Edgar Alarcón Photo: First Name: Edgar Last Name: Alarcón Tinajero Read more about Edgar Alarcón Edgar’s research centers individual lifetimes and past communities as lenses through which to examine wider ecological and social contexts. Edgar attempts to understand aspects of the lived-experience of past individuals through an osteobiographical approach when considering the diets, physical activity and subsistence practices of individuals at snapshots in time. Edgar’s research is situated on the cusp of Spanish colonization near what would become Mexico City.
Meredith Welch-Devine Photo: First Name: Meredith Last Name: Welch-Devine Phone Number: 706-542-6002 Read more about Meredith Welch-Devine My primary research interests include climate change perceptions and adaptation, management of common-pool resources, and policy and practice related to conservation and sustainability. Along with colleagues at several U.S. and international institutions, I have an NSF-funded Dynamics of Integrated Socio-environmental Systems (DISES) project that is examining linkages between climate change, land management, landscape, and policy to understand how to sustain small-scale pastoral systems in a changing world.
Jennifer Jo Thompson Photo: First Name: Jennifer Last Name: Thompson Phone Number: 706-542-6357 Read more about Jennifer Jo Thompson Education Ph.D. Medical/Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Arizona 2010 M.A. Folklore, Indiana University 2000 B.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan 1996 Research Interests Areas of Expertise: Public engagement with science. Human health and the environment. Science education. Qualitative research methods.
Nik Heynen Photo: First Name: Nik Last Name: Heynen Phone Number: (706) 542-2856 Read more about Nik Heynen Education Ph.D. Research Interests Research interests include urban political economy/ecology, social theory, inequality, and social movements. Selected Publications Books Castree, N., M. Wright, W. Larner, N. Heynen, and P. Chatterton (Eds.), 2010. The Point is to Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. [Issue published simultaneously as a special issue of Antipode, 41.6]
Andrew Herod Photo: First Name: Andrew Last Name: Herod Phone Number: 707-542-2856 Read more about Andrew Herod More Information
Roberta Salmi Photo: First Name: Roberta Last Name: Salmi Office: Baldwin Hall, 253B Read more about Roberta Salmi My research goals are to understand proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying primate communication, cognition, and sociality, and to advance primate conservation. My current work on animal communication aims to advance our understanding of how dominance style relates to vocal usage and evolution.
Laurie Reitsema publishes research determining the relationship of nutritional status among medieval Italian children and survival For the past five years, the University of Georgia's Laurie Reitsema has been researching how early childhood living conditions affect individuals' health outcomes as adults. As a bioarchaeologist and assistant professor of anthropology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Reitsema studies human remains as a "record from the past." Read more about Laurie Reitsema publishes research determining the relationship of nutritional status among medieval Italian children and survival
Michael Coughlan Photo: First Name: Michael Last Name: Coughlan Phone Number: 706-542-6160 Office: Sustainable Human Ecosystems Laboratory Read more about Michael Coughlan
