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

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Recent Grad Student Publications

Examples of Ongoing Projects
Sociocultural
Archaeology
Physical Anth
Meaning Making in a Somali Diaspora (Anna Jacobsen) Geoarchaeology at Jaketown (Lee Arco) Introduced cacti, sacred forests, and ring-tailed lemurs (Lisa Kelley)
Mapping Mobile Identities in Metropolitan Kenya (Meghan Ference)  Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Highlands of Bolivia (Jose Capriles) Faunal Interchange between Africa and Eurasia (Mercedes Gutierrez)
Politics of “Specialized” Mental Healthcare for Immigrants in Paris (Stéphanie Larchanché) A New Construction History of Monks Mound (Tim Schilling) Behavioral Ecology of Howler Monkeys (LeAndra Luecke)
Schooling in Post-Soviet Society (Jennifer Wistrand) Early Agriculture in Northeast Mexico (Kevin Hanselka) Makapansgat Hominins and S. African Australopithecines (Tafline Crawford)
Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Ayurvedic Medicine (Chith Kudlu) Rodent Communities of Maasai Villages (Lior Weissbrod) Behavioral ecology of black-handed spider monkeys (Jennifer Weghorst)
Life and Change in an American Adolescent  Residential Treatment Center (Katie Hejtmanek) Multi-Component Rockshelter Excavations (Kristen Arntzen)
Language revitalization in Wales (Jennifer Quincey)  
Suicide and Gendered Subjectivity in Northeastern Rural China (Hyeon Jung Lee)  


Some Recent Projects
Perspectives and Politics of Medical Research of Native Americans (Puneet Sahota) Islam and Obstetrics in Indonesia (Vanessa Hildebrand) Long Bone Growth in Immature Late Pleistocene Homonids (Libby Cowgill)
Transnational Linkages in Haitian Religious Communities (Bertin Louis) Late Quaternary Extinctions in Madagascar (Kathleen Muldoon) Postcranial Anatomy of Modern Humans (Laura Shackelford)
Facial Mobility in Anthropoid Primates (Seth Dobson) Plant Food Production Systems in East Africa (Sarah Walshaw) Loss of Agricultural Biodiversity (Angela Gordon)
Agricultural Intensification and Formative Period Society (Maria Bruno) Regional Brain Metabolism (Jason Kaufman) Pots and Politics at Cahokia (Jenna Hamlin)
Community-Based Politics in Northern Ireland (Jennifer Curtis) Class, Culture and Media in Indonesia (Gareth Barkin) Philippine Baprists in Global - Local Context (Brian Howell)
Middle Pleistocene Frontal Bone Variation (Sheela Athreya) Institutional Change among the Samburu (Carolyn Lesorogol) Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Knowledge in Indonesia (Karen Kroeger)
Classic Hohokam Economy and Subsistence (Karla Hansen) Marriage and Islamic Law (Erin Stiles) Zooarchaeology at Axum, Northern Ethiopia (Chet Cain)
Howler Monkeys in Fragmented Forests (Laura Marsh) Evolution of Social Norms among Malagasy Farmers (Margaret Brown) Ethnicity and Wage Work in Africa (Richard Kisiara)
Bison, Plants and Mobility in Ancient New Mexico (Gina Powell) Conservation of African Apes (Claudia Olejniczak) Optimal Foraging Theory in the Ancient Mississippi (Kitty Roberts)