Graduate Students

Alysha Lieurance

Alysha Lieurance’s research focuses on exploring the intersection of injury and identity through osteological, paleopathological, and dietary analysis. Her past research focused on the inequalities in oral health of elite and non-elite mortuary populations at Petra, Jordan. Her future research will continue to explore the biological markers of social inequality in ancient Near East populations.

Degrees and Education

MA - Anthropology, East Carolina University (2018)
BA - Anthropology, University of Kansas (2014)

Anika Jugovic-Spajic

Anika Jugović Spajić is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests lie in the intersection of medical anthropology, political anthropology, and anthropology of the state. Her research concerns the practices of patient-activists with diabetes and the ongoing negotiations of their position as civil society representatives in the larger matrix of the public-private healthcare system in Serbia, as well as the kinds of lifestyles and ideas of health are circulated through their activism. The main avenue which she uses to explore these negotiations is the (re)delegation of various responsibilities for provision of care between the state, civil society, and citizens.

Publications

Jugović Spajić, Anika. 2012. A u većini slučajeva nisam ja: fenomenološka analiza iskustava osoba koje pate od primarnih glavobolja [And in Most Cases I’m Not Myself: a Phenomenological Analysis of Experience in Persons with Primary Headaches], Sintezis, 4(1): 157-174. (In BCMS)

Degrees and Education

MA in Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia (2014)
BA in Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia (2011)

Research

Civil Society Scholar Award, Open Society Foundation (2018)

Klinzing Grant for Dissertation Research, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh (2018)

Noël Marsh

Noël is a sociocultural anthropologist pursuing a PhD in Anthropology (with a focus on medical anthropology) and an MPH in Behavioral and Community Health (concentration in maternal and child health). Her research interests include reproductive health / justice, the politics of care and social support, race, gender and sexuality, and incarceration. Her dissertation focuses the on the politics of providing doula support to incarcerated, pregnant people, especially as these efforts are linked to broader social movements for racial, economic, and reproductive justice. As an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina Noël had the opportunity to collaborate on a process evaluation that examined the incorporation of CenteringPregnancy, a midwifery-based model of group prenatal care, into various obstetric practices across the state.

Publications

Van De Griend K, Billings DL, Marsh LN, Kelley S. CenteringPregnancy. Expansion in South Carolina Process Evaluation: Final Report to South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. December 2015. Columbia, SC.

Degrees and Education

B.A. in Experimental Psychology and Religious Studies, English Minor | University of South Carolina (2014). Honors Thesis – “Transforming Care through Disruptive Design: Incorporating a Midwifery Model of Care into Medical Practices”

Awards

2021-2022 Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2021 William T. Green, Jr. Award in Public Health Studies
2021 University of Pittsburgh Arts and Sciences Fellowship
2019 GSWS Student Research Grant
2017-2018 Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh