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Meet Our Graduate Students

AntonAntczak
Antczak, Konrad A.
Year entered:: 2012
Degree Sought:: MA / PhD
E-mail:: [[e|kaantczak]]
Research Interests:: Historical archaeology of the Venezuelan Caribbean, 17th and 18th century salt exploitation in the Caribbean, materiality, maritime archaeology, archaeology of alcohol and drinking, life and social relations at sea in 17th and 18th century Anglo-America, 18th century material culture studies, public archaeology.
 
Ashley Atkins
Atkins, Ashley
Email:: [[e|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:: [[e|arbarr]]
Year entered: 2001
Degree sought: PhD
 
Bassett-H
Bassett, Hayden
E-mail:: [[e|hfbassett]]
Year entered:: 2012
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research Interests:: Landscape Archaeology; Spatial Analysis; Archaeology of Standing Buildings; 17th Century Chesapeake; Colonial British Caribbean, the comparative response to climate throughout the colonial British Atlantic
 
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Beaupre, Andrew
Email: : [[e|arbeaupre]]
Year Entered:: 2010
Degree sought: : PhD.
Research Interests: : Historical Archaeology, Culture Contact, Colonialism, Ethnogenisis, Identity Politics, Heritage, Landscape studies, Native American studies and Public Archaeology.
 
Stephanie Bergman
Bergman, Stephanie
Email:: [[e|smbergman]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: PhD
Regional specialization:: Caribbean and Atlantic World
 
Jason Buroughs
Boroughs, Jason
Email:: [[e|jjboro]]
Year entered:: 2004
Degree sought: PhD
 
Brown-B
Brown, Brittany
E-mail:: [[e|blbrown]]
Year Entered:: 2011
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research Interests:: 17th and 18th century mortuary practices of the African Diaspora, African and African American studies
 
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Buchanan Masur, Laura
Email:: [[e|lebuch]]
Year entered:: 2011
Degree sought;: M.A.
Research interests:: Historical archaeology, Native American studies, Identity, Landscape, NAGPRA, Bioarchaeology and mortuary studies, Archaeological GIS, Public archaeology, Applied anthropology
 
Jenna Carlson
Carlson, Jenna
Email:: [[e|jkcarlson]]
Year entered:: 2011
Degree sought;: PhD.
Research interests:: Zooarchaeology, human-animal relationships, animal laborers, 18th century plantation life, identity
 
Carl CarlsonDrexler
Carlson-Drexler, Carl
Year entered: 2005
Email:: [[e|cgdrex]]
Degree sought: PhD
Research Interests: conflict, forensic archaeology, landscape studies, theory, ethnohistory, archaeogeophysics, spatial analysis
 
Ellen Chapman
Chapman, Ellen
Email:: [[e|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:: [[e|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
 
Crain, Christopher
Email:: [[e|crcrai]]
Year entered:: 2006
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Daniel, Angela
Email:: [[e|aldani]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Joel Dworsky
Dworsky, Joel
Email:: [[e|jgdworsky]]
Year Entered;: 2009
Degree sought:: MA
 
Eaton, Melissa
Email:: [[e|meato]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
Dissertation:: Grandfathers at War: The Politics of Identity at Delaware Town
 
Gunter, Madeleine
Year entered:: 2012
Degree sought:: M.A.
E-Mail:: [[e|magunter]]
Research Interests:: American Indians; Landscape Evolution; Geoarchaeology; Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
 
Stephanie Hasselbacher
Hasselbacher Berryhill, Stephanie
Email:: [[e|srhasselbacher]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: linguistic anthropology, language documentation and revitalization, language and literacy socialization
 
Jessica Herlich
Herlich, Jessica
Email:: [[e|jmherlich]]
Year Entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: PhD
Research Interests:: Paleoethnobotany, Shell Midden Archaeology, Native American Studies, Historical Ecology, Engendered Practices and Gender Relations
 
Amanda Johnson
Johnson, Amanda
Email:: [[e|abjohnson]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: PhD
Resrach interests:: The Irish Diaspora, specifically during the 19th century; Issues of ethnicity and identity; Foodways and alcohol studies; 19th century immigration.
 
Patrick Johnson
Johnson, Patrick
Year Entered:: 2012
Degree sought:: PhD.
Email:: [[e|pljohnson]]
Research Interests: Research interests: historical archaeology, ethnohistory, Native American studies, culture contact, colonialism, Spanish Florida, Southeast US.
 
Mark Kostro
Kostro, Mark
Email:: [[e|mxkost]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
J Kuizon
Kuizon, Jaclyn
Email:: [[e|jkuizon]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: 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:: [[e|eelaan]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought;: PhD
 
Lightfoot, Dessa
Email:: [[e|deligh]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Tiffany Little
Little, Tiffany
Email:: [[e|tolittle]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: Foodways, textiles, contact period through 18th century
 
Mahoney, Shannon
Email:: [[e|ssmaho]]
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:: [[e|agmartin]]
Year entered;: 2008
Degree sought;: PhD
Research interests:: Native Americans of the Eastern U.S., Ethnohistory, Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Spatial Analysis, Memory & Place, Contemporary Heritage Politics
 
Derek Miller
Miller, Derek
Email:: [[e|drmill]]
Year entered:: 2006
Degree sought:: PhD
Regional specialization:: the Caribbean
 
David Moran
Moran, David
Email:: [[e|damoran]]
Year entered;: 2007
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: archaeology of plantations, bioarchaeology, racialization, critical theory
 
Mueller-Heubach , Oliver
Email:: [[e|ommuel]]
Year entered:: 2003
Degree sought;: PhD
 
Ogborne, Jenn
Email:: [[e|jhogbo]]
Year Entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD.
 
Phaup, Nancy
Email:: [[e|naphau]]
Year entered:: 2002
Degree sought:: PhD
 
Adam Richardson
Richardson, Adam
Email:: [[e|adrichardson]]
Year entered;: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: land use, state formation, the socio-political impacts of industry, and culture contact
 
RSchumann
Schumann, Rebecca
E-mail:: [[e|rashumann]]
Year Entered:: 2011
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: Free black communities, historical silences, identity, race, interracial relationships, creolization
 
Shephard, Chris
Email:: [[e|cjshephard]]
Year entered:: 2009
Degree sought;: PhD
Research interests:: archaeology, exchange, political economy, archaeometry, colonialism, personhood
 
Katie Sikes
Sikes, Kathryn
Email:: [[e|klsike]]
Year entered:: 2004
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: interethnic relations, colonialism, postcolonial theory, maritime landscapes, transatlantic migration
 
Turner, Grace
Email:: [[e|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:: [[e|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:: [[e|kmwalter]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: public archaeology in pluralistic communities, indigenous archaeology, civic engagement
 
Zach Waske
Waske, Zachary
Email:: [[e|zjwaske]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: MA
Research interests:: colonial agricultural practices
 
Max Werner
Werner, Max
Email:: [[e|mawern]]
Year entered:: 2010
Degree sought;: MA
Research interests:: Ethnographic theory and poetics, transience, place and space, literature
 
WinsettThmb
Winsett, Shea
Email:: [[e|sawinsett]]
Year entered:: 2008
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: African Diaspora, Identity
 
Woodard, Buck
Email:: [[e|bwwood]]
Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: Cosmology, ethnohistory, historical linguistics, kinship and marriage, political economy
 
Sarah Zimmet
Zimmet, Sarah
Email:: [[e|shzimmet]]
Year entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research interests:: : Plantation archaeology, colonialism, the African Diaspora, colonoware, Bermuda, public archaeology