Name:  Amanda Abramson
Email:  abrams17@msu.edu
Subfield:  Cultural Anthropology
Primary interests:  Latin America, migration, tourism, indigenous movements
Additional information:
B.A, University of Michigan-Flint (2006) Anthropology and Sociology

Name:  Emily L. Altimare
Email:  altimare@msu.edu
Subfield:  Socio-cultural Anthropology
Primary interests: Corporate (organizational) culture, health care, American culture, and design anthropology   
Additional information:
M.A. Anthropology (2007) Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ,
B.A. Anthropology(2004) University of Delaware, Newark, DE,
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:
Altimare, Emily L. (producer/director) (2007) "Beyond Ethnography: Corporate and Design Anthropology."  DVD Warren, MI: General Motors Research Laboratory

Trotter, Robert T.  II, Briody, Elizabeth K., Finger, Pamela J. and Emily L. Altimare (2007) "Just Say Aaaaah…Partnering for a Healthier Tomorrow.”  Poster, Kettering Forum: GM R&D Center June 6, 2007, Warren, Michigan.  

BS, Zoology with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
MS, Agriculture and Extension Education with focus on International Development

Name: Jared Beatrice
Email: beatric1@msu.edu
Subfield: Physical anthropology
Primary interests: Human osteology, Bioarchaeology, Forensic anthropology

Name: Cate Bird
Email: Birdcath@msu.edu
Subfield: Physical Anthropology
Primary interests: Forensic Anthropology; Human rights; Africa
Additional information:
B.A., Arizona State University (2005)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Bird, C., T. Minichillo, and C. W. Marean. 2007 “Edge damage distribution at the assemblage level on Middle Stone Age lithics: an image-based GIS approach.” Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(5): 771-780.

Name: natalie J. bourdon
Email: nataliejbourdon@hotmail.com
Subfield: Socio-cultural anthropology
Primary interests: Human rights; Legal anthropology; Transnational feminism; Development; East Africa

Name: Terry Peterkin Brock
Email: brockter@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Historic Archaeology
Website(s): web.mac.com/tbrock/iWeb/tbrock/Welcome.html

Name: Marieka Brouwer
Email: brouwe10@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Northern European and Great Lakes archaeology; Hunter-gatherer behavior; Landscape dynamics; Dune archaeology
Additional information:
BA, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2005)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Brouwer, Marieka E., 2006. "Exploring Structural Variability at the Jonathan Creek Site, ca. A.D. 1200-1300, Kentucky, USA," in the Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of Science (1)1:43–47.

Name: Charlotte Cable
Email: cablecha@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology, International development concentration
Primary interests: Mortuary analysis; Middle East and Ancient Near East; Complex societies; Bioarchaeology; Gender; Heritage management
Additional information:
BA, University of Notre Dame (2001), in Anthropology and Theology

Name: Elizabeth Carlberg
Email: carlberg@msu.edu
Subfield:Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Primary interests:North Africa and the Levant; Gender; Social Justice; Migration; Religion
Additional information:
BA, Anthropology & French, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2006

Name: Dillon Carr
E-mail: carrdill@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary Interests: Pre-contact eastern North America; Hunter-Gatherers; Cultural perceptions of landscape
Additional information:
B.S., University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (2001)
M.A., University of Western Ontario (2004)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

n.d. The Organization of Lithic Procurement at Silver Mound, Wisconsin: Source of Hixton Silicified Sandstone. Chapter under review for Prehistoric Quarries and Mines: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective, edited by Margret Brewer-Laporta, Adrian Burke, and David Field. Oxbow Press, Hartford.

n.d. Deer Lake Revisited: Evaluating the Early Holocene Occupation of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Manuscript submitted to the Michigan Archaeologist.

2005 The Organization of Late Paleoindian Lithic Procurement Strategies in Western Wisconsin Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 30(1): 3 – 36.<

2003 The Kriesel Cache: A Late Paleoindian Biface Cache from Western Wisconsin. Plains Anthropologist Vol. 48(187): 225-235.

