Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Reichs earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University. She specializes in the subfields of bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, and is one of only 119 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. Dr. Reichs served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy […]

Received: Ph.D. From: University of Massachusetts Specialty: Aging in cultural and environmental context; women and aging; systems of care; current issues in gerontology; international perspectives; ethical issues. Dr. Shenk is the recipient of the 2011 Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. For more information about the Gerontology Program […]

My research focuses on gender studies, urban anthropology, Latin American and Latinx studies. My doctoral research focused on the politics of welfare provision (via housing) and grassroots activism during the Bolivarian period (1998-present) in Venezuela. Through three years (2014-2017) of ethnographic fieldwork in Caracas I looked at how working-class women’s leadership in housing movements shaped […]