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Research/ Interests: Africana Studies, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Digital Culture, Influencer Economy, Internet Celebrity, Political Economy, Politics of Taste, Pop Culture, Power, Social Media, Technology.
Research/Interest: South India, New Jersey, rice, agriculture, seeds, diaspora, diabetes, metabolism, microbes, topology, science and technology studies, political economy, cultural studies
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, functional morphology, locomotion, primate and hominin evolution
Alia Ayman
Research/Interest: Filmmaking and curating; Arab cinema and media industries; state institutions and cultural production in Egypt; censorship; political Islam; Arab intellectual history; visual anthropology
Angelo Baca
Research/Interest: Indigenous American health and wellness, visual representation, educational film production, indigenous international repatriation, anthropology of media, indigenous food sovereignty.
Gabriela Bortolamedi
Research/Interest: Experimental ethnography, urban anthropology, Puerto Rico, performance
Tierney Brown
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Science, Anthropology of Art, Materiality, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Museums, Repair and Conservation Work, Material Culture and Pigments, Tibet and the Himalayas.
Allison Casaly
Research/Interest: Upper Palaeolithic Europe, Palaeolithic art, Ivory manipulation; venus figurines; figural art
Paola Cerrito
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, Dental anthropology, Hard tissue histology
Anisha Chadha
Research/Interest: Anthropology of science, technology and medicine; feminist theory; media production; narrative, storytelling; US and India
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, hominin evolution, postcranial functional morphology, behavioral reconstruction
Research/Interest: Currently I am interested in applying a background in epigenetics to the regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli in non-human and human primates, but also more broadly I am interested in genotype-phenotype correlations / genotype-environment interaction, and the genetic basis of adaptations, especially environmental
Ernesto de Carvalho
Research/Interest: Visual anthropology, culture and media, South America.
Alexandra DeCasien
Research/Interest: Sexual dimorphism and mating systems, morphological markers of hormonal change, neuroendocrinology and the evolution of mental illness.
Eli Dollarhide
Research/Interest: Ancient Near East and Arabian Peninsula, Chalcolithic-Bronze Age transition, complex societies, urbanism, social network analysis, cultural heritage, ceramics
Amarilys Estrella
Research/Interest: Latin America and Caribbean, Haiti, Dominican Republic, nationality rights, gender/sexuality, grassroots movements, monitoring and evaluation systems to measure social change
Jennifer Eyre
Research/Interest: Postcranial functional morphology, hominin evolution, locomotion, obstetrics.
Elizabeth Fillion
Research/Interest: early hominin diets, dietary ecology, paleoenvironment reconstruction, application of geologic techniques to paleoanthropology
Research/Interest: Hominin palaeobiology; virtual anthropology; phylogenetics; hybridisation; philosophy of palaeoanthropology
Saudi Garcia
Research/Interest: Socialization and cultural heritage of second generation immigrant youth, Latinos (Dominicans) in the United States, psychological impact of migration on youth and families, diaspora social theory
Research/Interests: sexual selection, reproductive strategies, sexual signaling, behavioral ecology
Tiana B Hayden
Research/Interest: Latin America, Mexico, legal anthropology, anthropology of food, in/security, anthropology of the state, language and interaction, evidence, gender
Jacqueline Hazen
Research/Interest: Circulation, mediation, and semiotics of cultural heritage; linguistic ideologies and identity; intertextuality; materiality; Oceania and native America.
Research/Interests: Disability, Autism, North America, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography
Research/Interest: visual anthropology, political economy, Latin America, contemporary art, branding, national identity and mediation, commoditization, cultural and media production, consumption.
Research/Interest: Medieval archaeology, settlement archaeology, public archaeology, and historical archaeology
Research/Interest: South Asia; political anthropology; right-wing women; nationalism; feminist movements
Clare Kimock
Research/Interest: Quantitative genetics, sexual selection, dental morphology and development
Emma Kozitzky
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, comparative morphology, European Pleistocene, evolutionary theory
Maria Lechtarova
Research/Interest: Death, semiotic anthropology, nostalgia, commemoration practices, visual anthropology, public signage, consumption, media ethnography, globalization, and Eastern Europe.
Duna Susie Lee
Research/Interest: Young primates (including human children); primate mother-infant behaviors; attachment theory within evolutionary framework; physiological mechanism of attachment
Research/Interest: linguistic and medical anthropology, semiotics, anthropology of science and technology; translation, transformation, knowledge production; Korean herbal medicinhanyak), Traditional Korean Medicine(hanuihak), South Korea
Melissa Lefkowitz
Research/Interest: China, Africa, infrastructure, media, postcolonial studies, power, representation, visual ethnography
Research/Interest: Aging, Robotics, Care, Ordinary Ethics, China
Joseph Livesey
Research/Interest: China, Russia, Ukraine alternative geographies; business and states in post-revolutionary contexts; economic entanglements and sociocultural boundaries.
Jessica Lopez
Research/Interest: Linguistic anthropology, anthropology of law, multilingualism, language socialization, kinship, immigration, citizenship, nationhood, politics of identity and representation, border studies, gender and sexuality, Latinos in the U.S.
