ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Al-Heih, Martha
Social/Cultural
Year: 08 Advisor: Shahrani
Research Interests: Anthropology of religion, migration and diaspora, gender, Islam in America
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Bakoyema, Bryn
Social/Cultural
Year: 01 Advisor: Moran
Research Interests: migration and deforestation, human-environment interactions, economic anthropology, household dynamics, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Barzilai, Rebecca
Archaeology
Year: 09 Advisor: Atalay/ Alt
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Bate, Emma
Archaeology
Year: 00 Advisor: Conrad
Research Interests: carribean archaeology, ceramics, contact period, education, archaeology ethics
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Beck, Angela
Social/Cultural
Year: 02 Advisor: Clark
Research Interests: economic anthropology, gender, household dynamics, agriculture, long-term implications of resettlement; Zambia, central and eastern Africa
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Becker, Lisa
Bioanthropology
Year: 07 Advisor: Muehlenbein
Research Interests: I am currently interested in the the field of reproductive ecology, specifically the study of hormonal processes and the neuroendocrine systems that contribute to female reproductive behavior. I also have a strong interest in social stratification by gender, reflected in my archaeological Masters thesis which focused on the Mimbres culture area of the Southwestern United States. Additional interests include osteology, primate behavior and historic archaeology (Alaska).
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Belle, Nicky
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: DeMallie
Research Interests: Powwow dance and music. Material culture. Lakota language education.
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Bishop, Catherine
Social/Cultural
Year: 08 Advisor: Brondizio
Research Interests: Navajo archaeology and educational history on the southwestern Navajo Reservation; Indigenous Archaeology.
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Social/Cultural
Year: 04 Advisor: Phillips/ Royce
Research Interests: the migration of healthcare workers out of the Czech Republic to the Middle East
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Bradford, Addison
Social/Cultural
Year: 09 Advisor: Brondizio
Research Interests: understanding the impact of race, language and environment on identity in the desert provinces of Morocco
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Burbach, Elizabeth
Linguistics
Year: 08 Advisor: Stoeltje/ Suslak
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Burnett, Katie
Archaeology
Year: 08 Advisor: Scheiber/ Pyburn
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Bush, Leigh
Social/Cultural
Year: 09 Advisor: Wilk
Research Interests: food, identity, new media, radio, wine, coffee, gastronomy, globalization, creative ethnography
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Collier, Larissa
Bioanthropology
Year: 07 Advisor: Cook
Research Interests: paleopathology, fracture patterns, disease process, population demographics, population movements, Western European bioarcaheology
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Archaeology
Year: 05 Advisor: Sept
Research Interests: Old World prehistory, lithic analysis, quaternary vertebrate paleontology, experimental archaeology, perishable artifacts, ape nest making behavior, bone technology
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Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn
Social/Cultural
Year: 04 Advisor: Suslak/ Baumann
Research Interests: migration and diasporas, ethnicity and ethnic identity, religion, Jewish cultures (especially Sephardic and Mizrahi), Latin America, Israel, linguistic anthropology, performance theory
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DeCamp, Elise
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Suslak
Research Interests: performance theory, performativity, authorization/authenticity, race, humor, class, power, discourse analysis, subjectivity, identity and indexicality, embodiment, and sociolinguistics
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Foster, Todd
Bioanthropology
Year: 04 Advisor: Jamison
Research Interests: human growth and development, human variation and adaptation, human sexuality and reproduction, Pacific and Eastern Asian populations
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Good, Bradley
Social/Cultural
Year: 10 Advisor: Sterling/ Tucker
Research Interests: My research interests right now are food-based cultural interactions between Japan and China and studying Japanese beef consumption.
