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Lawrence, Kansas

Officers

 

President

Anne Kraemer

annie_k1@hotmail.com

Secretary

Quincy McCrary

qmccrary@ku.edu

Co-Treasurer

Nancy Erickson Lamar

njlamar@comcast.net

Co-Treasurer

Melinda Hickman

mhickman@ku.edu

 

Archaeology

 

Will Banks

Ph.D.

France, Useware analysis

 

Shelly Berger

M.A.

 

 

Kale Bruner

M.A.

Croatia; Upper Paleolithic Lithic Assemblages

 

Jessica Craig

Ph.D.

Latin American Archaeology, Guatemala. The site of San Bartolo in the Peten.

 

Elizabeth Garrett

M.A.

Paleoethnobotany

 

Tim Griffith

Ph.D.

Near Easter, zooarchaeology

 

Ginny Hatfield

M.A.

Aleutian Islands

 

Melinda Hickman

M.A.

Lithic Analysis, European Prehistory, France.   

 

Hai Huang

Ph.D.

Archaeological theory and origin of agriculture.

 

Ryan Johnson

M.A.

 

 

Anne Kraemer

M.A.

Latin American Archaeology, Guatemala; current indigenous Maya populations, Kaqchikel Language, community archaeology.

Roche Lindsey

M.A.

Rocky Mountain/Plains. Central Plains tradition.

 

Janice Mclean

M.A.

Kansas Archaeology/Wallace County

 

Sandra Moran

M.A.

Peruvian Ceramics

 

Shannon Ryan

Ph.D.

Boatstones and bannerstones of the Great Plains, children in archaeology and spatial relations within and among archaeological sites.

 

Jack Russell

M.A.

Burnt Wood Creek, Kansas, zooarchaeology

 

Chris Widga

Ph.D.

Zooarchaeology, bison of the Eastern Plains.  Carbon and strontium stable isotopes.

 

Emily Williams

Ph.D.

Great Plains, Gender in archaeology

 

 

 

Biological

 

Noberto Baldi-Salas

Ph.D.

Ancient Panamanian DNA extraction for the identification of the Chibchan people.

 

Shawna Carroll

Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology

 

Geethavani Chittoor

Ph.D.

Genetics

 

Mary Ellerd

Ph.D.

Genetics

 

Anne Justice

M.A.

Genetics

 

Phillip Melton

M.A.

Genetics, peopling of the Americas, South American populations, bioinformatics and statistics.    

 

Kristin Melvin

Ph.D.

Genetics

Kelsey Needham

M.A.

 

 

Jennifer Rack

M.A.

Anthropological Genetics, historical demography, agricultural populations, Hungary/Hungarian history. Currently working on population structure in small agricultural region of Hungary from 1760-1987 using surname analysis.

 

Rohina Rubicz

Ph.D.

Anthropological genetics, peopling of the New World, currently working on reconstructing Aleut origins using molecular techniques. 

Eric Siegfreid

M.A.



Norma Stratemeier

M.A.

Forensics

Mary Sundal

Ph.D.

Africa, Uganda, child mortality in Pastoralists society.

Mark Zlojutro

M.A.

Anthropological genetics, Basque origins, evolutionary psychology and European history.

 

Cultural

 

Ginny Arthur

M.A.

Social capital and aging. Retirement communities.

Melissa Bowyer

M.A.

Gender Studies and correctional facilities.

Jim Dick

M.A.

Rural Kansas

Caitlin Didier

Ph.D.

Comparative Religious Studies

Nancy Erickson Lamar

M.A.

Organizational management, legal Anthropology, ethnic and gender relations in a corporate or institutionalized setting.

Melissa Filippi-Franz

Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology. Horn of Africa, refugees, war trauma and healing. 

George Gotto

Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology, disabilities, Mexico and Latin America

James Herynk

Ph.D.

Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Agriculture and health affects; anemia.

Kay Kautz

Ph.D.



Brian Lagotte

M.A.

Educational and Applied Anthropology, Japan and America

Norma Larzalere

Ph.D.

Japan

Sherry Loveland

M.A.

Feminism, Belly Dancing

Kristin Lundberg

Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology. Effects of changing socio-economic networks and material resources on the quality of health of Lao women and their families.
 

Shawn Maloney

Ph.D.

Applied, Methods, Agriculture in America

Quincy McCrary

M.A.

Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Effects of changing social networks on urban environments.

Heather Meiers

M.A.



Rachel Robinson

M.A.

French Polynesia, Tattooing and Art

Melissa Rossow

M.A.

Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany. 

Craig Scandrett-

Leatherman

Ph.D.

Pentecostalism in America

 

LeAnn Smith

 

M.A.



 

Chaya Spears

 

Ph.D.

 

American Tourism

Mark Stahl

M.A.