UW Anthropology Graduate Students

ARCHAEOLOGY
Anderson, Phoebe	(PhC Washington 2004) Evolutionary ecology, shellfish analysis; Northwest Coast [email] [more info]
Anderson, Shelby	(MA Washington 2006) Hunter-Gather technological change and mobility, human-environment interactions, ceramic analysis; Arctic and Sub-Arctic [email] [more info]
Brown, William	(MA Brandeis 2002) Cognitive archaeology, archaeological applications of practice theory; Pacific NW and Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Alaska [email] [more info]
Carter, Barb	(PhC Washington 1998) Cairo Lowlands, SEMO-ceramics [email] [more info]
Casson, Aksel	(PhC Washington 2005) The prehistory of Europe and the Near East, with a focus on chronology development in these regions, using luminescence dating [email] [more info]
Chao, Chin-Yung	(PhC Washington 2004) Process of societal changes and cultural evolution, migration and exchange; Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Dailide, Ashley	(BS Loyola 2006) Colonization of the Pacific, gender studies, and subsistence strategies; Oceania, Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Fisher, Jacob	(MA Washington 2004) The use of evolutionary ecology and zooarchaeology to understand temporal changes in social behavior, especially sharing, sexual division of labor, costly signaling theory, and social complexity; resource intensification; landscape archaeology; California (esp. San Joaquin Valley, Southern Sierra Nevada) and Great Basin regions [email] [more info]
Flaming, Jay	(BS Alaska, Fairbanks 2004) Landscape, integrating digital techniques, late prehistoric-modern; Corsica and the Mediterranean [email] [more info]
Freeburg, Adam	(MA Washington 2007) Subsistence and mobility practices, environmental archaeology, GIS; Arctic and sub-Arctic [email] [more info]
Frey, Carol	(PhC Washington 2002) Zooarchaeology, pastoralists and ecological impacts of pastoralism; Africa [email] [more info]
Gjesfjeld, Erik	(MA University College, London 2004) Evolutionary theory, cultural transmission, quantitative methods, hunter-gatherers, production and technology; Great Plains, Northwest Coast, Western North American [email] [more info]
Giovas, Christina	(PhC Washington 2006) Zooarchaeology, island archaeology, anthropogenic environmental impacts in prehistory; Caribbean, Polynesia [email] [more info]
Haertel, Kirstie	(MA Washington 2003) Evolutionary ecology, nutritional ecology; Plateau, Snake River Plain, Northern Great Basin [email] [more info]
Huff, Jennifer	(MA Washington 2007) Asian prehistoric, modern human origins, GIS and modeling, network analysis, and other computer applications in archaeology; Southeast Asia, Oceania [email] [more info]
Johnson, Jack A.	(MA Washington 2005) Archaeometry, geoarchaeology, monumental architecture, climate change; Peru [email] [more info]
Jolivette, Stephanie	(MA Washington 2003) Zooarchaeology, sea turtles; conservation biology, coastal zones; Polynesia, specifically Hawaiian archipelago [email] [more info]
Jordan, Amy	(MA San Diego State 2006) Faunal analysis, environmental archaeology, colonialism, feminist critique, ethics in archaeology; West Coast of America and Indonesia [email] [more info]
Kessler, Rebecca A.	(MA Washington 2005) Lithic analysis; France; Colonization of N. America; Great Basin [email] [more info]
Kiers, Roger	(PhC Washington 2003) Geoarchaeology; western North America [email] [more info]
Kornbacher, Kim	(PhC Washington 1996) Archaeological method and theory, archaeometry, development of complex societies; prehistory S. America, and the NW Coast of N. America [email] [more info]
Lockwood, Christopher	(PhC Washington 2005) Geoarchaeology, social complexity, historical archaeology, humans in insular environments; Polynesia [email] [more info]
Louderback, Lisbeth	(MA Nevada-Reno 2007) Quarternary environments, palynology, archaeobotany, great basin pre-history; Great Basin, Alaska, Colorado [email] [more info]
Mabanag, Mark	(BA Washington 2007) Ethnohistory, culture contact, maritime trade, spread of Islam; Southeast Asia, Philippines [email] [more info]
Madsen, Mark	(MS Wisconsin, Madison 1990) Human landscape ecology, settlement, and land use, dual-transmission and signaling theory; Eastern North America and Oceania [email] [more info]
