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Russell Greaves
Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My training and research interests are in the comparative archaeology and ethnoarchaeologyy of hunter-gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies. I have archaeological experience in the American west. My ethnoarchaeological research includes foragers of Venezuela, agriculturalists in Mexico, and Native Americans of the Southwest. My research is multi-disciplinary, focusing on human ecology, material culture, and behavioral variability among modern and past subsistence peoples.
Research Keywords:
Hunters and gatherers,
Small-scale agricultural societies,
Technology,
Subsistence,
Human evolutionary ecology,
Ethnoarchaeology,
Geoarchaeology,
Ethnobotany and paleoethnobotany,
Zooarchaeology,
American archaeology,
Ethnology,
Museum studies
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Karen Leslie Kramer
Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My research interests span behavioral ecology, demography, comparative life history and reproductive ecology, the evolution of juvenility, cooperative breeding, intergenerational transfers and the interaction between economic and demographic transitions. Each of my three field sites in small scale horticultural and hunter-gatherer societies include student involvement and opportunities for graduate students to pursue their own research projects.
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ISAAC ALFRED HART
Graduate Student, Anthropology Department
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Utah, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My research involves using methods from paleobiogeography and paleoecology to understand human decision making in the past. I combine analysis of past plant communities (pollen-based paleoenvironmental reconstruction) and animal communities (analysis of animal bones from archaeoloigcal sites) with archaeological research regarding human subsistence practices. My geographic areas of research include central Utah, Baja California, and western Mongolia.
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THOMAS STEIN KRAFT
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Co-director, Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OAHeLP)
Research Summary: I am a behavioral ecologist interested in how interactions between social behavior, culture, and the environment shape human health and life history. My current research focuses on the evolutionary basis of variation in contemporary human health and aging outcomes across populations and individuals, particularly those experiencing rapid environmental and social change. My lab addresses these topics using ethnographic fieldwork and biomedical surveillance in small-scale subsistence societies.
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KURT WILSON
PhD Researcher, Anthropology Department
Postdoc Paid Direct, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
Research Summary: I am interested in understanding human-environment interactions during climatic change with a particular focus on how human behaviors and local ecologies influence dietary change, inequality, territoriality, cooperation, and defense. I work in the Central Andes, particularly Perú, and western North America where I apply statistical, geospatial, digital, and agent based modeling techniques to ethnographic, palaeoecological, and archaeological data. For more see: https://wilsonkurt.github.io/
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WESTON CRAIG MCCOOL
Research Summary: My research utilizes models from human ecology to explain behavior in the past and present. I am currently working on projects that examine what socioecological conditions promote human conflict. My regional foci are the central Andes and western North America. Methodological specialties include bioarchaeology, isotope chemistry, spatio-statistical modeling, and big data.
Research Keywords:
Violence and Warfare,
Quantitative Methods,
North American Prehistory,
Isotope analysis,
Inequality,
Human - Environment Interactions,
Evolution and Ecology,
Environmental and Spatial Modeling ,
Demography,
Climate Change,
Bioarchaeology,
Andean Prehistory
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JD Dolinar
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
Research Summary: I am interested in the physical, spatial, and computational study of Quarternary human lifeways as affected by the Earth system. I use a variety of reconstructive lenses including theoretical and analytical methods of natural and social sciences (e.g., archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeobotany, behavioral ecology, etc.). My research considers several geographical regions of western North America and the America’s including specific focus on inter-mountain and high-elevation environments.
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ALEXANDRA MERRITT GREENWALD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Faculty Affiliate, Arizona State University, Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Curator of Ethnography, Natural History Museum of Utah
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Kate Magargal
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Adjunct Instructor, City & Metropolitan Planning
Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
Research Summary: My goal is to apply the tools of human behavioral ecology to better understand the past in a way that helps addresses contemporary social and environmental issues.
I do this with a particular focus on current and ancient land management regimes, Indigenous ecological knowledge, and land tenure.
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Brian F Codding
Director, University of Utah, Environmental & Sustainability
Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: My work draws on ecological theory to explain variation in present and past human behavior, focusing on the dynamic interactions between individual decisions and local environmental contexts. Examples of recent research are summarized below.