PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
pbennet1@binghamton.edu
Year Admitted: 2010
Advisor: Douglas R. Holmes
My current research interests lie in government regulatory decisions regarding animal biotechnology. I focus on the history and development of the FDA's regulatory authority, the establishment of policy and the formulation of specific risk-assessment guidelines addressing genetically engineered organisms, specifically genetic technologies regulated as "New Animal Drugs." My inquiry takes a specific look at the first commercial GE animal for human consumption: The AquAdvantage Salmon. I explore within the context of genetic engineering and its regulation how new meanings of food, life, and nature are generated, and how elements of perceived risk are constructed.
Claire J. Brown PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
cbrown18@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2011
Advisor: Thomas Wilson
Research Interests
My research studies the social and economic centrality of the Connemara pony in western Irish society, and the ways in which the pony influences social networks on a regional and international level. I analyze the changing nature of the pony in a localized context, and how this can be writ large as a symbol of the negotiation of Irish identity in both national and international realms. On a more general level, I am interested in human-animal interaction, and how human relationships with animals define social relationships and our understanding of nature and culture.
I am also involved in an ongoing archaeological field project entitled, "The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast", headed by Dr. Ian Kuijt of the Anthropology Department at the University of Notre Dame. This project combines multiple archaeological techniques as well as cultural
investigations to provide a holistic understanding of life in the coastal Connemara region of Ireland.
Grants and Awards
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient. Three-year supported fellowship. Project Title: Globalization of the Local: The Connemara Pony as a Symbol of Irish Identity Negotiation.
Conference presentations
2012 "Patterns of Stone: Land Use and Property on Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland." Poster co-author; C. Brown, I. Kuijt, and C. McNeill, presentation in the 'Coastal Landscape of the Western Irish Coast: Multi-Scalar Archaeology, Dynamic Communities, and Changing Life' poster session at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
2011 "Show Ring Status: The Negotiation of Social Capital Through Connemara Pony Breeding and Showing" Paper Presentation and Session Chair for 'Producing the Self, Producing the Nation' at the American Anthropological Association Conference in Montréal, Canada.
2011 "Communities on the Move: Demography of Small Island Communities in Famine and Post-Famine Ireland" Poster co-author; P. Lettieri, C. Brown, I Kuijt, presentation in the 'Irish Coastal Landscapes: Dynamic communities and changing island life in western Ireland' poster session at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Sacramento, California.
2011 "Microhistories and Residential Genealogies of Domestic Life on Inishark, Co. Galway" Poster co-author; C. McNeill, M. Conway, C. Brown, I. Kuijt, presentation in the 'Irish Coastal Landscapes: Dynamic Communities and Changing Island Life in Western Ireland' poster session at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Sacramento, California.
2011 "A Changing Coastal Village: Time Slices and Residential Shifts, 1838- 1960, Inishark, Ireland" Poster co-author; A. Nauman, I. Kuijt, N. Goodale, C. McNeill, C. Brown, presentation in the 'Along a Watery Road: Understanding18-20th Century Irish Coastal Communities and Household Organization' session at the Society for Historical Archaeology meeting in Austin, Texas.
2011 "Microhistories and Lifeways: Oral History and the Documentation of Household Daily Life on Inishark, Ireland" Poster co-author; C. McNeill, M. Conway, A. Nauman, C. Brown, I. Kuijt, presentation in the 'Along a Watery Road: Understanding18-20th Century Irish Coastal Communities and Household Organization' session at the Society for Historical Archaeology meeting in Austin, Texas.
2010 "The Commodification of Heritage: The Changing Role of the Connemara Pony in Western Irish Society" Paper presentation in the 'Embodying Heritage' session at the American Anthropological Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana
2010 "Faith on the Water: Documenting the Development of Early Christian Island Settlements, Co. Galway, Ireland" Poster co-author; A. Nauman, I. Kuijt, N. Goodale, C. Brown, presented at the Society for American Archaeology Conference in St. Louis, Missouri
2009 "The Construction of Rural Irish Identity as Seen Through the Lens of Connemara Pony Shows". Poster author, presented in 'First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology Part I' at the American Anthropological Association Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jiaying Chen PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
jchen50@binghamton.edu
For the past year, I've been working on my master's thesis, "The Politics of Demolishing a Neighborhood -- Development, Modernization and Globalization," which attempts to investigate the mechanism of China's frenetic urban development over the past 20 years and how it is intertwined with the national narratives of development, modernization and globalization.
