Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros - Master Student (Biological Anthropology)

mbozacua@uwyo.edu

My current research interests include the investigation of the biocultural changes experienced by Central Coast populations in Peru at the time of the Inca occupation through Spanish colonization, specifically the changes in health, disease, and diet, as well as changes in population dynamics. Currently, I'm working at the Rmac Valley Archaeological Project, under the direction of Dr. Melissa Murphy, where I'm focusing on the Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Hispanic secondary burials.

Amanda Davey - Master Student (Archaeology)

adavey@uwyo.edu

I am originally from eastern Nebraska and currently in my third year at UW. My thesis research is focused using GIS to create a predictive model of prehistoric rockshelter selection in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. My other research interests include Great Plains archaeology, GIS and predictive modeling, landscape studies, and geoarchaeology.

Ragan Driver - Master Student (Biological Anthropology)

ragurun@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: Modern Human Origins, skeletal morphology, energetics of bipedal locomotion (especially running), biocultural relationships, zooarchaeology, Northwestern Plains archaeology.

Chelsea Drucker - Master Student (Cultural Anthropology)

peaceandlove23@gmail.com, cdrucker@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: HIV/AIDS positive refugee women between the West African countries of Mauritania and Senegal, associated gender and rights issues.

Justin Garrison - Master Student (Cultural Anthropology)

Jgarris6@uwyo.edu

I am interested in cultural tourism in Japan, post-migration ethnicity, and cultural theory.

Price Heiner - Master Student (Archaeology)

pheiner@uwyo.edu

I am currently interested in Northern Plains archaeology, hunter-gatherer ecology, prehistoric landscape-use and mobility patterns, vertebrate taphonomy, as well as lithic technological organization. I also enjoy hanging out with my family, as well as camping and hiking.

Molly Karnopp - Master Student (Archaeology)

mkarnopp@uwyo.edu

I am from eastern South Dakota and love the great outdoors! I have worked in Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon, and California, and have been employed as a District Archaeologist with the Black Hills National Forest since 2005. I am interested in public archaeology, rock art research and preservation, spatial analysis and the use of GIS in archaeology, and cultural resource laws and practice. My thesis research focuses on spring-side occupations of the interior Black Hills uplift in South Dakota and Wyoming.

Caroline Ketron - Master Student (Archaeology)

cketron1@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: Hunter-gatherers, Paleoindian archaeology, colonization of the Americas...

Orrin Koenig - Master Student (Archaeology)

okoenig@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: Late Plains Archaeology; high altitude prehistoric adaptations; archaeological praxis; anything 55 years or older

Jani Kovach - Master Student (Biological Anthropology)

jkovach@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: Forensic anthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, mortuary practices, osteometric evaluation of race.

Kyong-woo Lee - Master Student (Archaeology)

klee15@uwyo.edu

My current research focuses on the lithic technology in Korea, more broadly in the Northeast Asian region including Siberia, China, and Japan. Additional research comprises geoarchaeology, ecology and spatial behavior of hunter-gatherer.

Christy Montgomery - Master Student (Archaeology)

cchady@uwyo.edu; http://uwstudentweb.uwyo.edu/C/CCHADY/

Research Interests: mountain archaeology, landscapes, anthropology of religion, GIS, spatial analysis

Bryon Schroeder - Master Student (Archaeology)

bryon28@uwyo.edu

I am interested in all of prehistory throughout the northwestern Plains region. My Specific research interests focus on Numic occupations across the Wyoming region. I am also interested in the effects of diffusion and trade on plains groups during the protohistoric period of Wyoming and Montana.

Stacy Sewell - Master Student (Cultural Anthropology)

ssewell1@uwyo.edu

Currently I am interested in religious change and the effects of colonialism, particularly the imposition and adoption of Christian ideals and their integration into native religions. Some regions of interest include the northwest coast of the United States, specifically cultures of the San Juan Islands and Vancouver Island, the Great Plains, and Arctic Alaska.

Michael Stites - Master Student (Archaeology)

mstites@uwyo.edu

Research Interests: Hunter-gatherers, lithics, paleoenvironments, ethnobotany, Middle Archaic period, Peopling of the Americas, and various others that escape me at the moment.

Katherine Irene Strand - Master Student (Archaeology/Cultural Anthropology)

kstrand@uwyo.edu

I am interested in Northwestern plains hunters and gatherers, Copper Age archeology of the Great Hungarian Plain, the effects of globalization on the people of the Amazon River (specifically near Iquitos, Peru), and the use of symbolism in cultural cohesion and organization, to name a few.

Andrew Tremayne - Master Student (Archaeology)

atremayn@uwyo.edu,

http://uwstudentweb.uwyo.edu/A/ATREMAYN/

My research interests include hunter gatherer subsistence and mobility. I am interested in lithic technologies, zooarchaeology, and geoarchaeology. My thesis work will be a zooarchaeological analysis of faunal remains from a 4000 year old Arctic Small Tool tradition site in northern Alaska.