Former Students

Name: Autumn Hudock Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Marks Education: Early Entry Graduate Student with an expected graduation date of Spring 2019 Research Interests: Ancient DNA, human biology, molecular anthropology, paleopathology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, osteology, and primate evolution Current Research:

Name: Elizabeth Johnson Advisor: Dr. Sara Juengst Education: B.A. Anthropology and Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2015 Research Interests: Skeletal biology as an indicator of health; Trauma analysis; Human-environment interactions; Sociocultural responses to marginal environments; stable isotope analysis; climate change Current Position: I am currently a Youth Specialist with the NCWorks NextGen Youth Program at […]

Advisor: Dr. Sara Juengst Education: B.A. Applied Anthropology and Criminal Justice, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2021 Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Current Research: My thesis research focuses on the skeletal pathology and trends that are common amongst domestic violence and sexual assault victims. I focus heavily on violence against women in […]

Name: Sydney Mattison Advisor: Dr. Andrea Freidus Education: BA Anthropology with a minor in Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Research Interests: Maternal health disparities, minority populations, health policy Current Research: Black birthing, resistance, and the contemporary doula

Name: Ashley McDermott Advisor: Dr. Elise Berman Education: BA Applied Anthropology and Political Science, UNC Charlotte 2015MA Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UNC Chapel Hill 2017 Research Interests: Language socialization and language shift, language planning and policy, language and identity, anthropology of childhood Current Research: My current work examines how the use of Russian […]

Name: Julia Mileski Advisor: Dr. Dennis Ogburn Education: BA in Anthropology with a minor in Music, Wake Forest University Research Interests: Museum anthropology, artifact management and curation, place and belonging/ownership, socio-cultural impacts of museums in rural communities Current Research: How museums in small communities connect residents of their community to a collective historic and current […]

Advisor: Dr. Nicole Peterson Education: B.A. Anthropology and Classical Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2020 Research Interests: Applied anthropology, food insecurity, accessibility, political economy Current Research: My thesis research focuses on food insecurity at UNC Charlotte.

Name: Ashley Shults Advisor: Dr. Sara Juengst Education: A.A. The Arts and Sciences Division, Gaston College, 2016 B.A. Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2017 Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, the Andes, migration, mobility, human environment interaction, paleopathology Current Research: My current research utilizes isotopic and bioarchaeological lines of evidence to investigate migration and mobility during the […]

Name: Maggie Sobaszek Advisor: Dr. Lydia Light Education: B.A. Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2017 Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, spatial ecology, conservation Current Research: My thesis research focuses on the ranging behaviors of wild white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) living in a challenging environment in western Thailand.

Name: Mackenzie Sweitzer Advisor: Dr. Dennis Ogburn Education: B.A. in Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2018 Research Interests: Archaeology and bioarchaeology; Iron Age Eurasia, Sarmatians/Scythians, embodied gender; the Andes, Ecuador, the Inca, ceramics, agency, politics, pXRF analysis Current Research: My thesis proposal is dealing with sherds from Ecuador, dating to around the Late […]