Graduate Students

Abidine, Karima

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)
Middle East and North Africa, Youth, Performance Arts, Urban Space.

karima@u.northwestern.edu

Adrover, Lauren

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008), commodification of culture, embodied practice, money and value, political economy, West Africa.

ladrover@u.northwestern.edu

Aiello, Marco

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004) Infectious disease; Growth and development; Nutrition; Amazonia. m-aiello@northwestern.edu

http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/anthropology/LHBR/Aiello.html

Bragg, Jared

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2009)

bragg@u.northwestern.edu

Bump, Natalie

JD/PhD (Doctoral student 2007) West Africa, Chicagoland, law and everyday life. n-bump@law.northwestern.edu

Butler, Noah

Cultural/ Africa Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004) Anthropology of knowledge; economic anthropology; social organization; Islam; West Africa.

n-butler@northwestern.edu

Coleman-Goldstein, Robin

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2005) development of complex societies, household archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, empires.

r-coleman3@northwestern.edu

Dejene, Bethlehem

Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2006), East Africa, ritual healing, spirit healing, spirit possession, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church. b-dejene@northwestern.edu

DeLucia, Kristin

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2007) Mesoamerica (Central Mexico), social inequality, political economy, gender and ethnic identities, households, bioarchaeology, colonialism. k-delucia@northwestern.edu

Diamond, Michael

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) michael-diamond@northwestern.edu

Eisenberg, Dan T. A.

Biological Anthropology, (PhD Candidate 2009) Evolution, Life History Theory, Telomere Biology, developmental origins of adult disease, Adaptive Genetic Diversity, Lowland Bolivia, Cebu, Philippines. www.dtae.net

Gettler, Lee

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007) Life History Theory, Behavioral endocrinology, Male reproductive physiology, Hormonal correlates of fathering, Mother-infant cosleeping. lgettler@northwestern.edu

Glaser, Alana

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007)

http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/students/alg852/

Hunleth, Jean

Cultural/Africa Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007)

j-hunleth@northwestern.edu

Jacobsohn, Aryeh

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) AryehJacobsohn2013@u.northwestern.edu

Juarez, Santiago

Archaeology (Doctoral student 2007)

Kanne, Katherine

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2008) Archaeology, human-animal relationships, Bronze Age Hungary, development of complex societies, political economy, cross-cultural analysis. k-kanne@northwestern.edu

Kares, Faith

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007) Gender, race/ethnicity, political economy, international development, transnational social movements, diaspora, tourism and urban development, Filipino/Filipino Americans, Philippines and U.S. FaithKares2013@u.northwestern.edu

Koycheva, Lora

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007) post-socialist societies, especially the Balkans, economic and political anthropology, anthropology of religion, historiography, semiotics, cultural memory, aesthetics, cybercultures, nationalism. l-koycheva@northwestern.edu

Landau, Kristin

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2009)

KristinLandau2015@u.northwestern.edu

Marquez Jr., Arturo

Cultural/Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2009)

ArturoMarquez2013@u.northwestern.edu

Mauxion, Aurélien

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2008) Land-tenure management and local politics, West Africa. a-mauxion@northwestern.edu

Mendenhall, Emily

Medical Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007) global health, illness narratives, mental health, gender, migration, trauma, and structural violence in the Americas. e-mendenhall@northwestern.edu

Miller, Aaron

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004) Reproductive Ecology, Human Energetics, Nutrition. Lowland Bolivia. a-miller@northwestern.edu

http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/anthropology/LHBR/Miller.html

Millhauser, John

Archaeology (Doctoral student 2007) Mesoamerica, Northwest Mexico, Postclassic Central Mexico, lithics, trade and exchange, archaeometry, migrations, borders, the social use of space.

j-millhauser@northwestern.edu

Minor, Melissa

Cultural/Biological Anthropology, MPH/PhD (Doctoral student 2007) m-minor@northwestern.edu

Miranda, Almita

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) Race/ethnicity, gender, political economy, immigrant rights, citizenship, transnationalism, social movements, family ideology, U.S. Latinos/as; U.S., Mexico AlmitaMiranda2007@u.northwestern.edu

Morehart, Christopher

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2005) Mesoamerica (Maya and Aztec), Paleoethnobotany/ethnobotany, Political Economy, Ritual, Gender, Household Archaeology, Settlement Patterns, Agricultural Systems, GIS/Remote Sensing, Archaeology and Tourism c-morehart@northwestern.edu

Mumm, Jesse

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007) Urban and Americanist anthropology, race, political economy, gentrification & local development, immigration, Latinos in the US, neighborhoods, landscape, space, Chicago.

j-mumm@northwestern.edu

Nyberg, Colleen

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2005) c-nyberg@northwestern.edu

Overholtzer, Lisa

Archaeology (Doctoral student 2006) Post-classic central Mexico; archaeology of households and everyday life; space and place; multiple forms of identity, such as gender, ethnicity, and age; analysis of ceramics, especially figurines; geoarchaeology; ethnohistoric documents. l-overholtzer@northwestern.edu

Pankonien, Dawn

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007) political economy of Mexico; community development, tourism, service production, and neoliberal capitalism; kinship and household organization; women's migration and marriage choices; single motherhood. d-pankonien@northwestern.edu

Polanyi, Tamas

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2008) tamaspolanyi@u.northwestern.edu

Preston-Werner, Theresa

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2006) research interests: Ethnography of Central and South America; gender; age; families and households; symbolic capital and social status; foodways. t-preston@northwestern.edu

Quinn, EA

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007) developmental origins of adult disease, breastfeeding, breast milk, growth and development.

e-quinn2@northwestern.edu

http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/LHBR/Quinn.html

Scherrer, Rachel

Cultural/Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2003)

r-scherrer@northwestern.edu

Seibel, Kimberly

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) National/local identity, ethnicity, civil conflict, displacement, transnationalism, Chad, Sudan. KimberlySeibel2013@u.northwestern.edu

Shih, Chung-Yu

Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2002)

Slubowski, Lauren

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) LaurenSlubowski2013@u.northwestern.edu

Steinmetz, Emily

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2005), e-steinmetz@northwestern.edu

Stubbs, Matilda

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) foster youth, orphans, runaways, adolescents kinship systems and queer consciousness within the United States. MatildaStubbs2012@u.northwestern.edu

Tallman, Paula

Biological Anthropology (Doctor Student 2009)

PaulaTallman2014@u.northwestern.edu

Taylor, Sarah

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) Diet and nutrition; obesity and health; human biology, physiology, and ecology; human rights and inequality; issues of "race" and class; eugenics and bioethics; human variation and adaptation; food processing and food systems; and the social and biological aspects of aging. sarah.r.taylor@u.northwestern.edu

Tejeda, Ana

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2008) Pacific coast of Guatemala, Complex Societies, Political Economy, Craft Specialization, Gender, Regional Studies, Geochemical Provenience. a-tejeda@northwestern.edu

Thayer, Zaneta

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008) human biology, developmental plasticity, evolutionary theory, human variation, growth and development. ZanetaThayer2014@u.northwestern.edu

Vento, Melanie

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2008), m-vento@northwestern.edu

Wilhoit, Mary Elena

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2009)

ella@u.northwestern.edu

Young, Jessica

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2008), JessicaYoung2013@u.northwestern.edu