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Hallie Edmonds
AAGS Co-Treasurer
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Post-Cranial Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Primate Locomotor Ability
Committee: Mark Spencer (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona

 

 

 

Leigh Anne Ellison
Approach: Archaeology
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
Approach: Archaeology
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

 

 

 

Julie Euber
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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

 

 

 

Arlene M. Evangelista
Approach: Applied Math
Research Interest: Mathematics Education
Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Co-Chair), Michael Oehrtman (Co-Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: Arizona

 

 

 

Ashley Evans Busch
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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
Personal Web Page
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 

 

Ashlan H. Falletta-Cowden
AAGS Sociocultural Approach Representative
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Nutrition and Health, Biocultural Anthropology
Undergraduate Institution: Lawrence University
Hometown: Petaluma, California

 

 

 

Amy Farnbach Pearson
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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

Lubayna Fawcett
Approach: Global Health
Research Interests: Health Disparities/African Women's Health – Childbearing, Female Genital Cutting, Obstetric Fistulae, Stigmatized
    Disorders/Conditions
Committee: Magdalena Hurtado (Chair)

 

William Feliciano
Approach: Applied Math

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rafael Fernandez
Approach: Environmental Social Science
Research Interests: Environmental Management, Social Ecology, Environmental Justice, International
    Relations, Environmental Anthropology, Climate, Governance, International Development and
    Sustainability
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Universidad de las Americas; Newcastle University
Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico 

 

 

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

 

Joshua Fox
Approach: Applied Math

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob Freeman
Approach: Archaeology
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 

 

 

 

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

 

 
 

 

Jen Fuller
Approach: Environmental Social Science
Research Interests: Social Theory, Environmental Policy, Environmental Values
Committee: Bob Bolin
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 
Hometown: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

 

  

 

Andrea Garfinkel-Castro
Approach: Environmental Social Science
Research Interests: Historic and Contemporary Issues Driving Urbanism, Urban Form, Place-Based
   Identity, Cultural Expression in Cities
Committee: Bob Bolin
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: Arizona State University
Hometown: Palo Alto, California

 

 

Meredith Gartin
Approach: Global Health
Research Interests: Food Security, Dietary Acculturation, Urban Ecology, Ethnoecology, Resource Management, Ethnographic
     Research Methods
Committee: Alexandra Brewis Slade (Chair), Christopher Boone, Magdalena Hurtado, Amber Wutich
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: University of Georgia; Auburn University

 

Halszka Glowacka
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Life History Evolution, Primate Dentognathic Development
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: University of Toronto
Hometown: Toronto, Canada

 

 

  
Jennifer Gordon
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Identity/Ethnicity, Nationalism, Pop Culture, Native America
Committee:  James Eder (Chair), Jonathan Maupin, Gwyneira Isaac, Scott Russell
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institutions: Rutgers University; University of Oklahoma
Hometown: Millington, New Jersey

 

Jenna Green
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Research Interest: Teeth
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: George Washington University
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana

 

  

 

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

 

 

 

 

Anita Hagy Ferguson
Approach: Environmental Social Science
Research Interests: Environmental Conflict Resolution, Intercultural Communication, Environmental
    Discourse, Environmental Values, Environmental Ethics & Philosophy of Science
Undergraduate Institution: Southern Oregon University
Hometown: Ashland, Oregon 

 

 
 

 

Kelly Hale
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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 

 

 

 

Sari Hale-Alper
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Jewish identity and migration, social gerontology, museum studies, gender
   constructions
Committee: Takeyuki Tsuda (Chair), Hjorleifur Jonsson, Brian Gratton
Undergraduate Institution: Wellesley College  

 

 

 

 

Emily Hallett
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology and Paleoecology of North African (Modern Human) and Middle
    Eastern (Neanderthal) Middle Paleolithic Sites
Committee: Curtis Marean (Co-Chair), Kaye Reed (Co-Chair), Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania), 
     William Kimbel
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Institute of Human Origins Fellowship, Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship

 

 

Kelly Harkins
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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  

 

J.G. Harris
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: The State & Identity, Technology & Culture, Non-Human Agency
Undergraduate Institution: Portland State University

 

Mallorie A. Hatch
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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
Approach: Bioarchaeology
Research Interest: Paleopathology
Committee: Brenda Baker (Chair), Christopher Carr, Charles Merbs, David Abbott
Undergraduate Institution: University of Nebraska – Lincoln

 

Jamie Hodgkins
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Research Interests: Paleoecology and Zooarchaeology of European Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal Sites
Committee: Curtis Marean (Co-Chair), Kaye Reed (Co-Chair), Lillian Spencer, Kelly Knudson
Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado – Boulder
Institute of Human Origins Student Profile 

 

 

John Hooper
Approach: Archaeology
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

 

Marcel Hurtado
Approach: Applied Math
Committee: Marco Janssen
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Hometown: Tempe, Arizona

 

 

 

 

Angela Huster
Approach: Archaeology
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
Approach: Archaeology
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

 

 

Ben Jewell
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Economic Anthropology, Food Security, Urban Food Environments
Committee: Amber Wutich (Chair), Alexandra Brewis Slade, James Eder, Christopher Boone
Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: University of Nebraska – Lincoln; Colorado State University
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska

 

 
 

 

Kent M. Johnson
Approach: Bioarchaeology
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    

 

 

Loni Kantor 
Approach: Archaeology
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

 

 

Irina Kareva 
Approach: Applied Math
Research Interests: Ecological and Evolutionary Modeling, Time-Scale Reduction, Modeling Heterogeneity through Parameter Distribution,
    Niche Construction vs. Consumer-Producer Type Interactions with Renewable Resource, Biocomplexity, Cancer-Immune System
    Interactions, Medical Modeling
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland – College Park

Heather Kehres
Approach: Bioarchaeology
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Berkeley

 

Sophia Kelly 
Approach: Archaeology
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 

 

 

Sharon Kessler
Approach: Physical Anthropology
Committee: Leanne Nash (Chair), Kaye Reed, Elke Zimmermann and Ute Radespiel (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover)
Undergraduate Institution: Vassar College 

Tae-Eun Kim
Approach: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interest: Transnational Migration
Committee: Takeyuki Tsuda
Undergraduate Institution: Sogang University
Hometown: Masan, South Korea 

 

Melissa Kretschmer
Approach: Global Health
Research Interests: Food Environment and Obesity, Ethnomedical Systems, Infectious Disease, Zoonotic
    Disease
Committee: Amber Wutich 
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
 

 

  

 

Melissa Kruse Peeples 
Approach: Archaeology
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
Approach: Archaeology
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   

 

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