Graduate Students
The anthropology department has a vibrant graduate student community. Graduate students regularly host brown-bag talks and colloquia, as well as engaging in research and teaching undergraduate courses.
| Name | Anthropology Sub-field | Research Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Easlin Anderson | Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | |
| Derya Aydin she/her/hers [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | political death, political subjectivity, necropolitics, sovereignty, Kurdistan and colonialism, decolonial anthropology of death, mortuary rituals, forensic anthropology, gendered mourning, mourning and resistance, Jineolojî, and memory |
| Yige Bao [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | ZooMS (Zooarchaeology of Mass Spectrometry); microarchaeology; middle paleolithic Balkans Peninsula; Neanderthal subsistence; paleodiet; zooarchaeology; taphonomy, paleoenvironment |
| Akashleena Basu she/her/hers [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | anthropology of religion; anthropology of the body and senses; multispecies studies; philosophical anthropology |
| Selena Bernier she/her/hers [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | indigenous North American archaeology, Minnesota precontact archaeology, glacial geology, copper materials, ancient mining practices, archaeological ethics and repatriation |
| Yessica Berumen Martinez she/her/hers [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | Latinx diaspora archaeology, material culture studies, migration/mobility, heritage studies, memory and forgetting, oral histories |
| Vinay Brandon [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | financial anthropology, economic sociology, digital anthropology, design anthropology, human-centred computing, critical internet histories, anthropology of new media, infrastructure studies, STS, digital humanities |
| Nathan Buckley [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | political anthropology, sovereignty, everyday geopolitics, critical European studies, Gibraltar, queer theory |
| Jaewon Byun [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | Critical Disability Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Resistance and Social Movements |
| Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD |
Phenotype-genotype interactions, quantitative genetics, ancient DNA, ethical research and data sharing in biological anthropology, virtual anthropology
|
| Yun Feng [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | e-commerce villages/towns, digital anthropology, algorithmic capitalism, rural China, platform economy, rurality |
| Samantha Gogol she/her/hers [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | Taphonomy, Human Evolution, Early Stone Age Hominin Behavioral Ecology, 3D Morphometrics, Dental Topographic Analysis, Paleoanthropology, 3D Scanning, Gross Anatomy |
| Leonie Gussone [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | primate behavioral ecology, movement ecology, competition, intergroup conflict, effects of environmental and anthropogenic change |
| Peter Johnson [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | agribusiness, development, ecology, settler colonialism |
| Penina Kadalida [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | |
| Risa Lama-Luther she/her/hers [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | paleoanthropology, primate dietary ecology, dental topographic analyses, tooth wear, human and primate evolution, eastern Africa, inclusive science communication |
| Panchen Lo [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD |
queer and trans studies, feminist anthropology, transnational feminism, temporalities
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| Rania Madani | Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | |
| Vasilije Marojević [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | Hunter-gatherer archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, Lithic raw material studies, Lithic technology, Neanderthal behavior, landscape archaeology, material culture |
| Pranav Menon Pra-nav he/him/they/them [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | political ecology, legal geographies, anthropology of law, nomadism, caste and indigeneity |
| Samuel Muteti [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | |
| Thanzeel Nazer | Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | |
| Emmanuel Kipruto Ngetich | Biological Anthropology PhD | |
| Euphoria Rising she/her/hers |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | critical university studies, organizing, critical race and ethnic studies, anthropology of futures, anthropology of radical dreaming |
| Laura Pott [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | human population genetics, evolutionary genomics, admixture, ancient DNA |
| Samantha Blair Schwartz she/her/hers [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | Korean diaspora archaeology, landscape, gender, memory & forgetting, multi-ethnic communities, community engagement, North America |
| Leanne Thothiyil she/her [email protected] |
Archaeology PhD | lithic residue analysis, FTIR-M (Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy), palaeolithic archaeology, stone tool technology, experimental archaeology, human evolution |
| MaryGrace Trifilio she/her/hers [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | kinship and care, eldercare policy, critical disability studies, medical carcerality, and urban life |
| Madelaine Walker she/her/hers [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD | life history and paleoecology of early Miocene catarrhines, primate paleobiology |
| Annika Yates [email protected] |
Sociocultural Anthropology PhD | sports, bodies, and medical anthropology |
| Jaime Zolik [email protected] |
Biological Anthropology PhD |