Meet Our Graduate Students

Research Topics: Cultural anthropology; Human geography; Urban studies; Immigration; Indian diaspora; Caste discrimination

Research Topics: Biological anthropology; Evolutionary morphology; Primate neurocranial evolution; Craniofacial ontogeny; Comparative osteology; Geometric morphometrics

Research Topics: Bioarchaeology; Human Osteology; Structural violence; Social inequality; Bronze Age Europe; Bronze Age Near East

Research Topics: Anthropology of energy; Energy transitions; Economic anthropology, Policy. I am interested in widening my knowledge on how low carbon futures are perceived and articulated by use of anthropological methods in rural West Bengal, India.

Research Topics: Landscape archaeology, paleoecology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, subsistence practices, human response to climate change, Pre-Contact Indigenous populations, community archaeology, public outreach, NAGPRA, Northeastern North America, Coastal California

Research Topics: Anthropological Archaeology, Medieval Spain, Islam, Cultural Entanglement, Network Analysis, Landscape Archaeology, Historical Archaeology

Research Topics: Movement ecology; Primatology; Landscape ecology; Behavioral ecology; Remote sensing

Research Topics: Medieval and post-medieval Europe; Bioarchaeology; Osteology; Warfare and conflict; Skeletal trauma; Genealogical applications in anthropology; Museums

Research Topics: My interests broadly cover human variation and functional morphology in both modern, and historical contexts. For my master’s project, I conducted a radiographic study of juvenile femora to derive regression formulae for statue and body mass estimates. My dissertation project employs geometric morphometrics to explore the purported relationship between subsistence and weaning practices, craniomandibular morphology, and occlusal patterns in modern clinical populations, and pre-industrial populations. Biological anthropology; Forensic anthropology; Bioarchaeology; Skeletal biology; Osteology; Morphology; Human variation.

Research Topics: I have been a graduate student in the Anthropology PhD program at UB since 2019. My current research connects current concerns about sustainability with people’s historical struggle to maintain control over their territory. Specifically, my research looks into the historical tension between the extractive and refuge use of forests for the indigenous and mestizo people in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico and its implications under neoliberal environmental governance.

Research Topics: I am interested primarily in environmental anthropology, specifically the contradictory nature and effects of shrimp farming policy. My geographical area of study, Thailand, highlights the complexities surrounding shrimp aquaculture certification and the management of environmental challenges. I am also interested in outcomes that arise from friction between local, state, and global actors in the production of food.

Research Topics: Bioacoustics; Primatology; Behavioral ecology; Reintroduction; Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Research Topics: Bioarchaeology; Identity; New materialism; Prehistoric European burial practices; Post-mortem manipulation of human remains.

Research Topics: The European Neolithic and Chalcolithic; Human-environment interaction; Niche construction

Research Topics: Early medieval Scotland; Religious and sacred spaces; Landscape archaeology; Geographic information systems (GIS); Agent-based modeling