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Abidine, Karima

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

Adrover. Lauren

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

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

 

Andronova, Tatiana

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2003), t-andronova@northwestern.edu

 

Beasley, Virgil

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2000), v-beasley@northwestern.edu

 

Bump, Natalie

JD/PhD (Doctoral student 2007), n-bump@law.northwestern.edu

West Africa, Chicagoland, law and everyday life

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), 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

 

Eisenberg, Dan T. A.

Biological Anthropology, (Doctoral student 2007)  Nutrition, Evolution, Adaptive Genetic Diversity, Lowland Bolivia. www.dtae.net

Fabricant, Nicole

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2005) Urban ethnography, Latin American Politics, Indigenous Social Movements, Race/Ethnicity, Community-based research and Social Justice, n-fabricant@northwestern.edu

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)

Hicks, Kathryn

Biological Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004) nutrition; infectious disease; urban anthropology; Andes, Latin America , k-hicks2@northwestern.eduhttp://www.cas.northwestern.edu/anthropology/LHBR/Hicks.html

 

Hunleth, Jean

Cultural/Africa Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2007)

j-hunleth@northwestern.edu

Jacobsohn, Aryeh

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

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, nationalism, political economy, international development and foreign aid projects, transnational social movements, diaspora, Filipino/Filipino Americans, Philippines and U.S.

nwu-frk864@northwestern.edu

Koycheva, Lora

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral student 2007), l-koycheva@northwestern.edu

Lindsay, Kathleen

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral student 2001), k-lindsay@northwestern.edu

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

 

Linganzi, Vanessa

Cultural/Africa Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2001) economic anthropology, poverty/wealth issues, knowledge production & self-perception, vlinganzi@yahoo.com

 

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) sexual and reproductive narrative, mental health, social networks, structures of power, health disparities, gender, race, migration and transnational communities, Chicago and Latin America, 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) Prehistoric trade and exchange, prehistoric art and symbolism, cultural contact and transmission, the social use of space, GIS, lithic analysis, Mesoamerica, Northwest Mexico, Postclassic Central Mexico

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)

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

 

Munoz, Jose

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2002) Political Economy of West Africa, Legal Anthropology, Economic Development, Islam, Cameroon, Fulbe Studies,

jm-munoz@northwestern.edu

 

Nyberg, Colleen

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

Ohri, Ekta

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

 

Oland, Maxine

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2003) Contact Period in the Americas, colonialism, political economy, Mesoamerica, household archaeology, gender, -oland@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)

 

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)

Shih, Chung-Yu

Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2002)

 

Singleton, Judith

Cultural Anthropology (PhD Candidate 2004) law and culture, gender relations, violence, j-singleton@northwestern.edu

Slubowski, Lauren

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

 

Steinmetz, Emily

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

Stubbs, Matilda

Cultural Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

Taylor, Sarah

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

 

Tejeda, Ana

Archaeology (PhD Candidate 2008) (Basin of Mexico) Political economy; evolution of complex societies and the State; regional analysis of settlement systems; craft specialization; geochemical provenance of ceramics; gender.

a-tejeda@northwestern.edu

Thayer, Zaneta

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2008)

Vento, Melanie

Biological Anthropology (Doctoral Student 2005), m-vento@northwestern.edu

 

Young, Jessica

Archaeology (Doctoral Student 2008)

 

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