Benjamin Akey: akeybenj@msu.edu
They/them
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Research Assistant
Campus Archaeologist (2022-2025)
Historical Archaeology, Racialization and Labor in the North American West, Diaspora & Transnationalism, Exclusion & Belonging, Citizenship, Subject Formation, Social Reproduction Theory, Capitalism, Company Towns, Collective Agency and Resistance, Collaborative and Emancipatory Archaeologies, Critical Cultural Heritage.
John Boyd: boydjoh1@msu.edu
He/him
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow – African Studies Center (2019-2021)
Sociocultural Anthropology of the North Africa & its diaspora, Social Movements, Youth & Identity, Sport & Society, Ultras & Soccer Fandom, Urbanity
Jeffrey Burnett: burne138@msu.edu
He/him
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Assistant
Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, race in history, identity and power, collaborative and community archaeology, historiography
Kevin Cabrera: cabrer60@msu.edu
He/him
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
LEADR 2024Bioarchaeology, Ancient Maya, Gender and Identity, Dental Anthropology, Human Osteology, Mortuary Studies
Jerielle Cartales: cartales@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral student
Graduate Assistant
CAP Fellow 24-25
Human skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, blunt force trauma, falls from height, juvenile osteology, ethics and professionalism, pedagogy in forensic anthropology
Ashley Cerku: cerkuash@msu.edu
Doctoral Candidate
Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellow 2024-2025
Graduate Assistant, LEADR 2023-2024
Teaching Assistant 2021-2023
Research Assistant 2020-2021
Digital Cultural Heritage, Visual Anthropology, Historical Photography, Heritage Tourism, Ethnography, Semiotic Landscapes, Augmented Reality
Natalie Clark: clarkn36@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Positive Identification, Human Variation, Methodology for Creating Biological Profiles, Human Rights
Jarad Cornett: cornett4@msu.edu
Doctoral Student
Graduate Assistant: LEADR 24-25
Indonesia, State Violence, Forced Migration, Islam in Southeast Asia, Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Religious and Political Radicalism, Conflict Trauma
Hailee Desrosier: ddesros13@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Post-traumatic survival time, subadult trauma, histological methods in assessing bone trauma, and influences on bone due to external environmental and social factors.
Jessica Ding: jjlding@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student, MD Ph.D. Program
Graduate Teaching Assistant
NIH F30 Fellowship (2025 – 2030)
Medical Anthropology, Integrative Medical Systems, Acupuncture, China and the Chinese Diaspora, Public Health, Chronic Pain, Palliative Care, Physician-Patient Relationships, Health Systems Science
Mari Dowling: dowlin37@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student, DO Ph.D. Program
Medical Anthropology, Political Economy, Drug Policy, Medicalization
Grace Shu Gerloff: gerloffg@msu.edu
She/they
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Assistant
Asian Pacific American Studies Fellow 2024-2025
Transnational Asian Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Critical Adoption Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Social Media Ethnography, Photovoice.
Evin Hessel: hesselev@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Trauma Analysis, Skeletal Histology, Taphonomy
Savannah Holcombe: holcom77@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant: Forensic Anthropology Lab Manager 2024-2025
Forensic Anthropology, Human Variation, Macromorphoscopic Traits, Population Affinity, Human Rights, Sexual Dimorphism
Gungun Islam: islamgun@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health, State Violence, Muslim Women, Resistance, Religious Marginalization, Healthcare Discrimination.
Brett Jackson: jack1665@msu.edu
Doctoral Student
Indigenous Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Zooarchaeology, Great Basin and California Archaeology, Archaeological Methods, Indigenous Stewardship, Nutritional Ecology, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Priyanka Jayakodi: jayakodi@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Medical and Environmental Anthropology, Ecological–Bodily Health, Chronic Illness, Water, Gender, and State Violence.
Amelia Konda: kondaame@msu.edu
Doctoral Student
Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Biological Profile, Human Variation, Population Affinity Estimation, Age Estimation
Andrew Kracinski: kracinsk@msu.edu
He/him
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Conflict Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of Institutions and Incarceration.
Intan Kumbayoni: intan@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Biocultural Approach, Nutrition, Food Security, Maternal and Child Health, Human Growth and Development, Infectious Diseases, Health Disparities
Rylee LaLonde: lalond59@msu.edu
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant: Bioarchaeology Lab 24-25
Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellow 2024-25
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Bioarcheology, NAGPRA, Human Rights Investigation, Indigenous Rights, Community-Based Research, Forensic Art, Reclamation and Revisioning
Holly Long: longhol1@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Forensic Laboratory Manager, 2023-2024; NAGPRA Researcher, 2024-2025
Peruvian Bioarchaeology, Commingled Remains, Forensic Anthropology, Human Rights, Mass Disasters
Aubree Marshall: marsh537@msu.edu
They/she
Doctoral Candidate (only if All But Dissertation)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Bioarchaeology, Skeletal Biology, Ancient Maya, Ancient Health and Diet, Microbotanicals, Proteomics, Photogrammetry and Structured Light 3D Modeling, Digital Cultural Heritage
Madelyn McKinney: mckin289@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Historical Archaeology, Cemeteries, Representation, Identity, Archaeology of Childhood, Historical Memory, Institutions and Institutionalization, Memory and Memorialization, Collaborative and Community Archaeology, Ethnography, Critical Cultural Heritage.
Emily Milton: miltone2@msu.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Environmental Science and Policy Program Fellow
Visiting Researcher, Biogeology Lab, University of Tübingen, Germany
environmental, alpine, and desert archaeology, Ice Age archaeology, the Anthropocene, historical ecology, feminist methods and theories, isotopes & baselines, radiocarbon chronologies, spatial datasets, the Wes Anderson R palette, museum collections research
Diana Mogrovejo: mogrove1@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant, DHI Lab
Digital Archaeology, Difficult Heritage, Human Rights.
Gabrielle Moran-O’Dell: morangab@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Student
Graduate Assistant
Kooskia RA ’23-’24; ANP 203 TA ’24; LEADR ’25
Michigan Holocene Archaeology, Great Lakes Archaeology, Geophysical Technology and Methodology, Native American and Indigenous Archaeology
Monica Nares: naresmon@msu.edu
Forensic Anthropology
Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology, Ancestry, Personal Identification
Emily Nisch: nisch@msu.edu
She/they
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Materiality, memory, archives, Native American Boarding Schools
Devashish Saurav: sauravde@msu.edu
He/him
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Assistant: LEADR’ Fall’ 2024
My research focus is on the issues around conservation induced dispossession, food security and community sustainability.
Jodi Terpstra: terpst28@msu.edu
Medical Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Health, Spirituality, Anthropology of Death, Dying and End of Life Care
Alexis VanBaarle: vanbaarl@msu.edu
She/her(s)
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Biology, Skeletal Histology, Skeletal Trauma Biomechanics, Human Anatomy, Radiographic Identification, Applied Artificial Intelligence
Emma Zblewski: zblewski@msu.edu
She/her
Doctoral Candidate, MD Ph.D. Program
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Medical anthropology, United States healthcare system, patient activism, online biosocial communities, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), long COVID-19, harm reduction, LGBTQIA+ healthcare