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Diana Stiles Friou

                Diana Stiles Friou /free-you/ “Diana” Graduate Student Email: diana.stiles@ufl.edu Education PhD/ABD, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 1993 M.A. Demography, UC Berkeley 1993 MA Anthropology, George Washington University, 1988 Mandarin Language Certificate, National Taiwan Normal University, 1983 B.A. Anthropology, University of South Florida, 1981 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Christopher […]

Sophia Patterson

Graduate Student Email: sophiapatterson@ufl.edu Education M.A.. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress B.A. Anthropology, Trinity University, 2023 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Brenda Chalfin Dr. Abdoulaye Kane Research Interests Migration, gender, race and racialization, globalization, labor, care work, Senegal, the U.S. South Selected Publications   Grants, Fellowships, and Awards Margaret Mead Award for Excellence in […]

Olamide Awoyemi T

                    Graduate Student Email: olamideawoyemi@ufl.edu Education Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A., Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, 2025  B.A., Anthropology, University of Ibadan, 2021 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Adrienne Strong Research Interests Medical Anthropology, Maternal and Child Health, Politics of Care, Health […]

Rhianna Bennett

                    Graduate Student Email: rhiannabennett@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A., Georgia Southern University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2018 ·B.A., University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology, 2014 Subfield Archaeology  Chair Dr. Charles Cobb Research Interests Southeastern archaeology, Collaborative methodologies, Decolonizing archaeology, Cultural […]

Aaron Curlee

Graduate Student Email:  acurlee@ufl.edu Education M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress Bachelor of Science, University of Florida Department of Anthropology, August 2024. Subfield Archaeology Chair Dr. Sassaman Research Interests Public Archaeology, Bio-archaeology, Archival Archaeology and Digital heritage. Selected Publications Grants, Fellowships, and Awards  

Abbey Ryan

Graduate Student Email:  abigail.ryan@ufl.edu Education M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress B.A. Boston University, sociocultural anthropology, class of 2022 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Abdoulaye Kane Research Interests East Africa, Swahili, African Studies, sociocultural linguistics, historical linguistics, identity, migration, transnational communities, Tanzania, Kenya, post-colonialism in East Africa Selected Publications Grants, Fellowships, and Awards FLAS Fellow […]

Lisseth Rojas-Pelayo

Graduate Student Email:   lrojaspelayo@ufl.edu Education Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress M.A., Andean Studies/ Archaeology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, In progress. B.A., Humanities/ Archaeology, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, 2010. Subfield Archaeology Chair Dr. Contreras Dr. Krigbaum Research Interests Peru, Andean archaeology, Formative, bioarchaeology, migration, biogeochemistry, human-environment interactions, one-health, funerary archaeology, biocultural heritage, community […]

Sumaiya Akter Mim

Graduate Student Email:   Education Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress MSS from Jahangirnagar University at Department of anthropology in 2024 BSS from Jahangirnagar University at Department of Anthropology in 2023 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Brenda Chalfin Dr. Mood Sudcharoen Research Interests In social and political anthropology with focus on linguistics and human rights […]

Sonja Schmer-Galunder

Graduate Student Email:    s.schmergalunder@ufl.edu Google Scholar UF CISE Education Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress M.A., Social Anthropology, Lunds University Subfield Past: Gender Studies Future: Ethics, Morality, Epistemology, Value Alignment, Value Plurality Chair Research Interests I am a professor or Ethics and AI (professor of practice) at the University of Florida (situated in […]