GRADUATE STUDENTS
The central focus of the Department of Anthropology, and its developing Ph.D. program, is on comparative diasporas and social justice. We encourage intellectual collaboration across the subfields of our discipline on the topic of diasporic studies. We also have a strong emphasis on community-academic research collaboration, and several faculty members and graduate students are engaged in long-term community research partnerships. A majority of our faculty are either developing or have developed research programs that link translocal communities and communities in the U.S.
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M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
West African Prehistory, Early Humans, and Early Food Production |
Education |
B.A., Anthropology and English, University of Tulsa, 2009 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Archaeology of the African Diaspora; Mortuary archaeology; Landscape;
Symbolism; Identity Formation |
Education |
MA 2005 University of Tennessee, Anthropology; BA 2003 Howard University,
Anthropology |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2004 |
Research Interests |
Ideas surrounding identity creation and negotiation, issues of visual representation, anthropology of tourism (globalization, marketing images, embodied practices, and souvenirs), anthropology of landscape, urban anthropology, social change through development, and Jordan |
Education |
2007 Graduate Certificate, Visual Anthropology, University of South Carolina
2006 M.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of South Carolina
2003 B.A. Hons, Cultural Anthropology, Carleton University
1999 B.A. Hons, Archaeology, Carleton University |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2010 |
Research Interests |
Paleoethnobotany; Native North Americans; Mesoamerica; Foodways; Entanglement; Geographic Information Systems |
Education |
2010- BA Anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University
2010 - GIS certificate Northeastern Illinois University |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Comparative colonialism, Diaspora studies, Coastal adaptation, Materialization identity, Household dynamics |
Education |
B.A., Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, 2008
M.A., Historical Archaeology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2011 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2007 |
Research Interests |
African Diaspora in Caribbean and SE United States; cultural resources management; GIS in archaeology; landscape; sampling strategies |
Education |
2001—B.A. Sociology/Anthropology, West Virginia Univeristy
2004—M.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina - Columbia |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Food and agriculture, sustainability, domestication, interspecies relationships, health, ethnobotany, ethnoecology, identity, place, globalization, queer and gender studies, social movements, the American South
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Education |
B.S. Anthropology, The College of Charleston - 2010 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
Research Interests |
African Diaspora in Caribbean and SE United States; cultural resources management; GIS in archaeology; landscape; sampling strategies |
Education |
2008 M.A. University of South Carolina - Columbia
2001 B.S. James Madison University |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Historic Archaeology; African Diaspora; identity formation; structural violence; foodways; ceramics; landscape; French colonization in West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Eastern US |
Education |
B.A. Anthropology Hofstra University 2009 |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Prehistoric Southeastern archaeology; Mississippian archaeology; iconography. |
Education |
2012 Middle Tennessee State University; BA Sociology with a concentration in Anthropology; BA History, summa cum laude. |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Historic and contact period archaeology, zooarchaeology, foodways, landscapes, colonial impacts on Native Americans
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Education |
2012 B.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az., magna cum laude |
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Seeking |
Ph.D.. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2010 |
Research Interests |
Prehistoric Archaeology in the American Southeast, Ceramic Analysis, Settlement Pattern Analysis, GIS, Cave Archaeology, and Satellite Remote Sensing for detection of Archaeological Resources.
