Nikki E. Bennett

Academic Program: Biocultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Anthrozoology, cross-cultural human-animal dynamics, human-animal coexistence, bioinformatics, genetic/ancestral identity
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: bennen2@unlv.nevada.edu

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Timothy Bennett

Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Morality, justice, proportionality.
Advisor: William Jankowiak
Email: bennt2@unlv.nevada.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

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Alex Castillo

Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: MA
Research Interests: Mesoamerica, ground stone, gender theory, subsistence, spatial archaeology
Co-Advisors: Lisa Johnson and Barbara Roth
Email: castia32@unlv.nevada.edu

Manuel De Cespedes

Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Southwestern archaeology, Virgin Branch Puebloan Culture, experimental archaeology, psychology, human environmental interactions and the use of natural resources
Advisor: Karen Harry
Email: decesped@unlv.nevada.edu

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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

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Taylor Flaherty

Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Sub-discipline: Forensic Anthropology
Research Interests: Human identification methods, hormone replacement therapy in relation to skeletal sex indicators, medical imaging techniques, human anatomy and pathology, trauma analysis
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: flahet1@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

Heather Frigiola

Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Anthrozoology, pet-keeping, identity, United States, multiculturalism, mythology and religion.
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: frigiola@unlv.nevada.edu

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Kathleen (Kat) Furman

Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: North American Indigenous cultures past and present, Women's Studies, Patriarchy, North American and Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
Advisor: William Jankowiak
Email: furmak1@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

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

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

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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

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

Jared Miles

Academic Program: Archaeological Heritage Management
Anticipated Degree: MA
Research Interests: Great Basin and Southwest archaeology
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: milesj1@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

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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 Daniel Benyshek
Email: stansk3@unlv.nevada.edu

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Emily Swett

Academic Program: Anthropology
Sub-discipline: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Southwestern archaeology, Puebloan Culture, Hohokam Culture, Neolithic archaeology, LiDAR technology, Geo-physical methods in archaeology, and Bio-archaeology
Advisor: Karen Harry
Email: swette1@unlv.nevada.edu

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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

Katharine Woollen

Academic Program: Bioarchaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: paleopathology, trauma, forensic anthropology, public health, structural violence, social injustice
Advisor: Jennifer Byrnes
Email: woollen@unlv.nevada.edu

Ružena Žatko

Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Mojave Desert Archaeology, Geographic Information System (GIS), spatial analysis and spatial statistics, landscape archaeology, and soundscape Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: rzatko@unlv.nevada.edu

Delois Watson

Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: MA
Research Interests: How Christianity simultaneously freed and incarcerated Blacks in America
Advisor: Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Email: watson-b@unlv.nevada.edu

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

Hannah Giberti

Academic Program: Paleoanthropology
Anticipated Degree: MA
Research Interests: Systematics, functional morphology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, human diet
Advisor: Brian Villmoare
Email: gilberti@unlv.nevada.edu

Karl Pittman

Academic Program: Cultural Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
Anticipated Degree: MA 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

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

Cole White

Academic Program: Archaeology
Anticipated Degree: M.A.
Research Interests: Lithic analysis, Tools/Weapons Development
Advisor: Barbara Roth
Email: whitec27@unlv.nevada.edu

Cecília Araújo Turman