Elissa M Ludeman
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology and primate evolution, dental evolution and development, deciduous dentition, life history evolution, evolution of hearing and cochlear morphology.
Nathan Madson
Research/Interest: Legal anthropology, anthropology of human rights, political anthropology, queer activism, gender and sexuality studies, linguistic anthropology, language ideologies, China, Hong Kong
Ximena Málaga Sabogal
Research/Interest: Political and visual anthropology, regional history, memory and violence, policies for indigenous peoples, Andes, South America.
Schuyler Marquez
Research/Interest: Muslim identity outside of Arab world; Halal meat production for Gulf States in Brazil
Teresa Martinez-Chavez
Research/Interest: Medical Anthropology, Indigeneity, Indigenous health practices, Latin America, women political representation, public health.
Laura C Matthews
Research/Interest: Biological Anthropology
Research/Interest: medical anthropology, reproduction, maternal care, racial inequalities, embodiment, subjectivity, ethnographic film, USA.
Research/Interest:Environmental anthropology; soil ecology; science and technology studies; globalization; knowledge infrastructure; energy; Western Europe.
Christine Mladic Janney
Research/Interest: Photographic practice, Quechua language, personhood, memory, narrative, visual anthropology, Arequipa, Peru, Latin America.
Research/Interest: China, capitalism, rural-urban relations, political economy, media production, temporary work, urbanization, agricultural labor
Teresa Montoya
Research/Interest: Sociocultural anthropology, legal anthropology, visual anthropology, sovereignty, indigeneity, settler colonialism, governance, community development, kinship, politics of futurity, indigenous media, human rights, critical Diné studies, Navajo Nation.
Research/Interest: linguistic anthropology, Iranian diaspora, nationalism, language use and identity in diaspora, youth culture, social media, linguistics of race formation, culture and media.
Laura Murray
Research/Interest: India, colonial and postcolonial studies, food systems, globalization, political economy, social and environmental movements, agriculture and livestock development, biotechnology, human-animal relations, embodied life and aesthesis, personhood, science and rationality
Research/Interest: Biological anthropology, primate behavior and the evolution of social behaviors, endocrinology, and genetics.
Joelle R Nivens
Research/Interest: Upper Paleolithic in Western Europe, body ornamentation technologies i.e. bead-making, raw material processing. I am also interested in questions of social identity and organization through the lens of these technologies/objects.
Research/Interests: Visual anthropology; representation of minorities in media; popular culture; graphic narratives; race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; Afro-Caribbean religions; post-colonial studies, intersectional feminist theory, queer movements; Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Megan Petersdorf
Research/Interest: Primate behavior, sexual selection, sexual signals, reproductive strategies, conservation
Rachel Petersen
Research/Interest: Primate communication, sexual strategies, endocrinology, and conservation
Rowena Potts
Research/Interest: South Asia, West Bengal, Bangladesh, gender violence, popular culture, religion, development, human rights, reproductive health
Cody Prang
Research/Interest: Biological Anthropology
Christopher Rainwater
Research/Interest: Human skeletal biology
Research/Interests: Hawaiʻi; indigeneity; cultural revival; land movements; indigenous economies and organizations; neoliberalism; citizenship; settler colonialism and postcoloniality; semiotics
Sarah Riccardi
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Religion (Christianity); American Religions; Eastern Orthodoxy; Russian Diaspora Groups; Transnationalism; Lived and Vernacular Religion; Sensory, Visual, and Material Cultures; Religion and Art; Aesthetics; Perception; Ocular and Haptic Experiences; Healing; and Prayer
Eliana Ritts
Research/Interest: Visual anthropology, digital media and methodologies, indigenous media, museums and source communities, material culture, sensory ethnography, cinema studies and the overlap between fiction and ethnographic film, animation, Taiwan, China
Research/Interests: Archaeology, paleolithic, use-wear analysis, stone tools, experimentations, cognition evolution, Human evolution
Marcel Salas
Research/Interest: Race, representation and identity, culture industries, epistemology of American marketing, advertising
Pilar Sanchez
Research/Interest: Law, property and race; conservation biology, islands, natural heritage, landscape histories and memories; gender, elites and business cultures; Galápagos Islands, Andes, South America.
Stephanie Schiavenato
Research/Interest: Religion and Secularism, Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology, Anthropology of Reproduction, Death and Mourning, Culture and Media, North America
Zeynep Sertbulut
Research/Interest: Anthropology of Media, Media Industries, Anthropology of Law, Human Rights, Cultural History and Politics, Middle East, Turkey
Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi
Research/Interest: Middle East, Iran, Culture & Media, art, global markets, community websites
Alyse Takayesu
Research/Interest: Anthropology of science, conservation biology, extinction, ecology and temporalities, interspecies relationships, biological heritage projects, landscape histories and memory, place/space, islands, histories of botanical and zoological collection; Hawaiian Islands
Sujit Thomas
Research/Interest: Medical anthropology, science and technology studies, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals, prosthetics
Augusta Thomson
Research/Interest: Nomadic tribes/societies across Asia, new media technologies, visual anthropology, anthropology of media, materiality, museum anthropology, personhood, consumption, globalization
Jennifer Trowbridge
Research/Interest: Anthropology of violence, human rights, collective memory, political crime, governance & international law, Latin America, Guatemala, forensic anthropology, human identification, skeletal trauma.
