Student Profiles
Students listed on this page gave permission to have their name and academic interests listed below. This is not a complete listing of all students involved in the Anthropology Program.

Ahlrichs, Rob
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Lithic Analysis, Lithic procurement, Great Lakes Archaeology, and Terminal Archaic/Early Woorland. My current research focuses on cache blades from the Riverside Site in Michigan's U.P. associated with Wisconsin's Red Ocher phenomenon. I am currently working on a use-wear analysis of the lithic material from this site. I am also completing a Museum Studies Certificate and research internship at the Milwaukee Public Musueum.
ahlrichs@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/RobAhlrichs

Balco, William (Bill) M.
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Iron Age western Mediterranean (Sicily), particularly first millennium BC colonial contact.  My work has explored the following research topics: archaeological complex social entanglements; material culture and social transformation; the adoption of Greek feasting traditions among indigenous Iron Age Sicilian populations; archaeologically visible identity transformations; the theory of cultural hybridity; the formation of social middle grounds; and compositional x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of pottery production and exchange.
wmbalco@uwm.edu


Barone, Lindsay
Ph.D. Student, Physical Anthropology
My current research focus is the biocultural aspects surrounding human migration and how modern migration may help us understand migration in human evolution. I am also interested in human evolutionary anatomy, migration in Latin America, and endocrinology.
lmbarone@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/LindsayBarone

Bluma, Jacquelyn
Master's Student, Archaeology
Neolithic Scotland, GIS, and Human Osteology
wroble26@uwm.edu

Cooley, Chris
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Digital anthropology, focusing on social relationships and online gaming communities.  The subject of my dissertation research concerns the role that massively multiplayer online role-playing games have in creating and maintaining social relationships between kin group members in North America.
cjcooley@uwm.edu

Crea, Brianna
Bachelor's Student, Archaeology,
Celtic Studies Certificate, and a History Minor
I am focusing on Celtic archaeology and history. I am a future Museum Studies and Anthropology Masters student.
bjcrea@uwm.edu

Danzy, Jennifer
Ph.D. Student, Biological Anthropology
Primate Behavior, Sexual Selection, Life History
jldanzy@uwm.edu

Dore, Kerry M.
Ph.D. Student, Physical Anthropology &
Geographic Information Systems
My current research focus is on human-primate conflict.  I'm writing my dissertation on the patterns and perceptions of crop damage by vervet monkeys in St. Kitts.  I utilize GIS technology in a lot of my dissertation, where I mapped crops and crop damage in a grid system I created for St. Kitts. I plan to create a predictive model of farms likely to experience crop damage by monkeys.  This research is very applied; I plan to work with the St. Kitts government to manage the "monkey problem."  (Vervet monkeys are invasive species and their population likely outnumbers the human population of 40,000).  I also continue to collaborate with Dr. Trudy Turner on her vervet monkey genetics research and am working to publish my master's thesis on genetic variability in three South African vervet monkey populations.
kerryam3@uwm.edu

Drew, Brooke L.
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Mortuary archaeology of the historic period.
boulware@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/BrookeDrew

Dybowski, Daniel
Master’s Student, Archaeology
French Paleolithic/Lithic Analysis/Archaeological Method and Theory/Southwestern U.S.
dybowski@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/DanielDybowski

Edwards IV, Richard (Rick)
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Midwest prehistory is my primary research interest. I study Oneota dietary choices by examining zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical remains in the archaeological record and understanding social controls of diet choice (e.g., taboos or feast meals) is the focus of my dissertation. I have concentrated my research on four sites in the Lake Koshkonong Region in southeast Wisconsin.

Esche-Eiff, Karen M.
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology of suicide and mental illness, medical anthropology with a research focus in India, and non-governmental organizations in South Asia.  Current research surrounds the various ways mental illness is conceived and intervened on behalf of within a specific transnational Hindu non-governmental organization so as to highlight the appropriateness of accounting for context in mental health.
kmesche@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/KarenEscheEiff

Frie, Adrienne C.

Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
I am focusing on the Urnfield and Eastern Hallstatt cultures of Bronze and Iron Age Slovenia, particularly both imported items and mortuary activities. In discussions of trade items I am interested in investigating the social construction of value, and how mulitple concepts of value may be attributed to the same items and inform their movement throughout and use within social networks. As for mortuary activity, I am particularly interested in Hallstatt tumuli as long-term sites of performance, and investigating these sites as palimpsest memorials.

afrie@uwm.edu

http://uwm.academia.edu/AdrienneFrie

Garstki, Kevin
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Europe; archaeometallurgy. My research is focused on the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Ireland. Specifically, I am interested in the social implications for the technological shift from bronze production to iron production. This includes how power was consolidated in the Bronze Age through a connection with bronze production, and how avenues for power reproduction were challenged with the introduction of iron.
http://uwm.academia.edu/KevinGarstki

Geraci, Peter J.
Master’s Student, Archaeology
My research interests and goals are focused on the stone tool technology practiced by the Havana Hopewell people living in the Upper Illinois River valley and how the technology changed when the bow and arrow was introduced ca. A.D. 500-700.  My master’s thesis is a material and GIS analysis of the Kautz ­­Site, 11Du1, a multi-component Woodland site on the West Branch of the Du Page River in Northeastern Illinois.
pjgeraci@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/PeterGeraci

