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Chase Adams
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Advisor: Dr. Helen Regis
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Anzhelika Antipova
Email: aantip1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Fahui Wang
Prior Degrees: BA in Specialist and Teacher of Geography, Odessa State University, Ukraine; MA in Geography, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Medical geography, transportation geography, specifically the relationship between land uses and travel behavior, travel demand modeling |
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Katie Berchak
Email: kberch1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kent Matthewson
Prior Degrees: BA, Tulane; MA, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Cultural geography/anthropology, the Southeastern US, tourism, gender, historical geography, ethnic/immigration, New Orleans, New York City |
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Thomas Brasdefer
Email: tbrasd1@lsu.edu
Advisors: Dr. Jill Brody, Dr. Bill Rowe
Prior Degrees: Maîtrise, American Civilization / French for Foreigners, Université d'Artois; Masters, American Civilization /Cultural Anthropology, Université de Poitiers
Research Interests: Anthrogeography, geolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, indigenous studies, critical geopolitics, educational theory and practice, critical language policy, nationalism, subalternity |
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Mike Bitton
Email: mbitto1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees: BSc in Physical Geography and Environmental Science, Wilfrid Laurier University; MES in Physical Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University; BEd in Secondary Education, University of Ottawa
Research Interests: coastal geomorphology, including coastal morphodynamics, spatial and temporal change of large scale systems, and beach-dune interactions |
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Mikeal Blackford
Email: mblac19@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Prior Degrees: BA in Geology and Environmental Studies, minor in Anthropology, Macalester College; MS in Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: human overpopulation, economic geography, history of agricultural industrialization, World War I, space exploration, disaster science, environmental policy & law, Celtic musicology & associated folklore, interactions of science & society, science communication |
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Jonathan Broussard
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Advisor: Dr. Jill Brody
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Lindsay Caldwell
Email: acladw4@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mary Manhein
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Alicia Canfield
Email: acanfi1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Minnesota Morris
Research Interests: Facial reconstruction concerning culturally modifies skulls |
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Jim Chaney
Email: jchane5@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Prior Degrees: BA in Geography, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Grad. Certificate, Geoscience, Middle Tennessee State University; Grad. Certificate, G.I.S., Western Kentucky University; MA in Geography/Geoscience, Western Kentucky University
Research Interests: transnational migration (mainly between the United States and Latin America), ethnicity, and qualitative research methods |
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Yi-Chia Chen
Email: ychen6@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Miles Richardson
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: Ethnographic methodology, place and culture, post-conflict landscape, postmodern theories in geographies, tourism geography |
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Leslie Couvillion
Email: lacouvillion@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Michael Leitner
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology
Research Interests: GIS, mapping science, tailoring different software packages to specific business goals and ideas |
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Stephanie Crider
Email: scride1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Skeletal characteristics of ancestry in the cranium, human skeletal biology, forensic Anthropology, ancestry assessment, human pathology, mass grave excavations |
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Julie Doucet
Email: jdouce6@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Saunders
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: prehistoric shell rings and middens; archaeology |
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Luke Driskell
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Advisor: Dr. Fahui Wang
Prior Degrees: BA, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Spread and use of the Internet, effect of the Internet on people who do not use it |
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Meghan Ducos
Email: eileash@yahoo.com
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology; Certificate in Forensic Anthropology
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, particularly in comparative osteology in juveniles (growth and development) |
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Brandon Edwards
Email: bedwar4@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Steve Namikas
Prior Degrees: BS in Geography, Louisiana State University; MA in Geography, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Nearshore, aeolian, and surficial processes on beaches, innovative instrumentation and monitoring techniques and analysis methods |
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Amanda Evans
Email: aevan21@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Indiana University; MA in Anthropology, Florida State University
Research Interests: Marine archaeology, public outreach and education in archaeology, submerged cultural resource management |
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Carolyn Farmer-Covington
Email: cfarme2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
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Randy Faucheux
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Advisor: Dr. Joyce Jackson