Moore, Scotty	(PhC Washington 2004) Lithic analyses, geoarchaeology, North Pacific, exchange networks; US Southwest [email] [more info]
Naumann, Aaron	(BA Beloit 1998) Identity and boundary maintenance within the archaeological record; Western Great Lakes [email] [more info]
Odell, Molly	(BS Alaska, Fairbanks 2005) Environmental archaeology, marine ecosystems; North Pacific and North Atlantic [email] [more info]
Peterson, Emily J.	(MA Washington 2006) Culture contact, population movement and its impact on island environments; Oceania, Island Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Petitt, Kayla	(BS UC Santa Barbara 2007) Vertabrate evol/paleoecology in conjunction with hominid ecol/paleoeology; North and South America [email] [more info]
Phillips, S. Colby	(MA Washington 2006) Hunter-gatherer exchange networks, obsidian sourcing, lithic analysis, Kuril Islands, Russian Far East [email] [more info]
Rassmann, Philipp	(PhC Washington 2006) Ground and chipped stone technology, complex foragers, origins of agriculture, complex societies, evolutionary ecology; Neolithic Southwest Asia (Mesopotamia, Southern Levant) [email] [more info]
Scherrer, Amanda Rin	(BA California, Santa Cruz 2004) Households and family structures, origins of complexity, precontact to contact, production and trade of shell beads; California, Melanesia [email] [more info]
Shaw, Jennie Deo	(PhC Washington 2003) Subarctic economies, paleoethnobotany, driftwood harvesting, ethnoarchaeology; Alaska, North Pacific rim [email] [more info]
Shiung, Chung-Ching	(PhC Washington 2007) Cultural contact, exchange, human ecological studies, ceramic analysis, GIS, remote sensing, and landscape archaeology; Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Taylor, Amanda K.	(MA Washington 2005) Coastal archaeology; Northwest Coast; Channel Islands; lithic analysis [email] [more info]
Taylor, James	(MA Washington 2005) Human migration, paleoecology, and technological change; Russian Far East and northwestern US and Canada (Beringia) [email] [more info]
West, Catherine Foster	(PhC Washington 2005) Kodiak/Alaskan archaeology, faunal analysis, climate change [email] [more info]

BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Achterberg, Jerusha	(PhC Washington 2007) Effects of disease on populations, both historical and contemporary, and effects of population on disease; application of mathematical theory/techniques to anthropological study; tuberculosis transmission/contact network dynamics [email] [more info]
Aranda, Jennifer Derringer	(BA Washington 2001) Evolution and variation of life history stages in human and non-human primates, including puberty, adolescence, and menarche; human, non-human primate biological comparisons, especially reproductive endocrinology; Old World primates [email] [more info]
Brunson, Emily	(MA Washington 2006) Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, political economy, qualitative methods, vaccine preventable diseases, childhood vaccination, international development and health; Africa, US. [email] [more info]
Carney, Megan	(BS Michigan 2001) Evolutionary explanations for the origin and maintenance of adoption in humans. Also interested in egg donation, surrogacy, sperm donation, cultural transmission, computational modeling, and the perspectives of both human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology; North America [email] [more info]
Duncan, Andi	(PhC Washington 2006) Human and non-human primate interactions, conservation, primatology, infectious disease, and reproductive ecology [email] [more info]
Fujita, Masako	(PhC Washington 2005) Evolutionary analyses of public health problem, Vitamin A deficiency, Mother-infant vitamin A transfer, HIV prevention, Seasonality in maternal health and nutrition; Reproductive Ecology; Evolution of life history traits; Biomarker methodology; Northern Kenya [email] [more info]
Guyton, Amanda	(BS Mercyhurst College 2003) International health and infectious disease (HIV/AIDS and malaria); human reproductive endocrinology; developmental influenes on adult endogenous hormone levels Sub-Saharan Africa [email] [more info]
Hanowell, Benjamin	(BA California State, Sacramento 2007) Evolutionary ecology of modern and historical colonial institutions; economic processing zones, domestic and migrant workers, Spanish missions [email] [more info]
