Anthropology

Ainslie, Jessica - MA  (BA Oregon State University) Geo-archaeology on the Oregon Coast, the peopling of the New World.  ainslije@onid.orst.edu

Asinjo, Robert - MA Food Systems and Sustainable Development. asinjor@onid.orst.edu

Banks, Rhea T. - MA (BS Oregon State University) Health disparities, nutritional health, globalization, food commoditization and related topics.  banksrh@onid.orst.edu

Bulder, Nicholas - MA (BS Oregon State University) Paleoethnobotany.  buldern@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Reconstruct the plant resources available to early Native Americans from the Late Pliestocene through the holocene on the Southern Oregon Coast.

Caplan, Shannon - PhD (MA Northern Arizona University 2010, BA Sonoma State University 2007) Applied cultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, interdisciplinary collaboration, policy development and advocacy, economic anthropology, planning and development, food systems, fishing, rural-suburban-urban interplay, United States. caplans@onid.orst.edu

Chun, Bohkyung- PhD (MA EWHA Womans University 2010, BA EWHA Womans University 2006 [South Korea]) Applied cultural anthropology, marketing anthropology, gender and ethnicity, food consumption and restaurant business culture, migration and globalization, neoliberalism, South Korea and Japan. chunb@onis.orst.edu

Cogurik, Vesna - MA (BA Oregon State University) - Cultural Anthropology. cogurikv@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: SNAP & Students

Conte, Thomas J. - MA (BA Fordham University 2010)- environmental anthropology, traditional ecological knowledge, pastoralism in Inner Asia (China and Mongolia), grassland and forest resource management and conservation. contet@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic:The traditional ecological knowledge of China's Mongolian pastoralists

D'Alessandro, Erica - MA Local food movements, organic agriculture, agrarian subsistence, Russia, collective farming, food disparities. dalessae@onid.orst.edu

Personal website: thekolokol.com

Daye, Rebecka R. - PhD (BA Southern Oregon University 2006; MA Oregon State University 2011) Applied cultural anthropology, Latin America, global/local agrifood systems, food sovereignty, social ecology, sustainability, identity studies, sociolinguistics. dayer@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Alternative Agrifood Movements in an Age of Industrialized Agriculture: An Ecuadorian Case Study.

Eichelberger, Justin E. - PhD (MA Oregon State University 2010) Historical archaeology, U.S. military, 19th century, material culture studies. eichelbj@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Status and Authority Among Commissioned Officers in the 19th Century U.S. Army.

Elliot, Braden Taylor - MA (BA Missouri State University 2010) Ecological/Environmental Anthropology, Archaeology, Native America, GIS, incorporating cultural factors into ecological models, paleoethnobotany, camas, prehistory of the Pacific Northwest, phylogeography, scientific anthropology. elliobra@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic:Identifying a signature for pre-Columbian human influences in the current morphological and genetic distribution of native food plants, such as camas (genus Camassia). Seardhing for Native American Transport and Intensification on the Phylogeography of Camassia.

Everson, Courtney L. - PhD (MA Oregon State University 2008, BA Western Washington University 2004) Biocultural medical anthropology, applied anthropology, maternal-child health, adolescent pregnancy and parenting, doula care and alternative birthing practices, midwifery care, human reproduction, health disparities, breast health, evolutionary biology, gender studies, mixed methodology health research, feminist scholarship, nutritional anthropology.  eversonc@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Biocultural Perspectives on Adolescent Pregnancy and Reproductive Behaviors: Social Support, Doula Care, and Negotiated Identities

Finneran, Kathleen (Kate) - MA Cultural Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology. finnerka@onid.orst.edu

French, Jamie. - MA (BA Oregon State University) Historical archaeology, Fort Yamhill officers houses, Geology, GIS. clyburnj@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Ethnic Studies in Chinese Occupations in the Dalles Chinatown.

Galipeau, Brendan A. - MA (BS University of Oregon 2008) Applied environmental anthropology, natural resources and communities, water resources issues and management, hydropower development, traditional ecological knowledge, ethno-botany, China, Mainland Southeast Asia. Brendan is the 2011 SYLFF Fellowship for International Research recipient. galipeab@onid.orst.edu

Giulietti, Michael - MA (BA University of North Texas) Applied cultural anthropology, Material culture (Human-object relations), global effects on local populations, & Medical Anthropology. giulietm@onid.orst.edu

Thesis topic: The occupational community of shoe repair (America).

Green, Amanda S. - PhD (MSS University of Chicago 2008, BA Davidson College 2005) Food and culture in social justice, circumpolar foodways and livlihoods, inddigneous political activism, Sami people.  greeaman@onid.orst.edu

Topic Thesis: Food, Identity and Politics. Contemporary Sami food culture and food activism.

