Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes
Research: Mental health, water insecurity, social justice
Region: Southwest, United States
BA, Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Equity in Early Childhood Education, Wellness in High-Stress Work Environments, Stress in Survivors of Violence, Early Care & Education Workforce Development
Region: United States
BS, Early Childhood Development and Learning, Central Michigan University
Advisor: Emily Yates-Doerr
Research: Campus Food Pantries; Food Justice; Food Sovereignty; Participatory Action Research; Structural Violence; Medical and Nutritional Anthropology; Epidemiology; Health Disparities
Region: Pacific Northwest, United States
BS, Anthropology, Oregon State University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Abortion Work, Medical Justice
Region: Pacific Northwest
BS, Oregon State University, Pre-Medicine/Biology
BS, Oregon State University, Religious Studies
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes
Research: Medical anthropology, Disability studies, Autism in adulthood
Region: United States
MA, University of Memphis, Applied Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr
Research: STS; AI Infrastructures; Data Centers; Cultures of Computing; Environmental Anthropology.
Region: USA
MA, Anthropology, Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil
BA, Social Sciences, Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil
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
Region: United States; European Union
BS, Anthropology w/ Health Emphasis; BS, Health, Society, and Policy (University of Utah)
MPH, Oregon State University
Certified Nursing (Avalon Health Care)
Birth Doula/Death Doula (Community Doula Program)
Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang
Research: Cultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, tourism anthropology, ecological anthropology, environmental justice/ethics, political ecology, human behavioural ecology, complex adaptive systems
Region: Canada, USA, Europe, Asia
BA, Anthropology (specialization) and Psychology, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
MS, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Reimbursement Methods, Midwifery, Quality of Care
Region: United States
HBA, 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. Melissa Cheyney
Research: Death rituals, Burial rituals, Burial and death rituals in disaster zones and humanitarian crises
BS, Oregon State University, Microbiology
Advisor: Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr
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. David Lewis
Research: Environmental anthropology, TEK, environmental justice, traditional food and resource access, subsistence practices
Region: Alaska, British Columbia
AA, Wenatchee Valley College
BA, Anthropology, Central Washington University
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney and Dr. David Lewis
Research: Doulas, Birthwork, Birth equity and justice, Traditional Health Work, Rural health, Inclusive health work, Indigenous research methodologies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Subcultures in the U.S., Participatory Action Research, Food apartheid, Environmental sociology/anthropology
Region: Rural Oregon, Tribal communities
BS, Southern Oregon University, Sociology and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Leah Minc
Research: Island and coastal archaeology, Cultural heritage preservation, GIS and Remote Sensing, Climate change, Indigenous knowledge
Region: Oceania, Micronesia, Marshall Islands
BS, Urban Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary
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, reproductive justice and autonomy
Region: United States, Europe
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. 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; Geometric Morphometry; Digital Archaeology; Three-dimensional Scanning
Region: Pacific Northwest, North America
BA, Oregon State University, Anthropology (Archaeology Track)
Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang
Research: Political anthropology, Environmental anthropology, Extractivism, Multispecies ethnography, Science and technology studies (STS)
Region: Amazon and Latin America
BS‚ Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pernambuco - Brazil and Monash University - Australia
MA‚ Science and Environmental Education, Federal University of Pernambuco - Brazil
Advisor: Bryan Tilt
Research: Environmental anthropology, Klamath River Basin, post dam removal
Region: United States
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: Perinatal Health; Midwifery in the Afro-Latin Diaspora
Region: United States, Puerto Rico
BA, Modern Languages, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Certified Professional Midwife, National College of Midwifery, New Mexico
Advisor: Dr. Drew Gerkey
Research: Marine Conservation; Marine Protected Areas (MPAs); Indigeneity; Decolonization; Indigenous methodologies; Indignerons Resurgence; Indigenous feminism; Rematriation
Region: Okinawa; Oceania
MA, Anthropology at University of Memphis USA
BA, International Relations at the University of Kitakyushu JP
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. Drew Gerkey
Research: Ecological/Environmental Anthropology, Social Networks and Sustainability, Political Ecology, Consumer Behavior, Natural Resource Management, Multi-Species Kinship
BS, Environmental Science, Allegheny College
Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang
Research: Translingual Practices, Cross-cultural Competence, STS (Science and Technology Studies, or Science, Technology and Society), sociology of knowledge, World Anthropologies, Decolonizing Anthropology
Region: United States, Latin America
MA, Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University
BA, Hispanic Philology, Beijing Foreign Studies University
BA, International Politics, Beijing International Studies University