People
Graduate Students
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural
- Statehood & Anthropology of the State
- Gender
- Labor
- Citizenship
- Refugees
- War-time Migration
- Political Anthropology
- Neo-liberalism
- Abhkazia, Caucasus
- Middle East
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Mating and marriage
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Arranged marriage
- Mixed methods research
- Nepal
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Behavioral Ecology
- Biodemography
- Health
- Quantitative and Mixed Methods
- Bolivia
- Morocco
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Microbotanical Analysis, Paleoethnobotany
- Great Lakes Archaeology
- Early Agriculture, Foodways
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences (IAS)
- Skeletal Biology
- Paleopathology
- Evolutionary Medicine
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- Primate Behavioral Ecology
- Community and Population Ecology
- Energetics and Foraging Ecology
- Wildlife Conservation
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- California Archaeology
- Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers
- Craft Production
- Experimental Archaeology
- Interregional Exchange
- Social Network Theory
- Lithic and Shell Bead Analysis
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Culture Contact
- Colonialism
- Postcolonialism
- Spanish Borderlands
- Archaeology of Ethnicity/Identity/Gender
- Craft Production and Specialization
- Archaeological Ethics
- California Coast and Channel Islands
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Science
- Human behavior ecology
- Parental investment
- Demographic transition
- Environmental instability
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- States and empires, colonialism and culture contact, migration and diaspora
- Prehistory of the Central Andes, particularly the Middle Horizon in the northern highlands
- Asian diaspora in Latin America
- Estados e imperios, colonialismo y contacto cultural, migración y diáspora
- Prehistoria de los Andes Centrales, particularmente el Horizonte Medio (Wari) en la sierra norte
- Diáspora asiática (Nikkei) en América Latina
- Graduate Student
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Environmental Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Energopolitics and extractivism
- Territorialization of futures
- Indigenous and peasant movements
- Mexico
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural
- Agroecology and Food Sovereignty
- Extractivism and violence
- Race, gender, and the environment
- Social reproduction and the environment
- Agribusiness and the politics of knowledge production
- Graduate Student
- Midwest and Southeastern U.S.
- Culture contact
- Identity
- Mississippian
- Oneota
- Household archaeology
- Ceramic Analysis
- Ceramic analysis
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Science
- Primatology
- Disease
- Demography
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Maya Archaeology
- Cave Archaeology
- Subterranean Archaeology
- Ritual
- Landscape, Space and Place
- Graduate Student
- Graduate Student
Archaeology:
- Primary focus: the spread of pastoralism and the extinction of endemic megafauna on Madagascar during the past 2,000 years.
- Paleoecology
- Stable isotopes
- Radiocarbon
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Lithic analysis
- Stable isotope analysis
- Ancient DNA
- Social complexity
- Exchange networks
- Hunter/gatherer diet and mobility
- Indigenous Archaeology
- Human Behavioral Ecology
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
I am interested in assessing health over time in pre- and protohistoric Chumash populations through the analysis of skeletal remains. I am particularly interested in treponemal diseases, of which the origin, spread and movements are still unclear. My background is in forensic anthropology, neonatal osteology, bioarchaeology, and Channel Islands archaeology.
- Graduate Student
- Human reproductive ecology and physiology
- Human-pathogen coevolution
- Developmental origins of human health and disease
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural anthropology
- Indigenous peoples
- Cultural revitalization
- Environmental justice
- Political economy
- Infrastructure
- Settler colonialism
- Japan (modern)
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
Research Interests:
- Paleoethnobotany (marcobotanical and microbotanical)
- Using plant remains to understand the intersections among foodways, economic development, and social dynamics
- Using experimental archaeology to understand how evidence of cooking deposits can be discovered and interpreted to support a complete picture of food-use
- Mesoamerican archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, US Central Plains
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
I am interested in exploring the perceptions of gender inequality as well as the factors that lead to norm creation on gender inequality from the perspective of young men in Northwestern Tanzania; a rapidly developing rural/urban gradient.