Amber Trujillo
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, evolutionary genetics, genotypic expression of phenotypic characteristics, early hominin phenotype.
Shannon Ward
Research/Interest: Linguistic anthropology
Research Interests: Anthropology of Fashion; Clothing and Adornment; Design Subjectivities; Materiality and Embodiment; Heritage Politics and Economics; Value and Circulation; South Asia.
Anna Weinreich
Research/Interest: Anthropology of art; visual anthropology; museums, archives and cultural centers; indigeneity; the production and circulation of culture; materiality; settler colonialism; indigenous rights; cultural activism; Aboriginal Australia
Research/Interest: First Nations and Indigenous Studies; Canada, Northwest Coast, museum practices and visual culture, indigenous peoples, intellectual property; Culture and Media.
Sandra Winters
Research/Interest: Biological Anthropology
Tyler Zoanni
Research/Interest: Religion, disability, histories of health and wellbeing, visual anthropology, social theory and theology; Uganda, East/Central Africa (Great Lakes region), North America
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Research/Interest: dental variations, dental evolution, facial growth and development, orthodontics and maxillary orthopedics, facial variations among human populations
Helen Alesbury
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, human skeletal biology, human identification, human rights, mass grave identifications, biology, and medical anthropology
Research/Interest:forensic anthropology, cremation, trauma analysis, funerary archaeology.
Leah Auchter
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, molecular anthropology, juvenile osteology, human skeletal biology
Research/Interest: Human osteology, human morphology, and forensic osteology. I am specifically interested in the modern implications for disaster relief, providing biological profiles of the deceased to Law Enforcement, and genocide work.
Ligia Ceja
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, skeletal trauma, Paleopathology, Bioarcheology, funeral and death practices
Esther Choo
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, human rights, human skeletal biology
Abigail Colby
Research/Interest: Primatology, Cognitive Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Human and Non-human Primate Functional Morphology, Growth and Development Patterns
Ruth Dorton
Research/Interest: Bioarchaeology, pathology, health and diet, funeral and burial practices
Research/Interest: Interested in trauma, biomechanics, ancestry, and growth of the human skeleton. Outside of these areas, I've done research on howler monkeys and
Research/Interest: Ancestry determination, trauma analysis, improving technology associated with bone analysis (things like FORDISC)
Research/Interest: Physical Anthropology, Human Osteology, Pathology, Forensic Anthropology, Evolution, Primates, Zooarchaeology
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, Sexual Dimorphism, Population Variation, Growth and Development, Stature, and Paleoanthropology.
Research/Interest: Currently I am interested in applying a background in epigenetics to the regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli in non-human and human primates, but also more broadly I am interested in genotype-phenotype correlations / genotype-environment interaction, and the genetic basis of adaptations, especially environmental
Research/Interest: Taphonomy, forensic anthropology, dental anthropology bioarchaeology, race and disease in societies.
Research/Interest: My research interests are in physical anthropology with a concentration in skeletal biology. I am also interested in studying forensic anthropology and pathology/ trauma on the skeletal system.
Victoria Johnson
Research/Interest: Human skeletal biology, Forensic anthropology (Skeletal trauma, Human rights and political violence), Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Archaeology, Taphonomy.
Sade Johnson
Research/Interest: forensic anthropology, human osteology, anatomy.
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, human identification in mass disasters, human rights investigations, bone adaption, and bioarchaeology
Marissa Konieczko
Research/Interest: Forensic anthropology, paleopathology, human osteology, bioarchaeology, human rights, skeletal trauma.
Eva Mann
Research/Interest: Hominin evolution and development, bioarchaeology, evolutionary theory, paleopathology, geoarchaeology, paleoclimatology, & paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Michelle Matsuura
Research/Interest: Skeletal biology, forensic anthropology and trauma analysis
Research/Interest: Dental morphology, modern human dental variation, paleoanthropology, Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution, and human anatomy and physiology
Research/Interest: Craniofacial functional morphology of early Homo and Paranthropus species to modern-day humans.
Research/Interest: bioarchaeology; pathology; influences of gender and class on skeletal morphology; life history
Research/Interests: Evolutionary medicine, Evolutionary mismatch, Genetics/Genomics, Ancient DNA, Ancient Medicine, Medical Anthropology.
Research/Interest: Paleoanthropology, Human Skeletal Biology, Biological Archaeology, Early Development of Genus Homo
Research/Interest: Prehistoric Archaeology; Bioarchaeology; Paleoanthropology; Rock art of Wallacea; Forensic anthropology, Disaster Victim Identification, hominin evolution in Island Southeast Asia