Graduate Program in Anthropology
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Brendon Asher
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Ph.D. |
Great Plains Archaeology, Chipped Stone Technology, Zooarchaeology |
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Kristi Barger
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M.A. |
Lithic assemblages and Plains archaeology |
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Adam Benfer (CV)
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M.A. |
Pre-Colonial American roads, footpaths and aquatic routes, Archaeology of Lower Central America and the Central Andes, Quechuan languages and cultures |
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Jessica H. Craig (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Mesoamerican Archaeology, Ancient Ritual Behavior, Ceramic Analysis, San Bartolo |
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Michael Davis (CV) |
M.A. |
Pre-Columbian Central America |
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Erin Dempsey |
Ph.D. |
Midwest and Upper Midwest Archaeology, Geophysics, Geoarchaeology, Cultural Resource Management. |
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Anne Egitto |
Ph.D. |
Costa Rican archaeology, GIS, landscape archaeology, settlement pattern analysis, CRM, urban planning. |
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Andrew Gottsfield (CV) |
M.A. |
North American Archaeology, GIS, geoarchaeology , predictive modeling |
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Tim Griffith |
Ph.D. |
Near East, zooarchaeology |
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Patrick Green |
M.A. |
Geoarcheaology, Paleoindians, first Americans |
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Alison M. Hadley (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Middle Archaic stone bead manufacture and emergent complexity in the Lower Mississippi River Valley; Cave and mineral use in the southeast; Pipestone sourcing and distribution in the Plains, Midwest, and Southeast |
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Ryan Johnson |
M.A. |
Smoky Folsom Site, Mesoamerican archaeology. |
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Daniel Keating |
M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, GIS, Paleo-Indians, Lovewell Reservoir/White Rock Creek
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Nicholas Kessler |
M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, landscape evolution, environmental archeology |
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Arlo McKee |
M.A. |
North American Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, |
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Janice McLean |
M.A. |
North American Archaeology, High Plains Hunter-Gatherers, Lithics |
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Sandra Moran |
M.A. |
Archaeology of South America, Peruvian Ceramics |
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Laura Murphy |
Ph.D. |
Geoarchaeology, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Stable Carbon Isotopes, Phytolith Analysis, Quaternary Geology, Geophysics, Great Plains Archaeology |
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Ann Raab (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Archaeology of warfare; warfare as an agent of culture change; Missouri/Kansas Border Wars and General Order No. 11; 19th century frontier socio-economic patterns |
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Shannon R. Ryan |
Ph.D. |
Boatstones and bannerstones of the Great Plains, children in archaeology and spatial relations within and among archaeological sites. |
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Garrett Welch |
M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, the Peopling of America, Nautical Archaeology, Colonial America |
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Kristopher West |
M.A. |
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Emily G. Williams |
Ph.D. |
Great Plains Archaeology. Paleoindian, Domestic space |
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Mark Volmut |
M.A. |
Zooarchaeology and the faunal remains from both historic and pre-historic archaeological sites |
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Norberto Baldi-Salas |
Ph.D. |
Anthropological genetics, Archaeological science, Cultural and Evolutionary Theory, Peopling of the Americas, Population dynamics in the New World Tropics. |
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Kristine Beaty |
M.A. |
Disease and adaptation, genetic epidemiology, |
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Geethavani Chittoor |
Ph.D. |
Nutrition and genetic epidemiology of Mennonites, genetics of complex diseases, and localizing disease genes in admixed ethnic populations/indigenous populations. Statistical applications |
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J. Chadwick Gerhold |
M.A. |
Nutritional Anthropology, Human Nutrition, Dietary Habits, Nutrients, Energy Balance, Childhood Growth and Development, Mediterranean and African Populations |
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Michaela Catlin |
M.A. |
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Orion Mark Graf (CV) |
M.A. |
Peopling of the Americas (Aleutian & Chibchan populations), Surname to Y-chromosome frequencies, Chuvash Population Structure, Anthropological Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology. |
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Derek Jackson |
Ph.D. |
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Anne Justice |
Ph.D. |
Population and evolutionary genetics, genetic epidemiology, biological aging, quantitative methods, statistical genetics, nutrition, growth and development, Central and South America and the Caribbean. |
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Jolene Munger (CV) |
M.A. |
The complex interaction between genetics and disease. |
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Delisa Phillips |
Ph.D. |
Anthropological Genetics; mRNA in disease processes |
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Jennifer Rack |
Ph.D. |
Anthropological Genetics, historical demography, agricultural populations, Hungary/Hungarian history. Currently working on population structure in small agricultural region of Hungary from 1760-1987 using surname analysis. |
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Dominique Rogers |
M.A. |
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Mary Sundal |
Ph.D. |
Africa, Uganda, child mortality in pastoralist society. |
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Jasem Theyab |
