Graduate Students

Graduate Student Spotlight: Matthew Conrad

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Matthew Conrad Program Entrance 2022 Complex Systems; Human Behavioral Ecology; Statistics; Modeling; Religion.

Graduate Student Spotlight: Kevin Chesler

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Kevin Chesler Program Entrance 2020 New England, 17th century, Colonialism, Information Management, and […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Braeden Burke

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Braeden M Burke Program Entrance 2024   Underwater Archaeology, Historical Archaeology of New […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Abigail Beckham

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Abigail Beckham Program Entrance 2023   Environmental anthropology and religion, the Caribbean, climate […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Madeline Baird

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Madeline Baird Medical anthropology, health inequity, human rights, healing, power, decolonizing methods, people-centered […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Peter Atitson

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Peter Atitson Entry into program: 2023 What sparked your interest in Anthropology? Anthropology […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them! Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta   Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta belongs to the Mapuche people of Chile. She […]

PhD Student Tanner Kovach Awarded an NSF Grant

Archaeology PhD student Tanner Kovach was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled Investigating the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Caucasus. Tanner will investigate how technological strategies changed between the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic, and what these differences can tell us about cultural transmission between Neanderthals and Homo […]