Graduate Students
Our graduate students lead and collaborate on research projects, present at regional and national academic conferences, publish in accomplished peer-review journals, and participate in public outreach opportunities.
Students pursuing MA and PhD degrees study and teach across a wide range of topics in anthropology and geography, working in labs and field sites on campus and around the world.
Graduate Students
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Megan Adams
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Kristen Bonnevier
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Katie Brown
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Jack Cameron
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Jenna Dagher
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Elizabeth Graf
- Masters Student
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Caroline Graham
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Lily Gregson
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Elaine Henson
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Masters Student
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Isabel Heslin
- PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Tewabe Negash
- Graduate Instructor
- PhD Candidate
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Trevor Keevil
- PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Riley Limbaugh
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Masters Student
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Robert Madden
- PhD Student
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Nona Nyhart
- PhD Student
- InTERFEWS Fellow
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Isabell Osborne
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Alex Pelissero
- Graduate Instructor
- PhD Candidate
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Dalton Pierce
- Masters Student
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Seth Sagstetter
- PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Tianna Weiland
- Masters Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Cliff White
- PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Tyler Witham
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Beau Wood
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Masters Student
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Katya Xinyi Zhao
- PhD Candidate
Graduate Student Research
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Katya Zhao: Summer 2024
Read More: Katya Zhao: Summer 2024Katya Zhao Summer 2024 Anthropology in the Temple People in the U.S. and other Western countries aren’t shy when it comes to borrowing Buddhist practices, like meditation and mindfulness practice, to find some inner peace. But what health benefits do Theravada, or Thai, Buddhists themselves get from their relationships to…
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Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024
Read More: Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024Alex Pelissero Summer 2024 Winning Awards and Droning to Study Early Humans Can drones help anthropologists look back in time to understand early humans’ migrations and encounters? Doctoral candidate Alex Pelissero is using drone technology to map sites of early human interactions at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania — and earning…
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Grace Ellis: Summer 2024
Read More: Grace Ellis: Summer 2024Grace Ellis Summer 2024 Identifying Pre-contact Ports and Construction in the Amazon Doctoral candidate Grace Ellis is the lead author on a new archaeological study, published Spring 2024, that has identified the first known occurrence of pre-European-contact, constructed wharves at the port site, Macurany, located along the Middle Amazon River…
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Robert Madden: Summer 2024
Read More: Robert Madden: Summer 2024Robert Madden Summer 2024 How Past Cultures Rolled the Dice Master’s student Robert Madden studies and documents prehistoric, Indigenous North American games of chance, dice, and gambling. As part of that work, Madden visited archival repositories at the Smithsonian and the University of Wyoming during Summer 2024 to examine and…