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Education |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
China, cultural anthropology, popular culture, independent music, youth culture, ethnomusicology
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Education |
B.A. 2008 Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing. |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Spring 2007 |
Research Interests |
Woodland and Mississippian periods, ceramics, theory, public education, folk music. |
Education
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1983 B.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina - Columbia
1987 M.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina - Columbia |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2009 |
Research Interests |
Popular culture, identity, gender, qualitative methods, virtual ethnography, social networks |
Education |
2008 - MA in Anthropology - Georgia State University
2005 - B.A. in History - Kennesaw State University |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Transnational movement and social media use, Latin American diasporas, information and communication technology and identity formation |
Education |
2009 BA in Anthropology - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2009 |
Research Interests |
Globalization and migration in East Asia, refugee politics, North Korean migrants . |
Education |
2008 - M.A. Culture and Gender Studies, Yonsei University, S.Korea |
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Seeking |
M.A.. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Mississippian Period of the Southeastern United States; GIS/Computer Applications in Archaeology; Spanish Exploration in the Southeastern United States; Georgia Archaeology |
Education |
2010 – B.A. Anthropology, Georgia State University |
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Seeking |
M.A.. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Childbirth and reproductive health, medical anthropology, West Africa |
Education |
2012 – B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) Anthropology, Michigan Technological University |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
Research Interests |
African American History,
Cultural & Social Change,
Cultural Anthropology,
Historic Archaeology,
Settlement Patterns,
Transatlantic Slave Trade,
Maximizing Collaboration with Museum & Public School Education |
Education |
2005 Master’s Certificate in Historic Archaeology, University of South Carolina - Columbia
1999 M.A. in Public History, University of South Carolina - Columbia
1988 A.A. in Legal Assistant, Midlands Technical College - Columbia
1983 A.A. in Management and Marketing (Dual Degrees), Midlands Technical College - Columbia
1979 B.A. in International Studies, University of South Carolina - Columbia |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2009 |
Research Interests |
The iconography and development of Mississippian Period art and symbolism in the Southeastern United States; the development of complex societies (mainly Chiefdoms and States) and ideological shifts over time; the religion, art, and visual validation of elite authority in New World chiefdoms and early states; networking and social interaction; religious, ideological, and cosmological reflections in material culture, social organization, landscape, and art; civic and sacred planning of towns and domestic structures; Mississippian period identity, gender, social, political and religious roles. |
Education |
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) Anthropology, Texas State University - San Marcos, 2005
M.A. Anthropology, Texas State University - San Marcos, 2009 |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Historical Archaeology, British colonization, colonial South Carolina, frontiers |
Education |
2007 B.S. Anthropology, The College of Charleston |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
Research Interests |
Human Osteology;
Bioarchaeology - Forensic Anthropology;
Historic Archaeology of Military;
Latin America |
Education |
B.A. Anthropology, University of Georgia 1997
M.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina - Columbia 2000 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
Research Interests |
Architecture, the Built Environment, and the Mental and Physical Production of Space;
Mississippian Religions, Ideologies, and Power Structures, and the Physical Manifestations of These;
Inequality, Symbolic Power, and Hegemony;
Mississippian Communities and the Communities of Their Descendant Populations; Occupations of the Savannah River Valley GIS Analysis of Archaeological Sites |
Education |
2009 - M.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina -Columbia
2001 - B.A. Anthropology, Georgia Southern University |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2006 |
Research Interests |
Music (drumming/percussion), Religion, Identity Formation, Trance/Possession Rituals, African Diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean |
Education |
M.A. Anthropology, University of South Carolina - Columbia 2008
B.A. Anthropology, Western Carolina University 2006 |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2007 |
Research Interests |
Healthcare and illness in marginalized populations;
Organ transplantation and the global commodity trade;
Evidence of structural violence in skeletal records |
Education |
2007 - B.A. Honors College, University of South Carolina-Columbia |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2007 |
Research Interests |
Late Woodland to Early Mississippian transition in central South Carolina; Foodways; Structural Violence; Prehistoric Ceramics |
Education |
2007 - B.A. Anthropology from University of North Carolina-Charlotte |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
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Education |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2008 |
Research Interests |
Historical Archaeology; Archaeology of the African Diaspora; Zooarchaeology |
Education |
2009 M.A. Anthropology, Washington State University
2003 B.A. Anthropology, Skidmore College |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2012 |
Research Interests |
Human osteology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleopathology, Forensic anthropology, Forensic archaeology, Geophysical forensics |
Education |
2012 M.A., Anthropology, University of Central Florida,
2010 B.A., Anthropology, University of Florida, Summa Cum Laude |
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Seeking |
Ph.D. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2009 |
Research Interests |
Historical Archaeology, Native American migration, colonialism, social interaction, and landscape studies |
Education |
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY 2008 – 2007 M.A. in Anthropology
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2002 – 2006 B.A. in Anthropology B.S. in Psychology |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Conflict archaeology, Revolutionary War sites |
Education |
B.A., History and Anthropology, Georgia State University, 2008 |
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Seeking |
M.A. - Anthropology |
Entered Program |
Fall 2011 |
Research Interests |
Ecological, Economic and Environmental Anthropology, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Conservation, Discourses of development and sustainability, Visual Anthropology, Guatemala, Latin America |
Education |
B.A. California State University Long Beach- Anthropology 2009
B.S. California State University Long Beach- Human Resource Management 2009 |
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