Graduate Students
Mary M. Aubin
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Paleopathology, Paleoepidemiology, Disease and Human Evolution, Bioarchaeology
Committee: Baker (chair)
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Laura Bidner
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Primate Behavioral Ecology, Predation, Primate Evolution
Committee: Nash, Reed, Marean
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Danielle G. Bray
Major: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Identity, Development, Political Economy, Social Movements, Media Studies: Latin America, specifically Southern Mexico and Guatemala
David Cheetham
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Mesoamerica
Committee: Stark, Cowgill, Simon, John E. Clark (BYU, external)
Sarah Clayton
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Prehispanic Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan, Social Identities, Religion and Ritual Practices, Processes of State Formation and Collapse
Committee: Cowgill, Stark, Kintigh
Lynn Copes
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Emergence of the Genus Homo
Committee: Kimbel, Spencer, Schwartz
Leigh Anne Ellison
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Craft Production and Specialization, Market Exchange, Mesoamerica, Ceramic Analysis
Committee: Stark
Elizabeth Ann Farley Metzger
Major: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Environmental Anthropology—focusing on Water Issues for my M.A.
Committee: Haenn, Eder, Brandt, Kinzig
Christopher Garraty
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Aztec Empire, Economic Anthropology, Political Economy, Ethnohistory, Ceramic Analysis
Committee: Cowgill (co-chair), Stark (co-chair), Kintigh, Simon
Jennifer Gordon
Major: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Pop Culture, Nationalism, Identity, NDNs
Committee: Jonsson, Welsh, Isaac
Jamie Hodgkins
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Paleoecology and Zooarchaeology of European Middle Paleolithic Neandertal Sites
Committee: Marean, Reed, Spencer
John Hooper
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Archaeology of El Salvador, Migrations, Multiethnic Communities in Prehistory
Committee: Stark, Smith, Kintigh
Angela Huster
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Mesoamerica (particularly Central Mexico), GIS, Craft Specialization, Maguey Utilization
Committee: Smith (chair)
Cassandra (Casey) Kuba
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Human Osteology, Forensic Anthropology, Biological Variation, Postmedieval British Archaeology
Committee: Baker (chair), Williams, Merbs, Turner
Stephanie Kulow
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: U.S. Southwest, Mimbres, Social Interaction, Agency and Structuration, Ceramics: Composition and Style
Committee: Hegmon, M. Nelson, B. Nelson
Melissa Kruse
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Human-Environment Interaction, Agrarian Societies, Land Use, Spatial Analysis
Committee: Spielmann, John Briggs (SOLS), Abbott
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Lars Krutak
Major: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Tourism Development and Indigenous Identity (México), Repatriation, Contemporary and Indigenous Tattooing Practice
Committee: Chance, Welsh, Winkelman
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Kristi Lewton
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Primate Functional Morphology, Primate Locomotion, Paleoanthropology
Committee: Spencer, Schwartz, Reed
Lynn Lucas
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Functional Morphology, Mastication, Hominin Evolution
Committee: Kimbel, Schwartz, Spencer
Stephanie Meredith
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Infant and Juvenile Social Development in Non-Human Primates
Committee: Nash, Reed, Schwartz
Alexandra Miller
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology of Europe, Lithics, GIS Applications
Committee: Barton (co-chair), Clark (co-chair), M. Nelson
Thierra Nalley
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Fossil Hominids, Functional Morphology of Basicranium and Cervical Spine, Origins of Bipedalism
Committee: Kimbel, Spencer, Marzke
Juliana (Julie) Novic
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology (Aztec and Maya), SW and Coastal Tabasco, Residential Archaeology, Political and Domestic Economy, Faunal Analysis, Trade Routes, Identity, Space and Spatial Relations, Anthropological Theory, Epigraphy
Committee: Smith
Caley M. Orr
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Primate Evolution, Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Biomechanics
Committee: Marzke (co-chair), Spencer (co-chair), Kimbel, Carol Ward (University of Missouri)
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Matt Peeples
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Prehistoric/Historic U.S. Southwest, Zuni Region, Culture Contact, Settlement Patterns, Ceramics, Quantitative Methods
Committee: Kintigh (co-chair), Hegmon (co-chair), Spielmann
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George (PJ) H. Perry
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Molecular Anthropology, Human and Non-Human Primate Evolution
Committee: Stone, Schwartz, Brian Verrelli (SoLS), Charles Lee (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital)
Sidney Rempel
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Near Eastern/South Arabian Complex Cultures, Mortuary Analysis, Landscape Phenomenology
Committee: Falconer
Julien Riel-Salvatore
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Paleolithic Archaeology, Modern Human Origins, Neanderthals, Lithic Technology, Critical Theory, Mediterranean Basin
Committee: Barton, Clark, Marean, Kuhn (external)
Terry Ritzman
Major:
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Craniofacial Growth and Development
Committee: Schwartz (chair), Spencer, Kimbel
Dolma Choden Roder
Major: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: South Asia, development, museums, refugee and migration issues
Karen Schollmeyer
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Faunal Analysis, Subsistence and Resource Stress, Environmental Impacts, SW Archaeology
Committee: M. Nelson, Barton, Hegmon, Spielmann
Caitlin Schrein
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Craniofacial Morphology and Adaptation in Anthropoids; Miocene Hominoids; Early Hominin Evolution
Committee: Kimbel, Schwartz, Spencer
Heather F. Smith
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Morphological and Genetic Distance, Geometric Morphometrics, Phylogeny, Systematics, Paleoanthropology
Committee: Spencer (co-chair), Stone (co-chair), Kimbel, Stojanowski
Steve Swanson
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Agricultural Ecology, Palynology, GIS/RS
Committee: M. Nelson, Spielmann, Redman, Kinzig
Lauren Taylor
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution, Sexual Dimorphism, the Evolution of Human Birth, the Compromise in the Human Pelvis Between Obstetrics and Bipedality
Committee: Spencer (chair), Kimbel, Schwartz
Erin Thompson
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: Lithics Analysis, GIS, African Stone Age
Committee: Marean, Barton, Clark
Denise To
Major: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Osteology, Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Laser-Assisted Stereo Modeling
Committee: Baker, Marzke, and Spencer
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Isaac Ullah
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: the Neolithic of the Levant and the Archaeology of Near Eastern Nomadic Pastoralism
Committee: Barton (chair)
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Ramsi K. Watkins
Major: General (Sociology)
Research Interests: Gender and Identity — Ethnography of American Belly Dancers
Committee: Bolin, Hegmon, Welsh, Isaac
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Hope M. Williams
Major: Archaeology
Research Interests: African Archaeology (esp. the Middle Stone Age), Geoarchaeology, Pleistocene Paleoenvironments and Isotope Studies, Origins of Modern Humans and Modern Human Behavior, Lithics