Grimm, Jerad
Undergraduate Student, Cultural Anthropology
jeradgrimm@gmail.com

uwm.academia.edu/JeradGrimm

Herrera, Katie
Masters Student Archaeology
I am currently writing my Master’s thesis on a Terminal Archaic burial population unearthed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The goal of the project is to understand the social dynamics and subsistence patterns of the population through burial and skeletal analyses. General focal points of interest include the sexual division of labor among hunter/gatherer populations, mega fauna, and a small obsession with Neanderthals.
kherrera@uwm.edu

Kincade, Kaitlin
Masters Student, Archaeology & Museum Studies
The role shaving and razors in ritual, especially mortuary ritual, played in Early Iron Age Europe using burials, bog bodies, iconographic images of men, and ritual images on razors. The focus of my thesis is in Northern Europe and the British Isles with a particular emphasis on Scandinavia and Denmark.
kkincade@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/KaitlinKincade

Laak, Emily Jane
Undergraduate Student, Physical Anthropology
I am planning on studying in Peru in the summer of 2012, focusing on bioarchaeology.
ejlaak@uwm.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/emily-laak/44/568/6a9

LeDoux, Spencer C.
Master's Student, Archaeology
Focusing on statistical analyses of mortuary data in the Heuneburg region of Southwest Germany.

Maxwell, Kathryn
Master's Student, Archaeology & Museum Studies
I am interested in the prehistory of the Midwest, human osteology and geophysics.  For my thesis, I will be using remote sensing techniques such as ground penetrating radar and resistivity to survey the Kolterman mounds in WI.
maxwellk@uwm.edu

McTavish, Rachel
Master's Student, Archaeology
My research interests include ecological and resource management shirts through time; faunal analysis.
mctavis2@uwm.edu

Murphy, Arianna
Master's Student, Cultural Anthropology & Museum Studies
My graduate studies have centered on museology: curation and exhibition. This summer, I traveled to Malta, a small island in the center of the Mediterranean for a two-month ethnographic field school. I explored the role of museums and heritage sites in promoting a concept of multiculturalism and cultural identity in general. I also researched how the management system has changed since 2003, when Malta joined the EU and the Museums Department became Heritage Malta.
freema46@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/AriannaMurphy

Picard, Jennifer L.
Masters Student, Archaeology
My primary research interests are social complexity and conflict in the Late Prehistoric Midwest, particularly as relates to the development of horticultural subsistence systems. Interests also include native cultigens and the introduction of maize. My thesis project consists of a diachronic analysis of paleobotanical remains from the Aztalan site (47JE01).
jlpicard@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/JenniferPicard

Robinson, Lindsay K.
Masters Student, Archaeology &
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
My theoretical interests include social inequality and relationships between rural and urban areas during periods of increasing social complexity in the Maya lowlands, political and social organization, settlement pattern studies and the archaeology of communities, and the development of archaeological investigation techniques. My methodological interests include Geographic Information Systems, ceramic analysis, and geophysical survey. My current thesis topic revolves around the spatial relationship and temporal changes of residential communities at Margarita, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
http://uwm.academia.edu/LindsayRobinson

Spott, Elizabeth K.
Ph.D. Student, Historical Archaeology
My current research focuses on historical archaeology of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Great Lakes Region. Within this context, I am particularly interested in gender roles/relations, as well as interactions between Native American, Euro-American and Métis populations and their visibility in the archaeological record.
ekspott@uwm.edu

Wawrzyniak, Andrea
Master’s Student, Cultural Anthropology & Museum Studies
My current research interests are museum politics, collections, and cultural exhibitions; power/knowledge paradigm; and modern history of Central Europe, particularly the history of Poland.  My current thesis topic examines the Polish Museum of America’s connection to the Polonia community through their exhibits, collections, and language use.
wawrzyn4@uwm.edu

Zych, Thomas J.
Master’s Student, Archaeology &
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
My research interests are focused on North American prehistoric archaeology. My previous research focused on the late prehistory of the American Bottom region, specifically with Late Woodland and Middle Mississippian societies. Culture conctact, colonization, revitilization movements, and construction of social narratives and memories are my current interest. My thesis research addressess the mode of social contact between Middle Mississippian people and Late Woodland inhabitants at the Aztalan Site in southern Wisconsin.
tjzych@uwm.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/thomas-zych/38/169/1bb
http://uwm.acadamia.edu/ThomasZych


Alumni

Burant, Eric
Bachelor of Arts (2011)
Celtic Studies Certificat (2011)
HRMS Archaeologist/Lab Technician
Academic interests include Great Lakes prehistory, Wisconsin archaeology, European archaeology, Paleo-Indian studies, phytolith research, human osteology, lithic analysis, archaeological curation methodologies, and archaeology in the public interest.
eeburant@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/EricBurant

Dunford, Ashley D.
Bachelor of Arts (2011)
HRMS Archaeologist/MCIG Project Assistant, Bioarchaeology
I analyze and supervise others in the analysis of human remains from the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds (MCIG) cemetery collection. Areas of interest include human osteology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology and trauma, mortality and morbidity in prehistory, warfare, subsistence patterns, forensic anthropology, mortuary studies, historic cemeteries, and zooarchaeology.
adunford@uwm.edu
http://uwm.academia.edu/AshleyDunford

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