Harter, Kersti	(BA Boise State 2007) behavioral ecology and cultural evolution, human reproductive ecology, religious behaviors as adaptive strategies; West Africa, Latter day Saints of Utah, Idaho and Arizona [email] [more info]
Kim, Jun Hong	(MA Seoul National University 2006) Evolutionary approaches to culture, interaction of culture, environment and genetics [email] [more info]
Lyle III, Henry F.	(MA California State, Sacramento 2006) Evolutionary approaches to human behavior, cooperation, risk taking, costly signaling theory; Peru [email] [more info]
Mattison, Siobhan	(PhC Washington 2007) Human Behavioral Ecology, kinship, parenting, reproduction strategies, quantitative methods; Southwest China [email] [more info]
Miles, Nathaniel	(BA Washington 2007) Nutrition & Development, disease ecology, political economy, evolutionary medicine, human-pathogen co-evolution; Latin America [email] [more info]
Nolin, David	(PhC Washington 2006) Human behavioral ecology, competitive and cooperative game theory, food sharing, coalition formation, social network analysis; Island Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Scelza, Brooke	(PhC Washington 2005) Evolution of human behavior, cooperation & altruism; Australia [email] [more info]
Schechter, Deb	(PhC Washington 2004) Adolescent risk taking, human behavioral ecology, stress, identity; Native Americans [email] [more info]
Tessandori, Anthony	(MA California State, Fullerton 1999) Biological model for evolution of the human pair-bond and a biological marker for ovulation detection [email] [more info]
Trumble, Ben	(BA California, Santa Barbara 2006) Evolutionary psychology, costly signaling theory with regards to extreme sports; High altitude mountainous regions (Tibetan Altiplano and Andean Altiplano) [email] [more info]
Wander, Katherine	(MA Washington 2006) Growth and development, infectious disease; E. Africa [email] [more info]
Wyckoff, Sara	(PhC Washington 2003) The impact of child rearing practices on motor development in early childhood; Papua New Guinea and disabled children in the US [email] [more info]

ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Aldasoro Maya, Miriam	(PhC Washington 2005) Ethnozoology (ethnoentomology), traditional environmental knowledge in transnational settings, resistance, identity, ethnicity, participatory research; Mexico [email] [more info]
Breslow, Sara	(PhC Washington 2004) Political ecology, science studies, interdisciplinary environmental research and education, salmon recovery and agriculture; US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia [email] [more info]
Carothers, Courtney	(PhC Washington 2005) Political ecology, economic anthropology, science and technology studies, US Fisheries; N. Pacific [email] [more info]
Chaudhuri, Tapoja	(PhC Washington 2006) Politics of wild life conservation, critical development theory, political ecology, postcolonial studies, visual anthropology; India [email] [more info]
Grub, Barbara L.	(PhC Washington 2006) Ethnozoology, livestock development, sustainable development, traditional environmental knowledge, zoonoses and ethnoveterinary practices, agroecology, heirloom and landrace breeds, rural society, minorities of China; China, Guatemala, US, Canada [email] [more info]
Huang, Yu	(PhC Washington 2007) Environmental anthropology, neo-librealism, aquaculture, Science and Technology Studies (STS); China [email] [more info]
Lazrus, Heather	(PhC Washington 2005) Political ecology, anthropology of disaster and displacement, climate change; South Pacific [email] [more info]
LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Joyce	(BA Washington 2004) Ecological anthropology; common property regimes, collective action, cultural evolution; cognitive anthropology; ethnoecology and ethnobiology; historical materialism and political economy; contemporary-prehistoric Pacific Northwest Coast and Native American cultures [email] [more info]
Licona, Laura	(BA New Mexico State 2004) Gender and ecology, local knowledges, migration and development, transnationalism and cooperative organization; U.S./Mexico Border [email] [more info]
Mazal, Vanessa	(PhC Washington 2004) Water law and governance, American Southwest; collaborative resource management; environmental justice; sustainable agriculture and food security; colonial and environmental histories of western US [email] [more info]
