Anthropology

Research: Place relationship, oral narrative, history

Region: Western Oregon

BA, Southern Oregon University, English Literature

Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Agrifood Systems; Climate Change; Participatory Research; Social Network Analysis
Area: Pacific Northwest United States

MA - Oregon State University (Applied Anthropology)
BA - Ohio State University (Anthropology)

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Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Community Health Workers, Somatic and Embodiment Theories, Compassion Science, Contemplative Pedagogy, Cross-Cultural Healing Methods & Healing Justice, Popular Education, Socially Engaged Art & Design, End of Life Care
Area: Oregon

BA Rider University: Graphic Design & Psychology

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Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Sexual Health Education, Latinx, Healthcare, Community Health Workers, Human Sexuality
Area: : US & Latin America

AA - Golden West College, Social and Behavioral Sciences
AA - Golden West College, History
BA - California State University of Long Beach, History & Anthropology (Emphasis: Ancient and Medieval Europe, Asia and World History)

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Price

Research: Gender; Ethnobiology, Agriculture Anthropology
Area: United States

BSc – Cornell University (Development Sociology and Communications)
MA – University of Reading, UK (Social Development and Sustainable Livelihoods)

Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis

Research:  Human Behavioral Organization; Prehistoric Lifeways; Quantitative Spatio-temporal Analytics; GIS and R Statistical Applications
Area: Northern Great Basin

BA - Archaeological Studies State University of New York at Potsdam
BA - Mathematics from the State University of New York at Potsdam

Advisors: Dr. Joan Gross and Dr. Natchee Barnd

Research: Geography, landscape studies, ethnic studies, oral history
Area: Pacific Northwest

BA – Oregon State University, Anthropology

Advisor:  Dr. Leah Minc

Research: Ceramics; Pastoral Nomadism; Trade; Conceptualized Landscapes; Settlement Patterns; Intra/Extra-Regional Complexities and Relationships; GIS; INAA Analysis

Area: Mesopotamia; Middle East and Caucasus Region

BA - University of Wisconsin-Madison (Anthropology)

Advisor:  Dr. Bryan Tilt

Research:  Environment, energy and economical anthropology; STS and Engineering culture

Area: China

BS - Wuhan University (Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering)

Advisor: Nancy Rosenberger

Research: Digital anthropology; ethnographic user research; human-robot social interaction; gender, society & technology studies

Area: Korea, East Asia (South Korea)

MA Ewha Woman's University (Women's Studies)
BA Ewha Woman's University (Women's Studies and French (double major))

Advisor: Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr

Research:  Nutritional Anthropology, Food Anthropology, Food Culture and Social Justice, Public Health, Health Education, Health Communication, Sustainable Food Systems, Agrifood Movements
Area: Mexico

BS - Nutrition and Food Science (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City)

Advisor: Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr

Research: Migration; Latinx Studies; U.S. Policy; (Il)Legality; Identity; Representation; Visual Anthropology; Media; (Photo)Ethnography; Diaspora; Transnationalism; Globalization; (Post) Colonialism; Decolonization Practices; Language; Human Rights; Feminism; Politics of Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, Nation and Belonging

Area:  United States

AA - Glendale Community College
BA - Arizona State University (Social & Behavioral Sciences)

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Price

Research: Human Trafficking and Anti-trafficking, Labor exploitation, Anthropology of Migration, Migrant deservingness, Humanitariansim, Anthropology of State, International Development and NGOism, Anthropology of Policy

BA - University of Siena (Socio-Cultural Anthropology)
MA - University of Leiden (Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology)

Area: Italy, United States, Indonesia

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Price

Research: Information and Communication Technology (ICT); User Experience (UX), International Development; Education; Black and Indigenous populations, Rural/Coastal Regions
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

MSc – University College London, UK (Social/Cultural Anthropology)

BA – Humboldt State University (Anthropology)

Advisor:  Dr. Brian Tilt

Research:  Applied Cultural and Environmental Anthropology; Resiliency and Disaster Policy Planning; Distributional Equity of Policy Planning; Sense of Place - Place Attachment Mapping; Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Area:  Oregon Coastal Communities

BA - OSU Cascades (Social Science with a focus in community outreach and development and minors in Spanish and Sustainability)

Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Gender; Transgender communities; Queer Studies

Area: United States

BA – University of South Florida (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Research: African diaspora, Ethiopia, Black liberation, transnational feminism, intersectional feminism, Black feminism, development, policy feminist political ecology, critical feminist Marxism, activist anthropology, indigenous anthropology, queer theory, nutritional transition, food sovereignty, decolonization, sub-altern studies, social justice, Afrofuturism, Ethnic Studies, neoliberalism and Degrowth.
Area: Ethiopia

BS – James Madison University (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Nancy Rosenberger

Research: Applied cultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, interdisciplinary collaboration, policy development and advocacy, planning and development, collaborative governance, food systems, social safety nets, rural-suburban-urban interplay
Area: United States

BA – Sonoma State University (Anthropology)
MA – Northern Arizona University (Applied Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Price

Research: Political-economic anthropology, political ecology, the human right to food, GMO free activism, alternative agrifood movements, civil society

Area: Latin America

MA – Oregon State University ( Applied Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. David Brauner

Research: Historical Archaeology, 19th Century US Military
Area: North America

MA - Oregon State University (Archaeology)

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Mental health and refugees, looking at best mental health practices for Iraqi refugees living in Portland, Oregon.
Area: Pacific Northwest and Iraq

BS – Lewis and Clark College (Psychology)

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Price

Research: Anthropology of Food; Food Sovereignty; Food Sustainability; Environmental Anthropology; Social Justice