Grinager, Grace - MA (BA College of the Atlantic 2007)  Feminist research methodologies, human reproduction, decision making in health care, socio-ecological models of health, ethnographies of health policy, mutual accommodation between different models of care, ethnographic film, South America.  grinageg@onid.orst.edu

Hammer, Michaela- MA Cultural, Food and farming, Oregon and Equador. hammermi@onid.orst.edu

Hescock, Sara A. - MA (BS Oregon State University 2006) Applies Anthropology, soil science, cultural resource management, GIS, ethno-biology, archaeology, alluvial systems, site processes, Oregon prehistory and geo-archaeology.  hescocks@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Geoarchaeology of the Upper Klamath River Canyon

Hill, Cayla - MA (BA Oregon State University 2012) Applied Anthropology, Geography, Historic Archeology. hillcay@onid.orst.edu

Holcomb, Justin - MA (BA Texas A&M University 2011) Geoarchaeology, Peopling of the Americas, geoecology, behavioral ecology, XRF analysis, soil micromorphology; Pacific Coast, Columbia Plateau. holcomju@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Geoarchaeology of the Cooper's Ferry Locality, western Idaho

Jimenez, Alejandra P.  - MA (BA Humboldt State University) Pre-Historic sites along the coast for early peoples occupation, coastal and underwater archaeology.  jimeneal@onid.orst.edu

Kubein, Adele - PhD (MA Oregon State University, BA Oregon State University 2005)  Local economies, Chinese social life, rural and urban community organization.  kubeina@onid.orst.edu

Lancaster, JD - MA (BS University of Oregon 2012) Geoarchaeology, Peopling of the Americas, archaeology of the Southern Columbia Plateau & Northern Great Basin. lancasjd@onid.orst.edu

Li, Xiaoyue- PhD Environmental Anthropology, Southwest China, Yi people. lixiaoy@onid.orst.edu

Marshall, Lindsay - PhD (MA - Oregon State University, BS James Madison University 2007) Applied anthropology, bio-cultural medical anthropology, breastfeeding, maternal-infant health, reproductive health, birth center and midwifery care, evolutionary medicine, nutritional anthropology, practitioner-client relationships, U.S., Caribbean.  marshlin@onid.orst.edu

Nation, Humberto E. -  PhD (M.S. Environmental Hydrogeology and Geochemistry; B.S. Chemistry California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)) Archaeometry, Maya cave archaeology, Mesoamerica, Cultural material sourcing, fertile crescent civilizations (Sumeria, Persia), instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). nationh@onid.orst.edu

Nyers, Alex - MA (BS - Oregon State University)  Columbia River Plateau archaeology, geoarchaeology, provenance studies, pacific slope archaeology, geochemistry, archaeometery, XRF Analysis, INAA

Petts, Jamie - PhD (MPH Oregon State University 2009, BA University of Iowa 2006) Applied medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology,  food insecurity and hunger, ethnographies of adoption, family studies, kinship. pettsj@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Parents' and Childrens' Voices in International Adoption

Ruder, Bonnie - MA (BA University of Arizona) Maternal and child reproductive health, reproductive health policy, cross-cultural birthing practices, maternal health care training programs, obstetric fistula prevention programs.  bonnieruder@gmail.com

Saban, Chantel V. - MA (BA University of Oregon 2010) Archaeobotany, starch and macrobotanical analysis and identification, Pleistocene subsistence strategies, grindstone stardh residue analysis.  sabanc@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Grindstone Starch Recovery and Species Identification, Starch Image Reference Database.

Schindell, Jennifer R. - RN BSN Death Investigation, Instant Death Investigation. schindej@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Oregon Infant Death Investigation Practices.

Searles, Mackenzie - MA (BS Pacific University) Applied cultural anthropology, China, women in small-scale entrepreneurship, cross-cultural relations, globalization. searlesm@gmail.com

Storm, Caroline 'Sudy' - MA  (BS Southern Oregon University 2011) Medical Anthropology, International Public Health. stormc@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Emic Perspectives on Maternal-Child Health: Bridging the Divide Between Biomedical Models of Maternity Care and Traditional Belief Systems in Remote Sierra Leonean Villages.

Valora, Amanda - MA (BA Utah Valley University) Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of Religion, Slow Food.  valoraa@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: Food Storage Practices within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Watson, Annaliese - MA (BA Seattle Pacific University) Childbirth, maternal & infant health, displaced populations, disasters & conflict situations, peace movements.  watsoann@onid.orst.edu

Wheaton-Abraham, Jyl M. - MA (BA University of Alaska-Anchorage 1999) Historic archaeology in northern Idaho, the evidence of first peoples in the Americas, researching and recording the history, language, culture, and archaeology of my tribe, the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, sharing experiences as an anthropologist and archaeologist with Native American students.  wheatonj@onid.osu.edu

Willis, Samuel C. - PhD (MA Oregon State University 2005, BA Middle Tennessee State University 2007) Archaeological field methods, lithic analysis, soil science, site formation processes, spatial analysis, behavioral ecology, peopling of the New World, Pacific Northwest, northwestern Mexico.  williss@onid.orst.edu

Yanchar, Kaitlin - MA (BA California State University Los Angeles) Archaeology kaitlin.yanchar@gmail.com

Thesis Topic: Pre-Incaic Ceramics in Northern Ecuador