Department
of Anthropology colleagues
Burke Museum Heritage colleagues
Prospective Graduate Students: I am no
longer accepting PhD
students, but please send me an email if you're
interested joining our graduate program in the MA
track.
Prospective graduate students should browse the
Department of Anthropology Graduate
Admissions
Website, which has information about the
admission requirements, scholarships, logistics, and
support, and faculty and graduate student research
interests. We rank applicants to the graduate
program on the basis of the strength of their
research statement, fit with faculty areas of
expertise, and on their track record of academic
achievement as shown through letters of
recommendation, grades, test scores and examples of
written work.
Current Students
Anthropology PhD:
- Joss
Whittaker (PhC Washington 2016) Culture
and environment, contact and exchange, trade,
borders and frontiers; Southeast Asia
- Mikhail
Echavarri (PhC Washington 2019) Cultural
identity, heritage conservation, Southeast Asia
Archaeological Heritage MA:
- Emily Roberts
(BS State University of New York (SUNY)
Binghamton 2018), Archaeological heritage policy
Alumnae
Anthropology
PhD:
- Chin-yung
Chao (PhD 2008), Associate Professor,
Institute of Archaeology, National Cheng Kung
University and Research Fellow, Institute of
History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Dissertation title: A Microregional Approach
to the Social Dynamics in Late Prehistoric
Manatuto, East Timor, Eleventh to Eighteenth
Century
- Chung-ching
Shiung (PhD 2011), Assistant Professor,
Institute of Archaeology, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan. Dissertation title: The
Implications of Social, Cultural, Economic,
and Political Interactions for Ceramic
Evolution on the Banda Islands, Maluku
Province, Indonesia
- Emily
Peterson (PhD 2015), Project
Archaeologist, Perteet Inc, Seattle; Curatorial
Associate, Burke Museum, University of
Washington. Dissertation title: Insularity
and Adaptation: Investigating the role of
exchange and inter-island interaction in the
Banda Islands, Indonesia
- Amy
Jordan (PhD 2016), Senior Archaeologist,
Bancroft Cultural Consulting, San Diego, CA.
Dissertation title: The Price of Spice:
Archaeological Investigations of Colonial Era
Nutmeg Plantations on the Banda Islands,
Maluku Province, Indonesia
- Jenn Huff
(PhD 2016), Curatorial Associate, Burke Museum,
University of Washington. Dissertation title: Understanding
changes in mobility and subsistence from
Pleistocene hunting and gathering to Late
Holocene agriculture in the highlands of New
Guinea through intensity of lithic reduction,
changing site types, and paleoclimate
- Anna Cohen (PhD
2016), Assistant Professor, Utah State
University, Logan UT. Dissertation title: Creating
an Empire: Local Political Change at Angamuco,
Michoacán, Mexico
- Jiun-yu Liu
(PhD 2021), Lecturer, University of Washington.
Dissertation title: Re-thinking the Emergence
of Iron Metallurgy in Taiwan: a Trade Diaspora
Model
Archaeological Heritage MA:
- Maddy
Henley (MA 2022), Archaeologist, Equinox
Research and Consulting International
- Brinn Marri (MA
2023) Archaeological heritage, Pacific Northwest
US
Museology MA:
- Katie Chobot (MA 2006)
- Latasha Richards (MA 2007)
- Rachel Evans (MA 2007)
- Allison Deep (MA 2009)
- Dena Sedar (MA 2009)
- Brooke Shelman (MA 2009)
- Kim Owens (MA 2009)
- Kelsey Lutz (MA 2010)
- Samantha Halstead (MA 2013)
Anthropology
BA-honors:
- Peter Nelson (BA 2007) Thesis title: Power and
Place: The Dynamics of Non-Verbal
Communication in the Human-Landscape
Interrelationship at Fort Vancouver
(Curtis Weinker Award for Best Honors Thesis
2007)
- Ian Ostericher (BA 2012) Thesis title: Islam and Dutch
Conquest: Archaeological Evidence of Islam
from BN1, Banda Naira, Maluku, Indonesia
(Curtis Weinker Award for Best Honors Thesis
2012)
- Alexandra Jacobsen (BA 2013) Thesis title:
The Menkaure Valley Temple: Past and
present archaeological evidence of the
Menkaure Valley Temple by Ancient Egypt
Research Associates
- Stephanie Moreau (BA 2023) Thesis title:
Archaeology in Tourism: The Anthropogenic
Effect of Overtourism at Bandelier National
Monument
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