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Hamada, Shingo
Social/Cultural
Year: 08 Advisor: Wilk
Research Interests: environmental anthropology, anthropology of space and place, ecotourism, Japan, Indigenous rights, Ainu cultural revitalization, collaborative research, decolonizing methodologies
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Hanselmann, Frederick
Archaeology
Year: 07 Advisor: Conrad
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Harris, Amy
Bioanthropology
Year: 10 Advisor: Vitzthum
Research Interests: women's reproductive hormones and contraceptives
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Herrmann, Edward
Archaeology
Year: 07 Advisor: Sievert
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Herstad, Kaeleigh
Archaeology
Year: 10 Advisor: Pyburn/ Sievert
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Hogan, Maura
Archaeology
Year: 09 Advisor: Pyburn
Research Interests: ethnogenesis and social identity in the American Bottom region during the early Mississippian period (1050-1180 CE), and my specializations include ceramic analysis, geochemistry, geophysics and clay sourcing
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Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Sterling
Research Interests: Kinship, Ethnic Identity, Religion, Native North America, Ethnohistory, Collaborative Ethnography
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Hurst, Shawn
Bioanthropology
Year: 96 Advisor: Hunt
Research Interests: Affect, cognition, and the evolution of the social brain in hominoids.
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Kennedy, Jonathan
Archaeology
Year: 10 Advisor: Scheiber/ Wilk
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Ketchum, Sheena
Archaeology
Year: 08 Advisor: Atalay
Research Interests: Origins of agriculture, ancient foodways, Neolithic and Bronze Ages of Europe and Central Asia
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Kimmell, Arwen
Social/Cultural
Year: 04 Advisor: Stoeltje
Research Interests: language, gender, law, power, dispute settlement, Ghana, queen mothers, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, literature
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Konwest, Elizabeth
Archaeology
Year: 07 Advisor: King
Research Interests: Archaeology in Social Context, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Landscape, Citizenship in the Past
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Krus, Anthony
Archaeology
Year: 08 Advisor: DeMallie
Research Interests: Mississippian social organization, ethnohistory, archaeometry, and prehistoric fortifications
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Kuever, Erika
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Wilk
Research Interests: My research interests are consumer rights and protection in China, economic anthropology, citizenship, and nationalism.
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Lewis, Cari
Bioanthropology
Year: 07 Advisor: Muehlenbein
Research Interests: immunocompetence in non-human primates
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Mahaney, Robert
Archaeology
Year: 08 Advisor: Schick/ Toth
Research Interests: Application of graph theory and techniques of cognitive psychology to evolutionary topics.
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Marion, Sarah
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Wilk
Research Interests: Interests: Economic and visual anthropology, mass media and new media, cultural
production, contemporary capitalism, gender, celebrity and fame, North America
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Marshall, Kimberly Jenkins
Social/Cultural
Year: 04 Advisor: Royce
Research Interests: My research focuses on Navajo Christianity: unique in its lack of emphasis on denominations (even Methodist Navajos worship like Pentecostals), but also characterized by a strong Fundamentalist bent which eschews the use of any kind of traditional religious practices or beliefs. Thus, the use of African American Gospel tunes translated into Navajo language is preferred to new compositions by Anglo missionaries which remind Navajo believers and pastors of "medicine man chant." I am interested in exploring the implications of the religious situation for issues of identity and culture change. Specifically, I will analyze the tent revival context (central to the practice of Christianity among the Navajo) as a performance context in which a specific kind of Navajo and a Christian identity is negotiated by participants.
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Martinez-Rivera, Mintzi
Social/Cultural
Year: 06 Advisor: Suslak
Research Interests: Latin America, Mexico, Indigenous identity/politics, rituals and festivals, indigenous rock (music), P'urhépecha culture.
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Millward, Georgia
Bioanthropology
Year: 05 Advisor: Kaestle
Research Interests: ancient DNA, population genetics, museum studies
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Minard, Sara
Social/Cultural
Year: 09 Advisor: Wilk
Research Interests: material resource valuation and discard, food waste, decision-making
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Nathan, Rebecca
Archaeology
Year: 09 Advisor: Scheiber
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Palmer, Fileve
Social/Cultural
Year: 06 Advisor: Girshick
Research Interests: Education and race relations and the formation of mixed race identity especially amongst the youth in South Africa.
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Penne-Firme, Rodrigo
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Brondizio
Research Interests: Political ecology, people and parks, poverty, culture and local development
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth
Social/Cultural
Year: 08 Advisor: Phillips
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Globalization, AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Posthumus, David
Social/Cultural
Year: 07 Advisor: DeMallie
Research Interests: American Indian studies, specifically the Lakota or Western Sioux. I specialize in ethnohistory and anthropological linguistics.
