Alston, Lauren Year Entered: 2015
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; Narratives of Nation; Identity and Agency
Regional Specialization: Central America (El Salvador)
Barr, Stephanie M.A. Student Year Entered: 2021
Degree Sought: M.A.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology; Microartifact Analysis; Household Archaeology
Bliss, Lindsay Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Climate Change on Archaeological Sites, Historical Archaeology
Regional Specialization: Polynesia, North America (Southeast)
Brock, Kate Year Entered: 2022
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Feminist Folkloristics; Material Culture; Historical Archaeology; Fiber Arts
Regional Specialization: Ireland
Browne, Jennifer Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical archaeology, battlefield archaeology, Native American histories, postcolonial theory, repatriation politics, and 17th and 18th-century studies
Regional Specialization: North America (Northeast and Mid-Atlantic)
Callaway, Graham Year Entered: 2019
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology of Landscapes, Food and Agriculture; GIS and Geophysics; Plantation Slavery; Community Outreach
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Callaway, Taylor Year Entered: 2018
Degree Sought: M.A./Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Native American Histories; Landscape Archaeology; Emplacement; Colonialism and Decolonization; Indigenous Ceramic Studies
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Connolly, Amy Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Irish diaspora; Irish Islands; Material Culture; Death & Memory; Burial Practices; Household Archaeology; Historical Anthropology
Regional Specialization: Ireland; North America (Mid-Atlantic)
Davis, Cathrine Year Entered: 2018
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historic Sigillography; Material Culture; Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French and English Atlantic Worlds; Textile Trade Networks; Identity
Regional Specialization: North America (Midwest, Northeast, Chesapeake); Eastern Canada; France (Occitanie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Diya, Ayobami Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; African Archaeology; Landscape and Power; Space use; Materiality of Cultural Landscape, Archaeology of complex society
Regional Specialization: West Africa, Africa
Eggen, Shannon Year Entered: 2022
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; Plantation Archaeology; Household Archaeology; Burial Practices; 18th Century Studies
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast); British Isles
Ellis, Jennifer Year Entered: 2016
Degree Sought: M.A./Ph.D.
Sub-field: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Urban Anthropology; Political Subjectivity; Postcolonial Theory; Urban Development; Agency and Power; Ethnography
Regional Specialization: Australia
Evans, Tomos Llywelyn Year Entered: 2017
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: West African Archaeology, Anthropology, and Art History; Yoruba Studies; Monumental Earthworks; Zooarchaeology; Ontology; Landscape Archaeology; Geospatial Analysis; History of Archaeology, Museums, and Collecting in Africa
Regional Specialization: Nigeria; United Kingdom
Gum, Victoria Graduate Student Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Community Engagement, Medical Anthropology, Biocultural Anthropology, Gender, Pain and Violence, Science and Technology Studies
Regional Specialization: North America (USA)
Gunter Bassett, Madeleine Year Entered: 2014
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Landscape Archaeology; Mobility and Migration; Trade and Exchange; Geospatial Analysis
Regional Specialization: Horn of Africa (Djibouti); North America (Southeast)
Helmick, Grace Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Native American Histories, Indigenous Sovereignty, Museum Studies
Regional Specialization: North America (Midwest, Southeast)
Henshaw, John Year Entered: 2020
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Frontiers; Trade and Exchange; Climate Change; Migration; Chronological Modelling; Native Ceramics; Shell Beads; Subsistence Strategies; Sustainability; Materials Characterization
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Hussey, Patrick Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Colonialism, Othering Practices, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Indigenous Health Access
Regional Specialization: Caribbean & Northeastern North America
Johnson, Abigail Year Entered: 2020
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology of Consumerism; Zooarchaeology; Wetland Archaeology; Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution; Community Resilience
Regional Specialization: Ireland
Lebow, Dolly Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Conservation, Ethnography, Multispecies Kinship, Placemaking, Nature
Regional Specialization: Tidewater, Virginia
Maher, Abby Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Prehistoric Archaeology; Trade and Exchange; Geospatial Analysis; Geographic Information Systems; Landscape Archaeology
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast); Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan)
McDonald, Lauren Year Entered: 2019
Degree Sought: M.A.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; English Tobacco Pipes; Trade and Exchange
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Mead, Allie Ph.D. Student Year Entered: 2019
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics; Feminism; Political Economy; Community development; Place-making; Class; Power
Regional Specialization: Wales
Melvin, Samantha Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geophysical archaeology, early colonial North America, Late Woodland Native American history and archaeology, kinship networks and social dynamics, NAGPRA and repatriation processes.
Regional Specialization: North American Mid-Atlantic
Mileski, Julia Year Entered: 2022
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interest: Heritage and museum studies; Intersectionality & Identity; Community development; Place-making; Memory
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Oliveira, Diogo Year Entered: 2021
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Swahili Coast Archaeology; Trade & Exchange; Materiality; Identity & Agency; Archaeology of Contact & Colonialism
Regional Specialization: East Africa; Mozambique
Philipose Alencherry, Naurin Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA-PhD
Sub-field: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Migration, International Student mobility
Regional Specialization: South Asia
Planto, Rebekah Year Entered: 2018
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology of the Atlantic World; Comparative Colonialisms; Plantation Landscapes and Practices; History of Science/Knowledge; Materiality; Identity and Personhood; Ethics and Politics of Archaeology
Regional Specialization: Britain and Ireland; North America (Mid-Atlantic)
Reid, Chardé Year Entered: 2017
Degree Sought: M.A./Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: African Diaspora Anthropology and Archaeology; Engaged and Community-Based Archaeology; Critical Heritage Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Critical Race Theory; Historical Memory; Archaeological Ethics
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast & Mid-Atlantic)
Russell, Charlotte Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historic Archaeology, Gender, Identity & Agency, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Sodeke, Oreoluwa Year Entered: 2024
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, African Archaeology, Material Science, Pottery Use and analysis, Technological Variation
Regional Specialization: West Africa
Stein, Leah Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; Materiality; Postcolonial Theory; Heritage and Museum Studies; Identity and Agency
Regional Specialization: North America (Mid-Atlantic, Southeast)
Tripaldi, Malachi Year Entered: 2020
Degree Sought: M.A./Ph.D.
Sub-field: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: African Diaspora; Industrialization; Urbanization, Skeletal Chemistry
Regional Specialization: North America (Mid-Atlantic)
Vanhoy, Kyle Year Entered: 2020
Degree Sought: M.A.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geospatial Analysis; Slavery and Race; Landscape Archaeology; Religion; Burial Practices and Traditions
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Watson, Caroline Year Entered: 2021
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Disaster; Contemporary Archaeology; Climate Change; Anthropocene; Geographic Information Systems
Regional Specialization: Caribbean
Watson, Monet Year Entered: 2022
Degree Sought: M.A./Ph.D.
Sub-field: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: Historical anthropology; African diaspora; archaeochemistry; skeletal biology
Regional Specialization: North America
White, Jack Year Entered: 2023
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Landscape Archaeology; Community-Based Archaeology; Colonialism and Decolonization; Zooarchaeology; Foodways; Remote Sensing
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Wilson, Maia Year Entered: 2021
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Black Feminist Theory; Historical Archaeology; Repatriation Politics; African Diaspora and Indigenous Communities Relationships; Decolonization
Regional Specialization: North America (Southeast)
Zou, Yijie (EJee) Year Entered: 2016
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Sub-field: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Value, Value Forms, and Social Production; Work and Time; Entrepreneurship in Ghana; Chinese-African Exchanges Since the Global 1960s; Capitalism
Regional Specialization: Ghana; China