- Graduate Student
SocioCultural Anthropology:
- Visual and Semiotic Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology
- Political Anthropology
- Natural Resource Allocation and Redistribution of Wealth
- The Anthropological Development of Theoretical and Applied Neo neo-Marxism
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Rural Anthropology
- Populist Social Movements
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
I am a North American archaeologist, focusing on Culture Contact through the lenses of ethnogenesis and coalescence. Currently I have been researching Iroquoia, specifically examining the Mohawk during Contact and early Historic Period, focusing on the agency and identity of the Mohawk using color symbolism and pXRF analysis of historic glass beads at a late 17th century Mohawk village.
Research Interests:
- Native American Studies
- Culture Contact
- Household Archaeology
- Social Organization
- Political Economy
- Historical Archaeology
- Colonialism
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
- Plantation and Slave Archaeology
- Southeastern and Eastern United States
- Mission Archaeology
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
- Decolonization
- Tribal Museums and Cultural Centers
- Research Ethics
- Self Determination
- Material Culture
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- New World Archaeology (Guatemala, Southeastern U.S.)
- Food and Identity, Community Building, Urbanization, Culture Contact
- Archaeobotany (Macrobotanical and Microbotanical), Quantitative Methods
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Maya Ceremonial Monuments
- Mesoamerican Archaeology
- Iconography
- Art History
- Ritual Landscapes
- Geospatial Science and Technology
- Epigraphy
- Linguistics
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Zooarchaeology
- Nile Valley and the Sahara
- African Pastoralism
- Nubian C-Group
- Ethnicity
- African Diaspora
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Paleoethnobotany
- Zooarchaeology
- Historical Ecology
- Coupled Human-Natural Systems
- Socio-Ecological Knowledge
- Culture Contact
- Foodways
- New World Archaeology
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
PhD emphases in: Global Studies, Environment and Society
- NGOs
- Haiti
- globalization
- political ecology
- disasters
- climate change
- mixed methods research
- public anthropology
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Zooarchaeology
- Environmental archaeology
- California
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
Historical Archaeology
Colonialism and Culture Contact
Spanish Borderlands
Anthropology of Religion
Religious Interactions in the Context of Culture Shock
California Archaeology
Shell Bead Analysis
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural
- Environmental Anthropology
- Environmental History
- Marxist Thought/Critical Theory
- Ethnomusicology
- Forestry
- C.S. Peirce Semiotic Theory
- Multi-Species Ethnography
- Graduate Student
SocioCultural Anthropology
- Racialization, white privilege and mestizaje
- Control populations and state formation
- Labor exploitation, migration, and agro-industrial process
- Neoliberalism and multiculturalism
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural
- Environmental Anthropology
- Invasive Species, Fisheries, Food
- Mexico, Cuba, Latin America
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
- Alcohol consumption practice, identity, entanglement
- African Archaeology, primarily centered on Egyptian and Nubian interaction near the Third Cataract of the Nile
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
- American and South Asian religion
- Digital and physical space
- Ritual practice
- Community
- Heritage
- Ladakh
- Graduate Student
Integrative Anthropological Sciences
- At UCSB I plan to work on maternal-fetal conflict as illustrated through fetal microchimerism, immunology, and placental biology.
- I have previously studied variation in gorilla skeletal morphology, specifically as related to locomotor differences that may be correlated with altitude.
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests:
- environmental anthropology
- fire
- political ecology
- ethnoecology
- ethnobotany
- ontologies
- California
- Latin America
- Graduate Student
Archaeology
My research investigates the beginnings of transhumance on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia during the Middle Neolithic.
- Human Behavioral Ecology
- Domestication
- Paleoecology
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
- Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural Anthropology
My research interests include:
1. disability as a collective, social phenomenon.
2. the construction of the self and the community as a reciprocal process through identification with media and other forms of representation.
3. urban spatial configuration and its relation to identity formation.
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural
- Edible Insects
- Environmental Anthropology
- Perceptions of food, nature, and environment
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Food Systems