{"id":34703,"date":"2026-09-21T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=34703"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:54:53","slug":"congratulations-to-pat-thomas-for-successfully-defending-his-phd-in-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2026\/congratulations-to-pat-thomas-for-successfully-defending-his-phd-in-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Pat Thomas for successfully defending his PhD in Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Pat Thomas for successfully defending his PhD in Anthropology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Pat Thomas, who successfully defended his PhD in Anthropology. Pat was supervised by Dr. Blair Rutherford, and his thesis was titled\u00a0<em>Fighting with Reason: An Ethnography of Midwestern MMA fighters<\/em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations, Pat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Pat Thomas, who successfully defended his PhD in Anthropology. Pat was supervised by Dr. Blair Rutherford, and his thesis was titled\u00a0Fighting with Reason: An Ethnography of Midwestern MMA fighters. Congratulations, Pat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":29715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34706,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions\/34706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}