2019 Graduate Students
Ian Beggen
Archaeological
South America and Andes Mountains: High-altitude hunter-gatherer archaeology, lithic analysis, bioarchaeology, human-environment interaction
Matthew Brown
Archaeological
Peru and Andes: Provenience Studies; Complex Societies; Emergent Inequality; Social Change; Household Archaeology; Interregtional Interaction
Brett Meyer
Archaeological
North America and Mesoamerica: Complex Societies, Zooarchaeology, Social Organization, Social Change, Political Organization, Emergence of Complexity
Julian Schultz
Archaeological
Balkans, Romania, Antolia, Black Sea, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Near East: Pastoralsm; Zooarchaeology; Increases in Social Complexity; Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age; Foodways; Domestication
Joseph Wardle
Archaeological
South America: Patagonia; North America; Great Basin and Pacific Northwest: Hunter-Gatherers, Human Behavioral Ecology, optimality models, prehistoric fishing strategies, lithic analysis, and stable isotope analysis
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Isabel Hermsmeyer
Biological
The west and Asia [China and Taiwan]: Human diet and health from both evolutionary and lifespan biocultural developmental perspectives
Jordan Lucore
Biological
Madagascar, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Africa; Borneo, Southeast Asia: Non-human primate behavior, ecology, and physiology: human wildlife conflict, field work, conservation biology; methods in conservation science; tropical ecology; non-human primate reproductive ecology; non-human primate social behavior; non-human primate social cognition; evolutionary theory
Emily Orlikoff
Biological
Africa and Eurasia: Paleoanthropology, Human Paleobiology, Functional Morphology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Hominin Phylogeny, Zooarchaeology, Human Biomechanics, Primate Evolution, Prehistory, Cognitive Evolution, and Language Origins
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Anne Birkeland
Linguistic
Western and Central Europe, specifically France; Former European colonies such as South Africa, Tanzania, and Senegal; Indigenous communities in Latin America including Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, and Bolivia: Immigrant and minority communities; Intersection between language, identity, and power; language ideology; social hierarchies and social inequality; linguistic discrimination; transnationalism and globalization; language and politics; immigrants and linguistic minorities
Adeli Block
Linguistic
Middle East and North Africa: Language ideologies, language change and variation, language policy, social inequality and authority, indigenous and minority languages, multilingualism
Ashley McDermott
Linguistic
Post-Soviet Central Asia [Kyrgyzstan]: Language Socialization and Language Shift
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Paula Batista
Sociocultural
Latin America and United States: Feminist theory and politics; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies; race, gender and inequality; science and biotechnology; feminist ethnography; ethnographic memoir; visual anthropology; Latinas; cyberspace; sex work
Azar Kafaei
Sociocultural
Middle East and U.S.A: Visual anthropology, ethnography, and documentary filmmaking; race and displacement, citizenship and non-citizens, technologies of exclusion; the making of camps, ghettos, and prisons
Leela Riesz
Sociocultural
Spain and Europe: Black Consciousness: consciousness building; knowledge-production; dimensions of racial consciousness; Black Activism/Social Movements/Activist Identities; Sites of Activism: photo exhibits; public forums; performances; social media/online Content
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Colin Garon
AnthroHistory
China: Medicine - 20th Century to present
Anisha Padma
AnthroHistory
South Asia: Race/Ethnicity, Intellectual
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Irene Routte
Social Work
Caribbean, Latin America, United States, Central, and East Africa: Concepts of home, diaspora, displacement, immigration and race in relation to environment, landscape and place studies; engaged anthropology and its interdisciplinary use in social work.
Lukas Vrbka
Social Work
Political economy, labor, and livelihood practices; subject formation and ethical self fashioning; complexity, scale, and environment; social theory and the anthropology of the state.