Graduate Students: Anthropology Ph.D. Program—Archaeology

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Sean Bergin
Research Interests: European Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Forager Farmer Interaction, Spatial
     Technologies, Agent Based Modeling, Computer Applications in Archaeology, Lithic Analysis
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Chair), Marco Janssen, Anick Coudart
Undergraduate Institution: University of Notre Dame
Hometown: Wilmette, Illinois

 

 

Jocelyn Bernatchez
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair), David Abbott, Hamdallah Bearat
Undergraduate Institution: Dartmouth College 

 

Wendy Cegielski
AAGS Archaeology Representative
Research Interests: Landscape and Settlement Analysis, GIS, Culture Contact, U.S. Southeast, Near
    East, Identity
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Morehead State University; University of Mississippi
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

 

  

David Cheetham
Research Interest: Mesoamerica
Committee: Barbara Stark (Chair), George Cowgill, Arleyn Simon, John E. Clark (Brigham Young University)  

 

Robin Cleland
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Urbanism, Ecology
Committee: Ben Nelson (Chair), Curtis Marean
Undergraduate Institution: Grinnell College
Hometown: Alpine, California
IGERT Fellowship in Urban Ecology

 

 

 

Walter Crist
Committee: Hjorleifur Jonsson (Co-Chair), Nancy Serwint (Co-Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York – Albany

 

 

 

 

 

Elisabeth Culley
Committee: Geoffrey Clark (Chair), Curtis Marean, C. Michael Barton
Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado

 

Leigh Anne Ellison
Research Interests: Craft Production and Specialization, Market Exchange, Ceramic Analysis, Mesoamerica
     — the Central Highlands of Mexico and the Southeastern Maya Periphery
Committee: Barbara Stark (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, Michael Smith, Veronica Perez Rodriguez
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Wellesley College; Northern Arizona University
Hometown: Kula, Hawaii
Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship

 

 

 

Krista Eschbach
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology of the Southeastern United States and Veracruz, Mexico;
    Culture Contact; Identity Formation and Ethnogenesis
Committee: Barbara Stark (Chair), Michael Smith, Michelle Hegmon, John E. Worth (University of West
    Florida), Rani Alexander (New Mexico State University)
Undergraduate Institution: University of West Florida

 

 

Craig Fertelmes
Committee: David Abbott (Chair), J. Andrew Darling, Michelle Hegmon, Katherine Spielmann
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona

 

Anya Frashuer
Committee: Christopher Carr (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida

 

 

 
 

 

 

Jacob Freeman
Research Interests: Forager-Farmer Ecology, Systems Theory, Crop Diversity
Committee: Margaret C. Nelson (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Truman State University; University of Texas – San Antonio
Hometown: Center Point, Iowa 

 

 

 

John Hooper
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology, Archaeology of El Salvador, Migrations, Multiethnic Communities in Prehistory
Committee: Barbara Stark (Chair), Michael Smith, Keith Kintigh
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona

 

Angela Huster
Research Interests: Mesoamerica (Particularly Central Mexico), GIS, Craft Specialization, Maguey
     Utilization, Imperial Incorporation 
Committee: Michael Smith (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, Barbara Stark, Emily Umberger
Undergraduate Institution: University of Oregon

 

 

 

Scott Ingram
Research Interests: U.S. Southwest, Climatic Influences on Human Behavior, Vulnerability to Natural Hazards, Dendroclimatology, Social
    Transformations, Subsistence Agriculture
Committee: Margaret C. Nelson (Chair), Keith Kintigh, David Abbott, Ann Kinzig, Charles Redman
Undergraduate Institution: Oklahoma State University

 

Loni Kantor 
Research Interests: Mesoamerica, Landscapes, Material Culture, Linguistics, Indigenous Languages
     (Huichol, Nahuatl)
Committee: Ben Nelson (Chair), Michelle Hegmon, Gwyneira Isaac
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York – Potsdam
Hometown: LaFayette, New York

  

 

 

Sophia Kelly 
Research Interests: Ceramic Provenance and Exchange, Craft Production and Specialization, Ceramic
    Petrography
Committee: David Abbott (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, J. Andrew Darling, Gordon Moore
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Hometown: Arlington, Virginia  
 

 

 

 

Melissa Kruse Peeples 
Research Interests: Human-Environment Interaction, Agrarian Societies, Settlement Patterns, Soil 
    Management and Sustainable Land Use, Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change, Environmental
    Legacies of Prehistoric Land Use, U.S. Southwest
Committee: Katherine Spielmann (Chair), David Abbott, Keith Kintigh, Sharon Hall
Undergraduate Institution: University of Nebraska – Lincoln 
Hometown: Grand Island, Nebraska
Personal Web Page 
NSF GK–12 "Down-to-Earth Science" Fellowship; Dean's Dissertation Writing Fellowship

