Graduate Student Alumni Spotlights
Julie Thomas, 2024
Strepsirrhine Growth and Development: New Ontogenetic Patterns Found in Captive Populations
Dawa Lokyitsang, 2023
Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community
Page McClean, 2023
Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile's Southern Highway.
Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO
Robert Weiner, 2023
"It Shows My Way": An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College, Department of Religion
Kathleen McGuire, 2023
Navigating the Needs of the Many and the Few: Examining the Relationship between Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) Group Function and Individual Variation on St. Catherine鈥檚 Island
Science Informationist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lindsay Johansson, 2023
Architecture and Identity in the Far Northern American Southwest
State archaeologist, Idaho State Historical Society
Bailey Duh茅, 2022
Fluid: Louisiana Creole Identity and Racial Mixture in the United States
Researcher, EdSolutions
Katilyn Davis, 2022
Pueblo Agricultural Adaptations in Light of Socioeconomic and Environmental Changes in the Northern Rio Grande
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
https://directory.nau.edu/departments?id=10810&person=ked387&src=anthropology
Kelly Zepellin, 2022
Foraging Culture: Ethics, Practice, and Identity among Contemporary Wild Food Foragers in the Southwest United States
Adjunct Professor, Psychology, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
Devin Pettigrew, 2021
The Origins and Evolution of Pre-Industrial Hunting Weapons: Ongoing Challenges and Recent Developments
Visiting assistant professor, Center for Big Bend Studies
Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas
Gregorio Ortiz, 2021
Promises of Prosperity: Race, History, and Fracking in South Texas's Brush Country
Director, CCS Fundraising, Chicago, Illinois
Emily Hite, 2021
Inside the Climate Frontier: Intersecting Indigenous Rights and Hydropower Development in Costa Rica
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis University
Jessica Balkin, 2020
Human-Environment Interactions in the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: The Impacts of Ecological Change on Settlement Patterning (1600 BCE-CE 1522)
Staff Archaeologist. SWCA Environmental Consultants, Cranberry Township, PA.
Author of Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower R铆o Verde Valley, Oaxaca, M茅xico: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica. (The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2023).
Pascale Meehan, 2020
Collapse as Constrained Possibility: Rural Action at Early Postclassic Monte El Santo Following the Rio Viejo Political Collapse
Archaeologist, Sources Archaeological & Heritage Research, Vancouver, BC.
Author of 鈥淩ural Responses following Collapse: Insights from Monte El Santo, Oaxaca, Mexico鈥 (World Archaeology, 2019).
Ben Joffe, 2019
White Robes, Matted Hair: Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile
Editor-in-Chief, Translator, and Researcher at Sky Press
Rachel Egan, 2019
When the Volcano Erupts: Lessons from the Archaeological Record on Human Adaptation to Hazardous Environments, Tilaran-Arenal, Costa Rica
Senior Archaeologist, Tetra Tech, Denver, CO
Richard Bender, 2019
Do protein content and protein quality influence human food intake? Testing the Protein Leverage Hypothesis.
Executive assistant, Center for Inclusion and Social Change at the 精品SM在线影片
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Jeffrey Brzezeinski, 2019
Terminal Formative Religion and Political Organization on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico: The Perspective from Cerro de la Virgen
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Central Florida
Adjunct lecturer, 精品SM在线影片.
Author of 鈥淐onstituting Animacy and Community in a Terminal Formative Bundled Offering from the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico鈥 (Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2017).
Oliver Paine, 2019
Early Hominins in Nutritional Space: Investigating the Mechanical and Nutritional Properties of African Savanna Vegetation
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University
Danielle Merriman, 2018
Critical Visibility in Colombia: Victimhood, Reparations, and the Challenge of Visibilizarse
Director of Projects and Redressive Practice, Center for Restorative History, National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
William (Willi) Lempert, 2018
Palya Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin College
Meryleen Mena, 2018
Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in Sao Paulo's Criminal Justice System
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Division of Computer and Network Systems
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering听Sciences
Class of 2023-2024
2021-2022 Bates College, Anthropology, Visiting Lecturer
2020-2021 CUNY, Visiting Lecturer
2019-2021 Mellon/America Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Public Fellow
Cody Newton, 2018
Equestrian Hunter-Gatherers and the Animal Trade of the Western Great Plains and Adjacent Rocky Mountains, 1800-1860
Lead Archaeologist SWCA Environmental Consultants, Sheridan, Wyoming
Jennifer Leichliter, 2018
Early Hominin Environments in Sourthern Africa: A Micromammalian Perspective
Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Emmy Noether Group for Hominin Meat Consumption at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Morgan Seamont, 2018
Becoming "The Man I Want to Be:" Transgender Masculinity, Embodiment, and Sexuality
Program Director, Pride Office, Transgender Specialist, Center for Inclusion and Social Change, 精品SM在线影片
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Allison Formanack, 2018
Mobile Home on the Range: Manufacturing Ruin and Respect in an American Zone of Abandonment
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, School of Science and Global Studies, University of Southern Mississippi
2019-2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
Jason Scott, 2018
Pacified Inclusion: Digital Reproduction in Rio de Janeiro's Shantytowns
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University and听
Lecturer, department of Criminology, Sociology, and Anthropology at Marquette University
2021 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Beloit College
Andie Ang, 2017
Genetic Variability, Diet Metabarcoding, and Conservation of Colobine Primates in Vietnam
Senior Manager (Primate Conservation & Singapore Programmes)
Mandai Nature
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Deputy Chair
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group
President
Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore)
Erin Baxter, 2016
A New Archaeological History of Aztec Ruins, New Mexico: Excavating the Archives
Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Traci Bekelman, 2016
Using the Protein Leverage Hypothesis to Understand Socioeconomic Variation in Diet and Obesity
Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health and the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center. Her research is focused on understanding study how biology, culture and the social and physical environments interact to influence lifestyle behaviors and obesity among children and adolescents.