I successfully held my colloquium at the end of last semester and I am currently doing fieldwork in China during the summer.
Rui Gomes Coelho PhD candidate
Archaeologist
rgcoelho@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2011
Advisor: Randall H. McGuire
Research interests
Current research interests include the archaeology of slavery in the coffee landscapes of the 19th century Paraíba Valley (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the archaeology of colonialism and decolonization; historical archaeology of the Amazon basin; community-based archaeologies and social history of archaeology.
Grants and Awards
2012- Doctoral fellowship (SFRH/BD/78009/2011) - Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal.
2011-2012 Doctoral fellowship – Fulbright Commission, Portugal.
2011 PCI research grant (Nº. 170171/2010-8) - Ministry for Science and Technology & Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil. Project: Archaeology of the first interactions between Amerindians and Europeans in Amazonia (16th-18th centuries).
Sarah Cunningham PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
scunnin4@binghamton.edu
Year Admitted: 2010
Advisor: Koji Lum
I am a biological anthropology PhD student with interests in molecular anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, taphonomy/bone preservation, non-metric skeletal trait variation, skeletal change due to secular change and admixture, pathology, archaeology of the Southeastern US, societal collapse, and genocide studies. My current research focus is studying microbacteria community succession within a postmortem setting to determine time since death.
Ross, A.H. and Cunningham, S.L. 2011. Time-since-death and bone weathering in a tropical environment. Forensic Science International. Vol. 204 (1): 126-133.
Cunningham, S.L.; Kirkland, S.; and Ross, A. "Bone Weathering of Juvenile-Sized Remains in the North Carolina Piedmont". The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations, eds. Ann H. Ross and Suzanne M. Abel. 2011.
Reiber, E. and Cunningham, S.L. "Absorbed Residue Analysis from the George Reeves site (11S650), an Emergent Mississippian blufftop settlement". Hanneke Hoeffman-Sites and Maria Raviele edited volume (in press).
2010 Bone weathering of child sized remains in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina, USA. 5th Annual One-Day Symposium for the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark (with S. Kirkland and A. Ross).
2010 Septal Aperture Rates Among the Pee Dee of Town Creek Mound, Mt. Gilead, North Carolina. 37th Annual Paleopathology Association Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2009 Bone Weathering in the North Carolina Piedmont: Pigs as Proxies for Human Juvenile Remains. The 2nd Annual NCSU Forensic Science Symposium, NC State, Raleigh, NC and the 6th Annual North Carolina State University Graduate Research Symposium, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with A. Ross).
2009 Determining Row vs. Ray Development through Adult Hand Correlation. The 5th Annual North Carolina State University Graduate Research Symposium, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland).
2010 “Introduction to Forensic Anthropology”. Discovery and Recovery: Death in Natural Environments crime scene investigation workshop, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland, A. Humphries, and J. Stone)
2010 “Introduction to Forensic Anthropology”. North Carolina Central University Law School visitation program, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland, A. Offenbecker)
2010 “Introduction to Forensic Anthropology”. Cary Academy visitation program, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland, A. Offenbecker)
2009 “An Introduction to the Human Skeleton and Physical Anthropology”. Creating Awareness of Agriculture and Life Science Disciplines, Discoveries and Degrees (CAALS3D) North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics visitation program, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland)
2009 “An Introduction to the Human Skeleton and Physical Anthropology”. Champs Visitation Program, NC State, Raleigh, NC (with S. Kirkland)
Summer 2009 Lopburi, Thailand (biological archaeology field work)
Kate Ellenberger PhD student
Archaeologist
kellenb1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2009
Advisor: Siobhan Hart
Curriculum vitae (download PDF file)
2009 B.A. Anthropology, Western Washington University
Advisor: Dr. Sarah Campbell
- community-based archaeology
- production and presentation of archaeological knowledge
- indigenous archaeologies
- colonial period New England
- historiography of colonization
- June 2012-present North American Representative, Student Committee, World Archaeological Congress
- May 2012-present Librarian and Computer Lab Manager, Anthropology Graduate Organization, Binghamton University
- April 2012-present Founder and Coordinator of Flintknapping Group, sponsored by Anthropology Graduate Organization, Binghamton University
- April 2012-present Social Media Coordinator, Public Archaeology Interest Group, Society for American Archaeology
- Anthropology 111 (Intro to Anthropology)
- Anthropology 168 (Intro to Prehistoric Archaeology)
- Anthropology 167 (Intro to Biological Anthropology)
- Community Archaeology Program for Teens (through the Public Archaeology Facility)
PhD candidate
Archaeologist
bfullen1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2010
Advisor: William H. Isbell
My interests lie primarily in Andean archaeology and the emergence and collapse of complex societies. I am interested in the construction and implementation of power and how those in power create, use, and manipulate symbolism, iconography and landscape in order to achieve their goals. Additionally, I am interested in how local societies are incorporated into the larger imperial spheres; how they relate to other subjects, colonists, and heartland elite; and how they accept, negotiate, or reject the state with its ideology and infrastructure of rule. In order to study core/periphery relations, I am focusing my studies on ceramics as a highly portable and visible medium in which to communicate messages and influence decision-making among individuals and groups involved in the process of empire.