Meierotto, Lisa	(PhC Washington 2005) Politics of environmental conservation, environmental NGOs, transnational environmental advocacy, Northern/Southern dichotomies, Ecological Security. [email] [more info]
Poe, Melissa	(PhC Washington 2004) Environmental governance and decision-making, critical development studies, forest-based livelihoods, ecological nationalism; Mexico/North America [email] [more info]
Poole, Amanda	(PhC Washington 2004) Influence of environment on cultural adaptations and identity; strategies for environmental sustainability in developing communities; community based natural reserve management and political ecology; Horn of Africa [email] [more info]
Ramesh, Jaya	(BA Maryland 2001) Sense of place, political ecology, identity; South Asian immigrants [email] [more info]
Rivera, Rebeca	(PhC Washington 2004) Sustainable consumption, intentional communities, urban ecology, natural resource conservation & sustainability; Pacific Northwest and Mexico [email] [more info]
Sheikh, Amir	(BS Washington 1998) Political ecology, urban studies and planning, space and place, environmental and spatial history, critical cartography and GIS, visual methodologies, participatory processes; South Asia, US Pacific Northwest [email] [more info]
Sievanen, Leila	(PhC Washington 2003) Marine conservation issues; Pacific Northwest; common property, political ecology; Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Smith, Christina	(PhC Washington 2006) Human/other primate behavioral ecology, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), comparative sustainability ideology and practice, island biogeography, agroecology and wildlife, Lepidoptera, Ometepe, Pacific Islands/Indonesia, Pacific NW [email] [more info]
Storm, Linda	(PhC Washington 2002) Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and traditional ecosystem management (TEM) with fire; anthropogenic prairies & oak woodlands; paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany and ethnoecology; origins of agriculture and contemporary agroecology (perennial polyculture) [email] [more info]
Styles, Megan	(PhC Washington 2005) Cut flower production, political ecology, global commodity chains, rural development, Kenya; Environmental justice, United States [email] [more info]
Trusty, Teressa	(PhCWashington 2007) Cognitive anthropology with a focus on understanding environmental values and decision-making; political ecology and development issues in Latin America and the Pacific Northwest [email] [more info]

SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Alipio, Cheryll	(PhC Washington 2005) Anthropology of childhood; kinship and reproductive labor; history of reciprocity; intersections of experience, subjectivity, and identity; transnationalism and labor migration; citizenship and human rights; civil society groups and NGOs; Southeast Asia and the Philippines [email] [more info]
Allen, Robertson L.	(PhC Washington 2007) The "military-entertainment complex", video games and the electronic entertainment industry, the military and masculinity, science and technology studies, ethnomusicology, tourism and nostalgia; Japan, Scotland, the U.S. [email] [more info]
Blumenfield, Tami R.	(PhC Washington 2006) The Na (Moso) and ethnic minorities in southwest China; ethnicity, education, NGOs, tourism & migration; opium cultivation on the Sino-Myanmar frontier; visual anthropology; Native American education [email] [more info]
Bouagga, Yasmine	(MA ENS-EHESS 2006) Socio-legal issues, refugees and prisoners; US and Middle East [email ][more info]
Brame, Roxanne	(MA Washington 2002) Anthropology of place/space, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis; North Africa, Middle East [email] [more info]
Brown, Chris	(PhC Washington 1996) Theories of culture, modernity, commodities, magic; Southeast Asia, Indonesia [email] [more info]
Brugger, Julie	(PhC Washington 2003) Political anthropology, anthropology of the state and democracy, political ecology, agency, space and place; US and South Africa [email] [more info]
Cannon, Cade	(BA Auburn 2006) gender roles, womens' rights and public policy and its effects on religion; Sumer and Middle East [email] [more info]
