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 […]

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 […]

Research Interests: Anthropology of reproduction, human rights, childbirth, human rights law, feminist anthropology, and India.

Research Interests: Death and dying, end-of-life, care and caregiving, biomedicine, and alternative forms of care.

Research Interests: Anthropological genetics and epigenetics, feminist and queer science studies, ancient DNA, feminist materialisms, critical disability studies, archive and ephemera, affect theory.

Research Interests: Archaebotany, phytoliths, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, transitions.

Research Interests: Human evolution, the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic, Neanderthal evolution and extinction, modern human dispersals, lithics

Pyrotechnology, Air Pollution, Immunology, Host-Associated Microbiomes, Stable Isotopes, Ancient DNA, Health Disparities in Gender, Climate Change, Early Urbanization, Hominin Diet Changes Through Time.

Research Interests: Anthropology of science and technology, legal anthropology, human rights, human interaction with algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Research Interests: Human ecology, broadly – specifically behavioral, population, community, and historical ecology.