Graduate Students

 

 

 

 

 


Graduate students listed on this page gave permission to the author to have their name and academic interests listed below. This is not a complete listing of all graduate students involved in the graduate program.  If your information is not listed and you would like it to be, please contact  Rick Edwards 

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PhD

 Bill Balco

wmbalco@uwm.edu

PhD Student, Archaeology

Archaeometry, neutron activation, modes of exchange, cultural assimilation, the polis model, Iron Age and Hellenic Western Sicily, Elymi revival.

 

Michelle Birnbaum

birnbaum@uwm.edu

PhD Student, Archaeology

Great Lakes archaeology; ceramic analysis with an emphasis on compositional analysis.

 

Jocelyn Boor

joceboor@uwm.edu

PhD Candidate (dissertator), Archaeology

I am a dissertator and my current research focuses on the Area C ceramics from the Bronze Age site of Tell Hadidi ( Syria ).  I also work part-time in the Milwaukee Public Museum Education Department, where I teach classes in the Girls in Science Afterschool program and present other programs.  Publication in press: The Ubiquitous Shabti, in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies ( University of California , Berkeley).

 

Matthew Dalstrom

dalstrom@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology
Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, globalization, Latin America , tourism and public policy.

 

Alejandra A. Estrin

 aaestrin@uwm.edu
PhD Candidate (Dissertator), Physical Anthropology
Biomedical anthropology, biology of women, stress and human variation, Latino/a studies, urban anthropology.

 

Christine Hamlin

chamlin@uwm.edu
PhD Candidate (dissertator), Archaeology (Mortuary Archaeology)
Expression of gender, age, and status configurations in mortuary contexts of the late pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Britain; human osteology; religious syncretism.

 

Ralph Koziarski

 rk1@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Archaeology
Human and cultural ecology, artisanal fishers (both modern and prehistoric), lake ecology, Great Lakes prehistory and history from the 13th to 18th centuries, zooarchaeology and applied zooarchaeology.

 

Kerry McAuliffe

kerryam3@uwm.edu

MS/PhD Student, Biological Anthropology
Primate behavior, genetics, habitat fragmentation, human/wildlife conflict and other conservation issues.

 

Patrick Lindsay

plindsay@uwm.edu

PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology
Western Europe , nationalism, consumption and sports.

 

Linda Naunapper

lnaunapp@uwm.edu
PhD Candidate (dissertator), Archaeology
Historic period archaeology; eastern woodlands of North America ; Native American history, culture and art; trade beads; philosophy of science.

 

Murph Pizza

supermurph@earthlink.net
PhD Candidate (dissertator), Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Religions; ad hoc Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
Wiccan/Neopagan community in the Twin Cities, Minnesota (a.k.a. Paganistan!), modern occult movements and esotericism in the U.S., construction of American religious identity, new religious movements, gender and religious experience, anthropology of consciousness.

Paula J. Porubcan

paulajp2@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Archaeology
Historic archaeology, western Great Lakes , EuroAmerican and Native American material culture studies, spatial analysis, GIS.

 

Matthew P. Robinson

mpr@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology
Senegal , West Africa popular culture, postcolonial identity, sociolinguistics.

Amy Samuelson

samuels6@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology
Environmental anthropology, agriculture, post-socialist development, Romania .

 

Seth A. Schneider

sethas@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
North American and European archaeology, ceramic studies, mortuary studies, social complexity.

 

Ramona C. Tenorio

rtenorio@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology
Ethnobotany, Latin American studies, gender and reproductive health, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights, indigenous peoples of Mexico, flora of Mexico, and biogeography.

 

Daniel M. Winkler

dwinkler@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Archaeology
Great Lakes archaeology, lithic analysis, archaic period.

 

Kathleen (Kate) M. Foley Winkler

kmfoley@uwm.edu
PhD Student, Bioarchaeology
Great Lakes archaeology, Oneota mortuary practices, human osteology, paleopathology.

 

MS Students  

Lindsay Barone

lmbarone@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Physical Anthropology and Museum Studies

Running, human osteology, reproduction, hominin evolution, paleoanthropology, evolutionary physiology. 

