Kathleen Stewart, Chair
SAC 4.102, Mailcode C3200 78712 • 512-471-4206
Student Profiles
Kiran Ahmed
Graduate student
Interests
My academic interests are eclectic and include narratives in Urdu and English fiction by South Asian writers, gender constructions and subcultures.Katherine Bannar-Martin
Graduate student
kbannarm@utexas.edu | SAC 5.162
Education
M.Sc., PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
primate communities, anthropogenic disturbance, ecology, and conservationW. Andrew Barr
Graduate student
Education
PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
human evolution, paleoecology, functional morphologyDominique Batiste
Graduate student
Education
PhD Program, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Queer Affect and Belonging; Queer Theory; Gay & Lesbian Anthropology; Gender & Sexuality; Spatiality & Urban Studies; Subjectivity, Identity & Embodiment; Self & Community; Social Networking Technologies; Political Mobilization & Resistance. [Research Areas: France & The United States]Maya Berry
Graduate Student
Education
MA, Performance Studies, New York University
Interests
Latin American/Hispanic Caribbean Racial & National Formation, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, New Social Movements, Critical Feminisms, Black Radical Performance & Theory, Yoruba PhilosophyMelissa Burch
Graduate student
Education
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Race and Racism, Crime and Criminalization, Prison Industrial Complex, Labor MarketsSierra Castedo-Rodgers
Graduate student
Interests
Paleoanthropology, paleoenvironments, paleoecology.Mitsy Chanel-Blot
Graduate student
Interests
Haitian diaspora; France; Haiti; diasporic organizing; French republicanism; blackness; women and gender; Black EuropeJulie Conquest
Graduate student
Interests
Interactive documentary practices, affect theory and the imaginaryShanya Cordis
Graduate student
Education
MA/PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Indigeneity, the Asian Diaspora, the African/Black Diaspora, Post-Colonial Studies, Queer Theory, Critical FeminismsStacy Drake
Graduate student
stacymdrake@gmail.com | SAC 4.192
Interests
Prehistoric archaeology; the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica; human osteology; bioarchaeology; public outreach and education in archaeologyKelsey Ellis
Graduate student
kelseyellis@utexas.edu | SAC 5.162
Education
MA/PhD Student Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Primate behavior and ecology; animal group movements; consensus decision makingGwendolyn Ferreti
Graduate student
Education
PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Latin@ Studies, Immigration Studies, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Studies, Critical Race Theory and Racial Formation, Social Reproduction, Governmentality, Anthropology of the State, Anthropology of Public Policy, Feminist Theories, Community Studies, U.S. Southern StudiesWilliam Gblerkpor
Graduate student
Education
Ph.D Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at AustinAmber Heard
Graduate student
amber.heardbooth@utexas.edu | SAC 5.130
Interests
functional morphology, evolutionary anatomy, evolution and diversity of primate locomotion with an emphasis on hominin bipedalismShannon Iverson
Graduate student
Education
PhD, University of Texas
Interests
The archaeology of religion; colonial Latin America; central Mexico; writing; feminism; powerAngeliki Kalamara Cavazos
Graduate Research Assistant
aggeliki@mail.utexas.edu | Archaeology Lab SAC 4.192
Interests
Life in past societies through the study of human skeletal remains; human osteology; archaeology of childhood; Eastern Mediterranean; Mesoamerica.Gwendolyn Kirk
Graduate student
gwendolynkirk@gmail.com | Linguistic Anthropology Lab
Interests
Linguistic anthropology, cinema, popular culture, Pakistan & South Asia, performance, circulation & publics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, register, Punjabi and Urdu literature and literary genres.Nedra Lee
Doctoral Candidate
nedralee@mail.utexas.edu | 202-841-3124 | SAC 4.180
Education
MA, The University of Texas at AustinElizabeth Lewis
Graduate student
Interests
Disability, health, the everyday, affect, publics, Guatemala, Latin AmericaElizabeth Marterre
Doctoral student
enmarterre@mail.utexas.edu | SAC 5.114
Education
Ph.D. Student, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
U.S./Mexico border, birth practices and citizenship, biopolitics, women of Mexican descent and agency, Chicana artAlexander Menaker
Graduate student
Education
MA, University of Chicago
Interests
Historical Archaeology throughout the Peruvian Andes, Spanish colonialism, anthropology of religious encounters, Andean ethnography and archaeology, identity, political subject formationMonica Nicolaides
Graduate student
monica.lorelle.nicolaides@gmail.com
Education
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at austin
Interests
Paleoethnobotany, phytoliths, hunter-gatherers studies, later prehistory of the Levant, plant food processing, transition to wild plant food production, risk aversion and adaptation in response to past climatic and environmental unpredictability.Amber O'Connor
Doctoral Candidate/Assistant Instructor
aoconnor@utexas.edu | SAC 4.192
Education
PhD Candidate (ABD), The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Foodways, Mesoamerica, Identity, Symbolic Communication, Religious Conversion, Gender, Nutrition, Sustainability, EthnobotanyNadya Prociuk
Graduate student
nprociuk@utexas.edu | SAC 4.166
Interests
Issues of group and individual identity; gender and sexuality; symbolic communication; religion and ideology; cultural interaction and exchange; feasting and communal consumption; tattooing and body modificationEmily Root-Garey
Graduate student
e.rootgarey@utexas.edu | SAC 4.190
Interests
The northern Spanish borderlands, Spanish missions, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, household archaeology, built space and powerGabrielle Russo
Graduate student
gabriellerusso@utexas.edu | SAC 5.130
Interests
Functional morphology, locomotion, ontogeny and primate evolutionRick W. A. Smith
Graduate student
rickwasmith@mail.utexas.edu | SAC 4.166
Interests
anthropological genetics, ancient DNA, Native American prehistory, anthropology of science.Debora Trein
Graduate student
dctrein@utexas.edu | SAC 4.192
Education
MA in Archaeology, University College London
Interests
Maya Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Materiality StudiesLina Maria Valencia
Graduate student
Interests
Conservation genetics, Landscape genetics, Neotropical PrimatesDerrick Washington
Graduate student
Education
PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Dance and Performance studies, the virtual public sphere, diaspora and migration in the U.S. and the Caribbean, Cuban and Latin American Studies, cultural heritage preservation, street and social dance in the Western HemisphereChelsi West
Graduate student
Education
MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
identity and identity formation, embodiment, race, ethnicity, narrative, ethnographic writingTraci-Ann Wint
Graduate student
