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Anthropological Archeology

Name	Email	Entering Class	Advisor/Co Advisors	Key Words About Research
Bazarsky, Alex	abazarsky@ucsd.edu	2023	Geoffrey Braswell	Interested in Maya settlement practices and socio-political interactions, particularly exploring and mapping the regional relations between larger kingdoms and their subordinates.
Borrero, Mario	mborrero@ucsd.edu	2014	Geoffrey Braswell	Mesoamerican, Ancient Maya, Archaeology, 3D modeling and Data, Household Architecture
Chew, Zi-Qi	zchew@ucsd.edu	2022	Jade D’alpoim Guedes	Underwater archaeology, submerged prehistoric archaeology, marine sediment, sea level rise, Younger Dryas.
Clark, Loren	lrclark@ucsd.edu	2019	Isabel Rivera-Collazo	Maritime Archaeology Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes Climate Change Coastal Geomorphology Remote Sensing
Declet Perez, Mariela	mdecletp@ucsd.edu	2016	Isabel Rivera-Collazo	Zooarcheology, Caribbean Archaeology, Coral Reefs, Paleoclimate, Community Archaeology
García-Colón, Javier J	jgarciacolon@ucsd.edu	2021	Isabel Rivera-Collazo & Keoly Fox (coadvisor)	Caribbean Archaeology Puerto Rican Archaeology Identity Sense of Belonging environmental DNA soil aDNA
Garvin, Arianna	agarvin@ucsd.edu	2018	Paul Goldstein	Archeobotany, Food practices in diaspora, state expansion, household archeology
Gaspar, Karla	kgaspar@ucsd.edu	2022	Paul Goldstein	Lithics, Latin America
Griffin, Jordan	j3griffin@ucsd.edu	2021		Black American West, Archaeobotany, Underwater Archaeology, Historical, Climate Change and Cultural Heritage, Alternative Commemoration
James, Nathaniel	nfjames@ucsd.edu	2019	Jade d'Alpoim Guedes	Agricultural Systems & Organization, Labor, Inequality, Political Economy, Archaeology in service to communities, Community Outreach, Public Archaeology. Stable Isotope Analysis, Archaeobotany, Geoarchaeology Experimental Archaeology. East Asia, Southeast Asia, U.S. Pacific Northwest, Mesoamerica.
Moss, Kelly	kemoss@ucsd.edu	2022	Paul Goldstein	Archaeology of the Andes, Paleoethnobotany, Foodways, Memory, Resilience, Cultural Heritage
Peña-Bastalla, Diana	dpenabastalla@ucsd.edu	2023	Isabel Rivera-Collazo	Interested in archaeological research in the Caribbean region to understand the complexities, nuances and explore unequal consequences of Caribbean colonization, ancestry and its peoples.
Rankle, Chad	crankle@ucsd.edu	2019	Geoffrey Braswell	Stable and Radiogenic Isotopic Analyses, Mesoamerica, Lower Central America, Diet and Mobility
Rodriguez, Eric	earodrig@ucsd.edu	2018	Isabel Rivera-Collazo	Caribbean, Late Holocene, Migrations, Paleogeography, Geoarchaeology, Remote Sensing, Maritime Archaeology, Coastal geomorphology
Stroth, Luke	lstroth@ucsd.edu	2016	Geoffrey Braswell, & Jade d'Alpoim Guedes	Palaeobotany, photogrammetry, Maya archaeology, Classic Maya, ceramic analysis
Tamberino, Anthony	atamberi@ucsd.edu	2017	Tom Levy
Toro Uribe, Fabian	ftorouri@ucsd.edu	2018	Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
Wu, Yaohan	yaw026@ucsd.edu	2020	Jade d'Alpoim Guedes

Biological Anthropology

Name	Email	Entering Class	Advisor	Few Words About Research
Alipio, Kristen	kalipio@ucsd.edu	2023	Keolu Fox	Socio-political forces in the Native Hawaiian community affect health and well-being throughout the stages of dispossession–restriction of access, displacement from land and eventual relocation off-island.
August, Isabel	iaugust@ucsd.edu	2018	Katerina Semendeferi
Economou, Melina	meconomo@ucsd.edu	2017	Bonnie Kaiser & Sabia Varma
Garcia Colon, Javier	jgarciacolon@ucsd.edu	2021	Isabel Rivera-Collazo & Keolus Fox	Caribbean Archaeology Puerto Rican Archaeology Identity Sense of Belonging environmental DNA soil aDNA
Hudock, Autumn	ahudock@ucsd.edu	2021	Carol Marchetto	Osteology, stem cell models, neurodegenerative disorders, cerebral organoids
Murarka, Shubhra	smurarka@ucsd.edu	2021	Keolu Fox
Rabay, Chantal	crabay@ucsd.edu	2021	Amy Non
Reynoso-Zimmerer, Jose	jareynosozimmerer@ucsd.edu	2023	Amy Non	Genetic Anthropology and Epigenetics, in particular examining how environmental and societal factors, such as poverty and racism, can impact the wellbeing of a demographics’ population.
Rieman-Klingler, Maria	mklingle@ucsd.edu	2020	Amy Non
Tomlinson, Cassidy	ctomlins@ucsd.edu	2020	Amy Non

