Ph.D. Students
| Name | Research Interests | Education |
|---|---|---|
| Jessica Cooper | Woodland Southeast; Feminist Archaeology; Lithics | M.A., Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 2017; B.A., Anthropology, George Mason University, 2011 |
| Larissa Daniels-Hill | Life History Theory; Life Course Theory; Black Feminist Theory; Racism; Social Inequality; Paleopathology; Bioethics; Early Life Stress | M.A., Anthropology, George Mason University, 2021; B.A., Anthropology, B.A., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Northern Colorado, 2018; A.A., Criminal Justice, Pikes Peak Community College, 2016 |
| Johnny Dodge | Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology of the American Southeast, Mississippian culture, ceramic technology, ethnobotany | M.A., Anthropology, Univeristy of South Carolina, 2023; B.A., Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 2018 |
| Amber Teresa Domingue | Raciolinguistic Ideologies; Constructions of Identity; Migration and Immigration; Bilingualism; Cross-Cultural Communication; African Diaspora of (Spanish-speaking) Caribbean to U.S. | M.A., Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 2019; B.A., Spanish, B.S., Psychological Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, 2017 |
| Aimee Herring | Linguistic Anthropology, Migration, Language and Belonging, Baltic Studies | M.Ed., Teaching, Learning and Advocacy, College of Charleston, 2014; Graduate Certificate, Arts Management, College of Charleston, 2009; B.A., English, College of William and Mary |
| Margaret Hicks | Cultural Anthropology, Memory, African Diaspora of the Southeastern U.S., Foodways, Identity | MPhil, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2022; B.A., Anthropology and International Relations, 2020 |
| Sophia Rodriguez | Linguistic Anthropology; Language and Identity, Chicano studies, Creole studies | M.A., Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 2025; B.A., French, Luther College, 2022 |
M.A./Ph.D. Students
| Name | Research Interests | Education |
|---|---|---|
| Diogo Maicon Krevoniz Balduino | Linguistic Anthropology; Queer Linguistics and Queer Theories; Applied Linguistics; Gender, Sexuality, and Identity; Discourses on PrEP as an HIV prevention method; Discourses on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections; and Public Health | M.A., Applied Linguistics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2022; B.A., Languages and Literature, UNISINOS University, Brazil, 2019 |
| McLean Brown | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Molly Faulkner | Young border crossers; the interplay between youth agency, structural violence, and care giving; youth advocacy and humanitarian work; the Mexico-U.S. border; migration; trauma and memory | B.A., Global Studies, Monash University, 2022; B.A. (Honours), International Studies, Monash University, 2023 |
| Zoe Pappas | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Jinyu Yang | Language, race, and transnationalism; Chinese ideas of Africa and Blackness; ChinaAfrica encounters; intimacy, intergenerationality, and multilingualism; youth agency and ethnicity | M.A., Foreign Language and Literature, South China University of Technology, 2024; B.A., African Languages and Literature, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China, 2021. |
M.A. Students
| Name | Research Interests | Education |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Biehle | Cultural Ecology; Paleoethnobotany; Ancient Mesoamerica and Colonialism; and Environmental Justice | B.A., Anthropology, B.A., Environmental Studies, Eckerd College 2021 |
| Harlan Chavis | The arrival of the Sand Mound Culture in the Lumber River drainage; Diaspora of ceramic types within Lumbee Territory; Iconography of the Pee Dee River valley and beyond; Uncovering the Core group of the Lumbee Tribe through pottery paste recipes; Studying various Burial types found throughout Lumbee Territory by early Anthropologist and comparing those to the burials of the Greater Southeast; Locating and Mapping Contact sites within between the Pee Dee and Cape Fear river drainage. | B.A., Geo-Enviromental Science w/concentration in Geography, Minor, American Indian Studies, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2023 |
| Rebecca Fugate | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Nathaniel Guzman | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Libby Holden | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Rachael Lanning | Historical Archaeology; Southeastern Archaeology; Historical Ceramics; Reconstruction Archaeology; Public Engaged Archaeology; Public History | B.A., Anthropology with Distinction, University of South Carolina, 2025 |
| Toni Lee | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Sara Rogers | Bio-archaeology; Southeastern archaeology, Prehistoric and Pre-contact studies, traditional herbal medicine, folklore | B.A., Religious studies, B.A in Anthropology, two Associate Degree’s in Science and Art History, University of South Carolina 2017-2021 |
| Julia Shough | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Hayle Sharpe | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |
| Wallace Payne | Coming Soon... | Coming Soon... |