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Graduate Student Research
This page includes research interests and contact information for current graduate students in the MA Applied Anthropology program at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Anthropology includes four intersecting subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. The subfield of applied anthropology overlays the other subfields and aims to apply anthropological methods, theories, and practices to contemporary issues.
The MA in Applied Anthropology is a hybrid (online / in-person) degree program focused on the application of anthropology to a diverse array of careers in academic, professional, and global contexts.
Students: Email the department chair or graduate coordinator if you would like to update your entry.
All emails, add @humboldt.edu
| Name & Photo | Email & Interests |
|---|---|
Curtis Alcantar | Email: cra75 Research Interests: California archaeology, NAGPRA, tribal consultation and collaboration methods, maritime societies, petroglyphs/pictographs, lithic analysis, cultural landscapes, environmental archaeology, osteology, early New World migrations. |
Stephanie Alexander | Email: sla140 Research Interests: Applied anthropology; biocultural anthropology; biological anthropology; cultural resource management; museum collections research, management, and stewardship; medical anthropology and public health outcomes; evolutionary medicine, nutrition, and chronic illness; taphonomy and modified bone analysis; folklore, public culture, and speculative fiction. |
Sandra Arceo Waterman | Email: sjw152 Research Interests: Indigenous archaeology, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous natural resource and land management, Uto-Aztecan linguistics, Indigenous language revitalization, dormant language reconstruction, sociocultural anthropology, Mesoamerican archaeology, Mesoamerican migration patterns, Aridoamerican migration patterns |
Chloe Bocox | Email: cjb148 Research Interests: Sociocultural and environmental anthropology, indigenous cultural resource management, decolonization, public education, afro-indigenous ecologies, ethical museum curation, visual ethnography |
Raylene Borrego | Email: rsb65 Research Interests: Cultural Resource Management, Environmental Archaeology, Environmental Anthropology, Gender and Development, Ethnobotany, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Paleoethnobotany, Feminist Archaeology, NAGPRA, Museum Collections Management, Visual Anthropology |
Jay Bow | Email: jb836 Research Interests:Forensic anthropology, osteology, skeletal identification, skeletal ethics, applied anthropology, bioarchaeology, statistics, GIS. |
Alexis Bowman | Email: ab728 Research Interests: Indigenous Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, NAGPRA, Bioarchaeology, Cultural Anthropology, North American Archaeology, Pre-Contact Organic Cultural Materials, Woodlands/Fort Ancient Cultures, Coastal Indigenous Californian Cultures, Pre-contact Ceramics, Post-Contact Indigenous History, Paleoanthropology, Oral History, Tribal Sovereignty |
Ace Boyle | Email: ab664 Research Interests: Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteology, human remains recovery and forensic methodology, decomposition of organic remains as it pertains to archaeology and forensics, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management |
Presley Brewer | Email: pab104 Research Interests: Sociocultural/Evolutionary Functions of Tattoos, Cultural Anthropology, Arctic Anthropology, Indigenous Involvement in Conservation, Bioarchaeology, Folklore/Mythology, Evolutionary Role of Music |
Karen Carlson | Email: kc514 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, biological anthropology, sociocultural, anthropology, oral histories, ethnographies, specifically with indigenous peoples, food, historian, qualitative and quantitative research, museum curation and public education, museum methodology. |
Quinn Cataldi | Email: qc13 Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, labor history, ethnography, survivor-to-survivor storytelling, folkloric expression, risk, crisis, public education, participatory budgeting, environmental anthropology, curriculum design, migration. |
Ryan G. Davis | Email: rgd28 Research Interests: Applied anthropology; biological anthropology; human anatomy; osteology; odontology; evolution; evolutionary health; forensic anthropology; forensic methodology; molecular anthropology; primatology; zooarchaeology; bio-archaeology; GIS; geospatial analysis; soil analysis; paleoanthropology; paleopathology; trauma analysis; quantitative/qualitative research and analysis; encephalization of early hominins; biological development of complex language in the genus Homo. |
Leslie De Paz
| Email: ld169 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, user experience research, quantitative/qualitative research, product design, data analysis, research analysis, ethnography, digital cultures, global cultures. |
Hannah Elliott | Email: hle14 Research Interests: Cultural resource management, historic preservation law, historic archaeology, industrial archaeology, public archaeology |