Jessica Goodsell PhD candidate
Biomedical Anthropologist
jgoodse2@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Ralph Garruto
Research Interests
infectious disease, Lyme disease, chronic disease, epidemiology, molecular anthropology
Frances W. Harrison PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
fharris2@binghamton.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/franthro/
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Thomas M. Wilson
Research Interests
Frances Harrison’s research focuses on postsocialist and post-Soviet societies of Eastern Europe. She studies human issues dealing with post-conflict transformations, nationalism, marginality and sociopolitical representation. In exploring these topics, she hopes to illuminate how identity is manifested through public and private interactions, aesthetic if not symbolic performances as well as moral choice and personal values. Frances is also interested in the implication and resistance of Soviet culture over time and space, and multivocal interpretations of heritage and memory. She is intrigued with the transformation of knowledge by institutions such as religion and education which seek to shape social behavior as well as a sense of belonging or exclusion.
Publications
Harrison, Frances W. (2012) “Reviving Heritage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a Visual Approach to National Identity,” Totem: the University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology: Vol 20: Iss. 1, Article 3. http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem/
Conference Presentations
National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
2011 – Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. Honors Thesis: Reviving Heritage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: A Visual Approach to National Identity.
Undergraduate Anthropology Research Symposium
2011 – Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. Honors Thesis: Reviving Heritage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: A Visual Approach to National Identity.
Adrian Tinsley Undergraduate Research Symposium
2010 – Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. GIS Project: Ethnic Clustering in Brockton and Lowell, MA.
Awards
Dr. George B. Horner Award
2011 – Academic Excellence in Anthropology, Bridgewater State University
Dr. Madhu N. Rao Scholarship
2011 – Excellence in Geography ($700), Bridgewater State University
James Hundley PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
jhundley@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2010
Advisor: Thomas M. Wilson
Research Interests
James Hundley focuses his research on Canada-U.S. borderlands and the policy formation process.
Conference presentations
Security's Impact on Border Policies, University of Victoria 2012
Northwest Anthropological Conference, 2008
Grants and awards
Canadian Studies Doctoral Student Research Award Program
Border Policy Research Institute Thesis Fellowship
Jayme L. Job PhD candidate
Archaeologist
jjob1@binghamton.edu
Advisor: Susan Pollock
My dissertation site is in Greece (Neolithic Halai). The site is in east-central Greece and I'm working on the ceramics and groundstone; my dissertation itself is on Neolithic Greek Foodways. I've worked at the site the past three years and will be returning this summer (2012).
Sarah Kindschuh PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
skindsc1@binghamton.edu
Year Admitted: 2009
Advisors: Dawnie Steadman and Rolf Quam
Research interests
My current research focuses on population biodistance in Ancient Egypt as well as the paleopathology of a genetic condition called brachydactyly.
Publications
Kindschuh SC, Dupras TL, Cowgill LW. 2012. Exploring Ancestry of the Hyoid. Journal of Forensic Sciences 57(1): 41-46.
Kindschuh SC, Dupras TL, Cowgill LW. 2010. Determination of Sex From the Hyoid Bone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(2): 279-284.
Conference Presentations
Kindschuh SC, McCormick K, Marx A, Steadman DW. A Differential Diagnosis Using Periosteal and Endosteal Reaction Patterning. Poster presented at the Paleopathology Association annual meeting.
Hayley Mann PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
hmann3@binghamton.edu
Year Admitted: 2012
Advisor: Koji Lum
I am a doctoral student with a background in human genetics and evolutionary anthropology. My research pertains to molecular adaptation and how certain environmental agents have influenced allele frequencies across different human populations.
