Graduate Program in Anthropology
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Nicholas S. |
M.A. |
Interests include Great Plains Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Changing Landscapes, and GIS. |
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Brendon Asher |
Ph.D. |
Great Plains Archaeology, Chipped Stone Technology, Zooarchaeology. |
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Adam Benfer |
M.A. |
Pre-Colonial American roads, footpaths and aquatic routes, Archaeology of Lower Central America and the Central Andes, Quechuan languages and cultures. |
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Braden R. |
M.A. |
I do not yet have a current research interest (still finding my way through several different areas). | |
Michael Davis |
M.A. |
Pre-Columbian Central America. |
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Erin Dempsey |
Ph.D. |
Archaeology of the Midwest and Eastern Woodlands, Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironmental change, geomorphology, geophysics, Hopewell archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, peopling of the New World studies, public archaeology.
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Anne Egitto |
Ph.D. |
Costa Rican archaeology, GIS, landscape archaeology, settlement pattern analysis, CRM, urban planning.
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Kristina S. Eronat |
M.A. |
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Andrew Gottsfield |
Ph.D. |
Geoarchaeology, GIS, Quaternary Landscape Evolution, CRM, and the archaeology of the Ozarks, Great Plains, and California. |
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Patrick Green |
M.A. |
Geoarcheaology, Paleoindians, first Americans.
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Timothy B. Griffith
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Ph.D. |
Archaeology of the Near and Middle East, Zooarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, animal production and distribution within Near Eastern Urban Complex Societies, Human Adaptative strategies in the Semiarid Highlands of Jordan, Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman/Byzantine, Islamic Periods. Regionally: Israel/Palestine, Transjordan, and Syria, Egypt. |
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Alison M. Hadley |
Ph.D. |
Organization of lithic technology including tools, beads, and pipes, Craft specialization, Prehistoric mineral exploitation, Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. |
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Destry A. Jackson
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M.A. |
Research interest - Archaeology on the Great Plains. Currently working on research over Modern Land Use and the Archaeological Landscape of the High Plains.
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Ryan Johnson |
M.A. |
Smoky Folsom Site, Mesoamerican archaeology. |
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Greg Kauffman |
M.A. |
Pre-Columbian Central and Mesoamerican Archaelogy; Ceramic and Lithic Analysis; Paleoindians; Complex Societies. |
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Daniel Keating |
M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, GIS, Paleo-Indians, Lovewell Reservoir/White Rock Creek.
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Theresa M. (Lammer) Miller |
M.A. |
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Laura Murphy |
Ph.D. |
Geoarchaeology, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Stable Carbon Isotopes, Phytolith Analysis, Quaternary Geology, Geophysics, Great Plains Archaeology. |
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Ann Raab |
Ph.D. |
Archaeology of warfare; warfare as an agent of culture change; Missouri/Kansas Border Wars and General Order No. 11; 19th century frontier socio-economic patterns. |
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M.A. |
Bioarchaeology: Skeletal Trauma & Disease, Hunter-Gatherer Warfare, Behavioral Ecology, Stable Isotope Analysis, California Archaeology, Baja California Archaeology. |
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Shannon R. Ryan |
Ph.D. |
Boatstones and bannerstones of the Great Plains, children in archaeology and spatial relations within and among archaeological sites. |
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Juli Tarabek |
M.A. |
Archaeology of Midwest North America and lithic analysis.
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Mark A. Volmut |
M.A. |
Zooarchaeology and the faunal remains from both historic and pre-historic archaeological sites. |
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Garrett Welch |
M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, the Peopling of America, Nautical Archaeology, Colonial America. |
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Kristopher West
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M.A. |
Geoarchaeology, GIS, Archaeological Predictive Modeling, Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Site Formation Processes, CRM, and the archaeology of the High Plains and Eastern Woodlands. |
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Anna F. Wieser
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Ph.D. |
Geoarchaeology, Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Landscape Archaeology and Predictive Modeling, Remote Sensing and GIS; Near Eastern and South Asian Archaeology (Focus: Afghanistan), Southeastern US Archaeology | |
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Norberto Baldi-Salas |
Ph.D. |
Anthropological genetics, Archaeological science, Cultural and Evolutionary Theory, Peopling of the Americas, Population dynamics in the New World Tropics. |
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Michaela (Catlin) |
M.A. |
Neandertals, Paleoanthropology, Evolution of speech, language and hearing. |
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Kristine Beaty |
Ph.D. |
Disease and adaptation, genetic epidemiology, |
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Jacob Boyd |
M.A. |
Disease and Adaptation, Genetic Epidemiology, Health and Nutrition, Anthropological Genetics, Nutritional Genetics, Population Dynamics, Europe, Latin America and Newfoundland populations. |
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Ph.D. |
Epidemiologic Transition; Native American health; Ethnobotany. |
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Diane Eddie |
M.A. |
Disease pathology, osteology, and human adaptation.
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J. Chadwick Gerhold |
M.A. |
Nutritional Anthropology, Human Nutrition, Dietary Habits, Nutrients, Energy Balance, Childhood Growth and Development, Mediterranean and African Populations. |
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Orion Mark Graf |
Ph.D. |
Genetic Epidemiology, Anthropological Genetics, Peopling of the Americas (Aleutian & Chibchan populations), Surname & Y-chromosome frequencies. |
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Stephen Johnson |
M.A. |
Anthropological Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Disease and Adaptation, Forensic Anthropology, Human Skeletal Biology, Paleo-Pathology, Mediterranean, Europe and Latin America.