Jasmine (Brown) Freitas
| Email: jmb1571 Research Interests: Museum studies, collection management, curation, and archaeology. |
Chrys Furrer | Email: clf82 Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology; environmental/agricultural anthropology; critical medical anthropology and the medical humanities more broadly; anthropology beyond the human and multispecies ethnography; the social biography of materials (textiles); the social study of science and knowledge-production; ethical ethnography and autoethnography - all viewed through the lenses of anti-coloniality, anti-capitalism, queerness, and disability. |
Flor Gonzalez | Email: fg101 Research Interests: Applied anthropology , socio-cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, oral histories, ethnographies specifically with rural migrants in the San Joaquin Valley in California. |
Jay Grimm | Email: jsg49 Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, folklore, warfare archaeology, queer anthropology, demography, forensic anthropology, digital anthropology/archaeology, cultural resource management. |
Gemma Guerrero
| Email: gdg37 Research Interests: Biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, cultural resource management, data analysis, museum management, forensic anthropology, and GIS. |
Abigael Gulley | Email: acg71 Research Interests: Cultural resource management, applied anthropology, indigenous archaeology, feminist archaeology, ethnohistory. |
Savannah Henninger | Email: sjh19 Research Interests: Cultural resource management, feminist archeology, zooarcheology, heritage preservation, traditional ecological knowledge. |
Kelly Hollreiser | Email: kah1003 Research Interests: Cultural resources management, archaeology of northwestern California, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnobotany, community-based archaeology, fire archaeology, experimental flintknapping and lithic analysis. |
Morgan Holman | Email: mh678 Research Interests: Indigenous archaeology, lithic analysis, anthropogenic fire, cultural resource management, public lands, wildland fire, and fire archaeology. |
Kylie Howell | Email: kjh527 Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, indigenous studies and traditions, ethnobotany, linguistic anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, religion, ethnography, environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology |
Jacob Imlay | Email: jdi9 Research Interests: Cultural Resource Management; GIS, drones, and other remote sensing technologies within Anthropological contexts; CRM & Indigenous Law; Decolonizing the field of Anthropology. |
Levi Johannsen | Email: lj107 Research Interests: Indigenous archaeology; North American archaeology (prehistoric and historic); collaborative archaeology; colonial archaeology; advocate anthropology; repatriation; historic preservation, museum collections management; photogrammetry. |
Elena Krane | Email: ek133 Research Interests: Medical Anthropology using a biocultural approach; the embodiment of intergenerational trauma; the effects of global warming on human health, the evolution of the immune system and its implications on women’s health; bioarchaeology; anthropology of tourism; museum collections research and management. |
Melita Kyritsi-Loper | Email: mk409 Research Interests: Applied archaeology, applied anthropology, cultural resource management in Greek and US contexts, the intersection of cultural and natural resource management, heritage preservation, sensorial approaches to archaeological interpretation, prehistoric and Iron Age Greek funerary archaeology. |
Kelsey Martin | Email: kpm53 Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, human osteology, paleopathology, biocultural anthropology, human evolution |
Meagan McKinney | Email: mnm84 Research Interests: CalNAGPRA, NAGPRA, Museum/university collection management, historic archaeology. |
Kyandra Miller | Email: klm214 Research Interests: biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, human anatomy, osteology, and the diagnosis of spina bifida in forensic and bioarchaeological populations. |
Nathan Milucky | Email: nsm46 Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Science & Technology, Multi-Modal Sciences, GIS, Digital Societies, Environmental Justice & Governing, Human studies from a lens of environmentalism, California history & artifacts (archaeological and cultural) |
Aerin Monroe | Email: ajm303 Research Interests: Cultural and Environmental Anthropology, Cultural Plant and Food Ways of the African Diaspora, Ethnography, Political ecology and landscape, transatlantic plant dispersal and crop circulation, spiritual and medicinal Ethno-flora, Biocultural Refugia. |
Jessica Morris | Email: jmb375 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, archaeology, cultural resource management, human-environment interactions, remote sensing, textile archaeology, experimental archaeology. |
Sarah Negron Conley | Email: sn198 Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Ethnography, Cultural Preservation, Museum Curation, GIS. |