Rachel Fleming, 2016
Working For a Happy Life In Bangalore:听 Gender, Generation, and Temporal Liminality In India's Tech City
Senior User Experience Researcher, Amazon Web Services
Amy Harrison-Levine, 2016
Forest Resource Overlap in Humans and Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkeys of Ha Giang Province, Vietnam: Theoretical and Conservation Implication
Conservation Impact Director
Island Conservation
Ruth Martinez-Cervantes, 2016
The Colonial Heritage of Mestizaje
Archaeological consultant and faculty member, Universidad Centroamericana
Managua, Nicaragua
https://ni.linkedin.com/in/ruth-martinez-cervantes-a61b63a9
James Millette, 2016
The Effects of Dental Impairment on the Biology and Behavioral Ecology of Wild Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bez脿 Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar
Assistant Director & Epic Team Coordinator for SMBA Singletrack Mountain Bike Adventures
Marnie Thomson, 2016
Stories of Darkness: Congolese Refugees, Humanitarian Governance, and a Neglected Conflict
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College
Jakob Sedig, 2015
The Mimbres Transitional Phase: Examining Social, Demographic, and Environmental Resilience and Vulnerability from AD 900-1000 in Southwest New Mexico
Ethics and Outreach Officer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow听
Reich Laboratory of Medical and Population Genetics
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Ivy Reiger, 2015
Where the Clouds Descend: Fiestas and the Practice of Belonging in San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Postdoctoral Fellow
Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, San Luis Potos铆, Mexico
Guy Hepp, 2015
La Consentida: Initial Early Formative Period Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University (awarded the 2016 Dissertation Award of the Society for American Archaeology).
Author of听La Consentida: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community听(University of Colorado Press, 2019).
Jamie Forde, 2015
The Conquest of the Place of Flame: Indigenous Domestic Life at Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
Lecturer of Pre-Modern Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (equivalent to an Assistant Professor).
Author of 鈥淭angled Strands of Silk: Globalizing the Local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca鈥 (Ethnohistory, 2022)
Kathryn Putsavage, 2015
Social Reorganization in the Mimbres Region of Southwestern New Mexico: The Classic to Postclassic Mimbres Transition (A.D. 1150 to 1450)
Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at the American Meteorological Society, Boulder, Colorado
Katherine Fischer, 2015
The Ends of Coffee: State, Work, and Identity in Post-CAFTA Costa Rica
Teaching Assistant Professor, Associate DEI Director, Honors Residential Academic Program; Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program
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Jonathan O鈥楤rien, 2014
The Ecology and Conservation of BlackShanked Douc (Pygathrix nigripes) in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Anthropology and Continuing Education
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Magdalena Stawkowski, 2014
Radioactive Knowledge: State Control of Scientific Information in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Christopher Morris, 2014
The Social Life of an African Medicine: Labor, Lawfare, and Authority in the Umckaloabo Extractive Industry
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Mason University
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Clarkson University (2014-17)
Adam Blanford, 2014
Rethinking Tarascan Political and Spatial Organization
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Le Khac Quyet, 2014
Technical Advisor, USAID Biodiversity Conservation
World Wildlife Fund 鈥 Vietnam
Regional Vice Chair 鈥 Asia
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group听
William Porter Bourie, 2014
Knowledge-Networks of Climate Change and Development: How God and Technoscience Influence USAID Projects in Burkina Faso
Director of Research and Analytics, Dexis Consulting Group, Washington DC
Larry Ulibarri, 2013
The Socioecology of Red-Shanked Doucs (Pyganthrix nemaeus) in Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam
Senior Instructor
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Michaela Howells, 2013
Maternal Psychosocial Stress and Neonate Outcomes on the Pacific Island of Tutuila
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Her research is focused on understanding how health risks rooted in inequalities within the social environment shape the biology of minoritized pregnant people and their developing children.