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Alicia Madison
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M.A. |
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Delisa Phillips- Harrington |
Ph.D. |
Anthropological Genetics; mRNA in disease processes; epigenetics. |
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Saurabh Srinivasan |
Ph.D. |
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Diana Taylor |
M.A. |
ancient Polynesian migration, anthropological genetis, and Forensic DNA. |
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Jasem Theyab |
Ph.D. |
Indigenous Kuwaiti Population Structure, Anthropological Genetics, Human Nutrition. |
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Jennifer Vang |
M.A. |
Hmong Population, Anthropological Genetics, Global Patterns of Genetic and Cultural Variation, Proto-languages, Inter/Intra-Generational Conflict, Genetic Epidemiology. |
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Clarice Amorim |
M.A. |
Neoliberalism, golbalization and health care; traditional healing and midwifery; non-governmental organizations and pplied anthropology; indigenous peoples of Latin America; Kaqchikel Maya.
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Zhou Chen |
M.A. |
Identity, Gender, Globolization.
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Rebecca Crosthwait |
Ph.D. |
My research attempts to gain a better understanding of both the broad impacts and impetuses of global labor migration and the local-level meanings of global changes. I am specifically interested in how Mexican oil workers live in the crux of highly contested issues, including energy, immigration, labor, and climate change policies. The ties between energy, environmental/climate change, and immigration/emigration policy are related in complex and obscure ways, and my research attempts to locate questions and answers to these issues as experienced by workers and their families. Website: http://people.ku.edu/~rcrosw8/ |
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Caitlin Didier |
Ph.D. |
Comparative Religious Studies. |
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Amy Drassen-Ham |
Ph.D. |
Risk assessment and maternal health outcomes; women’s issues, religions, health decision-making and behavior change. |
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Marwa H. Ghazali |
Ph.D. |
African medical anthropology; The study of health and poverty among squatter populations of Cairo, Egypt's "City of the Dead"; Rural-Urban migration, inequality, and perceptions of illness/wellness; Structural violence, agency, and everyday resistance; Migration and Identity; Refugee Studies; Somali Bantu refugee experience; trauma, memory, and embodiment; Lived suffering, peacetime crimes, and everyday violence; Slavery, narrative, and contemporary identity; Peace and Conflict Studies; Post-colonial studies--North Africa; Women and Islam; Contemporary Islam; Construction and deconstruction of HIV/AIDS Stigma in MENA region.
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Benjamin J. Gray |
Ph.D. |
Contemporary US and Applied Methods. |
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Joshua Homan |
Ph.D. |
Commodification of indigenous knowledge, health and healing systems, ethnobotany, memetics, political economy, globalization. Latin America (Peru). |
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Charles Hubbard |
M.A. |
Micronesia and the effects of globalization on local economies and customs, particularly hierarchical power dynamics in traditionally stratified societies. |
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James Herynk |
Ph.D. |
The biological and cultural experience of anemia among Poqomchi’ Maya of Guatemala; the liminal experience of disease and illness accommodation, structural violence, and social suffering examined through semiotics, symbolic communication; atypical child development and speech-language-hearing pathology.
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Ryan Jensen |
Ph.D. |
Changing Protestant identity formation and nationalism in Northern Ireland resulting from the devolution of the United Kingdom. |
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Evan T. Koike
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M.A. |
Japan, gender, youth identity, and globalization. |
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Anne Kraemer Diaz |
Ph.D. |
Access to health care and services; mother and child health; research ethics; applied and medical anthropology; health disparities; civil society; collaborative and community based participatory research methods; rural community development; Latin America; Guatemala, specifically the central highlands and southwestern piedmont; the impact of development and NGOs in Guatemala; indigenous peoples; Kaqchikel and K’ichee’ Maya. |
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Ryan Laudermilk |
M.A. |
Medical anthropology, medical education, anthropology of the body, semiotics, language and culture, urban anthropology. |
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Lauren R. Moore |
M.A. |
Food, the environment, and consumers; gardening and nutrition, especially within current social movements; the meaning of American secular and religious mission/volunteer work, especially internationally; the United States and Latin America. |
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Whitney K. Onasch |
M.A. |
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Diane Plantz |
M.A. |
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Ximena Sevilla |
M.A. |
Economy, environment, and food secuity. Conflicts among small producers' organizations, middlemen, and state policies. |
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Abdifatah D. Shafat |
M.A. |
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Sydney Silverstein |
M.A. |
Identity, Medical Anthropology, Neoliberalism, Visual Methodologies/New Media, Andes & Amazonia. |
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Jordan Tucker |
M.A. |
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Meghan Farley |
Ph.D. |
Transnational migration of Kaqchikel and K’iche’ Maya, Indigenous migration and coyotaje, the articulations of indigeneity in development contexts, indigenous rights movements of Latin America, Guatemala, and Mexico |
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Justin Wipf |
M.A. |
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Ph.D. |
Currently conducting research on "light verbs" (what we call yardemchi pe 'il "helping verbs"). My primary focus is Uyghur verbs and gramatical topology, but I am also intrested in culture. I plan to use the corpus of premodern and modern Uyghur to research these questions fo my PhD dissertation. Creating an electronic corpus will allow tracking the development of these helping verbs of 150 years. We will be able to count them and study their discourse context. |
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David Kaufman |
Ph.D. |
Languages of US Southeast (Biloxi, Natchez, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, Choctaw/Chickasaw), Mayan (Kaqchikel, Q'anjob'al, Chorti), Rumsen (Ohlonean/Penutian), and Uyghur (Turkic). Woodland, Mississippian, and Mesoamerican archaeology. Endangered language documentation and revitalization. Dissertation topic: The Lower Mississippi Valley As A Language Area (ca. 500-1700 CE). |
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M.A. |
The languages of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, politeness and sociopragmatics, language and politics, language and gender, language contact, computer mediated communication. | ||
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Xiangcheng Wen |
Ph.D. |
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