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: Language policies concerning American Indians, language planning and language maintenance through critical language policy and political geography, issues of power, identity, representation, language shift, postcolonialism. |
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Meredith Feike
Email: mfeike1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Miles Richardson
Prior Degrees: BA in History, Tulane University; MA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: anthrogeography, disaster science, phenomenology, social capital, vulnerability/resilience, sustainable development |
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Russell Fielding
Email: rfield2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kent Matthewson
Prior Degrees: BS in Computer Science, University of Florida; MA in Geography, University of Montana
Research Interests: local food production and sustainability, artisanal fishing and whaling, culturally-derived conservation strategies, and small island cultures, the North Atlantic, the Caribbean
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Doris Garcia
Email: dgarci2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Joyce Jackson
Prior Degrees: BA in History and International Relations, City College of New York; MS in International Studies,Central Connecticut University
Research Interests: Political Economy, Social theory, feminist geography, social movements, land rights, "post' colonial studies |
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Jennifer Gardner
Email: jgard11@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees: BA in Communication Arts with a minor in Business Administration, Salisbury University; BA in Anthropology, Salisbury University
Research Interests: terrestrial and maritime archaeology, landscape development from Prehistoric to Early Contact Period in North America |
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Alex Giancarlo
Email: agianc1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
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Emily Grace
Email: emilygrace87@hotmail.com
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Research Interests: forensic anthropology |
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Mandy Green
Email: mgree31@tigers.lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees: BS in Sustainable Agriculture, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; MS in Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Coastal geomorphology, coastal restoration, barrier island evolution and restoration |
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Gentry Hanks
Email: ghanks3@tigers.lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
Prior Degrees: BA in Latin with a minor in Italian, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Post-first-hand economies, second-hand culture, Feminist Geography, marginal spaces of consumptions, identity performance through consumption, reconstitution of gender roles in second-hand spaces, social theory, and folklore |
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David Harlan
Email: dharla2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Michael Leitner
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Auburn University
Research Interests: GIS, mapping sciences, how GIS can be used in archaeology in terms of regional settlement patterns and predictive modeling |
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Jenny Hay
Email: ajenny@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Prior Degrees: BA in Geography, University of Texas at Austin; MS in Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos
Research Interests: Cultural and Historical Geography, historic preservation and varying perspectives on adaptive reuse, sense of place, community identity, and qualitative methods |
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Matt Helmer
Email: mhelme1@tigers.lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. David Chicoine
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Pre-Colombian Andes, spatial analysis, cultural identities, architecture patterns, underwater ancient Maya archaeology |
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Brian Hess
Email: bhess1@tigers.lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Rob Mann
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Washington
Research Interests: Historical archaeology, focusing on American Civil War Battlefields |
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Corey Hotard
Email: cajunmancooks@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Miles Richardson
Prior Degrees: MA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: integration of GIS as tool in ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative GIS, cultural heritage, mixed methods, Cajun culture, cooking as performance, ethnic foodways, historic representation of Louisiana food products |
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Sean Hribal
Email: shriba1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rohli
Prior Degrees: BS in Earth Science with concentration in Meteorology, California University of Pennsylvania; MS in Geography, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: agricultural climatology, specifically, crop coefficients for cotton and reference evapotranspiration |
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Audra Jones
Email: ajone62@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Forensic taphonomy, forensic entomology and botany |
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Myrtho Joseph
Email: mjose13@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Fahui Wang
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Paul Karolczyk
Email: pkarol1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Prior Degrees: BS in Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health-Central, Connecticut State University; MS in Geography, Central Connecticut State University
Research Interests:cultural geography, political economy, social theory, space and place in the
cultural politics of contemporary black nationalist movements in the US South |
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Valerie Kauffeld
Email: vkauff1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Prior Degrees: BA in Foreign Languages (concentration in French) and Anthropology, East Tennessee State University
