Washington Univ. Arts & Sciences
Washington Univ. Dept. of Anthropology

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

Recent Grad Student Publications

Examples of Ongoing Projects
Sociocultural
Archaeology
Physical Anth
Suicide and Gendered Subjectivity in Northeastern Rural China (Hyeon Jung Lee) A New Construction History of Monks Mound (Tim Schilling) Faunal Interchange between Africa and Eurasia (Mercedes Gutierrez)
Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Ayurvedic Medicine (Chith Kudlu) Early Agriculture in Northeast Mexico (Kevin Hanselka) Long Bone Growth in Immature Late Pleistocene Homonids (Libby Cowgill)
Language revitalization in Wales (Jennifer Quincey) Rodent Communities of Maasai Villages (Lior Weissbrod) Makapansgat Hominins and S. African Australopithecines (Tafline Crawford)
Perspectives and Politics of Medical Research of Native Americans (Puneet Singh) Multi-Component Rockshelter Excavations (Kristen Arntzen) Behavioral ecology of black-handed spider monkeys (Jennifer Weghorst)
Islam and Obstetrics in Indonesia (Vanessa Hildebrand)   Behavioral Ecology of Howler Monkeys (LeAndra Luecke)
Transnational Linkages in Haitian Religious Communities (Bertin Louis)    
Some Recent Projects
Facial Mobility in Anthropoid Primates (Seth Dobson) Late Quaternary Extinctions in Madagascar (Kathleen Muldoon) Postcranial Anatomy of Modern Humans (Laura Shackelford)
Agricultural Intensification and Formative Period Society (Maria Bruno) Plant Food Production Systems in East Africa (Sarah Walshaw) Loss of Agricultural Biodiversity (Angela Gordon)
Community-Based Politics in Northern Ireland (Jennifer Curtis) Regional Brain Metabolism (Jason Kaufman) Pots and Politics at Cahokia (Jenna Hamlin)
Middle Pleistocene Frontal Bone Variation (Sheela Athreya) Class, Culture and Media in Indonesia (Gareth Barkin) Philippine Baprists in Global - Local Context (Brian Howell)
Classic Hohokam Economy and Subsistence (Karla Hansen) Institutional Change among the Samburu (Carolyn Lesorogol) Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Knowledge in Indonesia (Karen Kroeger)
Howler Monkeys in Fragmented Forests (Laura Marsh) Marriage and Islamic Law (Erin Stiles) Zooarchaeology at Axum, Northern Ethiopia (Chet Cain)
Bison, Plants and Mobility in Ancient New Mexico (Gina Powell) Evolution of Social Norms among Malagasy Farmers (Margaret Brown) Ethnicity and Wage Work in Africa (Richard Kisiara)
Behavioral Ecology of Capuchin Monkeys (Lisa Rose) Conservation of African Apes (Claudia Olejniczak) Optimal Foraging Theory in the Ancient Mississippi (Kitty Roberts)