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 Students
Graduate Student Spotlight: Danielle Nadeau
Research Interests: Anthropology of science and technology, legal anthropology, human rights, human interaction with algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Elic Weitzel
Research Interests: Human ecology, broadly – specifically behavioral, population, community, and historical ecology.
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.