Area: United States

BA - Saint Mary's College of California (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Bryan Tilt

Research: Environmental Anthropology, Natural Resources, Forests

Area: Pacific Northwest, American Midwest

BS - Missouri State University (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. David Brauner

Research: Historical Archaeology
Area: Pacific Northwest

BA – Oregon State University (Anthropology)
MA – Oregon State University (Applied Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney

Research: Critical Medical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Maternal Stress

Area: Puerto Rico

MA - University of Montana, Missoula (Applied Anthropology)
BA - University of Iowa (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney

Research: Critical Medical Anthropology; Maternity; Reproductive Justice; Home birth
Area: United States

BA – Oregon State University (Liberal Studies)
MA – Oregon State University (Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies)

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Cultural and Political Anthropology; Police States; Terrorism; Urban Inequality; Social Inequality

Area: Pacific Northwest and Northern Ireland

BA - Georgia State University (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. David Brauner

Research: Historical archaeology with an emphasis on the early settlement of Overseas Chinese communities in the Pacific Northwest
Area: West Coast

BS – Oregon State University (Anthropology)
MA – Oregon State University (Applied Anthropology)

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Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Sustainable, organic and regenerative agriculture; Women and Minority Farmers; Food Access; Land Acquisition; Resource Use; Foodsheds; Ethnobotany; Domestic and International Farming; Environmental Law and Policy; Cognitive Anthropology; Political Ecology

Area: United States; South America

BA - Northern Kentucky University (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Folk performance, nationalism, heritage tourism, informal economy
Area: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America

n BA – Oregon State University (Biocultural Anthropology)
BA – Western Oregon University (Spanish)

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Medical anthropology; Health; Nutrition; Public health; Psychosocial well-being; Transnational adoption; Youth; Child development
Area: North America and Ethiopia

BA – University of Iowa (International Studies)
MPH – Oregon State University (International Health)

Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney

Research: Obstetric Fistula; Reproductive Health; Global Health
Area: United States and Africa

MA – Oregon State University (Biocultural Anthropology)

MPH – Oregon State University (International Health)

BA – University of Arizona (Political Science, African History)

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Advisor: Dr. Drew Gerkey

Research: Human Ecology; Community Ecology; Social-Ecological Systems; Social Networks; Food Sharing; resource Diversity; Experimental Games;Common Pool Resources
Area: Alaska, Belize

BS – Boise State University (Anthropology)

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Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Maes

Research: Medical Anthropology, Water Insecurity, Water Governance, Gender, Psychosocial Wellbeing
Area: Ethiopia, East Africa

MS – Addis Ababa University (Biomedical Sciences)

BS – Haramaya/Alemaya University (Plant Sciences)

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Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang

Research: International Development: Monitoring and Evaluation of Technologies

Area: East Africa; Central America

BS - Union College (Mechanical Engineering)

Advisor: Dr. David Brauner

Research: Clay Tobacco Pipes from two Oregon Civil War Era Forts
Area: Oregon

BS – University of Montana (Wildlife Biology)
BS – Montana State University (Nursing)
BS – Oregon State University (Applied Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Bryan Tilt

Research: International Development; User-centered Engineering Design; Monitoring and Evaluation of Technologies and Programs; Social Impact Assessment

Area: East Africa

BS (Honors) - Oregon State University (Mechanical Engineering)

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Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Contemporary and historical indigenous issues
Area: Western Oregon

BA – Oregon State University (Cultural Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis

Research: Prehistoric archaeology, collaborative archaeology, Zooarchaeology
Area: Pacific Northwest

BA – Washington State University (Anthropology)

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Advisor: Dr. Melissa Cheyney

Research: Applied medical anthropology, biocultural anthropology, maternal health, homebirth in the U.S., reproductive justice

Area: Pacific Northwest / United States

BA – Ohio State University (Anthropology)
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Advisor: Dr. Bryan Tilt

Research: International development, political ecology, indigenous people, dams, Ainu, cultural revitalization movements
Area: Hokkaido, Japan

BA – University of Chicago (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis

Research: Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Pacific Northwest Archaeology, Peopling of the New World
Area: Central Oregon Coast

BS – Oregon State University (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Drew Gerkey

Research: GIS, Ethnoarchaeology, Paleoshorelines, Peopling of the Americas
Area: Arctic and Pacific Northwest

BA – University of Oregon (Anthropology)

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Advisor: Dr. Shaozeng Zhang

Research: International Development: User-centered Design

BS - Oregon State University (Mechanical Engineering)

Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis

Research: Prehistoric Archaeology, Geographic Information Science, Museum Education
Area: Pacific Northwest, Northwest Coast, Interior Columbia Plateau

BA – University of Washington (Anthropology and Archaeological Sciences)

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Advisor: Dr. Loren Davis

Research: Prehistoric archaeology, Lithic technology, Geometric morphometry and Geographic information systems
Area: Pacific Northwest

BS – SUNY Potsdam (Archaeological Studies/Geology)

Advisor: Dr. Bryan Tilt

Research: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Human Dimensions in Natural Resources (HDNR); Risk Perceptions; Vulnerability and Resilience; Yi people
Area: Southwest China

MA – Yunnan Nationalities University, China (Classical Documents)

BA – Hubei Technology and Science College, China (Chinese Language and Literature)

Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: The SNAP program and higher education students
Area: Pacific Northwest

BA – Oregon State University (Cultural Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. Joan Gross

Research: Anthropology of food, food insecurity, college students
Area: United States

BA – University of Oklahoma (Anthropology)

Advisor: Dr. David Brauner

Research: Historical Archaeology, Military Archaeology
Area: Pacific Northwest

BS – Oregon State University (Natural Resources and Anthropology)

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