Graduate Student Alumni Spotlights

Julie Thomas, 2024
Strepsirrhine Growth and Development: New Ontogenetic Patterns Found in Captive Populations

Dawa Lokyitsang, 2023
Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community

Page McClean, 2023
Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile's Southern Highway.

Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO

Robert Weiner, 2023
"It Shows My Way": An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World

Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College, Department of Religion

Kathleen McGuire, 2023
Navigating the Needs of the Many and the Few: Examining the Relationship between Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) Group Function and Individual Variation on St. Catherine鈥檚 Island

Science Informationist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Lindsay Johansson, 2023
Architecture and Identity in the Far Northern American Southwest

State archaeologist, Idaho State Historical Society

Bailey Duh茅, 2022
Fluid: Louisiana Creole Identity and Racial Mixture in the United States

Researcher, EdSolutions

Katilyn Davis, 2022
Pueblo Agricultural Adaptations in Light of Socioeconomic and Environmental Changes in the Northern Rio Grande

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
https://directory.nau.edu/departments?id=10810&person=ked387&src=anthropology

Kelly Zepellin, 2022
Foraging Culture: Ethics, Practice, and Identity among Contemporary Wild Food Foragers in the Southwest United States


Adjunct Professor, Psychology, Naropa University, Boulder, CO

Devin Pettigrew, 2021
The Origins and Evolution of Pre-Industrial Hunting Weapons: Ongoing Challenges and Recent Developments

Visiting assistant professor, Center for Big Bend Studies
Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas

Gregorio Ortiz, 2021
Promises of Prosperity: Race, History, and Fracking in South Texas's Brush Country

Director, CCS Fundraising, Chicago, Illinois

Emily Hite, 2021

Inside the Climate Frontier: Intersecting Indigenous Rights and Hydropower Development in Costa Rica

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis University

Jessica Balkin, 2020
Human-Environment Interactions in the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: The Impacts of Ecological Change on Settlement Patterning (1600 BCE-CE 1522)

Staff Archaeologist. SWCA Environmental Consultants, Cranberry Township, PA.
Author of Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower R铆o Verde Valley, Oaxaca, M茅xico: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica. (The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2023).

Pascale Meehan, 2020
Collapse as Constrained Possibility: Rural Action at Early Postclassic Monte El Santo Following the Rio Viejo Political Collapse

Archaeologist, Sources Archaeological & Heritage Research, Vancouver, BC.

Author of 鈥淩ural Responses following Collapse: Insights from Monte El Santo, Oaxaca, Mexico鈥 (World Archaeology, 2019).

Ben Joffe, 2019
White Robes, Matted Hair: Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile

Editor-in-Chief, Translator, and Researcher at Sky Press

Rachel Egan, 2019
When the Volcano Erupts: Lessons from the Archaeological Record on Human Adaptation to Hazardous Environments, Tilaran-Arenal, Costa Rica

Senior Archaeologist, Tetra Tech, Denver, CO

Richard Bender, 2019
Do protein content and protein quality influence human food intake? Testing the Protein Leverage Hypothesis.

Executive assistant, Center for Inclusion and Social Change at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder
/cisc/richard-bender

Jeffrey Brzezeinski, 2019
Terminal Formative Religion and Political Organization on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico: The Perspective from Cerro de la Virgen

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Central Florida
Adjunct lecturer, University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.
Author of 鈥淐onstituting Animacy and Community in a Terminal Formative Bundled Offering from the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico鈥 (Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2017).

Oliver Paine, 2019
Early Hominins in Nutritional Space: Investigating the Mechanical and Nutritional Properties of African Savanna Vegetation

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University

Danielle Merriman, 2018

Critical Visibility in Colombia: Victimhood, Reparations, and the Challenge of Visibilizarse

Director of Projects and Redressive Practice, Center for Restorative History, National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

William (Willi) Lempert, 2018
Palya Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin College

Meryleen Mena, 2018
Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in Sao Paulo's Criminal Justice System

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Division of Computer and Network Systems
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering听Sciences
Class of 2023-2024
2021-2022 Bates College, Anthropology, Visiting Lecturer
2020-2021 欧美口爆视频NY, Visiting Lecturer
2019-2021 Mellon/America Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Public Fellow

Cody Newton, 2018
Equestrian Hunter-Gatherers and the Animal Trade of the Western Great Plains and Adjacent Rocky Mountains, 1800-1860

Lead Archaeologist SWCA Environmental Consultants, Sheridan, Wyoming

Jennifer Leichliter, 2018
Early Hominin Environments in Sourthern Africa: A Micromammalian Perspective

Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Emmy Noether Group for Hominin Meat Consumption at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Morgan Seamont, 2018
Becoming "The Man I Want to Be:" Transgender Masculinity, Embodiment, and Sexuality

Program Director, Pride Office, Transgender Specialist, Center for Inclusion and Social Change, University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder
/cisc/morgan-seamont

Allison Formanack, 2018
Mobile Home on the Range: Manufacturing Ruin and Respect in an American Zone of Abandonment

