UConn Home Banner
Home UConn Graduate School  
  

Graduate Students

GraduateStudents

 

   
BLEGEN, Nicholas
Research Interests: human evolution, archaeology of the African Stone Age and Eurasian Paleolithic, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Africa
BOOTH, Robert
Research Interests: politics of identity, human rights, anthropology of Europe, anthropology of museums, historical anthropology, nostalgia, tradition revival, anthropology of religion, magic, faith healing, new religious movements (NRMs), religious conversion.
Cultural Areas: Central/Southeastern Europe(Slovenia and Istria), North

BRAULT, Marie Research Interests: applied medical anthropology, interactions between biomedicine and ethnomedicine, the doctor-patient relationship, sexual risk and HIV/STIs.
Cultural Areas: North America, Mozambique, India 

BUERGER, Catherine        

Research Interests: Human rights, legal anthropology, nationalism, justice, African courts and constitutions
Cultural Areas:
 

BURTON, Richard

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:

CHIOVENDA KERR , Melissa

Research Interests: women in Islam, NGOs and civil society, refugees and resettlement, material culture, transnationalism.
Cultural Areas: Afghanistan and Central Asia.
     

CLIFTON, Breanne

Research Interests: My research interests include the emergence of modern human behavior in the Middle Pleistocene, human evolution, lithic technology of the African Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age, phytoliths, paleoenvironmental reconstruction and spatial analysis, and the reconstruction of hominin subsistence patterns. 
Cultural Areas:
COLON, Richard
Research Interests:Applied Medical Anthropology:  HIV/3AIDS, adherence to medication therapies, alcohol abuse and violence prevention.
Cultural Areas: North America
CRUZ, Heather Cowan Research Interests: North American prehistoric archaeology,lithic technology, experimental archaeology, GIS and archaeology, trade and exchange
Cultural Areas: New England, Illinois Valley

FARLEY, William

Research Interests: Historical archaeology, the history of colonialism, collaborative/indigenous archaeology, paleoethnobotany, geographical information systems, archaeological theory
Cultural Areas: North America, New England
FINKEL, Daniel
Research Interests: Human evolution and behavior, social cognition, morality, music
Cultural Areas: Israel
FRANK, Cynthia
Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:
GLAUBERMAN, Philip
Research Interests: Lithic technology, Palaeolithic Archaeology, loess Geology, Geoarchaeology, GIS, Hominin Evolution, Palaeoclimatic reconstruction, Archaeological theory, Epistemology of Anthropology/Archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Northwest Europe.
GRANT, Jaime
Research Interests: precontact settlement and subsistnce patterns in eastern North America with a focus on the of GIS and relational databases in landscape archaeology and geomorphology. 
Cultural Areas: New England.
HART, Thomas

Research Interests: Palaeoethnobotany, phytoliths, starch grains, the interaction between humans and their environment, the spread of agriculture into Europe, the domestication process, early state level societies, the role of plants in hominin diet and evolution.
Cultural Areas:

HRYNICK, Martin

Research Interests: Prehistoric Archaeology, Ethnohistory, Hunter-Gatherer Domestic Architecture, Household Archaeology, Coastal Hunter-Gatherers, Cultural Resource Management, History of Archaeology in Northeastern North America


Cultural Areas: Atlantic Canada, New England

JACOBS, Rebecca Research Interests: globalization, material culture, the invention of tradition, cultural commoditization, tourism and tourist art, and women's cooperatives.
Cultural Areas: Central and South America.
KIPER, Jordan Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:
LESLIE, David Research Interests: lithic technology of the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic, projectile technology, lithic reduction sequences, human evolution, GIS applications in archaeology, and evolution education and outreach.
Cultural Areas: Africa

LERMAN, Shir

Research Interests: applied medical anthropology, mental health care, depression, anthropology of religion, Catholicism, faith healing,
immigration, health care access
Cultural Areas: Hispanic Caribbean, eastern United States
Office: Beach Hall 403
Office Phone: 6-0092
Email: UConn Phonebook
MAGNUS, Barry
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology.
Cultural Areas: United States
MATARAZZO, Tiziana
Research Interests: Early Bronze Age cultures in Southern Italy from a micromorphological and geoarchaeological perspective.
Cultural Areas: Southern Europe, Italy.