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Prall, Sean
Bioanthropology
Year: 08 Advisor: Muehlenbein
Research Interests: Evolutionary endocrinology, life history theory, human disease ecology. For
his dissertation he plans to research the functional significance of DHEA/S
variation as it relates to immunocompetence and energetic status.
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Ramirez, Nicholas
Archaeology
Year: 06 Advisor: Pyburn
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Ramos, Gilbert
Bioanthropology
Year: 03 Advisor: Hunt
Research Interests: Positional behavior of Pan paniscus (bonobos) in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Riall, Rebecca
Social/Cultural
Year: 03 Advisor: Stoeltje
Research Interests: legal anthropology, American Indian sovereignty, ethnic identity and boundaries, tribal recognition, applied anthroplogy, critical race theory, feminist jurisprudence
Joint-degree student in Anthropology and Law.
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Rich, Alicia
Bioanthropology
Year: 09 Advisor: Hunt
Research Interests: primate molecular ecology, reproductive strategies, and female dispersal
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Richards-Greaves, Gillian
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Royce
Research Interests: Caribbean studies; migration; diaspora; ritual; ethnicity-identity; linguistic performance; race; religion; gender
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Ricke, Audrey
Social/Cultural
Year: 06 Advisor: Sterling
Research Interests: sensory experience, festivals, tourism, transnationalism, ethnicity, performance, Brazil
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Riley, Jenny
Archaeology
Year: 05 Advisor: Conrad
Research Interests: caribbean archaeology, precolumbian
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Rollins, Amanda
Bioanthropology
Year: 07 Advisor: Cook
Research Interests: prehistoric diseases and migrations patterns with a focus on archaeoparasitology
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Samson, David
Bioanthropology
Year: 06 Advisor: Hunt
Research Interests: Middle and Lower Paleolithic hominid morphology, lithics and subsistence/survival strategies, great ape material culture and bio-mechanics with a focus on perishable material culture and preservational environments.
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Schmaus, Tekla
Archaeology
Year: 08 Advisor: Pyburn/ Atalay/ Alt
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Schudlich, Joel
Linguistics
Year: 00 Advisor: DeMallie/ Parks
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Schwab, Wendell
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Shahrani
Research Interests: Central Asia, Islams
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Spencer, Susan
Bioanthropology
Year: 04 Advisor: Cook
Research Interests: human osteology, mortuary practices, forensic taphonomy, prehistoric and historic archaeology, museum studies
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Stahlman, Joseph
Social/Cultural
Year: 05 Advisor: Tucker
Research Interests: indigenous rights, film, Latin America, development
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Stockdell, Eric
Archaeology
Year: 03 Advisor: Pyburn
Research Interests: Political economy; Cultural ecology; Southern Maya Lowlands; Yucatan, Mexico
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Sullivan, Carol
Social/Cultural
Year: 02 Advisor: Royce
Research Interests: anthropology of dance, performance, artists as activists, transnational identities, migration, African diaspora, Latinos, Latin America and the Caribbean, Veracruz and Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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Taboas, Charity
Bioanthropology
Year: 09 Advisor: Cook
Research Interests: I study the musculoskeletal affects of type 2 diabetes in paleopathology.
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Archaeology
Year: 01 Advisor: Vitelli
Research Interests: Prehistoric archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean, Neolithic and Bronze Ages of the Aegean, archaeological survey, cave archaeology, island archaeology, pottery, emergence of social complexity.
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Two Bears, Davina
Archaeology
Year: 10 Advisor: Atalay/ Scheiber
Research Interests: Navajo archaeology and educational history on the southwestern Navajo Reservation; Indigenous Archaeology.
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Wanbdi, Waci
Linguistics
Year: 09 Advisor: Parks/ DeMallie
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Wiley, Katherine
Social/Cultural
Year: 07 Advisor: Buggenhagen
Research Interests: Mauritania, gender, markets, dress, Islam, exchange and value
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Winstead, Teresa
Social/Cultural
Year: 02 Advisor: Clark/ Gilley/ Parnell/ Levinson
Research Interests: Puget Salish tribes and public/tribal school collaboration/Participatory Ethnographic Policy Analysis
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Zavala, Gina
Archaeology
Year: 05 Advisor: Conrad
Research Interests: Caribbean/underwater archaeology
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