Name: Jon W. Carroll
Email: jon@joncarroll.com
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Social exchange and interaction, Social and political organization, Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial modeling
Additional information:
BA, Wright State University (1996)
M.Hum, Wright State University (2002)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

2002 “A Discussion on the Nature of Hopewell Socio-Political Change in the OhioValley during the Middle-to-Late Woodland Period Transition." Unpublished M.Hum. Thesis, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

Name: Cris Chapman
Email: c.k.chapman@hotmail.com
Subfield: Cultural
Primary interests: Transnational women’s movements; Sexual violence; Middle East
Additional information:
B.A., University of West Florida (2004)
M.A., University of West Florida (2007)

Name: Jubin J. Cheruvelil
Email: cheruvel@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary Interests: Human Behavioral Ecology, Paleoecology, Middle Range Societies, Emergent Complexity, Geospatial Modeling and Statistics; Great Lakes, Eastern North America, South Asia
Additional Information: B.A, Economics with concentration in Management. University of Rochester (1997)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Cheruvelil, J. J., "Group Activity and Site Function at the Tremaine Complex – A Ceramic Analysis" Presented at the Michigan Archaeological Society, East Lansing, MI, November 2005

Cheruvelil, J. J., "Ritual Material Dynamics among the Western Wisconsin Oneota" Presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Dayton, Ohio, October 2005

Name: Heidi Connealy
Email: connealy@msu.edu
Subfield: Medical Anthropology
Primary interests: Health disparities; United States health policy; Biomedicine as a cultural system; Uses of race and genetics in medicine

Name: Adrianne Daggett
Email: daggetta@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Bioarchaeology; mortuary analysis; Eastern Europe; archaeology in the community
Additional information:
BA, Marquette University (2003)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Hitchcock, Robert K., Megan Biesele and Adrianne M. Daggett (n.d.) Refugees, Resettlement, and Land and Resource Rights among the San of Northeastern Namibia. (submitted for publication February 2007)

Name: Sean Dunham
Email: dunhamse@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Upper Great Lakes Region later prehistoric and historic archaeology; ethnohistory; European Iron Age
Additional information:
B.A., History and Anthropology, Michigan State University (1985)
M.A., Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota (1991)

Name: Erica Dziedzic
Email: ericadz@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Andean archaeology; Mortuary analysis; Complex societies; Bioarchaeology; Gender
Additional information:
BA, University of Michigan (2002)

Name: Lisa A. Flagg
Email: flagglis@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural anthropology, Political anthropology
Primary interests: Gender; Race; Power; African American Diaspora; Transnational Identity; Religion

Name: Jacob Foss
Email: fossjaco@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: North American archaeology; Hunter-gatherers
Additional information:
B.A., Anthropology and Geography, University of Montana (2004)

Name: Pamela Galbraith
Email: galbrai3@msu.edu
Subfield: Cultural Anthropology
Primary Interests: Civil Society, Gender, Nationalism, Eastern Europe, Bulgaria

Name: Marcy Hessling
Email: hesslin2@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural Anthropology
Primary interests: Urban migration, West Africa
Additional information:
BA, Wayne State University (2005)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

“La solidarité Africaine est encore une réalité : A study of urban migration in Benin”, Proceedings from The National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2007

Name: Marjorie Heyman
Email: gomsheyman@montana.com
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Southwestern archaeology; Geo-archaeology; Remote sensing techniques; Midwest archaeology; North American cultural groups
Additional information:
MS, TAMU (1980), Geology
MSS, Ohio University (2000)
PhD candidate, Michigan State University
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Heyman, M. A., E. M. Abrams, and A. Freter, 2004, “Late Archaeic Community Aggregation and Feasting in the Hocking River Valley,” in Archaeological Tribal Societies of the Hocking River Valley, Southeastern Ohio, E. M. Abrams and A. Freter, eds.

Heyman, M. A., and Abrams, E. M., “Late Archaic-Early Woodland Feasting as a Mechanism for Group Aggregation, Southeastern Ohio.” Presented as a poster session at the Society for American Archaeology 68^th Annual Meeting, April, 2003.

Heyman, M. A. and Abrams, E. M., “Early Woodland Feasting: A Case from the Hocking Valley, Ohio.” Presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 2002.

Name: Kristin Horner
Email: Hornerkr@msu.edu
Subfield: Physical anthropology
Primary interests: Forensic anthropology; Osteology; Paleopathology
Additional information:
MA, Arizona State University (2004). Tempe, AZ. Anthropology.
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Horner, KE (2005). “Incidence of external auditory exostoses among the Wishram and Wasco Tribes of the Columbia River Valley.” Paleopathology Newsletter, Number 131.

