Graduate Students: Anthropology Ph.D. Program—Bioarchaeology

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Mary M. Aubin
Research Interests: Paleopathology, Paleoepidemiology, Disease and Human Evolution, Bioarchaeology
Committee: Brenda Baker (Chair), Curtis Marean, Charles Merbs
Undergraduate Institution: Tulane University
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Katelyn Bolhofner
AAGS Secretary
Research Interests: Skeletal Variation, Skeletal Trauma, Human Osteology, Forensic Anthropology,
    Roman Spain
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Rachel Scott, C. Michael Barton
Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida
Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

 

  

Charisse Carver
Research Interests: Early Medieval Archaeology, Biodistance, Ethnogenesis, Religious and Ethnic Identity in the Early Middle Ages
Committee: Rachel Scott (Chair), Jane Buikstra, Christopher Stojanowski
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University 

 

Allisen Dahlstedt
AAGS Bioarchaeology Representative
Research Interests: Prehistoric Diet and Identity, Trade and Inequality in Complex Societies, Andes,
     Stable Isotope Analysis
Committee: Kelly Knudson (Chair), Jane Buikstra, Ben Nelson
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – San Diego
Hometown: Santa Rosa, California
 

 
 

 

Julie Euber
Research Interests: Oceanic Bioarchaeology, Biodistance, Studies of Identity, Paleopathology, the
    Ancient Chamorro
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Christopher Stojanowski, James Eder
Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University
Hometown: Evansville, Indiana

 

 

Ashley Evans Busch
Research Interests: Ancient Earthwork Construction, Geotechnical Engineering, Scioto-Hopewell Archaeology
Committee: Christopher Carr (Co-Chair), Claudia Zapata (Co-Chair), Jane Buikstra, Christopher Stojanowski
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina State University
Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 

Amy Farnbach Pearson
Research Interests: Medical Constructs of Tuberculosis in 19th-Century Scotland, Social and Health Consequences of Industrialization and
     Urbanization, Historical Epidemiology of Tuberculosis, Human Responses (Cultural, Behavioral and Physiological) to Infectious Disease
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Alexandra Brewis Slade, Rachel Fuchs, Charlotte Roberts (Durham University, UK)
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Hometown: Loveland, Colorado
NSF GK–12 "Down-to-Earth Science" Fellowship

 

Fuchang
Research Interests: Human Osteology and Pathology
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Chengdu University of Technology; Chongqing Normal
    University
Hometown: China

 

 

 

Christopher Grivas
Research Interests: Human Skeletal Variation, Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology
Undergraduate Institution: College of Charleston
Hometown: Decatur, Georgia

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Hale
Research Interests: Viking Age Europe, Bone Biology, Ecology, Migration, Landscape Archaeology,
     Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Adaptation, Identity
Committee: Rachel Scott (Chair), Christopher Stojanowski, Kaye Reed
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Hometown: Grass Valley, California 
 

 

 

 

Kelly Harkins
Research Interests: Molecular Bioarchaeology & Ancient DNA, Pathogen Evolution, Disease & Disability,
    Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology of Identity, Social Exclusion & Confinement, History of Medicine
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Co-Chair), Anne Stone (Co-Chair), Rachel Scott
Undergraduate Institution: Skidmore College
Hometown: Prospect, Connecticut
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

 
 

 
 

Mallorie A. Hatch
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology of Mississippian Illinois, Anthropology of Violence & Warfare, Trauma
    Analysis, Paleopathology, Biodistance, Chimpanzee Aggression
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Katherine Spielmann, George Milner
Undergraduate Institution: University of Utah
Hometown: Helper, Utah

 

 

Rebecca Hill
Research Interest: Paleopathology
Committee: Brenda Baker (Chair), Christopher Carr, Charles Merbs, David Abbott
Undergraduate Institution: University of Nebraska – Lincoln

 

Kent M. Johnson
Research Interests: Andean Bioarchaeology (Middle Horizon), Sociopolitical Interaction, Biodistance
     Analysis, Identity, Dental Morphology
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Co-Chair), Christopher Stojanowski (Co-Chair), Kelly Knudson, Paul Goldstein 
    (University of California – San Diego)
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Santa Barbara
Hometown: Fortuna, California
Dean's Advanced Scholarship  

  

Heather Kehres
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Berkeley

 

Sara Marsteller
Research Interests: Andes (Central Coast), Migration, Community Interaction, Diet and Identity
     Construction, Pre-Inka Gender Ideology, Paleopathology, Pre-Columbian Sickness Ideology,
     Isotope Biogeochemistry
Committee: Kelly Knudson (Chair), Jane Buikstra, Rachel Scott
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell College
Hometown: Alliance, Nebraska

 

  

Katherine A. Miller
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology (Maya), Kinship, Identity, Household Configuration,
    Sociopolitical Interaction, Odontometry, Biodistance Analysis, Residential Mobility, Biogeochemical
    Analysis, Cultural Body Modifications
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Kelly Knudson, Christopher Stojanowski, Ellen E. Bell (California State
    University – Stanislaus)
Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Dean's Advanced Scholarship  

 

 

Michael W. Moramarco
Research Interests: European Archaeology (Especially Medieval Britain and Ireland), Colonial Archaeology,
    Identity Formation, Paleopathology (Especially Nonspecific Indicators of Health)
Committee: Rachel Scott (Chair), Brenda Baker, Gary Schwartz
Undergraduate Institution: University of Missouri – Columbia
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
 

 

 

 

Kristin Nado
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Kelly Knudson, Michael Smith
Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Novotny
AAGS Bioarchaeology Approach Representative
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Maya, Mortuary Ritual, Identity, Social Memory, Body
    Modification
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Christopher Carr, Miguel Astor-Aguilera, Cynthia Robin, Vera Tiesler
Undergraduate Institution: Kenyon College
Hometown: Boulder, Colorado

 

 

 

Kathleen Paul
Research Interests: Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology, Dental Morphology, Dental Modification
Committee: Christopher Stojanowski (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: New York University
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

Eleanna Prevedorou
Committee: Jane Buikstra (Chair), Kelly Knudson, Christopher Stojanowski, Steven Falconer, Sherry Fox
Undergraduate Institution: University of Ioannina
Hometown: Athens, Greece 

 

 

 

 

 

Emily Schach
Committee: Kelly Knudson (Co-Chair), Christopher Carr (Co-Chair), Jane Buikstra
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina State University
 

 

 

 

 

 

William Schaffer
AAGS Co-Treasurer
Research Interests: Skeletal and Craniofacial Biomechanics; Spatial & Temporal Variation in Human Body
    Size, Shape, & Limb Proportions; Biological Distance & Population Genetics
Committee: Christopher Stojanowski (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of Massachusetts – Boston; University of Arkansas
Hometown: Lakeland, Florida

 
 

 

Andrew Seidel
Committee: Christopher Carr (Chair), Jane Buikstra, Miguel Aguilera
Undergraduate Institution: Oberlin College