, Redamance

   

• PhD Alumni

  Our doctoral alumni work in positions throughout the academic world:

  • Katyayani Dalmia (2019), postdoctoral fellow, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
  • Charles McDonald (2019), Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Jewish Studies, Rice University
  • Brie Gettleson (2018), social science and research instruction librarian, Haverford College
  • Rhea Rahman (2018), assistant professor, Brooklyn College
  • Marisa Solomon (2018), assistant professor, Baruch College
  • Alexios Tsigkas (2018), postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
  • Julienne Obadia (2017), junior research fellow, Kings College, University of Cambridge
  • Kadija Ferryman (2016), industry assistant professor, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
  • Sergio Andrade (2015), professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Ecuador)
  • Diego Caguenas Rozo (2015), director of the Center of Ethics and Democracy, Universidad Icesi (Colombia)
  • Amber Benezra (2014), assistant professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • David Bond (2014), assistant professor at Bennington University
  • Matthew Rosen (2014), assistant professor at Ohio University
  • Leila Vevaina (2014), postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute (Germany)
  • Smoki Musaraj (2012), assistant professor at Ohio University

  They have also found employment with companies and governments around the globe.

  • Viana Muller (2019), co-founder and president, Whole World Botanicals
  • Jason Euren (2018), senior scientist at Metabiota
  • Christina Kim (2017), program officer at Halifax International Security Forum
  • Emily Sogn (2017), senior user experience researcher at LearnVest
  • Carol Wang (2017), writer and editor at Sweeten