Name: Carolyn Hurst
Email:  cvhurst@gmail.com
Subfield: physical anthropology
Primary interests: forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and human rights
Additional Information:
BA, University of Arizona

Name: Anna Jefferson
Email: avjeffer@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural
Primary interests: Economic anthropology; Lending and development; Politics, public opinion, and public policy; Migration; Argentina; Latin America

Name: Sonya Maria Johnson
Email: john1956@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Primary interests: Anthropology of religion; African American & African Studies; African Atlantic Diaspora, indigenous Cuban religions; knowledge production; identity
Additional information:
Dual B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder (2000)
Anthropology & Ethnic Studies with a major concentration on African Americas, minor in Chicana/o Studies.
Lead Graduate Assistant for the African Atlantic Research Team (AART), MSU; http://www.soc.msu.edu/aart.
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

2004 “Remembering Carnaval: The Study of Congas and Comparsas in Santiago de Cuba.” Co-authored article with Alexandra Gelbard for Caribenet.info, an on-line journal to evaluate and disseminate the richness of culture of all Caribbean regions. Available at http://www.caribenet.info/pensare.asp?l=eng.

Name: Rowenn B. Kalman
Email: kalman1@msu.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural
Primary interests: Environmental protection, community-based participation, gender and development, Peruvian Andes
Additional information:
B.A., Western Washington University (2001)
M.A., Western Washington University (2005)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Image-making in the Andes: How ecotourism creates photographic interactions in Vicos, Peru. M.A. thesis, 2001.

Name: Taz Karim
Email: Karimtaz@msu.edu
Subfield: Medical Anthropology
Primary interests: Genetics; Genomics; Science and Technology Studies; Bioethics
Additional information:
B.A., University of California, Irvine (2005)

Name: Suzanne Kent
Email: kentsuza@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural
Primary Interests: Transnational migration; Anthropology of consumption; International development; Gender and development; Globalization; Inequalities; Central America
Additional information:
Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University, Degree expected Fall 2007
MA, Michigan State University (2005)
BA, University of Colorado (1994)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Hickner, John, Suzanne Kent, Phyllis Naragon and Linda M. Hunt. “Physicians’ and Patients’ Views of Cancer Care by Family Physicians: A Report of the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network.” Family Medicine, Volume 39, Number 2, February 2007

Kent, Suzanne. Book Review: Salvadoran Migration to Southern California: Redefining El Hermano Lejano. Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 27, Number 3, 2007.

Quintana, Virginia, Suzanne Kent, et al. “Verificación del cumplimiento de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres trabajadoras deportadas de México que ingresan por la Frontera terrestre de La Hachadura en la republica de El Salvador.” Report of La Universidad Panamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador, August 2006

Name:  Ryan T. Klataske
Email:  klataske@msu.edu
Subfield:  Sociocultural, Environmental Science and Policy Program
Primary interests:  Political Ecology, Grassland & Savanna Ecosystems, Social and Environmental Change, Land and Natural Resource Use, Conservation, Nature-based Tourism, southern Africa
Additional information:
BA Kansas State University, Anthropology and Spanish (2006)

Name: Christine LaBond
Email: labondch@msu.edu
Subfield: Medical anthropology
Primary interests: Access to health care; Governmentality; Comparative health care systems; Anthropology of policy; Labor; Health care policy; United States; Canada
Additional information:
BA, McGill University, 2001

Name: Mary Ann J. Ladia
Email: ladiamar@msu.edu
Subfield: Medical Anthropology
Specializations: Anthropology of Health: Infectious Diseases in the Sociocultural Context; Anthropology of Folk Knowledge: Rituals and Systems of Healing
Primary interests: Indigenous health; dualistic approaches to health care,; women’s health; public health issues; culture and illness; gender issues; globalization; and research methodology
Additional information:
Master of Health Social Science, De La Salle University, 1997 (with distinction)
Master of Science in Psychology, Saint Louis University, 1994
Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (majors: Economics and Psychology), University of the Philippines-Baguio, 1985
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Keten van liefde: Chain of Love. The Journal of Asian Studies. May 2004. 63:2.