Megan Paige | Email: mlp144 Research Interests: Osteology; paleopathology; stable isotope analysis; trauma analysis; zooarchaeology. |
Ruby Perez | Email: rbp22 Research Interests: California archaeology, Indigenous archaeology, community archaeology, cultural resource management, public archaeology, feminist anthropology, geoarchaeology, GIS, tribal consultation and collaboration, NAGPRA, ancient DNA, lithic analysis, and repatriation |
Franklin Quiros | Email: flq1 Research Interest: Cultural resource monitoring, experimental archaeology, LiDAR, anthropology, Mesoamerican archaeology, ethnobotany, Maya settlement patterns and granite sourcing and distribution. |
Scott Raby | Email: sr439 Research Interests: Biological anthropology; osteology, forensic anthropology, locating and repatriating unidentified remains found in: migratory borders, areas of natural disasters, and theaters of war (historical and modern). Further interests include digital imaging techniques that advance and aid identification, environmental factors affecting decomposition, and the assessment of osteological trauma (accidental/intentional). |
Steven Rodrigues
| Email: sr491 Research Interests: Cultural resources management, archaeology, historic archaeology, underwater archaeology, mythology, and GIS. |
Karen Rosales | Email: klr147 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Tourist Studies, Intersections of Culture and Medical Interventions, Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Preservation. |
Johann Rucker | Email: jar351 Research Interests: Ethnographic filmmaking, folklore, Las Vegas history, atomic history, linguistics, oral histories, Mexican history, science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, the intersection of narrative art and politics, collections and archives care. [Johann is on the left in the image] |
Sasha Senal | Email: ses313 Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Religious Environmental Anthropology, West African Ethnobotany, Indigenous Science and Cosmologies, Oral History, Ethnography, Deculturalization and Whiteness, Semiotics, Tourist Studies, Preservation and Curation of Cultural Foodways, Public Education |
Halle Singer | Email: hss38 Research Interests: Rock art, environmental archaeology, museum studies and curation practices, public archaeology/anthropology, archaeobotany, bioarchaeology, preservation, archival research. |
Geraldine M. Spiegle | Email: gms122 Research Interests: Archaeology; linguistic anthropology; cultural anthropology; historical archaeology; indigenous archaeology, environmental archaeology; ceramic analysis; collaborative archaeology; community-based archaeology |
Hannah Spirt-Jones | Email: hms105 Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, intersections of cultural landscape and health, medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, indigenous history (North America), indigenous futurism (North America), resource accessibility, community-led & centered approaches to addressing systemic inequities |
Nicolette Svitenko | Email: njs58 Research Interests: Forensic anthropology; bioarchaeology; clandestine burials; Indigenous advocacy within anthropology, with an emphasis on heritage ethics; human osteology; comparative osteology; cultural anthropology and ethnographic practice; medical anthropology; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; philosophy. |
Camello Szillat-White | Email: cs472 Research Interests: Ethnography of the global south Indigenous communities, Cultural resource management, Genealogy and kinship studies within the Black and Indigenous communities, Forensic anthropology, Sociocultural anthropology, Ethnobotany with Ethnomedicine and Revitalization inside Black and Indigenous ecologies. |
Milani Thomas | Email: mt472 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, environmental anthropology, visual and folkloric storytelling anthropology. Cultural resource management, filmmaking, medical anthropology/paleopathology. Community-based environmental research, conservation and sustainability policymaking and public education. |
Rowan Vespia | Email: iav35 Research Interests: Archaeology, cultural resource management, historical archaeology, medieval archaeology, necroscapes |
Michelle Wilcox | Email: mbw58 Research Interests: Precontact and historic archaeology, geoarchaeology, GIS, and cultural resource management, particularly how cultural resources are evaluated and managed under CEQA and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. |
Madeline Williams | Email: mw456 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Indigenous cultural resource management, NAGPRA, collaborative interpretation, public anthropology, museum and heritage interpretation, public lands, community-based participatory research, environmental anthropology, Tribal consultation and collaboration, specifically in NW Montana |
Mya Wright
| Email: mw453 Research Interests: Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, osteology, skeletal identification, trauma analysis, medical anthropology. |
