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The Anthropology Graduate Student Organization (AGSO) provides anthropology graduate students with a unified voice within the Department and University. It is an opportunity for us to organize and engage in activities beyond those of studying, attending class, and fulfilling other academic and professional responsibilities. Activities and events include the AGSO Symposium, professional development workshops, and assistance with the Anthropology Department Speakers Series.
Incoming students often find themselves a bit confused as to what is expected of them when they begin graduate work in Anthropology at UAlbany. Incoming students may contact any of the following officers in the AGSO to be added to the listserv, in order to receive necessary graduate and departmental information.
List of Officers for 2021-2022
President: Alexis Chamorro-Ortiz
Vice President: Briana Sullivan
Treasurer: Abigail Cahill
Secretary: Morgan Mulroe
Speaker Reception Chair: Alba Tellez Nieto
Webmaster: Sydney Snyder
AGSO GSA Representative: Sara Magee
Contact us: [email protected]
Current Anthropology Graduate Students
Archaeology
Caroline Antonelli
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: agricultural intensification, human & environment interactions, geoarchaeology, geographical information systems (GIS) applications
Steve Butz
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeastern America
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology
Holly Cruger
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeastern America
Christian T. Futyma
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast America, Newfoundland
Research Interests: Dorset lithics and ritual
Elena R. Gallagher
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast U.S.
Research Interests: lithics, environmental archaeology
John Garbellano
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Ingrid-Morgane Gauvin
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America
Haylie N. Gray
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: Maya iconography and influence
Vivian S. James
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America
Research Interests: Woodland and Colonial Periods, zooarchaeology, faunal domestication, GIS
Matthew Kirk
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Antonio Martinez Tunon
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Holly Maxwell
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Maya Epigraphy
Xavier G. McClean
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: The Classic Period Maya, consolidation of political power, state development, alliance building
Steve Moragne
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America
Research Interests: microartifacts, soil chemistry, spatial analysis, public outreach and education
Yahaira Nuñez Cortes
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Lower Central America
Research Interests: ceramics, trade, interaction spheres
Kristy Primeau
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America
Research Interests: Northeastern archaeology, archaeoacoustics, geospatial analyses (GIS)
Amanda Samuels
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast US
Research Interests: Northeastern Archaeology, Lithics, Subsistence Patterns, Social Hierarchy, Trade, Lithics in Ritual Use
Eiryn Sheades
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Regional Focus: Northeastern US
Research Interests: Historical archaeology, zooarchaeology
Sydney N. Snyder
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeastern North America,
Research Interests: lithic tools and applications of GIS in archaeology.
Alyse Strohmeyer
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Briana L. Sullivan
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: historical archaeology & gender
Loretta Tucker
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Dana Yakabowskas
Advisor: Dr. Chistopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America; Newfoundland, Canada
Research Interests: Maritime Archaic, Precontact, Geoarchaeology, Debitage Analysis, Ground Slate Tools
Biological Anthropology
Elizabeth Holdsworth
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Schell
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: biocultural anthropology, psychosocial stress, human growth and development, health disparities
Florence Lee
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Schell
Email: [email protected]
Sara M. Magee
Advisor: Dr. Adam Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Paleoecology, human-environment interactions, extinctions, morphology, conservation, museum work
Antonio Rafael Otero
Advisor: Dr. Adam Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Functional morphology, paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, hominin evolution, primate and hominid locomotion
Jerred Schafer
Advisor: Dr. Adam Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Erica Tyler
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Schell
Email: [email protected]
Casey N. West
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Schell
Email: [email protected]
Research Area: Northeast U.S.
Research Interests: Environmental interactions, toxicant exposure, human reproduction, and biocultural anthropolog
Ajay Yesupriya
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gage
Email: [email protected]
Cultural Anthropology
Alondra Aca Garcia
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Burrell
Email: [email protected]
Regional focus: Latin America, U.S-Mexico Region.
Research interest: Migration, Immigration Policy, Transnationalism, Young adulthood, Repatriation, Language reclamation, and Indigenous
Sarah Appelhans
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: anthropology of science, gender, & work
Kaori Otera Chen
Advisor: Dr. Walter Little
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast US (New York), Japan
Research Interests: Weaving, woven textiles, creativity, aging
Alexis Chamorro-Ortiz
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Puerto Rico
Research Interests: Queer and Transgender Studies, Religion, Colonialism, Medical Anthropology
Jennifer Crowley
Advisor: Dr. Walter Little
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northern Ireland
Research Interests: political economy, cultural performance, symbolic representation
Abelardo de la Cruz de la Cruz
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Huasteca Region, Veracruz, Mexico
Research Interests: Nahua religion, Mexican Catholicism and Protestantism and Nahua culture
Claire Drake
Lauren Effinger
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Michalina Grzelka
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Jazmin High
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, health disparities, healthcare disparities, health seeking behavior, global health.
Aisha Kearney
Advisor: Dr. Walter Little
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast U.S.
Ramon Lee
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: North America
Research Interests: cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, critical race theory, gender, ethnohistory
Aphizetl Lemus Medina
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Ryan Levy
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Burrell
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: medical anthropology, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, urban anthropology
Cathlo Morton
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Christa Mylin
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Ethnology of Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Belonging, Anthropology of Gender
Hannah Noblewolf
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: reproductive rights, gender, pro-life discourse, fetal personhood and reproductive governance
Marie Peterson
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: material culture, religion, environmentalism, The United States, working class experience, indigeneity, academia, museology, decolonization
Jimmy Powell
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Burrell
Email: [email protected]
Catlin Renaud
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Casandra Walker
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: biocultural anthropology
Heungtae Yang
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Linguistics
Lisabeth G. Dashman
Advisor: Dr. James Collins
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Americas
Research Interests: Metaphors, Speech Markers, Linguistic Landscape, Humor
Rebecca Dinkel
Advisor: Dr. John Justeson
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: Mesoamerican languages, writing systems, & art
Jessica R. Holtz
Advisor: Dr. Lee Bickmore
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Phonology, Hiatus Resolution Strategies, Syllabic and Moraic Structure, Documentation of Endangered Indigenous Languages, Language Revitalization, The Intersection of Linguistics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Isabelle Poitras
Advisor: Dr. John Justeson
Email: mailto:[email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: language documentation, Tseltal, Classic Mayan Script, linguistic relativity
Jamilläh Rodriguez
Advisor: Dr. Lauren Clemens
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica (Otomanguean)
Research Interests: Phonology, syntax, grammatical tone, language documentation, Copala Triqui, tonosyntax, diaspora linguistics