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, School of Science and Global Studies, University of Southern Mississippi

2019-2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College

Jason Scott, 2018
Pacified Inclusion: Digital Reproduction in Rio de Janeiro's Shantytowns

Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University and听
Lecturer, department of Criminology, Sociology, and Anthropology at Marquette University
2021 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Beloit College

Andie Ang, 2017
Genetic Variability, Diet Metabarcoding, and Conservation of Colobine Primates in Vietnam

Senior Manager (Primate Conservation & Singapore Programmes)
Mandai Nature
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Deputy Chair
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group

President
Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore)

Erin Baxter, 2016
A New Archaeological History of Aztec Ruins, New Mexico: Excavating the Archives

Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Traci Bekelman, 2016
Using the Protein Leverage Hypothesis to Understand Socioeconomic Variation in Diet and Obesity


Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the 欧美口爆视频 School of Public Health and the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center. Her research is focused on understanding study how biology, culture and the social and physical environments interact to influence lifestyle behaviors and obesity among children and adolescents.

Rachel Fleming, 2016
Working For a Happy Life In Bangalore:听 Gender, Generation, and Temporal Liminality In India's Tech City

Senior User Experience Researcher, Amazon Web Services

Amy Harrison-Levine, 2016
Forest Resource Overlap in Humans and Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkeys of Ha Giang Province, Vietnam: Theoretical and Conservation Implication


Conservation Impact Director
Island Conservation

Ruth Martinez-Cervantes, 2016
The Colonial Heritage of Mestizaje

Archaeological consultant and faculty member, Universidad Centroamericana
Managua, Nicaragua
https://ni.linkedin.com/in/ruth-martinez-cervantes-a61b63a9

James Millette, 2016
The Effects of Dental Impairment on the Biology and Behavioral Ecology of Wild Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bez脿 Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar

Assistant Director & Epic Team Coordinator for SMBA Singletrack Mountain Bike Adventures

Marnie Thomson, 2016
Stories of Darkness: Congolese Refugees, Humanitarian Governance, and a Neglected Conflict

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College

Jakob Sedig, 2015

The Mimbres Transitional Phase: Examining Social, Demographic, and Environmental Resilience and Vulnerability from AD 900-1000 in Southwest New Mexico

Ethics and Outreach Officer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow听
Reich Laboratory of Medical and Population Genetics
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Ivy Reiger, 2015

Where the Clouds Descend: Fiestas and the Practice of Belonging in San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

Postdoctoral Fellow
Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, San Luis Potos铆, Mexico

Guy Hepp, 2015

La Consentida: Initial Early Formative Period Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University (awarded the 2016 Dissertation Award of the Society for American Archaeology).
Author of听La Consentida: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community听(University of 欧美口爆视频 Press, 2019).

Jamie Forde, 2015

The Conquest of the Place of Flame: Indigenous Domestic Life at Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico

Lecturer of Pre-Modern Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (equivalent to an Assistant Professor).
Author of 鈥淭angled Strands of Silk: Globalizing the Local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca鈥 (Ethnohistory, 2022)

Kathryn Putsavage, 2015
Social Reorganization in the Mimbres Region of Southwestern New Mexico: The Classic to Postclassic Mimbres Transition (A.D. 1150 to 1450)

Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at the American Meteorological Society, Boulder, 欧美口爆视频

Katherine Fischer, 2015

The Ends of Coffee: State, Work, and Identity in Post-CAFTA Costa Rica

Teaching Assistant Professor, Associate DEI Director, Honors Residential Academic Program; Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program
University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder
/honors/kate-fischer

Jonathan O鈥楤rien, 2014

The Ecology and Conservation of BlackShanked Douc (Pygathrix nigripes) in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam

Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Anthropology and Continuing Education
University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder
/anthropology/jonathan-obrien

Magdalena Stawkowski, 2014
Radioactive Knowledge: State Control of Scientific Information in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Christopher Morris, 2014
The Social Life of an African Medicine: Labor, Lawfare, and Authority in the Umckaloabo Extractive Industry

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Mason University

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Clarkson University (2014-17)

Adam Blanford, 2014

Rethinking Tarascan Political and Spatial Organization

听听听听听听听听听听听 CRM, 欧美口爆视频 Springs, CO

Le Khac Quyet, 2014

Technical Advisor, USAID Biodiversity Conservation
World Wildlife Fund 鈥 Vietnam
Regional Vice Chair 鈥 Asia
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group听

William Porter Bourie, 2014

Knowledge-Networks of Climate Change and Development: How God and Technoscience Influence USAID Projects in Burkina Faso

Director of Research and Analytics, Dexis Consulting Group, Washington DC

Larry Ulibarri, 2013
The Socioecology of Red-Shanked Doucs (Pyganthrix nemaeus) in Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam

Senior Instructor
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon

Michaela Howells, 2013
Maternal Psychosocial Stress and Neonate Outcomes on the Pacific Island of Tutuila


Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Her research is focused on understanding how health risks rooted in inequalities within the social environment shape the biology of minoritized pregnant people and their developing children.