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 […]
Graduate Students
UConn Grad Student Presents at Paleoanthropology Society Meeting
Graduate student Elena Skosey-LaLonde presented her research on Paleotemperature reconstruction in Middle Stone Age-Later Stone Age contexts in Mozambique at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting this year!
ANTH Grad Student Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim receives NSF Grant
Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim has received a competitive National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to fund his dissertation research. His research examines the relationship between agricultural practices, the environment, and social factors during the Iron Age (c. 1200–600 BCE) of the Southern Levant (modern Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) using plant remains. This relationship will be […]
Graduate Student Spotlight: Sara Ailshire
Research Interests: Anthropology of reproduction, human rights, childbirth, human rights law, feminist anthropology, and India.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Megan Alexander
Research Interests: Death and dying, end-of-life, care and caregiving, biomedicine, and alternative forms of care.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Samantha Archer
Research Interests: Anthropological genetics and epigenetics, feminist and queer science studies, ancient DNA, feminist materialisms, critical disability studies, archive and ephemera, affect theory.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Johan Jarl
Research Interests: Archaebotany, phytoliths, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, transitions.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Tanner Kovach
Research Interests: Human evolution, the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic, Neanderthal evolution and extinction, modern human dispersals, lithics
Graduate Student Spotlight: Corrin Laposki
Pyrotechnology, Air Pollution, Immunology, Host-Associated Microbiomes, Stable Isotopes, Ancient DNA, Health Disparities in Gender, Climate Change, Early Urbanization, Hominin Diet Changes Through Time.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Danielle Nadeau
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and technology, legal anthropology, human rights, human interaction with algorithms and artificial intelligence.