 
Stephanie Kulow
Research Interests: U.S. Southwest, Mimbres, Social Interaction, Agency and Structuration, Ceramics: Composition and Style
Committee: Michelle Hegmon (Chair), Margaret C. Nelson, Ben Nelson
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Los Angeles

Andrew Lack
Research Interest: Southwest Ceramics
Committee: David Abbott (Chair), Michelle Hegmon, Katherine Spielmann, Ben Nelson
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

 

Shelby Manney 
Research Interests: Archaeological Semiotics and the Creation of Meaning in Material Culture,
     Archaeological Informatics, Cultural Resource Law, Post-Processual Archaeology (or perhaps Post-
     Post Processual), Applied Anthropological Theory 
Committee: Michelle Hegmon (Chair), Keith Kintigh, David Abbott
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of Texas (English [Post-Colonial Studies], Music
     [Ethnomusicology], Anthropology [SW Archaeology & CRM], Writing & Rhetoric); Claremont College
     (Cultural Studies/Archaeology [Archaeological Semiotics & Cultural Law])
Hometown: El Paso, Texas
 

 

Michael Merrill
Research Interests: California and Southwest Archaeology, Applied Mathematics, Archaeological
     Classification, Intrasite Spatial Analysis, Morphometrics
Committee: Michelle Hegmon (Co-Chair), Marco Janssen (Co-Chair), J. Marty Anderies
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Los Angeles
Hometown: Los Angeles, California

 

 

Alexandra Miller
Research Interests: Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe, Lithic Analysis, Paleoclimatology, Spatial Technologies
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Co-Chair), Geoffrey Clark (Co-Chair), Kaye Reed, Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Columbia, Maryland 

 

Hans Nesse
Research Interests: Ecological Processes in Archaeology, Quantitative Modeling, Statistics, Public
    Understanding of Science
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair), Kim Hill, J. Marty Anderies
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
2010-11 Graduate and Professional Student Association Teaching Excellence Award

 

 

Julie Novic
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Archaeology (Aztec and Maya), Toluca Valley and Coastal Tabasco, 
    Residential/Housing Archaeology, Economics (Consumption), GIS, Trade Routes, Identity, Space and
    Spatial Relations, Anthropological Theory, Epigraphy
Committee: Michael Smith (Chair), Barbara Stark, Michelle Hegmon
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: Kenyon College; State University of New York – Albany
Hometown: McAdoo, Pennsylvania
 

 
 

Michael Frederick O'Hara
Committee: Michelle Hegmon (Chair), Barbara Stark, Keith Kintigh
Undergraduate Institution: Pomona College

 

Simen Oestmo
Research Interests: Origins of Modern Humans, Origins & Progress of Modern Human Behavior in Marine
    Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 3, the Middle Stone Age in Africa, Hunter-Gatherer Ecology, Ancient
    Landscape Use, Ancient Use of Fire, Stone Tool Function, Geoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Tromso
Hometown: Fenstad, Norway
Personal Web Page 
Institute of Human Origins: Notes from the Field blog 

 

Gabriel Popescu
Research Interests: Lithic Technology and Typology, Paleolithic Old World, Modern Human Origins, Site Formation Processes, Forager
    Mobility Patterns and Land-Use Strategies, Human Evolutionary Theory, Human Environment Interactions
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Co-Chair), Geoffrey Clark (Co-Chair), Curtis Marean
Undergraduate Institution: University of Bucharest – Romania 

 

Hannah Reitzel Rivera
AAGS President
Research Interests: North & West Mexican Archaeology, Exchange, Regional Interaction Systems,
    Political Economy, Pottery Sourcing & Production Studies, Metallurgy & Metallographic Studies,
    Development of Urbanism, Style & Social Boundaries
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ('07, B.S., Materials Science &
     Engineering, Archaeology)
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina

 

 

Sidney Rempel
Research Interests: Near Eastern Bronze Age Complex Societies, Regional Settlement Patterns and Culture Contact, Remote Sensing
     and GIS in Archaeological Applications
Committee: Steve Falconer (Chair), Geoffrey Clark, Barbara Stark, Stephen Savage
Undergraduate Institution: University of Saskatchewan

 

 

Christopher Roberts
Research Interests: Archaeology of Europe, Social Theory, Art, Old English Literature, Anglo-Saxon Culture
Committee: Michelle Hegmon (Chair), Rachel Scott, Sander van der Leeuw, Robert Bjork
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: University of Saskatchewan; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Hometown: Saskatoon, Canada
Personal Web Page

 

Will Russell
Research Interests: Southwestern Archaeology, Identity, Migration, Iconography
Committee: Margaret C. Nelson (Chair), Michelle Hegmon, Katherine Spielmann
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: Cochise County, Arizona
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; Ford Foundation Fellowship

