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 Students
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: Peyton Carroll
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! Peyton Carroll Entry into program: 2022 I am an archaeologist interested in […]
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: Mary Bugbee
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! Mary Bugbee What sparked your interest in Anthropology? When I took my […]
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 […]