Graduate Students

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BLEGEN, Nicholas
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Research Interests: human evolution, archaeology of the African Stone Age and Eurasian Paleolithic, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Africa
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BOOTH, Robert
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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
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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
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BUERGER, Catherine |
Research Interests: Human rights, legal anthropology, nationalism, justice, African courts and constitutions
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BURTON, Richard |
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CHIOVENDA KERR , Melissa |
Research Interests: women in Islam, NGOs and civil society, refugees and resettlement, material culture, transnationalism.
Cultural Areas: Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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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.
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COLON, Richard
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Research Interests:Applied Medical Anthropology: HIV/3AIDS, adherence to medication therapies, alcohol abuse and violence prevention.
Cultural Areas: North America
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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
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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
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FINKEL, Daniel
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- Research Interests: Human evolution and behavior, social cognition, morality, music
Cultural Areas: Israel
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FRANK, Cynthia
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GLAUBERMAN, Philip
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Research Interests: Lithic technology, Palaeolithic Archaeology, loess Geology, Geoarchaeology, GIS, Hominin Evolution, Palaeoclimatic reconstruction, Archaeological theory, Epistemology of Anthropology/Archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Northwest Europe.
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GRANT, Jaime
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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KIPER, Jordan |
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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
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| 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
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Office Phone: 6-0092
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MAGNUS, Barry
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Research Interests: Medical Anthropology.
Cultural Areas: United States
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MATARAZZO, Tiziana
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Research Interests: Early Bronze Age cultures in Southern Italy from a micromorphological and geoarchaeological perspective.
Cultural Areas: Southern Europe, Italy.
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MEIER, Jacqueline |
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology of the Near East, migration, the process of domestication, human-animal relationships, bone tool technology, GIS spatial analysis.
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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
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MESSERSCHMIDT, Joy |
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MUELLER, Katherine |
Research Interests: Tourism, performance, dance, human rights, indigenous and collective rights, multiculturalism, identity, globalization.
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OFFIAELI, Rita
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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.
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PHILLIPS, Erika |
Research Interests: Evolution of religion, othering, cooperation, behavioral ecology.
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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
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PROSSER, Marisa
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Research Interests: Migration, Cultural Identity, Families &
Childrearing
practices.
Cultural Areas: Central America(Costa Rica & Nicaragua) & United States.
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QUINN, James |
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RICHARDS, Katharine
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Research Interests: Human behavioral ecology, evolution of cooperation, altruism, revenge, reciprocity.
Cultural Areas: Africa, Europe, India
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ROBINSON, David
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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
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SAMEI, Siavash |
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, Neolithic transition, domestication, human migratory patterns, paleoeconomic reconstruction, sociopolitical evolution.
Cultural Areas: Iran; The Zagros; the Near East.
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SanPedro, Michelle |
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SHEPARD, Ronnie |
Research Interests: Cultural manifestations of gender, sexuality, and masculinity in contemporary Ecuador.
Cultural Areas: South America
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SINGER, Zachary |
Research Interests: Paleoindian archaeology, lithic technology, thermo-luminescence, and UConn Pre-Contact archaeology field school.
Cultural Areas: New England
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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.
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THOMAS, Zareen |
Research Interests: Indigeneity, performance, politics of representation, media anthropology, race and ethnicity, identity, human rights, globalization
Cultural Areas: Latin America
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Tootle, William |
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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
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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. |
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