Graduate Student Profiles
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Research/Interest: sexuality, politics, knowledge production, historical anthropology, Martinique/Guadeloupe/France
Research/Interest: sexuality, politics, knowledge production, historical anthropology, Martinique/Guadeloupe/France
Julie Anidjar
Research/Interest: North American archaeology, historical Archaeology, seasonality studies of fauna, zooarchaeology.
Research/Interest: North American archaeology, historical Archaeology, seasonality studies of fauna, zooarchaeology.
Shanti Avirgan
Research/Interest: Culture and media, ethnography of science and technology, gender and sexuality, social movements, pharmaceutical industry, transnational ethnography
Research/Interest: Culture and media, ethnography of science and technology, gender and sexuality, social movements, pharmaceutical industry, transnational ethnography
Ashley Bales
Research/Interest: Hominin evolution, comparative cranial morphology, evolutionary theory
Ashley Bales is a PhD student in biological anthropology and is interested in identifying traits in the cranium divorced from adaptive or functional restraints which reflect population level changes primarily due to genetic drift. Her research focuses on the manner in which morphology can reflect evolutionary processes and the application of these findings to the hominin fossil record.
Research/Interest: Hominin evolution, comparative cranial morphology, evolutionary theory
Ashley Bales is a PhD student in biological anthropology and is interested in identifying traits in the cranium divorced from adaptive or functional restraints which reflect population level changes primarily due to genetic drift. Her research focuses on the manner in which morphology can reflect evolutionary processes and the application of these findings to the hominin fossil record.
Lucas Bessire
Research/Interest: Production of indigenous identities and epistemologies, native righst/sovereignty
Research/Interest: Production of indigenous identities and epistemologies, native righst/sovereignty
Robert Chang
Research/Interest: Intergenerational relations, gendered hierarchical social relations, diasporic and transnational ethnic formations within Buddhist communities in the US, fat activism
Research/Interest: Intergenerational relations, gendered hierarchical social relations, diasporic and transnational ethnic formations within Buddhist communities in the US, fat activism
Paulo Chaves
Research/Interest: B.A. Pontificia Universidad Catolica do RS Brazil; MA Universidad Federal do Espirito Santo Brazil Primatology, muriquis, genetics, conservation, Brazil
Research/Interest: B.A. Pontificia Universidad Catolica do RS Brazil; MA Universidad Federal do Espirito Santo Brazil Primatology, muriquis, genetics, conservation, Brazil
Emily Cohen
Research/Interest: Emily Cohen does research with soldiers and civilians injured by landmines in Colombia, South America. She looks how medicine, science, and technology influence the ways people come to know their mind, body, and sense of self. Emily has written an article on orphan films. She is currently making a documentary film on landmines and rehabilitation medicine in Colombia entitled, MINA.
Research/Interest: Emily Cohen does research with soldiers and civilians injured by landmines in Colombia, South America. She looks how medicine, science, and technology influence the ways people come to know their mind, body, and sense of self. Emily has written an article on orphan films. She is currently making a documentary film on landmines and rehabilitation medicine in Colombia entitled, MINA.
Alison Cool
Research/Interest: feminist anthropology, reproduction, kinship, science studies, ethnographic film, twins in media and popular culture, and medical histories.
Research/Interest: feminist anthropology, reproduction, kinship, science studies, ethnographic film, twins in media and popular culture, and medical histories.
Victoria Dominguez
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Histology, Human vs. Nonhuman Differentiation, Skeletal Morphology
Research/Interest: Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Histology, Human vs. Nonhuman Differentiation, Skeletal Morphology
Zenobie Garrett
Research/Interest: Iron Age Europe and Ireland, Early Saxon England, landscape archaeology, theory
Research/Interest: Iron Age Europe and Ireland, Early Saxon England, landscape archaeology, theory
Adam Green
Research/Interest: State-level archaeology, style, social structure, Indus Civilization, theory
Research/Interest: State-level archaeology, style, social structure, Indus Civilization, theory
Rebecca Howes-Mischel
Research/Interest: Rebecca Howes-Mischel is a doctoral candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology at New York University; she received her MA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at NYU and her BA in Sociology/ Anthropology and Women's Studies at Swarthmore College, Summa Cum Laude. Her Wenner-Gren Foundation supported dissertation research explores various regimes of pregnancy management (largely in and around public health clinics) in Oaxaca, Mexico and with Oaxacan immigrants in Southern California. In her non-academic time she is a member and past Chair of the Resist, Inc. Board of Directors doing grants evaluation, organizational and financial oversight, and board development for a national foundation.
Research/Interest: Rebecca Howes-Mischel is a doctoral candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology at New York University; she received her MA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at NYU and her BA in Sociology/ Anthropology and Women's Studies at Swarthmore College, Summa Cum Laude. Her Wenner-Gren Foundation supported dissertation research explores various regimes of pregnancy management (largely in and around public health clinics) in Oaxaca, Mexico and with Oaxacan immigrants in Southern California. In her non-academic time she is a member and past Chair of the Resist, Inc. Board of Directors doing grants evaluation, organizational and financial oversight, and board development for a national foundation.