Mann HA, Kemp BM, Sullivan RJ, Hagen EH. 2012. The Highly Polymorphic Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A6 Gene: Examining Diversity and Nicotine Metabolism in a Central African Foraging Population. Poster presented at the 81st annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Portland, OR.
Benjamin McNamee PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
bmcname2@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2009
Advisor: Gary James
Research Interests
My research focuses on the links between stressor appraisal, the physiological stress response, and later-life health problems. My dissertation project examines the links between stressor appraisal and variation in salivary cortisol levels in pregnant women. I am also interested in how this relationship affects the intrauterine environment and the later development of medical complications in offspring.
Publications
McNamee B.G. and James G.D. (In Press). The impact of parental status on perceptual and behavioral predictors of ambulatory blood pressure variation among working women. Annals of Human Biology.
Conference presentations
McNamee B.G. and G.D. James. 2011. Parental status and ambulatory blood pressure among working women: the impact of psychosocial expectations on the appraisal and physiological response to stress. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. Minneapolis, MN, April.
Jackson Malle PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
jmalle1@binghamton.edu
In addition to teaching as an instructor of record, Jackson Malle has spent the past academic year working toward doctoral candidacy in sociocultural anthropology under the supervision of Professor Douglas Holmes. His dissertation research draws on the anthropology of Europe, political science and environmental anthropology in the study of environmental regulation and policymaking between California and the European Union. He continues to apply to granting agencies and hopes to begin preliminary ethnographic fieldwork in September.
Kelsie Martinez PhD student
Archaeologist
kmarti11@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Kathleen Sterling
Research interests
Feminist archaeologies, European Upper Paleolithic, lithic technology, communities of practice, education, and experimental archaeology
Grants and Awards
2012 - 2017 Clifford D. Clark Fellowship, Binghamton University
2011 Daniel H. Weiskotten Scholarship, New York State Archaeological Association
Conference Presentations
2013 "Fieldwork and Feminist Communities of Practice" paper presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Meeting in Chicago
Craig Morris PhD candidate
Biocultural Anthropologist
cmorris2@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2008
Advisor: Chris Reiber
Craig Eric Morris has degrees in advertising from Pennsylvania State University and anthropology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He received his MA in biological anthropology from Binghamton University and continues his studies there as a PhD candidate with Chris Reiber, David Sloan Wilson, and Ann Merriwether.
Craig has designed and taught courses on evolutionary theory, biomedical anthropology, and human sexual behavior. He has conducted research on Internet pornography, sex tourism, and the illegal trafficking of female sex workers. His primary research interests are evolutionary medicine, evolutionary models of human sexual behavior, and human pair bond formation and dissolution.
Craig is a graduate assistant for the EVOS program and is preparing his dissertation which proposes evolutionary predictors of the physical and emotional trauma that follow the breakup of a romantic relationship.
Publications
Keeping Sexual Strategies Theory Relevant in the Classroom [in press]
Morris, C.E. (2012). Review of The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature by Gaad Saad. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 6(1), 137-139.
Morris, C.E., Reiber, C. (2011). Frequency, intensity and expression of post-relationship grief. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 3(1), 1-11.
Morris, C.E. (2011) Review of Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 2011, 5(4), 293-295.
Grants
2010-2011 EvoS grant for Frequency, Intensity and Expression of Post-Relationship Grief: An Evolutionary Perspective, Binghamton University, EvoS Program.
2009-2010 EvoS grant for Qualitative Analyses of Gender Differences in Relationships, Binghamton University, EvoS Program.
Celia Murnock PhD candidate
Biomedical Anthropologist
cmurnock@gmail.com
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Ralph Garruto
Research Interests
My research interest is in chronic disease, specifically fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and the relationship between these illnesses and mood and anxiety disorders. Currently I am part of the Tick-Borne Disease Research Project with Dr. Ralph Garruto.
Kathryn M. Olszowy, BA, MA, MS PhD candidate
Biomedical Anthropologist
kolszow1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2009
Advisor: Ralph M. Garruto
Research Interests/Experience
My research interests are in biomedical anthropology and human population health, particularly relating to nutrition, infectious disease, obesity, social determinants of health, and health transitions. As a graduate student, I have participated in field studies in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu under Drs. Ralph Garruto and Koji Lum at Binghamton, and in urban Colombia under Dr. Darna Dufour at the University of Colorado (where I completed my MA). I also have laboratory experience dating to undergraduate employment in immunology and behavior laboratories. My advisor is Dr. Ralph Garruto.
