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Department of Anthropology

Graduate Students

Our graduate students collaborate closely with faculty to investigate compelling questions across the four fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological/biocultural anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Through innovative research, fieldwork, and interdisciplinary scholarship, our doctoral and master's students are advancing new perspectives on the human experience. Meet the graduate students shaping the future of anthropology.

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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