Psychological/Medical Anthropology

Name	Email	Entering Class	Advisor	Key Words About Research
Chalmiers, Morgen Angela	mchalmie@ucsd.edu	2016
Cornejo, Ash	ashcornejo@ucsd.edu	2022	Tom Csordas	Ethnobotany, plant medicine, integrative medicine, ritual, immigrant/refugee health
Fragione, Sara	sfragione@ucsd.edu	2023	Janis Jenkins	individuals with a terminal illness in the rural US, the ways by which mind and body are entangled in tending to illness within the bounds of drug-use.
Huff, Gabriella	ghuff@ucsd.edu	2021
Ismail, Ramsey	raismail@ucsd.edu	2016
Kanth, Mir Fatimah	mkanth@ucsd.edu	2019	Saiba Varma	Kashmiri Diaspora, Migration, Transnationalism, Belonging and identity.
Kerr, Andrew (Drew)	ankerr@ucsd.edu	2019	Saiba Varma, Rihan Yeh	Poetry, Semiotics, Collectivity, Protest, South Asia
Medina, Lauren	l3medina@ucsd.edu	2022	Janis Jenkins	Refugee/Immigrant Health, Trauma and Distress, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Nakaweesi, Katongole	nkatongole@ucsd.edu	2022	Bonnie Kaiser
Sanchez, Giselle	gis003@ucsd.edu	2017	Janis Jenkins	Child and adolescent mental health, subjectivity, structural violence
Stone, Annika	abadamso@ucsd.edu	2014	Janis Jenkins	Medical anthropology, indigenous anthropology, anthropology of healing, U.S.-Mexico border research, issues of race and racisms, mental health, and resistance.
Vargas, Brianna	bvargas@ucsd.edu	2021	Bonnie Kaiser	Traditional birth practices, postpartum mental health, gender, border studies

Linguistic Anthropology

Name	Email	Entering Class	Advisor	Key Words About Research
Gaillard, Zhane	zgaillard@ucsd.edu	2021	Rihan Yeh
Hicks, Rachel Emerine	rdhicks@ucsd.edu	2014	Suzanne Brenner
Hillyer, Michael	mhillyer@ucsd.edu	2020	Rihan Yeh	Indigenous language reclamation, language ideology, politics of recognition, Indigenous sovereignty, U.S./ Mexico Border region.
Wright, Alicia	amw069@ucsd.edu	2017	John B. Haviland	ASL interpreting, accessibility, language ideology, language variation, race and gender.

Sociocultural Anthropology

Name	Email	Entering Class	Advisor	Key Words About Rearch
Connolly, Michael	miconnolly@ucsd.edu	2022	Dredge Kang	Indigenous political anthropology
Diokno, James	jdiokno@ucsd.edu	2022	Suzanne Brenner
Donald, Nancy	nturtlet@ucsd.edu	2019	Nancy Postero	Conservation, rewilding, national parks, wildlife, Patagonia, Chile
Gregorio, Gian	ggregorio@ucsd.edu	2023	David Pedersen	Interested in examining how settler paleontologists and publics articulate the importance of fossil extraction and how ideas of discovery, ownership, scientific resources and the frontier inform these explanations.
Hallingstad O'Brien, Dylan	dhalling@ucsd.edu	2017	Joseph D. Hankins	Japan, macrobiotic health, Judaism in Japan
Hicks, Rachel Emerine	rdhicks@ucsd.edu	2014	Suzanne Brenner	Secondary education, youth, language ideology, multilingualism, identity, cultural values, Solomon Islands, Oceania
Lana, Sofia	slana@ucsd.edu	2018	Nancy Postero	Glaciers, climate change, socio-environmental politics, Latin America
Lindstrom, David	dlindstr@ucsd.edu	2018	David Pedersen	Social conditions that impel refugees from Honduras. Key processes of analysis include the political economy of Central America, the educational system of Honduras, U.S. foreign policy, the criminalization of youth, illegality, and interconnected forms of violence.
Pankam, Moon	mpankam@ucsd.edu	2021	David Pedersen	Ocean humanities, climate change, speculative fiction, radical imagination, uncanny, underworld, Thailand, Phuket, science studies, Buddhism, caves, tsunami, disaster, limestone, ghosts, interdisciplinary, eco-tourism, tourism, extraction, geology
Pant, Damini	dapant@ucsd.edu	2019	Joseph D. Hankins	Caste, Space, South Asia
Puga, Dominga	dspuga@ucsd.edu	2022	David Pedersen	Cultural Heritage, Social Demonstrations, Material Culture
Sheppard, Paul	psheppard@ucsd.edu	2021	Joseph Hankins	Japanese mountain religion; movements for cultural revitalisation and popular sovereignty; indigeneity and multiculturalism; land use conflict and infrastructure; anthropology of religion and secular modernity; posthumanism and multi-species ethnography; pilgrimage studies; sacred geography.
Willford, Rabindra	rwillfor@ucsd.edu	2017	Sabia Varma	Environment, indigeneity, labor, multi-species entanglements, bio-extractivism, health industry, South India.