Research Interests: physical and forensic anthropology |
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Mia Keaton
Email: mia@keatonclan.com
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: paleopathology, taphonomy |
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Amanda Kittoe
Email: akitto1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology and Psychology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: human variation, particularly by population, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology and the formation and maintenance of identity |
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Katie Lavigne
Email: klavig2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Bob Rohli
Prior Degrees: BS, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Climate change impact, water budgets, southwest Louisiana |
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Marc Massom
Email: mmasso3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Saunders
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Minor in Biology, University of Mississippi
Research Interests: Marine archaeology, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, GIS databases and monitoring systems for resource protection and educational program development |
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Jessie McCann
Email: jmcca16@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. David Brown
Prior Degrees: BS in Meteorology, Mississippi State University
Research Interests: North American Monsoon System, effects of atmospheric circulation variability on precipitation pattern
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Charlana McQuinn
Email: charlo11@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, Eastern Kentucky University
Research Interests: Physical Anthropology, facial reconstruction, bone trauma, human decomposition standards, funerary archaeological practices |
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Kara Miller
Email: kmill46@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Helen Regis
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Public art and perceptions of space, visual anthropology, community identity and heritage exploration, curative practices and associated material culture |
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Arnold Modlin
Email: emodli2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
Prior Degrees: BA in Geography, East Carolina University; MA in Geography, East Carolina University
Research Interests: Geography of memory, ethnicity, and representation; the American South; the Caribbean; representation of slavery on plantation house museums tours and websites |
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Aimee Moles
Email: amoles@lsu.edu
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Prior Degrees: BS in Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; MSW in the School of Social Work, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: medical geography, ethnobotany |
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Autumn Montgomery
Email: amontg6@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Jill Brody
Prior Degrees: BA in Drama and Communications with a concentration in film, minors in English and Asian Studies, University of New Orleans
Research Interests: Linguistics, Forensic Osteology, Archaeology – human remains and materials, nautical and coastal architecture |
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Hal Needham
Email: hneedh1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Prior Degrees: BS in Geography, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Coastal flooding from storm surges associated with tropical cyclones along the Gulf of Mexico |
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Beverly Nuschler
Email: bnusch1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Rob Mann
Prior Degrees: BA in Communications, University of New Orleans; MLIS, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: historical archaeology of the southeastern US, public archaeology, archaeological informatics, GIS, remote sensing |
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Ryan Orgera
Email: ryan.orgera.lsu@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Prior Degrees: BA in French and Spanish, University of South Florida; MA in French and Francophone Studies, University of South Florida
Research Interests: research deals with how Americans views water culturally and legally. Does what constitute nature? Can aquatic-space be protected? |
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Marty Pfieffer
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Advisor: Dr. Jill Brody
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Lauren Pharr
Email: lpharr1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Michael Leitner
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Tennessee; MA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: forensic taphonomy, human decomposition and the postmortem interval, forensic anthropology, forensic entomology, crime mapping, geographic and environmental influences the postmortem interval and decomposition patterns, geographic profiling |
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Amy Potter
Email: amyepotter@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Prior Degrees: BS in Journalism, University of Kansas; MA in Geography, University of Kansas
Research Interests: the Caribbean, transnational migration, common property, political ecology, media representation, post colonialism |
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Jessica Bourgoyne Rabalais
Email: jessicarabalais@cox.net
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Prior Degrees: BA in Fashion Merchanising and a minor in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Turkish and Romany dance |
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Jamie Ramoneda
Email: jmramoneda@hotmail.com
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Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: shrinking cities, unused industrial spaces, former railway lines, brownfield sites, abandoned port areas and under-utilized housing stock, remediation in post-industrial sites, landscape and memory, preservation, urban metabolic processes and puricative landscapes, impact of disasters on urban landscape |
