Advisor: Dr. Kenny Maes
Research: Water sustainability, water insecurity, decentralized water systems, environmental anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, mental health, power dynamics, social justice, environmental justice
Key Skills: Working across disciplines, networking, analyzing qualitative data, participant observation
Region: Southwest, United States
BA, Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
Advisor: Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr
Research: Food Literacy; Digital Food Media; Campus Resource Centers; Food Practice; Food Equity; Food Justice; Food Culture; Community-Based Participatory Research; Ethnography; Higher Education Student Experience; Reciprocity; Program Development
Key Skills: Leading implementation efforts; Writing for the public (e.g., Op Ed articles, blogs); Representing your organization to others; Being an effective team member
Region: Pacific Northwest, United States
BS, Anthropology, Oregon State University
Advisor: Dr. Molly Carney
Research: Gender Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Paleoethnobotany
Key Skills: Teaching in formal and non-formal environments, advocacy, archival research, analyzing ethnographic data and material evidence
Region: Pacific Northwest, United States
BA Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes
Research: Medical anthropology, disability studies, autism in adulthood
Key Skills: Knowledge translation. cross-sector communication, neurodiversity-affirming methodologies, participatory research design
Region: United States
MA, Applied Anthropology, University of Memphis
Advisor: Dr. Molly Carney
Research: Environmental archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Traditional ecological knowledge
Key Skills: Phytolith analysis, Science communication, Data analysis
Region: Oregon Coast, Pacific North West
BS, Anthropology, Archaeological Science, University of Washington
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Clinical Neuroanthropology; Critical Medical Anthropology; death studies; 'cradle to grave'; pre-/post-birth doula; death doula; hospice and palliative nursing and clinical care; suicidology/suicide; end of life care/medicine; death with dignity; physician-assisted suicide; euthanasia; disability studies and clinical care; neuropsychiatric condition care and onset; Institutional Review Boards; medicolegal ethics; human subjects research ethics; Equitable Subjects Selection in research; history of medicine; medical ethics; mortality epidemiology
Region: United States
BS, Anthropology w/ Health Emphasis (University of Utah);
BS, Health, Society, and Policy (University of Utah);
Master of Public Health (Oregon State University);
Certified Nursing (Avalon Health Care)
Birth Doula/Death Doula (Community Doula Program)
Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang
Research: Multispecies relations in Western societies, rewilding, multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, anthropology of tourism, more-than-human studies, political ecology
Key Skills: Ethnography, analyzing qualitative data, adaptation & flexibility, continuous/iterative learning
Region: Scotland, UK
BA, Anthropology & Psychology, Western University (Ontario, Canada)
MS, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Advisor: Dr. Alyssa Bader
Research: Diet, community-collaboration, ancient DNA, paleoethnobotany, lithic technology
Key Skills: Teaching; ethical, scientifically rigorous research; producing deliverables for communities, the public, and academia
Region: Coastal Pacific Northwest, Western North America
MA, Anthropology, University of Wyoming
BA, Anthropology, Pacific Lutheran University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Healthcare Reimbursement Mechanisms, Midwifery Model of Care, Freestanding Birth Centers, Mixed-Methods Research, Quality of Care
Key Skills: Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data;
Effectively articulating ideas orally and in writing; Guiding, coordinating, and contributing to collaborative projects
Region: United States, North America
BA (Honors) Anthropology, Oregon State University
Advisor: Dr. Drew Gerkey
Research: Environmental and Ecological Anthropology; Energy (Unconventional Fossil Fuels); Extractivism and Post-Extractive Futures; Critical Environmental Justice; Resistance Movements; Decolonization; Multispecies Justice; Climate Crisis and the Anthropocene; Place Attachment; Political Ecology; Mutual Aid; Activist and Advocacy Scholarship.
