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Anthropology UConn CLAS Graduate School
  

Evolution, Culture, and Cognition

Graduate Students

BEEBE, Rebecca

Research Interests:  Applied Medical Anthropology, Mental Health, Adolescent Health, Causes and Consequences of Violent Cultural Environments
Cultural Areas:  Contemporary United States, Latino populations
Office:
Office Phone:

Advisor: Handwerker

DIAZ, Nitza

Research Interests:  Applied Medical Anthropology, Cultural Competence and Health Care Delivery
Cultural Areas:  Latino populations, Contemporary United States
Office:
Office Phone:
Advisor: Handwerker

DIVIETRO, Susan

Research Interests:
Cultural Areas:
Office: Beach Hall 3044
Office Phone: 6-1935
Advisor: Handwerker

FINKEL, Daniel
Research Interests: Human evolution and behavior, social cognition, morality, music
Cultural Areas: Israel
Office:Beach Hall 401
Office Phone: 6-0076
Advisor: Sosis

GARCIA, Vanessa

Research Interests:  Applied Medical Anthropology, Violence, Human Rights
Cultural Areas:  Colombia, Contemporary United States
Office: Beach Hall 442
Office Phone:
Advisor: Handwerker

GROVER, Amy

Research Interests: Fisheries Management, Maritime Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology
Cultural Areas: Caribbean
Office: Beach Hall 401
Office Phone: 6-0076
Advisor: Handwerker

HAWKINS, Katharine

Research Interests: Human behavioral ecology, evolution of cooperation, altruism, revenge, reciprocity.
Cultural Areas: Africa, Europe, India
Office: In the Field
Office Phone:
Advisor: Wilson

MAGNUS, Barry

Research Interests: Applied Medical Anthropology, Cultural Competence and Health Care Delivery
Cultural Areas: United States
Office: Beach Hall 401
Office Phone: 6-0076
Advisor: Handwerker

PURZYCKI, Benjamin

Research Interests: evolutionary psychology and cognitive science of religion, humor, and myth, cultural evolution of reasoning about institutions, and colonialism and Fourth World studies.
Cultural Areas: Denmark and Native North America
Office: Beach Hall 407
Office Phone: 6-0068
Advisor: Sosis

SAMSONENKO, Lena

Research Interests: Ethnobiology, traditional ecological knowledge,sustainable natural resource use
Cultural Areas:Central and South America
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
Advisor: McBride

SCHINDLER, Diane

Research Interests: Parent-child interactions, infant health, gender issues, economics, family dynamics.
Cultural Areas: Latin America, South America
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
Advisor: Boster

SHAVER, John

Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology, evolutionary psychology, emotions, emotion socialization
Cultural Areas: Japan, United States
Office: Beach Hall 407
Office Phone: 6-0068
Advisor: Sosis

SHIPMAN, Asha

Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology; medical anthropology
Cultural Areas: India
Office:
Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
Advisor: Boster

SWARTWOUT, Paul

Research Interests: Evolution of religion.
Cultural Areas:
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
Advisor: Sosis