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Sophia Renke
Email: srenke1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA(H) in Physical Anthropology, University of Alberta, Canada
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, decomposition, post mortem interval in aqueous environment |
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Katherine Renken
Email: krenken@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees: BS in Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA in Geography, East Carolina University
Research Interests: aeolian geomorphology, barrier island dynamics, coastal dune formation and evolution, coastal ecology, remote sensing and GIS use in coastal dune ecology |
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Michael Roberts
Email:
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: drought in Louisiana, creating databases for detecting trends and anomalies in synoptic patterns |
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Jermaine Robinson
Email: jrobi59@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Florida; BA in Criminology, University of Florida
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, Forensic art, facial reconstruction methods, gunshot wounds, cranial morphology and trauma, pathology of the skull, non-metric skeletal traits |
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Mark Robinson
Email: mrobi15@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Prior Degrees: BA in Geography, Portsmouth University; MA in Precolumbian Art and Architecture, Essex University
Research Interests: ancient Maya, southern Belize, ceramics resources use, underwater Maya, trade, hieroglyphics, iconography |
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Bethany Rogers
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Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
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Roberto Rosado
Email: robertorosado@hotmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, concentration in Archaeology, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico
Research Interests: Maya archaeology in Northern Yucatan, including settlement patters, pre-Hispanic Maya constructive process, and Late Classic Period |
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Phillip Schmutz
Email: pschmu1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Steve Namikas
Prior Degrees: BA in Geography and Environmental Studies, Baylor University; MS in Geography, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: coastal geomorphology, sediment transport and beach hydrology, wind-driven raindrop induced sediment transport (rainsplash-saltation) |
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Jorn Seeman
Email: jseema4@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kent Matthewson
Prior Degrees: MA in Geography, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Research Interests: cultural approaches to maps, mapping and cartography, regional geography (NE Brazil), history of geography and geographic thoughts, geographic education |
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Wanyun Shao
Email:
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: Drought planning in the Southern US, application of climatology studies into drought planning |
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Cory Sills
Email: esills1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin; MA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University.
I am currently working on my PhD in geography with a concentration in anthropology.
Research Interests: ancient Maya archaeology, ancient political economies, coastal archaeology, remote sensing and GIS, and environmental change |
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Nicki Smith
Email:
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: Physical and Forensic Anthropology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, skeletal signs of infectious disease in populations |
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Quan Tang
Email: qtang3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Lei Wang
Prior Degrees: BA in Management, China Agricultural University, MA, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: GIS and remote sensing in urban, spatial analysis, statistical analysis, GIS/RS programming. |
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Anna Trevino
Email: anordf1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. David Brown
Prior Degrees: BS in Environmental Geoscience, Texas A&M University; MS in Geography, Texas A&M University
Research Interests: hydroclimatology, urban climates, microclimatology, storm cell bifurcation and splitting for urban areas in the South Central US |
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Case Watkins
Email: casewatkins@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Prior Degrees: BGS (General Studies), Louisiana State University; MS in Geography, Texas State University
Research Interests: Latin America, historical and contemporary production of palm oil in Brazil, colonial landscape transformations, economic development, cultural ecology, colonial period to post-Katrina interrelationships connecting New Orleans with Latin America |
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Rachel Watson
Email: rwatso9@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Prior Degrees: BA, Louisiana State University; MA in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: prehistoric landscapes and coastal adaptations in Mesoamerica |
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Paul Watts
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Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
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Margaret Wrenn
Email: mwrenn1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillopp
Prior Degrees: BA in Anthropology with a minor in Classical Civilizations, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: wooden architecture of Maya off coast of Brazil, dendrochronology |
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Yan Xu
Email: xyan6@tigers.lsu.edu
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Prior Degrees:
Research Interests: Aeolian geomorphology, especially dune formation and evolution |
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Recently Awarded Graduate Degrees |
2009 |
Kristopher Ian Debnam, MA.
