Zooarchaeology Lab The Zooarchaeology Laboratory specializes in the analysis of vertebrate remains from archaeological sites, but also works with invertebrate, paleontological, and ecological samples. The comparative collection numbers over 5,000 vertebrate and invertebrate specimens with an emphasis on animals from the southeastern United States, adjacent waters, and the Caribbean. Read more about Zooarchaeology Lab
Christina Crespo Photo: First Name: Christina Last Name: Crespo Office: Baldwin Hall 252B Read more about Christina Crespo I am a PhD candidate in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology and am completing a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. My research explores how scientists strategically transform scientific practice towards more equitable processes. In particular, I am interested in how practicing feminist science shapes how knowledge is produced and how scientists are made.
Megan Anne Conger Photo: First Name: Megan Last Name: Conger Read more about Megan Anne Conger Megan Anne Conger's current research considers how relationships between Indigenous communities in Southern Ontario changed over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries. In particular, she is investigating the differential timing of early interactions between European settlers and people in Native communities, considering the possibility that Native communities engaged in these interactions in a variety of ways other than simple acceptance or rejection. Her work integrates traditional trade good analysis (glass beads, metal artifacts) with Bayesian Chronological Model
Shelly Annette Biesel Photo: First Name: Shelly Last Name: Biesel Office: Baldwin Hall, Room G-20 Shelly's office is a registered LGBTQ+ Safe Space on North Campus Read more about Shelly Annette Biesel A cultural-ecological anthropologist by training, Shelly examines how historic, intersectional inequalities shape social and ecological experiences of environmental change in rural communities. She has worked with coal-mining communities in rural Appalachia, and with Afro-descendent traditional communities in Northeast Brazil.
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]
