Graduate Students
Benjamin Akey
Doctoral Student
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Historical Archaeology, Diasporic Identities & the Politics of Belonging, Transnationalism, Exclusion & Racialization, Subject Formation, Social Reproduction theory, Processes/History of Capitalism, Company Towns, Collective Agency and Resistance, Temperance and Prohibition, Collaborative and Emancipatory Archaeologies, Critical Cultural Heritage
Lily Anderson
MD/Ph.D. Student Yr. 1
Pregnancy and Birth, Reproductive Health, Medical Anthropology, Amish Health, Homebirth
Lissie Arndt
DO-PhD Student
medical anthropology, HIV, risk, health inequity, United States healthcare
Marwa Bakabas
Doctoral Student, Sociocultural Anthropology
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Applied & Public Anthropology, Anthropology of the Middle East, Ethnographic Methods, Migration, Humanitarianism, "Space" of Refuge, Transformations of the Self, War & Trauma, Collective Memory, Land & Sea Borders, Identity Politics, Refugee Ageing Population, "Space" of Death
Jack Biggs
Doctoral Student
Research Assistant
MSU Bioarchaeology Laboratory
Central Belize Archaeological Survey Project
Research Assistant
MSU Bioarchaeology Laboratory
Central Belize Archaeological Survey Project
Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Cave and Rockshelter Use, Growth and Development, Social Identity, Prehistoric Childhood, Ancient Maya, Mesoamerica, Central Belize
Abigail Buchanan
Medical Anthropology, Health Care Systems, Commercialization and Commodification of Health, Veteran Studies, Health Care Policy, Culture, Health, and Identity
Jeff Burnett
MSU Campus Archaeologist
Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, race in history, identity and power, collaborative and community archaeology, historiography
Ashley Cerku
Doctoral Student
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Visual Anthropology, Historical Photography, Identity, Digital Heritage, Ancestry, Ethnography, Cultural Landscapes, Geospatial Technologies
Mari Dowling
DO-PhD Student
Medical Anthropology, Bioethics, Global Health, Healthcare Systems, Applied Healthcare
Livy Drexler
Medical Anthropology, institutional ethnography, disability studies, mental health, Native American and Indigenous Studies, special education, and cultural competency
Rhian Dunn
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Forensic anthropology, Human variation, Ancestry estimation, Skeletal biology, Human rights
Andra Durham
PhD Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Medical anthropology, Applied anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Hospital culture, Health technologies, Chronic disease management, Access to healthcare, Digital modalities of healthcare, Knowledge production
Zachary Francis-Hapner
PhD Student
Paleoethnobotany, Midwest Archaeology, Eastern European Archaeology, Native American Studies
Grace Gerloff
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Asian American Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Transnationalism, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Youth Studies, Chineseness, whiteness
Brian Samuel Geyer
Doctoral Candidate
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellow
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellow
Sociocultural anthropology, East Africa, Political economy, Identity, International development, Digital anthropology, Cultural heritage
Eddie Glayzer
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Instructor- ANP 201 Cultural Anthropology
Asian Studies FLAS Fellowship Recipient
Department of Anthropology
Instructor- ANP 201 Cultural Anthropology
Asian Studies FLAS Fellowship Recipient
Cultural Anthropology, Gender, Consumption, Globalization, Inequality, Commodification, Imperialism, Asian Studies, South Korea
Grant Gliniecki
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Indigenous archaeologies (Internalist, community-as-peer, non-destructive); Pre-European contact Great Lakes archaeology; Oral histories of the deep past; Indigenous rights, justices, and resistances; Anti- and de-colonial theory, methodology, and practice.
Alexis Goots
Doctoral Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Skeletal Trauma, Ancestry Estimation, Human Variation
Ernesto Granados
Doctoral Student
Environmental Science and Policy Program Fellow
Graduate Research Assistant
Environmental Science and Policy Program Fellow
Graduate Research Assistant
Environmental Anthropology, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Water Governance, Environmental Discourses, Conflict, Justice, Indigenity, Latin America.