Capuder, Karen	(MA Arizona 2006) Community-Based Participatory Research, cultural landscapes, Indigenous anthropological theory, Kanienkehaka culture/politics/spirituality, cultural resources protection among Coast Salish peoples, Indigenous health and wellness [email] [more info]
Carrigan, Coleen	(BA College of Holy Cross 1996) Socio-economic politics of reproduction, the sexual division of labor, women's health, political economics, feminist theory, African diaspora in Brazil, quilombo communities, the value of women's labor and gendered ethics of care; Brazil [email] [more info]
Ceron, Alejandro	(MPH Universidad de San Carlos de Guatamala 2006) Pluralistic medical systems, comparative health systems, health as human right, anthropology of pharmaceuticals, socio-cultural epidemiology; K'iche'-Mayan, Ladinos and social stratification in Guatemala, Latin American immigrants in the US [email] [more info]
Citrin, David	(BA Cornell 2002) Medical anthropology, the political economy of health and health care, health camps, medicalization, "medical poorism," NGOs, inequalities in international health and development; Nepal, India [email] [more info]
Clark, Heather	(MA Washington 2007) Cultural studies, ethnic self-identification, language politics, identity formation, cross-cultural communications, Deaf Studies; Pacific Northwest [email] [more info]
Doan, Thi Tuyen	(PhC Washington 2006) Cultural research and cultural heritage; Tay culture [email] [more info]
Espinoza, Damarys	(BA California, Santa Barbara 2004) Participatory action research, chicana/o studies, hiv/aids, indigenous health and wellbeing, marxism; US/Mexico, Latin America [email] [more info]
Fonoti, Rochelle	(MA University of Hawai'i, Manoa 2005) Samoan Diaspora, youth culture, alter/native, indigenous anthropology, representations of cultural identity [email] [more info]
Garcia, Raul	(BA Eastern Washington 2004) Theoretical approaches to the study of culture, examining and exploring topics on the experiences of Chicanos/Latinos; Pacific Northwest [email] [more info]
Giles, Dave	(MA Washington 2007) Globalization, mass media, rock'n roll, popular culture, public space, consumption, existentialism; Latin America, Australia, and the US [email] [more info]
Hale, Matt	(MA Washington 2006) Peasant studies, social movements, critical development studies, poltical economy; China [email] [more info]
Hoang, Cam	(PhC Washington 2003) Politics of resource use and management, anthropology of development, ethnicity, ethnic minorities; Vietnam [email] [more info]
Jian, Ge (Gladys)	(MA Massachusettes, Amherst 2006) Language ideology and politics, language and identity (culture and power), political economy, modernity, nationalism, and transnationalism; China, Chinese Diaspora [email] [more info]
Johnson, Jessica A.	(PhC Washington 2006) Sexuality, queer theory, religion, gender studies, reconfigurations of kinship, law, political economy, media, and governmentality; US [email] [more info]
Johnston, Sue	(PhC Washington 2002) Nursing identity as it is shaped through AIDS work; the influence of institutional governmentality, disciplinary knowledge and practices, and individual 'technologies of the self' as they mutually intersect and mediate concepts of identity [email] [more info]
Kleisath, C. Michelle	(BA UC Davis 2003) Gender, Feminist theory; Women's grassroots development, inequalities in international development; the construction and comparison of Han and Caucasian dominant racial identities; China and Tibet [email] [more info]
Koskimaki, Leah	(PhC Washington 2005) Anthropology of development, agrarian history, nationalism, public sphere, youth culture, Hindi language politics; North India, Uttaranchal [email] [more info]
Leehey, Jennifer	(PhC Washington 1998) Linguistics, political anthropology; Southeast Asia/Burma [email] [more info]
Littles, Olivia	(BA Wheaton College 2001) Issues of racial and national idenity, memory, cultural representation; United States [email] [more info]
Lynch, Emily	(BA Harvard 2000) Medical anthropology, self-care and "wellness" initiatives, neoliberalism, labor studies; N. America, Pacific Northwest [email] [more info]
Mares, Teresa M.	(PhC Washington 2006) Urban agriculture in the US; immigration and transnationalism; identity; race, class, and gender; environmental justice; participatory research methodologies [email] [more info]
