Jennifer Jo Thompson

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First Name:
Jennifer
Last Name:
Thompson
Phone Number:
706-542-6357

 

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

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First Name:
Nik
Last Name:
Heynen
Phone Number:
(706) 542-2856

 

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] 

Roberta Salmi

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First Name:
Roberta
Last Name:
Salmi
Office:
Baldwin Hall, 253B

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

Associate Professor Laurie Reitsema at an archaeological dig site

 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."