A sense of community and community change: An ethnographic study of a contemporary Louisiana juke joint as it compares to historical literature on the subject.
Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
Yun Huang, MS.
Sediment records of modern and prehistoric strikes in Weeks Bay, Alabama.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Richard William Hunter, PhD.
People, sheep, and landscape change in colonial Mexico: The sixteenth-century transformation of the Valle del Mezquital.
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Wei Liang, PhD.
An integrated agent-based microsimulation model for hurricane evacuation in New Orleans.
Advisor: Dr. Nina Lam
Jessica Susan Matthews, MA.
Moving over mountains: A woman walking on the Appalachian Trail.
Advisor, Dr. Helen Regis
Ricardo Chabarria Nogueira, PhD.
Atlantic tropical cyclone: Climatology and the contribution to monthly and seasonal rainfall in the Eastern US 1960-2007.
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Xiaojun Qin, MS.
A social vulnerability-based genetic algorithm to locate-allocate transit bus stops for disaster evacuation in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Advisor: Dr. Nina Lam
Teresa Veronica Wilson, MA.
Estimating age at death by examining the crystallite size of Hydroxylapatite in human teeth.
Advisor: Mary Manhein |
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William Brennan Arden, PhD.
Medical geography in public health and tropical medicine: Case studies from Brazil.
Advisor: Dr. Michael Leitner
Lisa Elaine Baumer, MA.
Evidence of pulmonary disease in the Poole-Rose Ossuary population: An analysis of the ribs.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Barry James Bleichner, MS.
An analysis of Marine Protected Areas legislation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles.
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Rachel Marie Burke, MA.
Can we estimate stature from the scapula? A test considering sex and ancestry.
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Stephen Paul Caparotta, MS.
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and tropical cyclone frequency variability
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rohli
Jessie Chaiya Cohen, MA.
Africanisms and cultural modifications: A study of Southall Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Advisors: Dr. Rob Mann and Dr. Steve Namikas
Wayne Anthony Cranston, MA.
Survey of forensically-important Calliphoridae in Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica, West Indies.
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Elizabeth Thomas Crocker, MA.
A trinity of beliefs and a unity of the sacred: Modern Voodoo practices in New Orleans.
Advisor: Dr. Miles Richardson
Sandor Gulyas, MA.
Creating a blues playgrounds: A comparison of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, and Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi.
Advisor: Dr. Dydia DeLyser
Jennifer Hellean Hathorn, MS.
Paleoecology and paleotempestology of the Pascagoula Marsh, Mississippi.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Wenxue Ju, PhD.
A genetic Bayesian approach for texture-aided urban land-use/land-cover classification.
Advisor: Dr. Nina Lam
Jason Thomas Knowles, PhD.
Coastal lake-sediment records of prehistoric hurricane strike in Honduras and Turks and Caicos Islands of the Caribbean Basin.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Mary McMenamin, MA.
Databasing the disappeared and deceased: A review of the resources available in missing and unidentified persons cases.
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Michelle Lynn Osborn, MA.
Effects of handedness on the skull and shoulder bones.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Carey Melissa-Ann Schwartz, MA.
A matter of questionable death: An analysis of physical child abuse.
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Dena L Struchtemeyer, MA.
Separate but equal? The Archaeology of an early twentieth century African American School.
Advisor: Dr. Farnsworth
Amy Richardson Sumpter, PhD.
Environment, labor, and race: An historical geography of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 1878-1956.
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Erin Elizabeth Voisin, MA.
Saint Malo remembered.
Advisor: Dr. Helen Regis |
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Alexa Jo Andrews, MS.
Spatial and temporal variability of tropical storm and hurricane strikes in the Bahamas, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Anzhelika Antipova, MS.
Hurricane Andrews and pregnancies in Louisiana.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
Thomas Anthony Bianchette, MS.
