Elise Adams
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Structural Violence, Missing and Unidentified Persons, Human Rights Violations, the Postmortem Interval, Skeletal Trauma Analysis, Human Skeletal Biology, Bioarchaeology, Public Health
Advisor: Derek Boyd
Email: elise.adams@unlv.edu
Timothy Bennett
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Morality, justice, proportionality.
Advisor: William Jankowiak
Email: bennt2@unlv.nevada.edu
Rachel Bondi
Academic Program: Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Forensic taphonomy, victim identification, and transgender decedents.
Advisor: Derek Boyd
Email: bondi@nevada.unlv.edu
A’liciah Carr
Academic Program: Biocultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Human social behavior, psychological anthropology, human reproduction, artificial reproductive technology, and health care
Co-Advisors: Alyssa Crittenden and Daniel Benyshek
Email: carra7@unlv.nevada.edu
Loren Carter
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Community collaboration, identity formation, heritage studies, power and inequality
Advisor: Karen Harry
Email: loren.carter@unlv.edu
Alex Castillo
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Mesoamerica, ground stone, gender theory, subsistence, spatial archaeology
Co-Advisors: Lisa Johnson and Barbara Roth
Email: castia32@unlv.nevada.edu
Haley Dougherty
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Southwestern archaeology, Virgin Branch culture, Kayenta Puebloan design styles, ceramic analysis, database design software, exchange system modeling, ceramic distribution networks, trade routes, cultural identity, and technological innovations
Advisor: Karen Harry
Email: doughh1@unlv.nevada.edu
Emily Edmonds
Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, violence, massacres, patterns of inequality
Advisor: Debra Martin
Email: edmone2@unlv.nevada.edu
Mitzy Danell Flores
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Anthropology of Death & Dying, Love, Care, Consciousness, Spirituality and Religion.
Advisor: William Jankowiak
Email: florem19@unlv.nevada.edu
Eric Fries
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Maya archaeology, geographic information systems, settlement patterns, landscape archaeology.
Advisor: Arlen Chase
Email: friese1@unlv.nevada.edu
Katherine Gaddis
Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: paleopathology, developmental origins of disease, evolutionary medicine, GIS and geospatial analysis, biocultural perspectives on human health
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: gaddik1@unlv.nevada.edu
Hannah Giberti
Academic Program: Paleoanthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Systematics, functional morphology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, human diet
Advisor: Brian Villmoare
Email: gilberti@unlv.nevada.edu
Bri Heisler
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Hominin Evolution, Phylogeny, and Molecular Anthropology.
Advisor: Brian Villmoare
Email: heislb1@unlv.nevada.edu
Liam Johnson
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology; Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Missing and unidentified persons, structural violence, GIS and geo-spatial analysis, 3D technologies, community engagement, public health.
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: johnsl47@unlv.nevada.edu
Kara Jones
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Mojave Desert and Great Basin archaeology, lithic technology, lithic resource procurement, trade networks, raw material sourcing, experimental analysis, environmental ecology.
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: jonesk44@unlv.nevada.edu
Laura Jordan
Academic Program: Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Skeletal pathology/trauma, Marginalized populations(BIPOC)
Advisors: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: jordal5@unlv.nevada.edu
Miriam Kopels
Academic Program: Biocultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Food security and basic needs, nutrition, education
Co-Advisors: Alyssa Crittenden and Daniel Benyshek
Email: kopels@unlv.nevada.edu
Dayanira (Dee) Lopez
Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: fragmentary human osteology, human identification and trauma analysis, archaeological field methods, bioarchaeology, skeletal pathologies, axial skeletal deformities, Latin American studies, diversity in crime analysis and academia, structural violence
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: lopezd59@unlv.nevada.edu
Virginia Lucas
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Complex societies, zooarchaeology, Iron Age, Romania, Southeastern and Southwestern United States
Advisor: Levent Atici
Email: lucasv1@unlv.nevada.edu
Chloe Manderson
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Pre-contact Southwest, landscape archaeology, place-making and human relationships with the environment, arcGIS, rock writing
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: manderson@unlv.nevada.edu
Sara McClory
Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Disability, stable isotope analysis, treatment and mobility of human remains after death.
Advisors: Jennifer Byrnes and Derek Boyd
Email: sara.mcclory@unlv.edu
Jared Miles
Academic Program: Archaeological Heritage Management
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Great Basin and Southwest archaeology
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: milesj1@unlv.nevada.edu
Annie Ostler
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Mojave Desert and Great Basin Archaeology, preservation, archaeological collections in museums
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: ostlea2@unlv.nevada.edu
Alesha Pettit
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Hominin Evolution, Craniofacial Morphology, Geometric Morphometrics, Facial Morphology and Complex Communication, and Evolutionary Constraints.
Advisor: Brian Villmoare
Email: pettia2@unlv.nevada.edu
Karl Pittman
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A. and Ph.D.
Research Interests: Migrant Wellness Acculturation, Working-class Bodily Perceptions, U.S Wellness and Diet Cultures, Eugenics and Social Media Aesthetics, Fatphobia
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: pittmk1@unlv.nevada.edu
Paul Vincent Ruma
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Hip Hop cultural arts, dance, music, visual expression, systems of knowledge, identity, resistance, ethnographic methods, cultural transmission across global and institutional contexts.
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: paul.ruma@unlv.edu
Katie Stansbury
Academic Program: Bioarchaeology/Medical Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A. and Ph.D.
Research Interests: Paleopathology, the bioarchaeology of violence, effects of colonialism on health, biopower, necropolitics, and institutional violence
Co-Advisors: Jennifer Byrnes and Lillian Jungleib
Email: stansk3@unlv.nevada.edu
Anna Stolz
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Trauma analysis, medical imaging, patterns of interpersonal violence
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: stolza1@unlv.nevada.edu
Stephanie Angelique Torres
Academic Program: Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Dental variation, structural vulnerability, structural violence, public health, taphonomy
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: torres45@unlv.nevada.edu
Cecília Araújo Turman
Academic Program: Cultural anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Gender and race intersectionality in micro-meso-macro aggression among youths in urban education
Co-Advisors: William Jankowiak and Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: catt@unlv.nevada.edu
Stephen M. Uthoff Jr.
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: California archaeology, paleocoastal lifeways, paleoenvironment reconstruction, geospatial analysis, lithic analysis
Advisor: Gabriela Oré Menéndez
Email: uthoff@unlv.nevada.edu
Benjamin Van Alstyne
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Public outreach, photogrammetry, 360-degree film making, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies, Southwestern archaeology, Virgin Puebloan culture, architectural adaptations, building information modeling (BIM), computer aided design (CAD).
Advisor: Karen Harry
Email: vanalsty@unlv.nevada.edu
Nora Wang
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Digital media, Internet celebrity, Contemporary China, Feminism, Post-colonialism
Advisor: William Jankowiak
Email: wangz33@unlv.nevada.edu
Delois Watson
Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: How Christianity simultaneously freed and incarcerated Blacks in America
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: watson-b@unlv.nevada.edu
Cole White
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Pre-contact Mojave Desert and Great Basin archaeology, lithic technology, lithic resource procurement and least-cost path analysis, environmental adaptations, Cold-War era historic archaeology, ArcGIS and XRF analysis.
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: whitec27@unlv.nevada.edu
Ružena Žaťko
Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Anthropology of Religion, Eastern Europe
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: rzatko@unlv.nevada.edu