People
Graduate Students
Sociocultural
- Statehood & Anthropology of the State
- Gender
- Labor
- Citizenship
- Refugees
- War-time Migration
- Political Anthropology
- Neo-liberalism
- Abhkazia, Caucasus
- Middle East
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Mating and marriage
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Arranged marriage
- Mixed methods research
- Nepal
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (IAS)
- Skeletal Biology
- Paleopathology
- Evolutionary Medicine
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Primate Feeding Ecology
- Community and Population Ecology
- Energetics and GIS
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
I am interested in exploring the causes and consequences of late-life cogitive decline in a non-industrialized setting (Tsimane of Bolivia) with an evolutionary perspective.
Integrative Anthropological Science
- Human behavior ecology
- Parental investment
- Demographic transition
- Environmental instability
Archaeology
- States and empires, colonialism and culture contact, migration and diaspora
- Prehistory of the Central Andes, particularly the Middle Horizon in the northern highlands
- Asian diaspora in Latin America
- Estados e imperios, colonialismo y contacto cultural, migración y diáspora
- Prehistoria de los Andes Centrales, particularmente el Horizonte Medio (Wari) en la sierra norte
- Diáspora asiática (Nikkei) en América Latina
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Biocultural Evolution
- Human growth and development
- Intersection of lifestyle factors, health, and evolution
- Population Genetics
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Energy Justice and anti-extractivism
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Indigenous and Peasant Struggles
- Critical STS
Archaeology
- Maya archaeology
- Economic systems
- Social networks
- Open science
- Midwest and Southeastern U.S.
- Culture contact
- Identity
- Mississippian
- Oneota
- Household archaeology
- Ceramic Analysis
- Ceramic analysis
Integrative Anthropological Science
- Wildlife health and Disease
- Reproductive ecology
- Anthropogenic impacts
- Life history theory
- Human-wildlife interaction
- One Health
- Biodemography
- Wildlife conservation
Archaeology
- Maya Archaeology
- Cave Archaeology
- Subterranean Archaeology
- Ritual
- Landscape, Space and Place
Archaeology
- The development of fruit cultivation and domestician
- Gardens and gardening in antiquity
Archaeology
- Lithic analysis
- Stable isotope analysis
- Ancient DNA
- Social complexity
- Exchange networks
- Hunter/gatherer diet and mobility
- Indigenous Archaeology
- Human Behavioral Ecology
Archaeology
I am interested in assessing health over time in pre- and protohistoric Chumash populations through the analysis of skeletal remains. I am particularly interested in treponemal diseases, of which the origin, spread and movements are still unclear. My background is in forensic anthropology, neonatal osteology, bioarchaeology, and Channel Islands archaeology.
Sociocultural anthropology
- Indigenous peoples
- Cultural revitalization
- Environmental justice
- Political economy
- Infrastructure
- Settler colonialism
- Japan (modern)
Archaeology
Research Interests:
- Paleoethnobotany (marcobotanical and microbotanical)
- Using plant remains to understand the intersections among foodways, economic development, and social dynamics
- Using experimental archaeology to understand how evidence of cooking deposits can be discovered and interpreted to support a complete picture of food-use
- Mesoamerican archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, US Central Plains
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Human Behavioral Ecology
- Gender Norms
- Women's Empowerment
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Behavioral ecology
- Etholog
- Primate social networks
- Wildlife conservation
Archaeology
- Caribbean archaeology
- Ceramic technology, archaeometry
- Island and coastal archaeology
- Marine adaptations, public outreach
SocioCultural Anthropology:
- Visual and Semiotic Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology
- Political Anthropology
- Natural Resource Allocation and Redistribution of Wealth
- The Anthropological Development of Theoretical and Applied Neo neo-Marxism
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Rural Anthropology
- Populist Social Movements
Archaeology
I am a North American archaeologist, focusing on Culture Contact through the lenses of ethnogenesis and coalescence. Currently I have been researching Iroquoia, specifically examining the Mohawk during Contact and early Historic Period, focusing on the agency and identity of the Mohawk using color symbolism and pXRF analysis of historic glass beads at a late 17th century Mohawk village.
Research Interests:
- Native American Studies
- Culture Contact
- Household Archaeology
- Social Organization
- Political Economy
- Historical Archaeology
- Colonialism
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
- Plantation and Slave Archaeology
- Southeastern and Eastern United States
- Mission Archaeology
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Applied anthropology
- Environmental anthropology
- Latinx immigrant studies
Archaeology
- Maya Ceremonial Monuments
- Mesoamerican Archaeology
- Iconography
- Art History
- Ritual Landscapes
- Geospatial Science and Technology
- Epigraphy
- Linguistics
Archaeology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Paleoethnobotany
- Zooarchaeology
- Historical Ecology
- Coupled Human-Natural Systems
- Socio-Ecological Knowledge
- Culture Contact
- Foodways
- New World Archaeology
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology, Rural Anthropology
- NGOS, Resource Extraction, Food Systems
- Latin America, Brazil
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Evolutionary Medicine with a focus on cancer and microchimerism
- Biocultural evolution
- Cooperation and conflict across systems
Sociocultural Anthropology
Ph.D. emphases in: Global Studies, Environment and Society
- International Nongovernmental Organizations
- Haitian Culture and History
- Critical Climate Justice
- Environmental and Human Health and Wellbeing
- Disaster Studies
- Globalized Food Systems
Archaeology
- Zooarchaeology
- Indigenous archaeology
- Historical ecology
- Environmental archaeology
- California Channel Islands
Sociocultural Anthropology
Historical Archaeology
Colonialism and Culture Contact
Spanish Borderlands
Anthropology of Religion
Religious Interactions in the Context of Culture Shock
California Archaeology
Shell Bead Analysis
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Racism, state formation, and regional elites
- Labor migration, rural economies, and agricultural industry
Sociocultural
- Environmental Anthropology
- Invasive Species, Fisheries, Food
- Mexico, Cuba, Latin America
Archaeology
- Alcohol consumption practice, identity, entanglement
- African Archaeology, primarily centered on Egyptian and Nubian interaction near the Third Cataract of the Nile
Sociocultural Anthropology
- American and South Asian religion
- Digital and physical space
- Ritual practice
- Community
- Heritage
- Ladakh
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests:
- environmental anthropology
- fire
- political ecology
- ethnoecology
- ethnobotany
- ontologies
- California
- Latin America
Archaeology
My research investigates the beginnings of transhumance on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia during the Middle Neolithic.
- Human Behavioral Ecology
- Domestication
- Paleoecology
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
- Unmanned Aerial Systems
Sociocultural Anthropology
Sociocultural; Disability; Injury; Care; Risk; South Asia; China
Sociocultural
- Edible Insects
- Environmental Anthropology
- Perceptions of food, nature, and environment
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Food Systems