Below is a list of graduate student peer mentors. If you are a prospective student, feel free to contact anyone in the list below for any questions you may have about the program, life in Connecticut, or anything pertaining to graduate life here at UConn.

Peer Mentor	Email	Research Interests	Advisor
Mary Bugbee	mary.bugbee@uconn.edu	Intersections of medical and economic anthropology, health policy, bureaucracy, technocracy, financialization, neoliberalism/neoliberalization and governmentality, critical political economy, de/coloniality, United States and Mexico (and Latin America more broadly)	César Abadía-Barrero
Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim	geoffrey.hedges@uconn.edu	Archaeology, archaeobotany, Bronze and Iron Ages, Southern Levant	Alexia Smith
Johan Jarl	johan.jarl@uconn.edu	International student, botany, paleolithic, Old World, phytoliths	Alexia Smith
Tanner Kovach	tanner.kovach@uconn.edu	Paleolithic archaeology, Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, Neanderthal and modern human behavior, lithic technology	Daniel Adler
Corrin Laposki	corrin.laposki@uconn.edu	Ancient microbiomes, respiratory disease, Levantine Neolithic, game theory, agriculture, stable isotopes	Gideon Hartman
Roxie Lebenzon	roxanne.lebenzon@uconn.edu	Zooarchaeology, geometric morphometrics, 3D analysis, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, behavioral ecology	Natalie Munro
Christopher Manoharan	christopher.manoharan@uconn.edu	Religion, mysticism, cognition, research methods, ritual, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism	Dimitris Xygalatas
Ashley McLeod	ashley.mcleod@uconn.edu	Indigenous studies, decolonization, social movements, the anthropology of food and nutrition, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, human rights, feminist pedagogy	Eleanor Ouimet, César Abadía-Barrero, Françoise Dussart
Kitty O’Riordan	caitlin.o’riordan@uconn.edu	Anthropology of science; STS; Contemporary New England Indigenous peoples; public discourse; anthropology of media; Indigenous knowledge systems	Francoise Dussart
Dillon Patterson	dillon.patterson@uconn.edu	Cross-cultural conservation, resource/wildlife management, subsistence, Alaska	Eleanor Ouimet
Michelle San Pedro	michelle.sanpedro@uconn.edu	Medical anthropology, reproduction, global health, human rights, feminist pedagogy, Latin America	Pam Erickson
Ashley Walters	ashley.walters@uconn.edu	Statelessness, citizenship, belonging, NGOs, activist anthropology	Samuel Martinez
Elic Weitzel	elic.weitzel@uconn.edu	Behavioral ecology, population ecology, ecosystem engineering, North American archaeology, ecology of capitalism/colonialism	Natalie Munro, Rich Sosis, Kevin McBride