Tate LeFevre
Research/Interest: Indigenous identities, Melanesia (New Caledonia), France, cultural production, French cultural politics, post-colonial situations, visual anthropology and representation
Research/Interest: Indigenous identities, Melanesia (New Caledonia), France, cultural production, French cultural politics, post-colonial situations, visual anthropology and representation
Leigh Oldershaw
Research/Interest: Roman Archaeology, Mortuary Archaeology, Cremation Burials, Paleopathology
Position: Second Year MA in the Human Skeletal Biology Program
Thesis Topic: The use of root translucency aging in cremated remains
Research/Interest: Roman Archaeology, Mortuary Archaeology, Cremation Burials, Paleopathology
Position: Second Year MA in the Human Skeletal Biology Program
Thesis Topic: The use of root translucency aging in cremated remains
Alejandra Ortiz
Research/Interest: Human variation, dental anthropology, human osteology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans, peopling of the New World, Andean archaeology
Research/Interest: Human variation, dental anthropology, human osteology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans, peopling of the New World, Andean archaeology
Noah Pleshet
Research/Interest: research draws on social anthropological methods, together with zooarchaeological knowledge and economic theory, to constitute a new materialist approach to interspecific ethnography, and to contribute to a growing disciplinary interest in zooanthropology.
Research/Interest: research draws on social anthropological methods, together with zooarchaeological knowledge and economic theory, to constitute a new materialist approach to interspecific ethnography, and to contribute to a growing disciplinary interest in zooanthropology.
Thomas R Rein
Research/Interest: Tom Rein graduated from Columbia University (B.A. 2003) with a degree in Anthropology and received his M.A. from New York University (2006) in Biological Anthropology. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in Biological Anthropology at NYU and a member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. Tom’s research examines primate locomotion and the fossil record. He is interested in using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics to identify the most reliable morphological indicators of locomotor function in the forelimb. A clearer understanding of the compromise between phylogenetic heritage and the responsiveness of postcranial elements to selective pressures related to locomotion can be useful when inferring the locomotor behavior of fossil taxa including early hominins such as Australopithecus afarensis. His broader research interests include paleontology, primate positional behavior, comparative primate morphology, early hominin evolution, and the rise of bipedalism.
Research/Interest: Tom Rein graduated from Columbia University (B.A. 2003) with a degree in Anthropology and received his M.A. from New York University (2006) in Biological Anthropology. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in Biological Anthropology at NYU and a member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. Tom’s research examines primate locomotion and the fossil record. He is interested in using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics to identify the most reliable morphological indicators of locomotor function in the forelimb. A clearer understanding of the compromise between phylogenetic heritage and the responsiveness of postcranial elements to selective pressures related to locomotion can be useful when inferring the locomotor behavior of fossil taxa including early hominins such as Australopithecus afarensis. His broader research interests include paleontology, primate positional behavior, comparative primate morphology, early hominin evolution, and the rise of bipedalism.
Louis Römer
Research/Interest: B. A. Utrecht. M.A. Cambridge. Dutch Antilles: Language, historical anthropology, law, cultural politics.
Research/Interest: B. A. Utrecht. M.A. Cambridge. Dutch Antilles: Language, historical anthropology, law, cultural politics.
Kinley Russell
Research/Interest: human evolution, osteology, public evolution education through museums and media
Research/Interest: human evolution, osteology, public evolution education through museums and media
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
Research/Interest: United States, race and media, language and representation, gender and aesthetic industries
Research/Interest: United States, race and media, language and representation, gender and aesthetic industries
Matthew D Spigelman
Research/Interest: Matt Spigelman’s research investigates the links between economic intensification and the emergence of new social categories, during the trasition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age on Cyprus. Matt is particularly interested in the production and social construction of objects to signify status and/or group identity. He has been working on the Island of Cyprus since 2002, primarily with the Athienou Archaeological Project, at the site of Athienou-Malloura.
Research/Interest: Matt Spigelman’s research investigates the links between economic intensification and the emergence of new social categories, during the trasition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age on Cyprus. Matt is particularly interested in the production and social construction of objects to signify status and/or group identity. He has been working on the Island of Cyprus since 2002, primarily with the Athienou Archaeological Project, at the site of Athienou-Malloura.
Damien E Stankiewicz
Research/Interest: Political identity, mass media, nationalism/transnationalism
Research/Interest: Political identity, mass media, nationalism/transnationalism
Anna Wilking
Research/Interest: Latin America, sex workers, law and governance, gender and sexuality
Research/Interest: Latin America, sex workers, law and governance, gender and sexuality
Steven Worthington
Research/Interest: Theory and method of phylogenetic inference, geometric morphometric methods in systematics, homoplasy in anthropoid evolution
Research/Interest: Theory and method of phylogenetic inference, geometric morphometric methods in systematics, homoplasy in anthropoid evolution
Emily Yates-Doerr
Research/Interest: My dissertation examines Guatemala’s nutrition transition and changing perceptions of dietary health and body weight ideals. I conducted my fieldwork (Jan 2008-May 2009) in nutrition and weight loss clinics, alongside public health educators who focus on chronic illness, and while living in 12 highland Guatemalan homes. Research interests include: Medicine, Public Health and the Study of Science • Latin American Society and History • Cuisine and Taste • Markets and Measures of Value • Aesthetics, Ethics and Rationality • Modernity and Nostalgia • Anthropological Methodology
Research/Interest: My dissertation examines Guatemala’s nutrition transition and changing perceptions of dietary health and body weight ideals. I conducted my fieldwork (Jan 2008-May 2009) in nutrition and weight loss clinics, alongside public health educators who focus on chronic illness, and while living in 12 highland Guatemalan homes. Research interests include: Medicine, Public Health and the Study of Science • Latin American Society and History • Cuisine and Taste • Markets and Measures of Value • Aesthetics, Ethics and Rationality • Modernity and Nostalgia • Anthropological Methodology