Publications
Olszowy KM, Dufour DL, Bender RL, Bekelman T, Reina JC. 2012. Socioeconomic Status, Stature and Obesity in Women: 20-Year Trends in Urban Colombia. American Journal of Human Biology. 24: 602-610.
Klein BA, Olszowy KM, Klein A, Saunders KM, Seeley TD. 2008. Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees. Journal of Experimental Biology. 211: 3028-3040.
Conference Presentations:
Olszowy KM, Pomer A, Dancause KN, Sun C, Silverman H, Chan CW, Lee G, Weitz C, Lum JK, Garruto RM. Exploring the health transition in Vanuatu: Longitudinal data comparisons from 2007 to 2011. 2012. Presented at the 37th Annual Human Biology Association Meetings, Portland, OR and at the 5th Annual Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference.
Olszowy KM and Garruto RM. 2011. Migration and the health transition in Cambodia: Results from a 2005 pilot study. Presented at the 36th Annual Human Biology Association Meetings, Minneapolis, MN and at the 4th Annual Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference.
Olszowy KM, Reina JC, Dufour DL. 2009. The nutrition transition among urban women of Cali, Colombia. Presented at the 34th Annual Human Biology Association Meetings, Chicago, IL.
Olszowy KM, Shugart MM, Dufour DL. 2008. Understanding the trend toward overweight and obesity in women from urban Colombia: Preliminary data. Presented at the 2008 IGP Rendevous, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Grants and Awards
2008 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Award, University of Colorado
Non-resident merit-based work-study award, Colorado State University
Non-resident merit-based scholarship, Colorado State University
MS student
Biomedical Anthropologist
spinto1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Andrew Merriwether
Research interests
Women's health and Epidemiology/inherited immunity
Alysa Pomer PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
alysa.pomer@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2009 (MS), 2011 (MA/PhD)
Advisor: J. Koji Lum
Research Interests
Medical anthropology, evolutionary health, women's health, health transition, genetics
Pacific Conference Presentations
Human Biology Association 2012 "Change in age at menarche in Vanuatu";
Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference 2012 "Secular Trends in Age at Menarche in Vanuatu", "Gene Flow of P. falciparum in the Papua New Guinea Highlands from 1959-1979"
John Rodgers PhD candidate
Anthropologist
jrodger2@binghamton.edu
Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
Interests: cinema, affect, the anthropology of knowledge, place, social action, and experimental ethnography.
PhD candidate
Biomedical Anthropologist
aroome1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2012
Advisor: Dr. Ralph Garutto
Research interests
I am interested in epidemiology and infectious disease, with a strong interest in Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers.
Hande Sarikuzu PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
hsariku1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2011
Advisor: Thomas Wilson
Hande Sarikuzu's research aims to combine an analysis of the political economy of violence with critical problems related to "democratization," to contribute to a deeper anthropological understanding of the relationship between reconciliation and political action in the vexed processes of social transformation. She is specifically interested in the material and symbolic compensation of lost lives and damaged bodies in the "fight against terrorism," and the implications of such policies and practices for the possibility of ethnic reconciliation, scope of meaningful political action and the limits of "democratization" in an EU-bound Turkey.
Conference Presentation
"Becoming European, Becoming Enemy: Mosque Conflicts and Finding a Permanent Place for Muslims in Europe." ACSIS: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, Sweden, 2011
Grants and Awards
2011-2013 Teaching Assistant, Binghamton University Anthropology Department
May 2011 International Travel Grant, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
2009-2011 Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Paulette Steeves PhD candidate
Archaeology
psteeve1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2008
Advisor: Randy McGuire
Research Interests
My interests include, Indigenous Archaeology, Pleistocene archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, paleo geography, and decolonizing methodology. I plan to combine research in these fields to contribute to a much needed new perspective of the prehistory of first migrations, and the existing record of indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere during the Pleistocene. My hope is that this research will support America’s indigenous populations through a new public realization of their deep history and rich demographic record. I also hope to add to existing scholarship which is focused on decolonization of knowledge production, and discussing the social and political impacts of archaeological knowledge production.
Research Webpage
WHIPPDB.COM Western Hemisphere Indigenous Peoples Pleistocene Data Base
Publications
Steeves, Paulette. (2012) Decolonizing Pleistocene Archaeology. Pleistocene Coalition News.
Steeves, Paulette. (2010) Deep Time Roots in the Western Hemisphere. Pleistocene Coalition News.
