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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 2019-2020
President
Ingrid-Morgane Gauvin
[email protected]
Vice President
Lauren Prosper
[email protected]
Secretary
Hannah Noblewolf
[email protected]
Speaker Reception Chair
Holly Cruger
[email protected]
Webmaster
Jamilläh Rodriguez
[email protected]
AGSO GSA Representative
Loretta Tucker
[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
Jeff Bryant
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rosenswig
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Holly Cruger
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeastern America
Josalyn M. Ferguson
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Mesoamerica
Research Interests: Maya Prehistory, the Terminal Classic, migration, cave use, architecture, ceramics
John Garbellano
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Wolff
Email: [email protected]
Ingrid-Morgane Gauvin
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast North America
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]
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
Holly Neville
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Maya Epigraphy
Cody Ng
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
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: 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
Alyse Strohmeyer
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Loretta Tucker
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Jessica Vavrasek
Advisor: Dr. Sean Rafferty
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus:Northeast North America
Research Interests: St. Lawrence Iroquois, zooarchaeology
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]
Venus Lliguicota
Advisor: Dr. Cara Ocobock
Email: [email protected]
Kyrie Nelder
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Schell
Email:[email protected]
Research Interests: psychosocial stressors, human growth and development, health disparities
Antonio Rafael Otero
Advisor: Dr. Adam Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Functional morphology, paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, hominin evolution, primate and hominid locomotion
Erin O’Neill Regan
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gage
Email: [email protected]
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.
Ajay Yesupriya
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Gage
Email: [email protected]
Cultural Anthropology
Sarah Appelhans
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: anthropology of science, gender, & work
Alejandro Arango-Londoño
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Colombia, Latin America
Research Interests: medical anthropology, gender, political economy, anthropology of the body
Kaori Otera Chen
Advisor: Dr. Walter Little
Email: [email protected]
Regional Focus: Northeast US, Japan
Research Interests: Weaving, Women artisans, Quilting, Material Culture
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]
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: anthropology of religion
Marie Peterson
Advisor: Dr. Louise Burkhart
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Localized religious practices, religious material culture, syncretism, indigeneity, community relations, political protest movements
Jimmy Powell
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Burrell
Email: [email protected]
Catlin Renaud
Advisor: Dr. Marilyn Masson
Email: [email protected]
Jessica Somers
Advisor: Dr. Elise Andaya
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: biocultural/medical anthropology, applied anthropology, medical knowledge, Lyme disease
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
Sharone Horowit-Hendler
Advisor: Dr. James Collins
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: gender & sexuality
Saeid Kamrani
Advisor: Dr. Aaron Broadwell
Email: [email protected]
Hannah Noblewolf
Advisor: Dr. James Collins
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Reproductive rights, discourse analysis, Pro-life rhetoric, gender
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