April Greenwood
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
Course Instructor ANP 201
Course Instructor ANP 201
India, East Africa, migration, cross-cultural workplaces, nostalgia and memory construction, African masculinities, the anthropology of business, cosmopolitanism, spatial methodologies
Kelly Kamnikar
Doctoral Candidate, Biological Anthropology
MSU Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
(she, her, hers)
MSU Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
(she, her, hers)
forensic anthropology, human rights, paleopathology, human variation, ancestry estimation, personal identification, age estimation
Nikki Klarmann
MA in Anthropology
PhD Student
Anthropology Online Course Assistant
Indigenous Graduate Student Collective Outreach Coordinator
PhD Student
Anthropology Online Course Assistant
Indigenous Graduate Student Collective Outreach Coordinator
Cultural Interaction, Social Use of Space, Oneota, Mississippian, Illinois River Valley
Ying-Jen Lin
PhD Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan, Indigenous Sovereignty, Neoliberalism, Environmental and Heritage Resources Management, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Practices, Politics of Representation
Aubree Marshall
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Bioarchaeology, Ancient Maya, Prehistoric health, Photogrammetry
Anna Martínez-Hume
PhD Candidate
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Medical Anthropology, Neoliberalism and Healthcare Systems, Policy Discourse Analysis, Organizational Ethnography, NGO Studies, Healthcare NGOs in Guatemala, Indigenous Maya.
Jessica McLeod
PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology
sociocultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, identity, international migration, emigration from the West, migrant adaptation strategies & processes, East Asia, Japan
Emily Milton
Ph.D. Student
Environmental Science and Policy Program Fellow
Graduate Research Assistant, Rademaker Archaeology Lab
Environmental Science and Policy Program Fellow
Graduate Research Assistant, Rademaker Archaeology Lab
environmental archaeology, alpine archaeology, high-altitude adaptation, the settlement of the Americas, stable isotopes, microscopy, GIS, digital curation and outreach
Marcela Omans
PhD Student
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow - 2018-now
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow - Center for the Advanced Study of International Development (2016-2018)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow - 2018-now
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow - Center for the Advanced Study of International Development (2016-2018)
China, Latin America, Mexico, Chinese Diaspora, Transnationalism, State Formation, Construction of Scale, Identity, Globalization
Autumn Painter
Ph.D. Student
Campus Archaeologist
2019-2020 Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow
2016-2018 Campus Archaeology Program Fellow
2016-2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow
2015-2016 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow
Campus Archaeologist
2019-2020 Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow
2016-2018 Campus Archaeology Program Fellow
2016-2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow
2015-2016 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow
Zooarchaeology, Midwest Archaeology, Foodways, Illinois River Valley, Cultural Interaction, Mississippian, Oneota
Jeffrey Painter
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology Museum RA
2019-2020 CHI Fellow
Department of Anthropology Museum RA
2019-2020 CHI Fellow
Late Prehistoric, Midwestern Archaeology, Ceramics, Foodways, Social Interaction, Oneota, Mississippian
Nerli Paredes Ruvalcaba
Ph.D. student
Graduate Research Assistant: Biomarker Lab
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Graduate Research Assistant: Biomarker Lab
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Breastfeeding, Breast milk composition, Mother-child nutrition, Mexico, Indigeneity
Sabrina Perlman
PhD Candidate
Fulbright Fellow Ghana 2015-2016
Fulbright Fellow Ghana 2015-2016
Critical Medical Anthropology, Diabetes, Health disparities, Nutrition, Gender, Ghana
Amber Plemons
Doctoral Student, Physical Anthropology
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Ancestry Estimation, Dental Anthropology, Human Variation
Juan Carlos Rico Noguera
Ph.D. Student
Teaching Assistant: ANP 321
Teaching Assistant: ANP 321
I am interested in the expert/intellectual agency on the construction of common sense, especially in political transition contexts where historical memory policy can be found. I am also interested in constructivism and its place in social theory.
Micayla Spiros
Doctoral Student
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
Human Osteology Teaching Assistant
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
Human Osteology Teaching Assistant
Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Biology, Human Variation, Ancestry Estimation, Postcranial Variation, Macromorphoscopic Traits, Cognitive Bias
Sara Tahir
Doctoral Student, Sociocultural Anthropology
Teaching Assistant: ANP 200, 321 and ISS 210, 315, 320
Research Assistant: Spring 2017
Teaching Assistant: ANP 200, 321 and ISS 210, 315, 320
Research Assistant: Spring 2017
Anthropology of South Asia, Anthropology of migration, Transnationalism, Diaspora studies, Post colonialism, Orientalism, Kinship, Personhood, Subjectivities, Consumerism, Individualism, Gender
Kelsey Merreck Wagner
Doctoral Student
Teaching Assistant, Integrative Studies in Social Science
Teaching Assistant, Integrative Studies in Social Science
Environmental anthropology, Interspecies relations, Human-elephant conflict, Community-based Conservation, Violence in conservation, Corruption, Neoliberalism, Activist art, Thailand, Cambodia, Ethnography, Applied Anthropology
Elena Watson
Doctoral Student
Department Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
Department Research Assistant
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Identification, Paleopathology, Skeletal Trauma, Skeletal Biology