 

Melissa Bobholz

mbobholz@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archeology

My research focus is on bioarchaeology and I will be beginning my thesis research this fall on the Oconto site.  Interests: Reading anything not school related, working out, having fun with friends, camping, and being crafty. 

 

Ed Broughton
edwardb3@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology

Groundstone assemblage at the Steens Mountains site in southeastern Oregon .

 

Melissa E. Brown

browme@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology and Library Science

North American contract/historical archaeology, southwest, media, music, visual arts, digital collections, archaeological ethics.

Kevin M. Cullen

kmcullen@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Underwater archaeology and the role of maritime trade, particularly along the European Atlantic coastal zones, as well as along the coastlines of South Asia .  My current thesis topic revolves around a large assemblage of artifacts at the Milwaukee Public Museum from the late Iron Age cultural complex of Amlash / Marlik located southwest of the Caspian Sea in northwestern Iran .

 

Mike Deeken


mgdeeken@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Physical Anthropology
Evolutionary psychology with research on 2D/4D (finger ratios) and testosterone levels in males with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

 

Daniel Dybowski

dybowski@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology

European Paleolithic (35-30 kya).  My interests are centered on lithic analysis, archaeological method and theory, the Mousterian debate, and the curation crisis in museums.

 

 

Richard W. Edwards IV

wedwards@uwm.edu 

Master’s Student, Archaeology

Prehistoric Midwest / Wisconsin Archaeology, GIS

 

 

Karen Esche-Eiff 

kmesche@uwm.edu

Master's Student, Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology, anthropology of religion, globalization, neoliberalism, political economy, colonialism and post-coloniality, and NGOs and humanitarianism; South Asia.

 

Ethan A. Epstein  

 eepstein@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology
Currently concentrating on Paleo American lifeways, culture, and dispersion routes, through key site analysis/reconstruction and language regression/ reconstruction.  Specific attention is focused on site separation, technology (durable & non-durable) and linguistic changes as key indicators of culture change.

 

Edward M. Fratello

fratello@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Europe, southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, archaeobotany, prehistoric diet, ceramics, state formation, world-systems, co-evolution, ethnic identity, railroad history.

 

Erin Gilliland
eeg2@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Hybrid of Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology and Museum Studies
"Who Owns the Past?”, tourism, identity construction, sustainable development and globalization, nationalism, Mesoamerican archaeology, museum education, Pacific Island art and archaeology, zooarchaeology, Celtic world, ASU.

 

Monique Hassman

mhassman@uwm.edu

Masters student, Cultural Anthropology

Received an undergraduate degree at UW-Milwaukee in Africology and Anthropology.  Research interest areas include: cultural/applied anthropology, West African studies, civic/sustainable agriculture practices, food mapping, systems,(in)security, sovereignty. Enrolled in GIS Certification Program.

 

Catherine Jones

crjones@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology

Mortuary studies, religion, cross-cultural concepts of death and the afterlife, human osteology, body modification, extreme environments, art, eastern Polynesia, Celtic and Viking studies, preservation and public education.

 

Ricky H Kubicek

rkubicek@uwm.edu

Masters Student, Archaeology
Central European Iron Age, social theory, history of Central European archaeology, GIS, statistics, survey methodology, phytoliths.

 

Emily Mueller

em@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology
Western North America , arid environments, zooarchaeology, human and cultural ecology, GIS.

 

Alisa Pierson

alisapiers@yahoo.com

Masters Student, Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies

South Asian women in the U.S. , gender, identity and media.


Katie Z. Rudolph

Masters Student, Bioarchaeology and Museum Studies
Taphonomy, permanent body modification, biological distance, social dimensions of mortuary practice, mortuary landscapes, ideology and social change.

 

Kurt A. Sampson
ksampson2@wi.rr.com

Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Wisconsin archaeology/Midwest archaeology.

 

Elisabeth Thimke
Masters Student, Physical Anthropology
Primatology, behavioral endocrinology, conservation.