M.A. |
Indigenous Kuwaiti Population Structure, Anthropological Genetics. |
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Kristin Young |
Ph.D. |
Human evolution, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, anthropological genetics, Basque origins. |
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Clarice Amorim |
M.A. |
Latin America, indigenous peoples, native healing, immigration and borderlands, human rights, and applied anthropology. |
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Zhou Chen |
M.A. |
Identity, Gender, Globolization |
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Rebecca Crosthwait (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Transnational migration, skilled and unskilled labor migration, Mexican emigration politics, Veracruz, Michoacán, guest worker programs, oil industry, citizenship, industries and migration, globalization, corridos |
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Molly DesBaillets |
Ph.D. |
applied anthropology, public policy, social capital, municipal government, cultural pluralism, urban planning, constructed space, linguistic maintenance, cultural identity |
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Caitlin Didier |
Ph.D. |
Comparative Religious Studies |
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Michael Doveton |
M.A. |
Korean studies, power relations, and solidarity foundations |
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Benjamin J. Gray |
M.A. |
Contemporary US and Applied Methods |
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M.A. |
Commodification of indigenous knowledge, health and healing systems, ethnobotany, memetics, political economy, globalization. Latin America (Peru) |
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Madison Huber |
M.A. |
Mexican/Latino immigrants in the US, migrant labor |
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Sarah Kleine |
M.A. |
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Anne Kraemer Diaz (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Impact of development and NGOs in Guatemala among indigenous communities; applied anthropology; indigeneity; health disparities; community organizing, archaeology, non-profit development, and local health initiatives in Guatemala; Kaqchikel and K'ichee' Mayan languages. |
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Robert Kurz |
M.A. |
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Theresa Lammer |
M.A. |
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Ryan Laudermilk |
M.A. |
Medical anthropology, medical education, anthropology of the body, semiotics, language and culture, urban anthropology |
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Marion L. Mealey |
Ph.D. |
Anthropology of Violence: Political Islamic Movements in Morocco, North Africa, Suicide Bombing, Arabic Language; Mass Fatalities, Genocide, POW/MIA Investigations/remains analysis; Applied Anthropology merging both a Forensics and Cultural background |
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Josie Nixon |
M.A. |
Mexican migration and its effects on U.S. economy |
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Colleen Pollock |
M.A. |
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Rachel Robinson |
M.A. |
The commodification of the Polynesian tattoo: persistence, change and reinvention of a cultural tradition. Using theories in the fields of tourism, economic anthropology and invention of tradition. |
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Frances Ryder |
M.A. |
Immigration in the U.S., Globalization and the Nation-State, Terrorism, Applied Anthropology |
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Natalia Suarez Montero |
M.A. |
Latino/a Pop Culture in the US, Latino/a and/or Hispanic identity in the US, Mexican immigration to the US etc. |
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Chaya Spears |
Ph.D. |
Economic development, toursim, participatory planning, urban/rural social theory, social capital, and Midwestern American culture |
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Kathryn Stapleton |
M.A. |
Gender and Power |
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Jordan Tucker |
M.A. |
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Meghan F. Webb |
Ph.D. |
Indigenous Rights Movement in Latin America |
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Justin Wipf |
M.A. |
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Wayne Yang (CV) |
M.A. |
Hmong people, culture and language in transition. |
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Holly H. Glasgow |
M.A. |
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, Slovene language, the people/region of former Yugoslavia, the politics of language and power. |
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David Kaufman |
Ph.D. |
The languages and cultures of Native America: Biloxi (Siouan-extinct), Mohegan (Eastern Algonquian, undergoing revitalization), and Rumsen Ohlone (Penutian-extinct), Algonquian animacy and Native American narratives. http://anthro-ling.blogspot.com |
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Ashley Thompson |
M.A. |
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Shawna Carroll Chapman (CV) |
Ph.D. |
Public Health, Cultural Construction of Risk, Cardiovascular Disease, health care access for people with disabilities and Health Disparities. |
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Steve Corbett |
Ph.D. |
Epidemiologic transition among the Prairie Band Potawatomi in Kansas. |
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Amy Drassen-Ham |
Ph.D. |
Risk assessment and maternal health outcomes; women’s issues, religions, health decision-making and behavior change. |
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James Herynk |
Ph.D. |
The biological and cultural experience of anemia among Poqomchi’ Maya of Guatemala; the liminal experience of disease and illness accommodation, structural violence, and social suffering examined through semiotics, symbolic communication; atypical child development and speech-language-hearing pathology. |
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Marwa Ghazali |
M.A. |
Displaced populations/refugee camp relief work/humanitarian aid |
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Tejal Patel |
M.A. |
Socioeconomic and gender disparities in health, human rights, United States, Mexico |
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Sydney Silverstein |
M.A. |
Evolution and migration of medical practices and perception, Andean South America, Cognative Anthropology |
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