Steeves, Paulette., Smith, Rhonda L., Yakubik, Jill-Karen.(2007) Intensive Cultural Resource Survey LA I- I 10 Connector, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. State Project NO. 700-61-0113, Federal Aid Project NO. CIB 6103 (501). Louisiana State Historic Preservation Office.
Steeves, Paulette. (2000) Honors Thesis: SILO Recipient, Mitochondrial DNA Tracking and Typing of Americans Ancient Cultures, Establishing mtDNA Markers for the Quapaw Tribe, University of Arkansas, and Fulbright Honors Department, Fulbright Honors Library Publication.
Conference Presentations
2012 Binghamton University, English Department: American Studies: Shifting Tides Anxious Borders: Turning the Earth of a Colonial Terra Nullius: Decolonizing Indigenous History.
2012 Binghamton University, PIC: Philosophy Interpretation and Culture: Graduate Student Conference. Decolonizing Indigenous Histories in Knowledge Production.
2012 Columbia University, Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics. Turning the Earth of a Colonial Terra Nullius: Decolonizing Indigenous History.
2011 Binghamton University, Indigenous Student Association: When Did Humans Arrive In The Americas? New Perspectives From The Great Plains. Dr .Steve Holen. PhD. Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Paulette Steeves. MA. Western Hemisphere Indigenous Peoples Pleistocene Data Base.
2011 Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting, Sacramento CA. Session in Honor of Professor Al Dekin: Pebbles in A Pond; American Anthropology Needs A Landslide.
2011 SUNY Buffalo, Indigenous Story Tellers and Native American Studies Conference. Reclaiming Deep History, a Telling of Truths Legitimizing the Indigenous Past and Informing Worldviews.
2010 Binghamton University, Native American Student Association: Enlightenment on Columbus Day Conference 2010, Binghamton New York. Concealing historical truths is a crime against all people: Who was Columbus and What Did He Do.
2009 Binghamton University, RATS Symposium Anarchist by Default: Red Anthropologists in a White Academia.
2008 Binghamton University, Binghamton Anthropology Student Organization, Ethics Conference. A Pebble in the Pond.
Grants and Awards
2011 Denver Museum of Nature and Science Native American Archaeology Internship. $5,000
2010 Denver Museum of Nature and Science Native American Archaeology Internship. $5,000
2010 SAA Arthur C. Parker Scholarship for Native American Archaeology Training. $4,000
2008 Clifford D. Clark, Full five year fellowship, Binghamton University, Graduate School. $250,000 1999: Plains Anthropologist, Native American Student Award. $1,000
1999 University of Arkansas Student Support Services Trio Achiever Award.
1999 University of Arkansas SILO SURF Independent Research Award. $3,000
1998 Robert L Stigler Jr. Scholarship and Certificate of Achievement Award University of Arkansas, Department of Anthropology. $1,000
1996, 1997, 1998 University of Arkansas, Office of Non-Traditional Students Award for Academic Excellence.
1996 - 1998 University of Arkansas, Student Support Services Honor Roll.
1996 - 1999 Single Parent Scholarship of Washington County.
1997 Lois M Fry Memorial Scholarship Award, Established to honor a single parent who most demonstrates outstanding academic excellence and interest in scientific inquiry, and a desire to serve the public through volunteering.
1997 Anderson Scholarship, University of Arkansas, Honors Department . $1,000
Cheng Sun PhD candidate
Biological Anthropologist
csun@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2009
Advisor: J. Koji Lum
Research Interests
My primary research interest is to understand the impact of consumer technology, especially use of Internet on human lifestyle and health. Current projects involve collaboration with experts in biology, psychology and cultural anthropology on various topics such as biological basis of Internet addiction, preferences among types of communication and study of emerging virtual communities. I'm also interested in the potential contribution of consumer electronics use to chronic heath problems in developing countries like Vanuatu.
Conference Presentations
C Sun, AJ Gonzalez, SM Schmitt, R Spathis, CW Chan, K Sankaranarayanan, JK Lum. 2012. AFK weekend project: A correlative study on electronic media usage and genetic polymorphisms in Binghamton University. Presented (podium) at the 37th Annual Meeting of Human Biology Association, Portland, OR.
C Sun, H Silverman, A Pomer, CW Chan, KM Olszowy, KN Dancause, G Lee, C Weitz, RM Garruto, JK Lum. 2012. When Apple meets Kava: Impact of technology on traditional lifestyles in Vanuatu. Presented (poster) at the 37th Annual Meeting of Human Biology Association, Portland, OR and at the 5th Annual Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference.