Region: Pacific Northwest
BS‚ Southern Oregon University, Anthropology and Native American Studies
MA‚ Oregon State University, Applied Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research: Peopling of the Western Hemisphere, Pre-Contact Archaeology, Digital Archaeology, American Upper Paleolithic, Cultural Transmission
Key Skills: Lithic Analysis, Geometric Morphometry, 3D Scanning, Geoarchaeology
Region: North America, Pacific Northwest Coast, Northeast Asia
BS, Anthropology (Archaeology track), Oregon State University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Nutrition, toxicology, health of Black and Brown people
Region: United States, Australia
MA, Food Studies, Indiana University
BS, Health & Disease, Purdue University
BA, Anthropology, Purdue University
Advisor: Dr. Molly Carney, Dr. David Lewis
Research: Paleoethnobotany, Indigenous knowledge systems, Environmental archaeology, Medicinal plant utilization
Key Skills: Macrobotanical analysis, Stratigraphic Interpretation, Loss on Ignition testing, Monolith sampling
Region: Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, United States
BA, Anthropology/Archaeology, University of California San Diego
Advisor: Dr. David Lewis
Research: Ethnobotany, Cultural Resource Management, Indigenous Archaeology, Traditional Cultural Places, Paleo-ethnobotany, Culturally Significant Plants, Environmental Anthropology.
Key Skills: Botany field methods, cultural resource management law and policy, environmental and Indigenous law and policy
Region: Columbia River Plateau
BA, Anthropology, Central Washington University
AA, Western Washington University
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research: Geoarchaeology; Peopling of the Western Hemisphere; Submerged Pre-Contact Archaeology; Sediment Coring; Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene
Region: Pacific Northwest Coast, North America
MS, Oregon State University, Applied Anthropology (Archaeology Track)
BS, Texas A&M University, Anthropology (Archaeology Track)
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Maternal placentophagy, complementary and integrative medicine, maternal health, postpartum health practices, maternal postpartum mood disorders, midwifery, contraceptive care, reproductive justice and autonomy
Region: United States, Canada
BS, Anthropology, Oregon State University
MA, Applied Anthropology, Mississippi State University
Advisor: Dr. Leah Minc
Research: Archaeometry, how goods and people move across landscapes, collections research, and science communication.
Region: South America
BS, Physical Anthropology, Minor in Writing, University of California Davis
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research:Peopling of the Americas, Great Lakes Archaeology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Biogeography, Sedimentology
Key Skills: Lithic Analysis, Geoarchaeology, Petrography/Micromorphology, GIS
Region: North America
BA, Classical Archaeology, Macalester College
Advisor: Dr. Bryan Tilt
Research: Environmental anthropology, Applied anthropology, Human dimensions of natural resources, Food systems
Region: United States and Latin America
MS, Central Washington University, Cultural and Environmental Resource Management
BA, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research: Lithic Analysis; Typology; Cultural Transmission; Peopling of the Americas; Geometric Morphometry; 3D Scanning; Digital Archaeology; Early Holocene
Key Skills: Identifying meaning in artifacts and behavior; Working across disciplines; Analyzing quantitative data; Translating anthropological concepts
Region: Columbia River Plateau; North America
BA, Anthropology (Archaeology track), Oregon State University
Advisor: Bryan Tilt
Research: Environmental/ecological anthropology, anthropology of education, knowledge co-production, participatory research methods
Key Skills: Qualitative research methods, curriculum development, cross-cultural communication
Region: United States, Pacific Northwest
BA, Anthropology and Art History, Oberlin College
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research: Geoarchaeology; Peopling of the Americas; Coring; Stratigraphy; Geology
Region: Columbia Plateau; Willamette Valley; Western Cascades
BS, University of Oregon; Anthropology with focus in archaeology
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Critical Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health, Medical Pluralism, Ethnobiology
Region: Suriname, Amazon
MA, Rural Development Sociology, Wageningen University (Netherlands)
Advisor: Dr. Kenny Maes
Research: Community Health Workers, Community Health Worker workforce process/outcome indicators, Popular Education Pedagogy, Health Equity, Black Health, Intersectionality, Community-based Participatory Research
Region: United States
MPH, Global Maternal Child Health, Tulane University
BS, Community Health Education, Portland State University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Midwifery Education; Direct Entry Midwifery
Region: United States and the Global South
BA, Modern Languages, Universidad de Puerto Rico Certified; Professional Midwife, National College of Midwifery and Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery
Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis
Research: Paleoclimate; environmental archaeology; hunter-gatherer studies; digital archaeology; sustainability; climate change; stable isotope analysis
Region: Western North America
BA, Oregon State University, Anthropology (archaeology focus) & Sustainability minor
Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang
Research: Evaluatig and appropriately using existing research to inform action; engaging in rigorous original data collection, analysis and problem solving.
Key Skills: Evaluatig and appropriately using existing research to inform action; engaging in rigorous original data collection, analysis and problem solving.
Region: United States, China
MA, Oregon State University, Anthropology