MEIER, Jacqueline         

Research Interests: Zooarchaeology of the Near East, migration, the process of domestication, human-animal relationships, bone tool technology, GIS spatial analysis.
Cultural Areas:
MELVILLE, Alison Research Interests: Human evolution, early modern humans and emerging behavioral variability, human-environmental interactions, Paleolithic archaeology, lithics, experimental archaeology, public communication of archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Africa
 

MESSERSCHMIDT, Joy

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:

MUELLER, Katherine

Research Interests: Tourism, performance, dance, human rights, indigenous and collective rights, multiculturalism, identity, globalization.
Cultural Areas:
OFFIAELI, Rita
Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:

OSTRACH, Bayla

Research Interests: Applied Medical Anthropology, Critical Medical Anthropology, abortion access, reproductive healthcare, obstacles to healthcare including Medicaid eligibility and legal barriers.
Cultural Areas: Catalunya (Spain), immigrant populations, Oregon.

PHILLIPS, Erika

Research Interests: Evolution of religion, othering, cooperation, behavioral ecology.
Cultural Areas:

PROCTOR, Lucas

Research Interests: Archaeobotany, GIS, archaeology of the Southwest Asia and Middle East, chalcolithic, bronze age, iron age, environment and ecology, plant domestication, state formation, agropastoralism.
Cultural Areas: Southwest Asia and Middle East
PROSSER, Marisa
Research Interests: Migration, Cultural Identity, Families & Childrearing practices.
Cultural Areas: Central America(Costa Rica & Nicaragua) & United States.
 

QUINN, James

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:
RICHARDS, Katharine
Research Interests: Human behavioral ecology, evolution of cooperation, altruism, revenge, reciprocity.
Cultural Areas: Africa, Europe, India
ROBINSON, David
Research Interests: applied marine geophysics, artifact conservation, cultural resource management, ethnohistory, geographic information systems, geoarchaeology, landscape archaeology, nautical archaeology, peopling of the Americas, submerged settlements archaeology
Cultural Areas: North America

SAMEI,  Siavash

Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, Neolithic transition, domestication, human migratory patterns, paleoeconomic reconstruction, sociopolitical evolution.
Cultural Areas: Iran; The Zagros; the Near East.
 

SanPedro, Michelle

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:

SHEPARD, Ronnie

Research Interests: Cultural manifestations of gender, sexuality, and masculinity in contemporary Ecuador.
Cultural Areas: South America

SINGER, Zachary

Research Interests: Paleoindian archaeology, lithic technology, thermo-luminescence, and UConn Pre-Contact archaeology field school.
Cultural Areas: New England
SCHMIDT, Beverly Research Interests: Paleolithic archaeology, Neandertals, lithic technology, human origins and behavioral evolution, quantitative methods, Pleistocene geology, GIS and spatial analysis, and computer applications in archaeological fieldwork.
Cultural Areas:
THOMAS, Zareen Research Interests: Indigeneity, performance, politics of representation, media anthropology, race and ethnicity, identity, human rights, globalization
Cultural Areas: Latin America

Tootle, William

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:

VON BAEYER , Madelynn

Research Interests: Primarily Archaeobotany and integrating stable isotopic research into archaeobotanical studies. I am interested in how humans adapted their use of plants in times of cultural and environmental shifts. I am also interested in studying social complexity through the archaeobotanical record.
Cultural Areas: Levant, Anatolia



ZEPHYAIRE, Anyazelie Research Interests: Cyborg Anthropology, Queer and feminist Theory, Science and Technology Studies (STS). Technologies of the body, the politics of affinity, intersections of gender and mental health.
Cultural Areas: Trans* and Neurodivergent Spaces.
 
      
                 Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Road
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1176
Phone Number: (860) 486-2137
Fax Number: (860) 486-1719