Marina Weinberg Sociocultural Anthropology
marweinberg@hotmail.com
Year admitted: 2006 – MA 2010 – ABD Student
Advisor: Carmen A. Ferradás
Since 2003 I have been studying indigenous communities' social and political organization in relation to land tenure in the Northwestern Argentina region. I have also analyzed the impact development projects have had in these communities. For my Dissertation, I am currently looking at major state policies focused on indigenous populations in the same region, comparing two specific state paradigms: the neoliberal model carried out during the 1990´s and the current so-called "post-neoliberal". I examine the various approaches and assumptions the state and other financing sources have encompassed in designing and executing development policies and I also explore the ways in which indigenous communities have experienced these changes as well as the strategies they have developed vis-à-vis these transformations.
2012. San Martín de Tabacal: Historias de una apropiación. (with Pablo H. Mercolli) Anuario. Tilcara: Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras- Universidad de Buenos Aires.In Press.
2009. The Politics of the State and the State of Politics in an Indigenous Community in Northwestern Argentina. Masters Thesis, Binghamton University – State University of New York.
2009. Entre la cooperación y la asistencia: un análisis de la incidencia del apoyo económico internacional en el movimiento indígena en Argentina. (with Morita Carrasco and Laura Sterpin) Revista Avá, julio, 12 (9-26), Universidad Nacional de Misiones.
2008. La lucha por la defensa de la identidad y el territorio. El caso de la Comunidad Indígena del Pueblo Kolla de Finca Santiago. In: van Dam Chris Tierra, Territorio y Derechos de los Pueblos indígenas, Campesinos y Pequeños Productores de Salta. E-Book (Documentos de capacitación 2, Sociología Rural) Buenos Aires: Proyecto de Desarrollo de Pequeños Productores Agropecuarios – PROINDER, Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentos.
2005. Identidad étnica y organización política en un espacio local y sus relaciones con el Estado. Una comunidad kolla del Noroeste argentino. Fernández María Inés and Ofelia Scher (Coords.) Diversidad Cultural. Múltiples miradas del tiempo presente. Buenos Aires: Asociación Argentina de Estudios Canadienses.
2004. Identidades y organización política en la Comunidad Kolla de Finca Santiago. Iruya, Salta. Estudios sociales del NOA Año 7 Nº7. Tilcara: Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras- Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2004. Identidad y Política. III Congreso Argentino y Latinoamericano de Antropología Rural. Tilcara: Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras- Universidad de Buenos Aires.
"El regreso al desarrollo estatal. Políticas de estado y política indígena en el Noroeste Argentino"
Jornadas de Estudios Andinos
Session: Repensando el Estado. Políticas públicas y gobierno en el posneoliberalismo
Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina, September 2012
"A la sombra del Ingenio. Historias y Memorias"
Jornadas de Estudios Andinos
Session: Los pueblos indígenas frente a las formas de propiedad y uso de la tierra
Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina, September 2012
"El Banco Mundial y el discurso medioambiental. Análisis del impacto de un proyecto de desarrollo en una comunidad indígena de Salta."
Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology
Session Chair (with Mercedes Pico): Transformaciones transnacionales, respuestas locales: la antropología argentina ante la globalización.
Mérida, México, March 2010
"Indigenous peoples: between citizenship and emancipation."
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Session: Indigenous Identity and Civic Activism in Latin America
Philadelphia, USA, December 2009
"Is 'the' Field just in the Field? Facing Ethical Dilemmas while doing Anthropological Research."
Ethics Conference: "Engaging Ethics: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Multi-Dimensional Relationships"
Binghamton University, New York, USA, May 2009
"Entre la cooperación y la asistencia: un análisis de la incidencia del apoyo económico internacional en el movimiento indígena en Argentina." (with Morita Carrasco and Laura Sterpin)
8º Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social
Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina, September 2006
"Yo, argentino. Procesos de configuración de identidad étnica en relación con la construcción del Estado argentino en un espacio local."
VI Reunión de Antropología MERCOSUR
Universidad de la República - Departamento de Antropología Social
Montevideo, November 2005
"Organización social y política en comunidades indígenas."
VII Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Villa Giardino, Córdoba, Argentina, May 2004
"Identidad y Política. Ensayo"
III Congreso Argentino y Latinoamericano de Antropología Rural
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara
Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina, March 2004
"Algunas reflexiones sobre la experiencia del trabajo de campo en Finca Santiago."