Name: Agatha M. Marín
Email: marinaga@msu.edu
Subfield: Medical Anthropology
Primary interests: Anthropology of Policy; the Politics of Health Sector Reform; Health Disparities; Women’s Health and Healthcare Access; Colombia; Latin America
Additional information:
B.A., Anthropology, UCLA (2004)

Name: Nick Molen
Email: molennic@msu.edu
Subfield: Sociocultural anthropology
Primary interests: Environmental anthropology, human rights, human-animal conflict, anthropology of science
Additional information:
BA, University of Cincinnati

Name: Megan M. McCullen
Email: mccull58@msu.edu
Subfield: Archaeology
Primary interests: Migration studies; Group identity formation; Ethnicity; Eastern Woodlands; Great Lakes; Ethnohistory; Native American-European contact era; Public education and outreach
Additional information:
http://www.msu.edu/~mccull58

Name: Mary S. Megyesi
Email: megyesim@msu.edu
Subfield: Physical Anthropology
Primary interests: Forensic Anthropology; Bone Density; Osteoporosis; Race/Ethnicity; Health Disparities
Additional information:
M.A., Anthropology, Michigan State University
M. Sc., Human Biology, University of Indianapolis
B.A., Anthropology, University of Georgia
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

Megyesi MS, Ubelaker DH, Sauer NJ. 2006. A Test of the Lamendin Aging Method on two Historic Skeletal Samples. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131(3):363-397.

Megyesi MS, Nawrocki SP, Haskell NH. 2005. Using Accumulated Degree-Days to Estimate the Postmortem Interval from Decomposed Human Remains. Journal of Forensic Science 50(3):618-626.

Nelson DA, Megyesi MS. 2004. Sex and Ethnic Differences in Bone Architecture. Current Osteoporosis Reports 2:65-69.

Name: Rebecca Meuninck
Email: meuninck@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural
Primary interests: Political ecology; Neoliberalism; Globalization; Fair Trade; Coffee; Latin America (Nicaragua and Brazil); Environment; Development; Activist networks; NGOs; Production of knowledge.
Additional information:
BS, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan (2002)
Internship Coordinator, Gender, Justice and Environmental Change Program
http://www.msu.edu/~gendenvr/internship.htm

Name: Colleen Milligan
Email: millig25@msu.edu
Subfield: Physical Anthropology
Primary interests: Skeletal Biology; Bioarchaeology; Forensic Anthropology
Additional information:
B.A., Marquette University (2004)

Name: Kyungmin Park
Email: parkkyu3@msu.edu
Subfield: Socio-cultural
Primary interests: Japan, Migrant workers, Transnationalism, Cultural others, Identity politics

Name:  Nicholas V. Passalacqua
Email:  passala5@msu.edu
Subfield:  Physical Anthropology
Primary interests:  Skeletal Biology, Forensic Anthropology, Age-at-Death Estimation, Statistics
Additional information:
BA, Anthropology, Michigan State University (2005)
MS, Anthropology, Mercyhurst College (2007)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts

Beach JJ, Passalacqua NV, Chapman EN. 2008. Heat related changes in tooth color: Temperature versus duration of exposure. In: Schmidt C, and Symes SA, editors. The Analysis of Burned Human Remains. Boca Raton: CRC press.

Name:  Kate Patch
Email:  patchkat@msu.edu
Subfield:  Socio-cultural Anthropology
Primary interests:  Development, Gender, Study Abroad, Education, Transnationalism; Globalization, Humanitarianism, Ghana, West Africa
Additional information:
B.S., Iowa State University (2000)
Recent Publications and Manuscripts

2003. Patch, Kate and Stacey Hocket-Sherlock. “Campus Resources for Gaining Student Fieldwork Experiences.” Anthropology News. V44 (4): pp.29-30.

2002. Patch, Kate. “The Roles Mentors Play.” Anthropology News. V43 (4): p. 25.

Name:  Fredy R. Rodríguez
Email:  rodri395@msu.edu
Subfield:  Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Primary interests:  Indigenous rights and identity, development, people/environment   Interactions, the environment in Mayan folklore, and immigration and transnational identity; Honduras, Guatemala and the U.S.
Additional Information:
MA, Northern Arizona University (2007), applied anthropology
BA, University of Delaware (2004) anthropology and Latin American Studies
Recent Publications and Manuscripts:

 n.d. The Dog who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales with James D. Sexton.  Under review.

n.d.  “Current Mayan Folktales and their Connection to Animal Characters Depicted in the Popol Vuh.”  Manuscript in process of submission to the Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.