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Meet Our Graduate Students

Ashley Atkins
Atkins, Ashley
Email:: [[alatkins]]
Year entered:: 2007
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: Historical Archaeology of Native communities in Tidewater Virginia, specifically the Pamunkey Indian Tribe
 
Barrett, Autumn
Email:: [[arbarr]]
Year entered: 2001
Degree sought: PhD
 
Stephanie Bergman
Bergman, Stephanie
Email:: [[smbergman]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: PhD
Regional specialization:: Caribbean and Atlantic World
 
Jason Buroughs
Boroughs, Jason
Email:: [[jjboro]]
Year entered:: 2004
Degree sought: PhD
 
Sarah Byrd
Byrd, Sarah
Email:: [[svbyrd]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Regional specialtzation:: Midwest, East coast of United States
 
Camp, Jennifer
Email:: [[jbcamp]]
Year entered: 2006
Degree sought: PhD
 
Carlson-Drexler, Carl
Year entered: 2005
Email:: [[cgdrex]]
Degree sought: PhD
Research Interests: conflict, forensic archaeology, landscape studies, theory, ethnohistory, archaeogeophysics, spatial analysis
 
Ellen Chapman
Chapman, Ellen
Email:: [[elchapman01]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: PhD
Researh interests:: Palaeopathology, skeletal demography, stable isotope analysis, health impacts of migration, interface between academia and CRM, European colonization of the Americas
 
Sarah Chesney
Chesney, Sarah Jane
Email:: [[sjches]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: 18th-century urban/domestic archaeology, landscape archaeology, Atlantic World studies, Colonial & early Federal Philadelphia, the development of natural history/botany in Europe & America, exotic plant trade in the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries
 
Christiano, Katrina
Email:: [[kachristiano]]
Year Entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Crain, Christopher
Email:: [[crcrai]]
Year entered:: 2006
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Daniel, Angela
Email:: [[aldani]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Berek Dore
Dore, Berek
Year entered:: 2006
Degree sought:: MA
Research Interests:: Bioarchaeology, Ancient Disease, Historic Labor Practices during slavery, Historic and Pre-contact Labor Practices among Native American Populations, Dietary Practices and Nutrition, Causes of Death, Eastern Woodland sites
Regional specialization:: Chesapeake Region, Northeastern United States
 
Joel Dworsky
Dworsky, Joel
Email:: [[jgdworsky]]
Year Entered;: 2009
Degree sought:: MA
 
Eaton, Melissa
Email:: [[meato]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
Dissertation:: Grandfathers at War: The Politics of Identity at Delaware Town
 
Stephanie Hasselbacher
Hasselbacher Berryhill, Stephanie
Email:: [[srhasselbacher]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: linguistic anthropology, language documentation and revitalization, language and literacy socialization
 
Christine Heacock
Heacock, Christine
Email:: [[chheacock]]
Year entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: Plantations, slave communities, ceramics, slave trade
 
Jessica Herlich
Herlich, Jessica
Email:: [[jmherlich]]
Year Entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research Interests:: Historical Archaeology, Native American studies, ceramics, Middle Woodland period
 
Amanda Johnson
Johnson, Amanda
Email:: [[abjohnson]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Resrach interests:: Seventeenth century Irish Diaspora; White Indentured Servitude in Colonial American and the Caribbean.
 
Mark Kostro
Kostro, Mark
Email:: [[mxkost]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Jaclyn Kuizon
Kuizon, Jaclyn
Email:: [[jkuizon]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research interests:: Contemporary indigenous artists and the negotiation of identity, power and autonomy within originally Western institutions such as the Fine Arts market
 
Erika Laanela
Laanela, Erika
Email:: [[eelaan]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought;: PhD
 
Lightfoot, Dessa
Email:: [[deligh]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Tiffany Little
Little, Tiffany
Email:: [[tolittle]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: Foodways, textiles, contact period through 18th century
 
Mahoney, Shannon
Email:: [[smmaho]]
Year entered:: 2001
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: cultural resource management, bioarchaeology, ethics, African American life, 19th and 20th century, community engagement, public education,
 
Alix Martin
Martin, Alexandra
Email:: [[agmartin]]
Year entered;: 2008
Degree sought;: PhD
Research interests:: Native Americans of the Eastern United States, Colonialism, Contemporary Heritage Politics, Mortuary Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Spatial Analysis & GIS
 
Derek Miller
Miller, Derek
Email:: [[drmill]]
Year entered:: 2006
Degree sought:: PhD
Regional specialization:: the Caribbean
 
David Moran
Moran, David
Email:: [[damoran]]
Year entered;: 2007
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: archaeology of plantations, bioarchaeology, racialization, critical theory
 
Mueller-Heubach , Oliver
Email:: [[ommuel]]
Year entered:: 2003
Degree sought;: PhD
 
Phaup, Nancy
Email:: [[naphau]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Adam Richardson
Richardson, Adam
Email:: [[adrichardson]]
Year entered;: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: land use, state formation, the socio-political impacts of industry, and culture contact
 
Roberts, Joseph
Email:: [[jfrobe]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought;: PhD
Research interests:: semiotics, archaeological pragmatics, philosophical hermeneutics, social theory, philosophy of science, culture contact and creolization, ethnohistory, and public archaeology
 
Shephard, Chris
Email:: [[cjshephard]]
Year entered:: 2009
Degree sought;: PhD
Research interests:: colonialism, landscape, memory, ethnohistory, indigenous archaeology
 
Erik Siedow
Siedow, Erik
Email:: [[easied]]
Year entered;: 2010
Degree sought;: MA
Research interests:: historical archaeology, plantation slavery and enslaved life during the colonial era
 
Katie Sikes
Sikes, Kathryn
Email:: [[klsike]]
Year entered:: 2004
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: interethnic relations, colonialism, postcolonial theory, maritime landscapes, transatlantic migration
 
Turner, Grace
Email:: [[gsturn]]
Year entered:: 2004
Degree sought;: PhD
Research intersts:: maritime transportation networks, migration, and the impact of these factors on the African Diaspora.
 
Megan Victor
Victor, Megan
Email:: [[mrvictor]]
Year entered;: 2010
Degree sought;: MA / PhD
Research interests:: maritime communities, island archaeology, Atlantic world, colonialism, piracy / smuggling / informal markets
 
Kelley Walter
Walter, Kelley
Email:: [[kmwalter]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: public archaeology in pluralistic communities, indigenous archaeology, civic engagement
 
Zach Waske
Waske, Zachary
Email:: [[zjwaske]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: colonial agricultural practices
 
Max Werner
Werner, Max
Email:: [[mawern]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought;: MA
Research interests:: Identity, Body Modification, Consumption, Foodways
 
Shea Winsett
Winsett, Shea
Email:: [[sawinsett]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
 
Woodard, Buck
Email:: [[bwwood]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: Cosmology, ethnohistory, historical linguistics, kinship and marriage, political economy
 
Sarah Zimmet
Zimmet, Sarah
Email:: [[shzimmet]]
Year entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research interests:: : Plantation archaeology, colonialism, the African Diaspora, colonoware, Bermuda, public archaeology