Barr, Stephanie M.A. Student Year Entered: 2021
Degree Sought: M.A.
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology; Microartifact Analysis; Household Archaeology
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; conflict archaeology; Native American studies; colonialism and decolonization; 17th and 18th-century North America.
Regional Specialization: North America (Northeast and Mid-Atlantic)
Cabral, Evan Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Public Archaeology; Native American Studies; Woodland and Colonial Period Archaeology; Community Engagement; Indigenous Ceramic Analysis; Landscape Archaeology
Regional Specialization: North American (Southeast and Mid-Atlantic)
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)
Darko, Jonas Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, West African Foodways, Material Culture, Museums and Heritage Studies
Regional Specialization: West Africa
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
Finnigan, Nicole Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, Archaeology of Landscapes
Regional Specialization: North America (Northeast/Mid-Atlantic)
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)
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)
Email: jphenshaw@wm.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 12pm-2pm, Washington Hall 104
Hulen, Cyrus Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Food Systems, Land Management, Cultural Response to Climate Change, Resilience and Sustainability
Regional Specialization: Remote Oceania
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
Kingery, Adam Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Trade, Archaeometry, Historical Archaeology, Ceramic Analysis
Regional Specialization: North America (Chesapeake, Mid-Atlantic)
Mathew, Moses Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA/PhD
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology; African Archaeology; Migration; Cultural Exchange and Transformation; Trade Networks
Regional Specialization: Africa (West Africa)
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
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)
Redmond Smull, Alora Year Entered: 2025
Degree Sought: MA
Sub-field: Archaeology
Research Interests: Skeletal Biology, Community Representation and Involvement, Historic Archaeology
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)
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
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)
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