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PhD Alumni

Virgil R. Beasly

Principal Investigator, Cedars Consulting
Expertise: Archaeology, Fishing Cultures, Southeastern United States

virgilrbeasley@gmail.com

Rob Beck

Professor of Anthropology & Curator of North American Archaeology, University of Michigan
Expertise: Archaeology of Colonialism, Origins of Social Complexity, North America, Andes

rabeck@umich.edu

Douglas Bolender

Senior Lecturer & Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise: Archaeology; Property and social inequality; households and agricultural production; North Atlantic Viking Age; geochemistry; landscape archaeology; and geographic information systems

Douglas.Bolender@umb.edu

V Varun Chaudhry

Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Transgender studies, queer of color critique, Black feminism, critical NGO studies, United States

vvarunchaudhry@gmail.com

Beth Derderian

Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Middle East North Africa Studies, Museum Studies, Wooster College
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Politics of representations, museums, art, migration/transnationalism, Middle East Studies, museum studies, Arab Gulf, United Arab Emirates

bderderian@wooster.edu

Michael Diamond

President, World Resources Chicago & Senior Professional Lecturer/Coordinator Internships and Professional Development, School of Public Service, DePaul University; Global Health Studies, Adjunct Lecturer, Northwesern University
Expertise: Medical Anthropology; Consulting; Assessment of programmatic impact on health outcomes; Improving health outcomes; Immunization; Global health; Sustainable development; Cultural competency; Chicago, Illinois, Cape Town, South Africa, Guatemala

mdiamond@worldresourceschicago.com

John F. Doershuk

State Archaeologist of Iowa, Director, Office of the State Archaeologist; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Expertise: Archaeology, Iowa, Mid-continent USA

john-doershuk@uiowa.edu

Dan Eisenberg

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Expertise: Biological Anthropology

dtae@uw.edu

Ruby Fried

Assistant Professor of Health Science, Division of Population Health Sciences-Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Alaska, Circumpolar North

rlfried@alaska.edu

Alana Glaser

Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, St. John's University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, care work, migration, United States, political economy

glasera@stjohns.edu

Jean Hunleath

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, caregiving, anthropology of childhood, Southern Africa, US Midwest

jean.hunleth@wustl.edu

Kathryn Catlin

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the Department of Chemistry and Geosciences, Jacksonville State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Human Ecodynamics, North Atlantic

kathrynacatlin@gmail.com

Nurhaizatul Jamil

Assistant Professor in Global Health Studies, Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Religion, social media, gender, fashion, sustainability, Global South

njamil@pratt.edu

Santiago Juarez

Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Colgate University
Expertise: Archaeology, Preclassic Maya, Chiapas, Mexico

sjuarez@colgate.edu

Katherine S. Kanne

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter
Expertise: Archaeology, Human-Animal-Environment Interactions, Archaeology of Equestrianism, Bronze Age Europe

kate.kanne@gmail.com

Lauren Keenan-Devlin

Research Scientist, Northshore University HealthSystem & Research Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Expertise: Medical Anthropology, Perinatal Health Disparities, Chicagoland

laslubo@gmail.com

Elisa Lanari

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, US ethnography; urban anthropology; racism, whiteness, and racial capitalism; Latinxs in the US South; inequality and the politics of "diversity" in new US and European migratory contexts; space, place, and community activism, Europe (Italy)

lanari@mmg.mpg.de

Stephanie Levy

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, human energetics, biological adaptation, life history theory, developmental origins of health and disease, social influences on health disparities, cardio-metabolic health, climate change, brown adipose tissue, Siberia

stephblevy@gmail.com

Arturo Marquez Jr.

Assistant Professor, Study of Society and Culture, Drake University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology; Transnational Mobility and Settlement; Southern Europe, West Africa, US Southwest

arturo.marquez.jr@drake.edu

Aurélien Mauxion

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Human Services, Columbia College
Cultural Anthropolog

amauxion@ccis.edu

Emily Mendenhall

Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Expertise: Medical and Pyschological Anthropology; global health; Kenya, India, South Africa, United States

em1061@georgetown.edu

Aaron Miller

Lab Manager & Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Energetics, Reproduction, Methods

a-miller@northwestern.edu

John Millhauser

Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Economic Anthropology, Mesoamerica

millhauser@ncsu.edu

Olive M. Minor

Applied Anthropologist & User Researcher, Anthro-Tech
Expertise: Cultural and Medical Anthropology, Technology, Design Anthropology, Global Health, Africa

olive.m.minor@gmail.com

Chris Morehart

Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Environmental and Economic Anthropology, Mexico and Latin America

christopher.morehart@asu.edu

Jesse Mumm

Professional Lecturer, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Race and racism, Latinos, whiteness, gentrification, cities, social interaction, Chicago

jmumm2@depaul.edu

José Maria Muñoz

Senior Lecturer, Centre of African Studies, University of Ediburgh
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Cameroon, West-Central Africa

J.Munoz@ed.ac.uk

Lisa Overholtzer

Assistant Professor and William Dawson Chair of Anthropology, McGill University
Expertise: Archaeology, household archaeology, ceramics, social identity, imperialism and colonialism, collaborative/Indigenous archaeology, Mesoamerica, central America

lisa.overholzter@mcgill.ca

Rana Özbal

Associate Professor, Archaeology and the History of Art, Koç University
Expertise: Archaeololgy, Prehistoric Periods of Anatolia

rozbal@ku.edu.tr

Jessica Pouchet

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Bucknell University
Expertise: Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology of Biodiversity and Forest Conservation in Tanzania, Africa

jpouchet@u.northwestern.edu

Elizabeth (EA) Quinn

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Human Milk, Lactation, High Altitude Adaptation, Nepal

equinn@wustl.edu

Roberto Rosado-Ramirez

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Expertise: Anthropological Archaeology; Ancient and Modern Maya History; Yucatan, Mexico.

rosado-ramirez@virginia.edu

Mark Schwartz

Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Complex societies, trade and exchange, early Mesopotamian civilization, Near East

schwamar@gvsu.edu

Heidi Swank

Executive Director, Rethos: Places Reimagined
Expertise: Linguistic Anthropology, Historic Preservation, Central United States, State Legislative Experience

heidi@rethos.org

Elizabeth Sweet

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Social Determinants of Health, United States

Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu

Paula Tallman

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago
Expertise: Biological Anthropology; Human Biology; Critical Medical Anthropology; Biocultural Approach; Indigenous studies; Health; Well-Being; Conservation; Environmental Justice; Vulnerability; Food Insecurity; Water Insecurity

ptallman@fieldmuseum.org

Zaneta Thayer

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Expertise: Biological Anthropology; Human Biology; Health Inequities; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Oceania, North America

zane.thayer@gmail.com

Dario Valles

Teaching Fellow, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality and the Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology; Queer/Gendered Migration, State Abandonment, Mutual Aid, Ritual Kinship, Digital Technology, Violence and Healing; Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, California

dariornoj@gmail.com

Ella Wilhoit

Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Anthropology, Master of Arts in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Gender, labor, kinship and political subjectivity, Latin America

ella@u.northwestern.edu

Chelsie Yount-André

Postdoctoral Researcher, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna
Expertise: Linguistics, Transnational Senegalese Families, Economic Moralities, Childhood, Africa

chelsie.yountandre@unibo.it