MA Applied Anthropology Current Students
![]() | Sarah Brewer Email:scb17( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural resource management, cultural landscapes, prehistory and early colonization of the central coast of California |
![]() | Cody Baker Email:cab203( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Applied Anthropology |
![]() | Keduescha Colegrove Email:kjl1( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural resource management; heritage preservation; preservation planning utilizing traditional values |
![]() | Carolyn Cooley Email:cbc312( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural response to climate change; motherhood and mothering; U.S. social movements and countercultures; feminist anthropology; Native sovereignty, cultural survival and land rights |
![]() | Amy Deuink Email:adeuink( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Ethnography; libraries; user experience; critical information literacy; higher education; 21st century libraries |
![]() | Casey Dobbins Email:cld386( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Poetics; linguistic anthropology; literature; aesthetics; eating disorder narratives; psychocentrism; patholigization of women; feminist studies; Virginia Woolf; modernism; critical theory. |
![]() | Tina Fulton Email:tmf319( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural Resources Management; coordination with Native American tribes and various agencies; California and Oregon coastal archaeology, worked bone artifacts and faunal bone analysis. |
![]() | Megan Funck Email:mmf416( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Ethnography; anthropology of travel and tourism; development; globalization; cultures and languages of South Asia |
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![]() | Liz Hodges Email:esh186( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Archaeology of the Northwest Coast and California, cultural resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, GIS. |
![]() | Pamela Holland Email:pjh11( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Experimental archaeology, arctic and sub-arctic cultures, hunting methods, food preservation methods, gathering for medicinal and dietary use, animal domestication |
![]() | Annelise Ihle Email:aj43( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Indigenous studies (pre-Columbian), indigenous representation in educational curricula. |
![]() | Emily Koss Email:elk1( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Evolution of religion; hunter-gatherer religion; cultural and behavioral ecology; primate cognition |
![]() | Kayla M. Krueger Email:kmk137( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Science, Osteology, Ritual use of human remains. |
![]() | Bekah La Due Email:rdl47( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural and medical anthropology; ethnography; Post 9/11 American veterans; veteran transition and reintegration experiences; military sociolinguistics; female veteran identity; veteran specific nonprofit development; military hero complex; motherhood and mothering along with early childhood diet and nutrition. |
![]() | Melvin Lee Email:ml376( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Mass Incarceration; re-entry; globalism; structural violence; conflict; peace building; colonialism; white supremacy; self-care; epigenetics and inequality. |
![]() | Berlin Loa Email:bl53( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Diaspora and immigrant communities, cultural memory and material artifacts, museum collections, transnational narratives (diaspora and exile), border culture, displacement and sovereignty, urban immigrant culture, literary anthropology, literature and imagery as cultural memory, folklore and storytelling, oral traditions. |
![]() | Jarrett Lowery Email:jarrett.lowery( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: American West expansion and settlement, North American protohistoric period, cultural syncretism, and hunter-gatherer adaptations in California, Oregon, and the Great Basin. |
![]() | Jordyn Neely Email:jlm61( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Archaeology, CRM, Lithics, Paleo-Indian/ Archaic archaeology, Peopling of the Americas, Land Use & Migration, Bioarcheology, Evolutionary Psychology, Feminism & Gender Inequality, Gender Equality in cultural sub-groups, Rural Culture, the San Luis Valley (of Southern Colorado), the Anthropology of Modern Agriculture. |
![]() | Jenna Nelson Email:jeh740( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Bioarchaeology; health; nutrition; diet; human osteology |
![]() | Michelle L. Newcomb Email:mln48( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural resource management; invertebrate faunal analysis; ichthyology; coastal Californian Chumash subsistence; practical archaeology methodology; laboratory and data management methods; archaeology law & ethics; technical & subsistence writing; Hazard Waste Operations and Emergency Response. |
![]() | Robert C. Newcomb Email:rcn22( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural resource management; archaeology; GIS, remote sensing, and UAV applications in archaeological surveys and excavation; lithic tool analysis and assemblages. |
![]() | Mindi Nguyen Email:mn129( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology, implicit bias, public health, medical anthropology, globalization Thesis Title: Societal and Lifestyle Factors of Those Following a Health-Vegan Diet |
![]() | Gabriella N. Oglietti Email:gno5( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Archaeology; remote sensing; GIS; cultural resource management; settlement patterns; preservation. |
![]() | Walter A. Tovar Saldaña Email:wat47( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Holistic anthropology, biocultural anthropology, human behavioral ecology, water management, public anthropology, anthropological pedagogy, anthropology of violence, underwater archaeology, computational archaeology, culture resource management, archaeology, Mesoamerica. |
![]() | Jordan Walsh Email:jw329( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Community Organization; Social justice; Educational Anthropology; Consumerism and waste management; Folklore |
![]() | Kaya Wiggins Email:kew88( at )humboldt.edu Research Interests: Cultural resources management; archaeology of the Central Coast of California; prehistory; protohistoric period; Chumash culture; Salinan culture; Olivella (Callianax biplicata) shell bead economies and classification; colonization of California by Native peoples. |