Anthropology

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

Almquist, Jennifer M. - PhD (MAIS Oregon State University 2004) Feminist anthropology, employment discrimination, particularly sex discrimination and sexual harassment, politics of identity. jennifer.almquist@oregonstate.edu

Bestvina, Bo - MA, Applied Anthropology, Sustainability, local organic food production, spirituality, environmental philosophy bestvinb@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

Brown, Sean - PhD (MA Cal State-Northridge 2011; BA Cal State Sacramento 2007) Prehistoric archaeology, Alta and Baja California, North American Pacific Coast, peopling of the Americas, maritime hunter-gatherers, behavioral ecology, shellfish harvesting strategies, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, experimental archaeology. browns3@onid.orst.edu

Dissertation Topic: Ancient Shellfish Harvesting Strategies and Human Ecology of Baja California.

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

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

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.

Elliot, Braden - MA Environmental/Ecological Anthropology; Ethnohydrology.

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

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

Gentry, Kristen.- MA  (BA Wake Forest University 2009) Migration and health, gender studies.  gentryk@onid.orst.edu

Gittelman, Melissa - MA (BA Emerson College) models for Conservation in Ecuador and Environmental Anthropology.  gittelmm@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) Cultural and linguistic anthropology, language ideology, discourses of endangerment, slow food.  greeaman@onid.orst.edu

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

Hescock, Sara A. - MA (BS Oregon State University 2006) Cultural resource management, GIS, ethno-botany, archaeology, and geo-archaeology.  hescocks@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

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

Opas, Matthew - MA (BA Penn State University) Contemporary immigration in Italy, Political Refugees from the Horn of Africa, Digital Technology in the Context of Communication & Integration. opasm@onid.orst.edu

Thesis Topic: An Exploration of the Use of Digital Technology on the Part of Refugees in Rome, Italy.

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

Price, Sara - MA (BA Whittier College) Medical Anthropology, studying cultural response to communicable disease, South Asia, focus on sexual health among adolescents in North India.  prices@onid.orst.edu

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.  ruderbo@onid.orst.edu

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.

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 Medical Anthropology. sudystorm@gmail.com

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