Using Hurricane Ivan as a modern analog in paleotempestology: Lake sediment studies and environmental analysis in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Katherine Ann Blackwelder, MA.
Reevaluating age in subadult remains in response to secular changes in skeletal growth.
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Gerardo Jose Boquin, MS.
A geographical investigation of Chagas’ Disease risk in the community of La Brea, Guatemala.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
Wing Nam Joyce Chan, MA
In vivo facial tissue depth study of Chinese-Americans in new York City
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Frances Heyward Currin Mujica, PhD.
Chagas in culture and place: A mixed methods approach to a new medical geography of Chagas Disease in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
David William Dorrell, PhD.
Understanding the New York rabies epizootic 1985-2005.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
Jonathan Zachary DeLaune, MA.
Unwelcome neighbors? Industrial growth and water pollution in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1940-1960.
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Robert Aubrey Dunn, PhD.
Fever, firepower, and flood: The transformation of the Missouri River Bottomlands in the Dakotas 1804-2005.
Advisor: Dr. Kent Mathewson
Meredith Morgan Feike, MA.
Logging-on to Sai Baba: The poetics of sacred globalization
Advisor: Dr. Jay Edwards
Scott Allen Hemmerling, PhD.
Environmental equity in Southeast Louisiana: Oil, people, policy and the geography of industrial hazards.
Advisor: Dr. Craig Colten
Sarah Elizabeth Hinman, PhD.
Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid fever in Washington, DC, 1985-1909: A geographic information systems exploration of urban health concerns.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
Michael Ulric Kemp, MS
Spatial and temporal distribution of solar radiation in Louisiana.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rohli
Lawrence Morara Kiage, PhD.
Vegetation change and land degradation in the Lake Baringo Area, Kenya, during the late Holocene: Evidence from the paleorecord and remote sensing.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Winston Aloysius McKenna, MS.
An evolutionary model of parabolic dune development: From blowout to mature parabolic, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hesp
Melissa Louise Moreno, MA.
The agriculturalists of the Poole-Rose Ossuary: A study of the femora and tribiae.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Tague
Zoe Hensley Morris, MA.
Quantitative and spatial analysis of the microscopic bone structure of deer (Odocoileus virginianus), dog (Canis familiaris), and pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus).
Advisor: Mary Manhein
Tania Pal, MS.
Accuracy assessment of individually calibrated journey-to-crime geographic profiling models.
Advisor: Dr. Michael Leitner
Kristina Elaine Polizzi, MA.
Dragons behind glass: Views of China and Japan in three American museums
Advisor: Dr. Miles Richardson
Phillip Perry Schmutz, MS.
Investigation of utility of Delta-T Theta probe for obtaining surficial moisture measurements on beaches.
Advisor: Dr. Steve Namikas
Elizabeth Cory Sills, MA.
The architecture of ancient Maya saltmaking: Distribution and analysis of preserved wooden posts at the John Spang Site in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize.
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Bretton Michael Somers, PhD.
Spatial analysis of the preserved wooden architectural remains of eight Late Classic Maya salt works in Punta Ycacos Lagoon, Toledo District, Belize.
Advisor: Dr. Heather McKillop
Fei Wang, PhD.
Land-cover and land-use study genetic algorithms, Petri nets, and cellular automata.
Advisor: Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Guiyuan Wang, MA.
Voices in cultural heritage Preservation: A comparative study between New Orleans and Changting (China).
Advisor: Dr. Jay Edwards
Harry James Wilson, PhD.
The urban development of Spanish colonial Pensacola, 1781-1821.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis
Ramin David Zamanian, MA.
A material/conceptual landscape analysis of the Virgin of Guadalupe Pilgrimage Site in Mexico City, Mexico.
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Yuanda Zhu, PhD.
Modeling spatial and temporal variations of surface moisture content and groundwater table fluctuations on a fine-grained beach, Padre Island, Texas.
Advisor: Dr. Steve Namikas |
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