Markova, Mariana	(MA Washington 2004) Sociocultural change in post-communist societies; history and memory; life histories in transitional society; nation building and identity; Eastern Europe (former Soviet Union), Central Asia [email] [more info]
Methaphat, Chingchai	(PhC Washington 2007) Political economy, interpretive perspective and post-modernisim; medical anthropology, "risk and culture" in different societies; Asia, SE Asia (Thailand) [email] [more info]
Newlon, Laura	(BA Western Washington 2004) Visual anthropology, participatory photography, gentrification, urban studies, memory and place, ideas of home, experimental visual forms and alternative ethnographic methods; Western US [email] [more info]
Pai, Shin Yu	(MFA Art Institute of Chicago 1999) Arts-based research, ethnographic poetry, visual anthropology and museum studies [email] [more info]
Quenemoen, Mari	(BA Minnesota 2002) Gender and sexuality, reproductive health, human rights, refugee studies, humanitarianism, governmentality [email] [more info]
Quizon, Natalie	(PhC Washington 1996) Gender/feminist theory and colonialism; the Philippines [email] [more info]
Rhodes, Lauren	(MSEd Bank Street College 2002) Ethnic, cultural and national identity, impact of immigration and political change on sense of self, presence of Africans in Eastern Europe; Latvia, Baltics, post-soviet nations [email] [more info]
Ryker-Crawford, Jessie	(BA Washington 2002) Athapaskan artwork and culture; identity formation within contemporary Native American art; interior Alaska, British Columbia, US Southwest [email] [more info]
Siscawati, Mia	(PhC Washington 2007) Culture and power, culture and development, gender, ethnicity, environment and development, social ecology; Indonesia, Southeast Asia [email] [more info]
Sutrisno, Evi	(MA Universiteit van Amsterdam 2002) Politicization of Chinese ethnicity in Indonesia during the 20th century; Indonesia [email] [more info]
Ta, Trang X	(PhC Washington 2003) Health, care of the self practices, sexuality, governmentality, neoliberalism, cultural studies, science studies, medical anthropology; China [email] [more info]
Tegger, Mary	(BS Baylor College of Medicine 1987) Medical anthropology; Mexico, Central America, South Asia [email] [more info]
Tilland, Bonnie	(MA Washington 2006) New kinship theory; anthropology of citizenship; new media and alternative media; family values and social change in South Korea, transmission and reception of South Korean television dramas; transnational East Asia [email] [more info]
Torres, Nicole	(MA Chicago 2001) Critical medical anthropology, political economy; the "prison-industrial-complex", ethnicity and class, citizenship; SE Asia, North America [email] [more info]
Tran, So Le	(MA Washington 2005) Education, ethnicity, religion, diaspora, and transnationalism; China, Vietnam, Vietnamese Americans [email] [more info]
Truong, Thi Thu Hang	(MA Washington 2003) Anthropology of tourism, development, new religion; Southern Vietnam [email] [more info]
Tseng, Hsun-Hui	(PhC Washington 2006) Transnational migration, postcolonialism and globalization; gender, ethnicity, and class; family and marriage; China and Taiwan [email] [more info]
Unno, Anusorn	(MA Thammasat University, Thailand 1997) Anthropology of power; ethnic and religious conflict and violence; social and people's movements; Thailand [email] [more info]
Van Hoy, Sarah	(PhC Washington 2004) Medical anthropology, ethnopsychiatry, medical training/education, controlling practices, power, ideology and healing; the translation of language of the body, traditional Chinese medicine into Western culture; US, China, India [email] [more info]
Wohlford, Ellen	(BA University of Hawai'i, Manoa 2006) Feminist theory, indigenous autonomy, tourism, colonialism; Hawai'i [email] [more info]
Yum, Samuel	(PhC Washington 2006) Cultural policy, nationalism, material culture, museum studies, visual anthropology; Korea, Northeast Asia, North Pacific Rim [email] [more info]
Zanotti, Laura	(PhC Washington 2005) Ethnoecology and ethnogeography, globalization, and development, indigenous rights, anthropology of space and place, traditional environmental knowledge; Brazil [email] [more info]

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