Primeras Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores de Antropología
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencias Antropológicas
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2003
Binghamton University – State University of New York
Department of Anthropology
Dissertation Assistantship
August 2012 - December 2012
Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras – Universidad de Buenos Aires (Interdisciplinary Institute, School of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires)
Research Affiliation
Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina
January 2011 to present
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology
Session: Transformaciones transnacionales, respuestas locales: la antropología argentina ante la globalización.
Travel Grant
Mérida, México, March 2010
Binghamton University – State University of New York
Department of Anthropology
Teacher Assistantship
August 2006 - December 2009
Ministerio de Educación de la Nación
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – CONICET
National Doctoral Fellowship
Project: Identidad étnica y organización política en un espacio local y sus relaciones con el Estado
March 2005 - July 2006
Fondazione Sandra Sánchez - Padova, Italia y FLACSO–Argentina
Research Grant Sandra Sánchez Historia y Antropología del Mundo Andino - Región andina del noroeste argentino, Siglos XVI y XX
Project: Identidad, Política y Territorio. Escenarios en transformación y estrategias de la Comunidad kolla de Finca Santiago (Iruya -Salta)
April 2005 - July 2006
Edward Zegarra PhD candidate
Archaeologist
ezegarr1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2010
Advisor: William H. Isbell
Research Interests
Edward Zegarra's research focuses on the Middle Horizon Period (ca. AD 600-1100) of prehistoric Peru and the Wari Empire. His current work on his M.A. thesis seeks to determine the relationship between Wari vessel types and their practical or symbolic functions by applying statistical analysis (SAS) to a vast ceramic database from the site of Conchopata. His theoretical interests include: political economy, ideology, the development of societal complexity, and heritage management and legislation.
Conference Presentations
SAA 77th Annual Meeting; Roof Burning: A Wari Residential Abandonment Practice
Grants/Awards
Clark Fellowship 2010-2015
Yang Zhan PhD candidate
Sociocultural Anthropologist
yzhan1@binghamton.edu
Year admitted: 2008
Advisor: Carmen Ferradas
State-society relations, social production of moral emotions, socialism and postsocialism, China.
Book Review for Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. In Bijiao: China in Comparative Perspective Book Review. London School of Economics. June 2011.
美国政治的普遍主义与特殊主义 (The Universalism and Particularism in American Politics), In 中国社会科学报 (Chinese Social Science Review), November 20, 2009, Reprint in 国际社会科学杂志 (International Social Science Journal), March 2010.
霍克海默：黑格尔的信徒 (Horkheimer: The Disciple of Hegel). in Zhan Yang, Zhang Fang and Zhu Baoyuan, 后尼采系列：批判理论与汉语神学 (Series on Post-Nietzche: The Critical Theory and Chinese Theology), Hong Kong: Logos and Pneuma Press, 2007. reprinted in 基督教文化学刊 (Academic Journal of Christian Culture), Renmin University Press, 2010.
脆弱性、有备程度和组织失效：灾害的社会学研究 (Vulnerability, Preparedness, and Organizational Failure: Social Scientific Study of Disasters). Co-authored with Xiaoxi Tong. 国外理论动态 (Foreign Theoretical Trends), No. 12, December, pp 22-24, 2008.
告别哲学家：关于理查德罗蒂教授的回忆 (Farewell to Philosophers: Memory of Profesor Richard Rorty), 中国社会科学院报 (Chinese Academy of Social Science Review). No. 13, November 20th, 2008.
美学和启蒙：门德尔松的美学思想 (Aesthetics and Enlightenment: the Aesthetics of Moses Mendelssohn), in 立场(Position), No. 2, February, 2008.
女性公共领域是否可能：以弗雷泽对哈贝马斯的批判为例 (How is a Feminine Public Sphere Possible? The Case of Nancy Fraser's Critique of Juergen Habermas). 天津社会科学 (Tianjin Social Sciences), No. 6, November, pp.107-110, 2006.
Conference presentations
"Figuring Out: Statistical Imagination of China's Economy", paper presented at 108th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting - THE END/S OF ANTHROPOLOGY, December 2-6 2009, Philadelphia, USA.
2010 Summer Departmental Travel Award, Binghamton University
2009 Fall Binghamton Foundation Travel Award
2008-2011 Binghamton University Departmental Graduate Scholarship
