Graduate students listed on this page gave permission to the author to have their name and academic interests listed below. This is not a complete listing of all graduate students involved in the graduate program.

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Lindsay Barone	Matthew Dalstrom	Matthew John Knuth	Matthew Robinson	Charles Weber
Lisa Becker	Ethan A. Epstein	Ralph Koziarsk	Amy Samuelson	Daniel Winkler
Erin Bilyeu	Alejandra A. Estrin	Ricky H Kubicek	Kurt A. Sampson
Michelle Birnbaum	Kathleen Foley Winkler	Patrick Lindsay	Seth Schneider
Melissa Bobholz	Edward Fratello	Emily Mueller	Ramona Tenorio
Melissa Brown	Erin Gilliland	Linda Naunapper	Elizabeth Thimke
Kevin M. Cullen	Christine Hamlin	Murph Pizza	Alexandra Trumbull
Daniel Dybowski	Elizabeth Handwerk	Paula J. Porubcan	Jon Van Beckum

Dissertations and Theses
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Lindsay Barone:  lmbarone@uwm.edu
Master's Student, Physical Anthropology and Museum Studies
Human Osteology, Paleoanthropology, Hominin evolution, Evolutionary Biology,
Human Biological Variation, and Bioarchaeology

Lisa L. Becker: llbecker@uwm.edu
Ph.D. Student, Physical Anthropology
Reproductive Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, Forensics, Bioarchaeology of the American Southwest (Mimbres)

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Erin Bilyeu: ekbilyeu@uwm.edu
Master's Student, Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies
Visitor Studies, European Ethnicity and Nationalism, Invented Traditions, Heritage

Michelle Birnbaum: birnbaum@uwm.edu
Ph.D Student, Archaeology
Great Lakes Archaeology, Ceramic Analysis with an emphasis on compostional
analysis.

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Melissa S. Bobholz: mbobholz@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Prehistoric North America, Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, Paleopathology, and Mortuary studies; Other interests: Environmental Anthropology

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Melissa E. Brown: brownme@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Library and Information Science
North American Contact/Historical Archaeology, Southwest, Media, Music, and Visual Arts, Digital Collections, Archaeological Ethics

Kevin M. Cullen
Master's Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Underwater archaeology and the role of maritime trade, particularly along the European Atlantic coastal zones, as well as along the coastlines of South Asia. My current thesis topic revolves around a large assemblage of artifacts at the Milwaukee Public Museum from the late Iron Age cultural complex of Amlash / Marlik located southwest of the Caspian Sea in northwestern Iran. 

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Edward M. Fratello: fratello@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Europe, Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico, Archaeobotany, Prehistoric Diet, Ceramics, State Formation, World-Systems, Co-evolution, Ethnic Identity, Railroad History

Erin Gilliland: eeg2@uwm.edu
Master's Student, Ethnoarchaeology and Museum Studies
Pacific Island Studies, Zooarchaeology, Evolutionary Psychology, Ethics in
anthropology, Mesoamerican archaeology, ecology, globalization and tourism

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Christine Hamlin: chamlin@uwm.edu
Ph. D. Candidate (dissertator), Archaeology (Mortuary Archaeology)
Expression of gender, age, and status configurations in mortuary contexts of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Britain; Human Osteology; Religious Syncretism

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Elizabeth J. Handwerk: handwerk@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Mortuary Archaeology; Iron Age Europe/Roman transition, Prehistoric North America

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Matthew John Knuth: mjknuth@uwm.edu
Master's Student, Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies
Ethnomusicology, Religion, Classical Archaeology, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, History, Food Politics & Applied Anthropology, Cultural Geography, Linguistics, Art, Ethnopharmacology, U.S. Society, Tribal India, Cyprus, Rapanui, Archaeogenetics, Philosophy of Science, Numismatics, etc.

Ralph Koziarski: rk1@uwm.edu
Ph.D. Student, Archaeology
Human and cultural ecology, artisenal fishers (both modern and prehistoric),
lake ecology, Great Lakes prehistory and history from the 13th to 18th
centuries, zooarchaeology and applied zooarchaeology

 Ricky H Kubicek
 MS Candidate,  Archaeology
 Central European Iron Age, social theory, History of Central European archaeology, GIS, statistics, survey methodology, phytoliths

Patrick Lindsay: plindsay@uwm.edu
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Nationalism, Europe and European Integration, Sports, Globalization

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Emily Mueller: em@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology
Western North America, Arid Environments, Zooarchaeology, Human and Cultural Ecology, GIS

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Linda Naunapper: lnaunapp@uwm.edu
Ph. D. Candidate (dissertator), Archaeology
Historic Period Archaeology; Eastern Woodlands of North America; Native American History, Culture and Art; Trade Beads; Philosophy of Science

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Murph Pizza: supermurph@earthlink.net
Ph. D. Candidate (dissertator), Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Religions; ad hoc Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
Wiccan/Neopagan community in the Twin Cities, Minnesota (a.k.a. Paganistan!), Modern Occult Movements and Esotericism in the U.S., Construction of American Religious Identity, New Religious Movements, Gender and Religious Experience, Anthropology of Consciousness

Paula J. Porubcan: paulajp2@uwm.edu
Ph.D. student, Archaeology
Historic archaeology, Western Great Lakes, EuroAmerican and Native American
material culture studies, spatial analysis, GIS

Sara Rich
Master's student in Art History
Ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology, especially Canaanite ritual art, maritime trade routes, cross-cultural contact evidenced in iconography. Currently thinking about how the physical environment of the Levant, esp. cedar groves, impacted the national identity of the Canaanites.

Matthew P. Robinson: mpr@uwm.edu
Ph. D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Senegal, West Africa Popular Culture, Postcolonial Identity, Sociolinguistics

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Amy Samuelson: samuels6@uwm.edu
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology, Agriculture, Post-Socialist Development, Romania

Kurt A. Sampson
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Great Lakes Archaeology, Wisconsin Archaeology, Aztalan, Effigy Mounds Culture,
Lithic Projectile Point and Other  Stone Tool Analysis, Native American Spirituality and Cultures

Seth A. Schneider: sethas@uwm.edu
Ph. D. Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
North American and European Archaeology, Ceramic Studies, Mortuary Studies, Social Complexity

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Ramona C. Tenorio: rtenorio@uwm.edu
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology
Ethnobotany, Latin American studies, gender and reproductive health, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights, indigenous peoples of Mexico, flora of Mexico, and biogeography.

Elisabeth Thimke
Master's Student, Physical Anthropology
Primatology, Behavioral Endocrinology, Conservation

Alexandra Trumbull: trumbull@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies
Iconology, pan-Arctic cultures and animism, Native American art, Gender Studies; Other interests: rupestral and Neanderthal art, concomitant evidence of early spirituality; Museum studies focus: preventive collection care and collections management. Thesis Title: "Supermarket Spirituality and Today's New Age Movement."

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Jon Van Beckum: vanbjon@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Archaeology and Museum Studies
Historic/Military Archaeology, especially contact and post-contact periods in the Midwest

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Charles (Charlie) J. Weber, Jr.: cjweber@uwm.edu
Masters Student, Cultural Anthropology
Enviromental Anthropology, Technosciences, Practice/Performance Theory, Class/Power Struggles, and cultural understanding of environmental knowledge

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Daniel M. Winkler: dwinkler@uwm.edu
Ph. D. Student, Archaeology
Great Lakes Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Archaic Period

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Recent Master's theses and Ph. D. dissertations

Follow the link below to see the variety of graduate student research in the Anthrpology Department at UWM.

Theses and Dissertations

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