 

Steven Schmich
Research Interests: Philosophy, Late Glacial Europe
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Co-Chair), Geoffrey Clark (Co-Chair), M. Jochim, Hamdallah Bearat
 

Benjamin Schoville
Research Interests: African Stone Age, Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, Lithic Analysis, Geometric
     Morphometrics, Hunter-Gatherer Ecology, Harvester Ants
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: Colorado State University
Hometown: Fairplay, Colorado 
Personal Web Page
South Africa Notes from the Field blog
 

 

 

Paul Shockey
Research Interests: Technological Decisions & Changes, Environmental Interaction, Landscape Dynamics,
    Ceramic Analysis
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Montana State University; Arizona State University
Hometown: Polson, Montana

 

 

 

 

Rhian Stotts
Research Interests: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, Long Distance Trade Networks, Ceramic
     Analysis
Undergraduate Institution: College of Wooster
Hometown: Worthington, Ohio
Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship; ASOR Platt Fellowship

 

 

Colleen Strawhacker
Research Interests: Irrigation Agriculture, Human Impacts on the Environment, Historical Ecology,
    Transitions from Subsistence to Colonial Economies, Interdisciplinary Education, American Southwest,
    Latin America
Committee: Katherine Spielmann (Chair), Margaret C. Nelson, David Abbott, Sharon Hall, Jonathan
    Sandor (Iowa State University)
Undergraduate Institution: Pennsylvania State University
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; IGERT Fellow in Urban Ecology
Personal Web Page 

 

 

Sarah Striker
AAGS Vice President
Research Interests: Northeastern U.S. Archaeology, Conflict & Captives in Small-Scale Societies,
    Community Outreach & Education
Committee: Katherine Spielmann (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

 

 

 

 

Laura Swantek
Research Interests: Prehistoric Cyprus & the Near East, Social Organization of the Prehistoric Bronze Age,
    Ground Stone Technologies, Subsistence Practices, Household Economy
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, Nancy Serwint
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York – Albany

 

  

Erin Thompson
Research Interests: Lithics Analysis, GIS, African Stone Age
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair), Kaye Reed, John Shea (State University of New York – Stony Brook)
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York – Stony Brook 

Mason Scott Thompson
Research Interests: Complex Societies, Chiefdoms, Mississippian Archaeology
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Lynne Goldstein, David Abbott, Keith Kintigh
Undergraduate Institution: Washington University 

 

Andrea Torvinen
Research Interests: Northwest Mexico, Exchange, Ceramic Petrography, Ritual Economy
Committee: Ben Nelson (Chair), David Abbott, Barbara Stark, Roberto Molina Garza (Universidad Nacional
    Autónoma de México)
Undergraduate Institution: Albion College
Hometown: Royal Oak, Michigan
Doctoral Enrichment Fellowship

 

 

Isaac I. Ullah
Research Interests: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant, the Archaeology of Nomadic Pastoralism,
     GIS Applications, Remote Sensing Applications, Computer Modeling, Geoarchaeology, Spatial Analysis 
Committee: C. Michael Barton (Chair), Geoffrey Clark, Ramon Arrowsmith, Ted Banning (University of
    Toronto) 
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of California – Davis; University of Toronto
Hometown: San Francisco, California 
Personal Web Page
Dean's Advanced Scholarship; RA, Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project

Chris Watkins
Research Interests: Organization of Production and Exchange, Ceramics, Southwestern Archaeology,
     Archaeometry
Committee: David Abbott (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, Barbara Stark
Undergraduate Institution: Brigham Young University
Hometown: Gilbert, Arizona

 

 

Joshua Watts
Research Interests: Southwest Archaeology (especially South and Southeast Arizona)
Committee: David Abbott (Chair), Marco Janssen, Sander van der Leeuw, C. Michael Barton

Hope M. Williams
Research Interests: Archaeological Chemistry/Isotope Geochemistry, Method Development and "Non-
    Traditional" Isotope Systems, the African Middle Stone Age (MSA), Paleoenvironmental
    Reconstruction, Isotopic Ecology of Later Pleistocene Homo, the Origins of "Modern" Behavior"
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair), Kaye Reed, Kelly Knudson
Undergraduate/Other Institutions: American University, George Washington University
Hometown: Syracuse, New York

 

 

Nathan Wilson
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Gulf Coast, Household Production and Subsistence, Urban-Rural Interaction, Regional Political
     Economy, Exchange Networks
Committee: Barbara Stark (Chair), Michael Smith, Keith Kintigh
Undergraduate Institution: University of Oregon
Hometown: Morro Bay, California

Michael Woodson
Committee: Keith Kintigh (Chair), Charles Redman, John Ravesloot, Katherine Spielmann, Robert Hunt