Anthropology Graduate Students
Precious Adejumobi
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: paa@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment via email
Research Interests: Feminist Medical Anthropology, Endometriosis, Chronic Reproductive Diseases, Women's Health, Alternative Healthcare, Religion and Health, Pentecostalism, Public Spaces, Traditional Markets, Traditional Apprenticeship, Nonprofit Management, Nigeria
Tiyas Bhattacharyya
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: tbhatta2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 36/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Research Interests: Southeast Asian archaeology, zooarchaeology, human-animal relations, animal economies in hierarchical societies, environmental reconstruction
Kaito Campos de Novais
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: kaiton@uoregon.edu
Office: 148 Susan Campbell Hall, 1219 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1219
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Activism, Gender, Sexuality and Race, Decoloniality, Brazil, Latin America, and Visual Anthropology.
Clara Coates
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: cmcoa@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: conservation genetics, conservation genomics, conservation, ecology, evolution, science communication, genetics, human-wildlife conflict
Liesl Cohn De Leon
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: lieslc@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm
Research Interests: Guatemalan Migration, Transitional Justice, Digital Ethnography, Critical Medical Anthropology
Sara Cotton
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: scotton@uoregon.edu
Office: CON 302D
Office Hours: Email to set up a meeting time
Research Interests: Primatology, Behavioral Ecology, Socioendocrinology
Zachary Dierks
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: zdierks@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Archaeobotany, Human-environment Relationships, Environmental Reconstruction, Household Archaeology
Ricky Durga
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: rdurga@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Island and Coastal Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Paleoecology, Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Paleoclimatology
Yuan Fang
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: yfang6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: East Asian archaeology, human-animal relations, mortuary practices, rituals, Han Dynasty China, Chinese art
Annalise Gardella
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: agardell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Appointment by email request
Research Interests: Environmental activism, Ecofeminism, LGBTQ social movements, feminist social movements, Central America
Dee Jolly
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: djolly@uoregon.edu
Office: Condon 366
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Fridays (10am-12pm) or by appointment
Research Interests: transgender health, stress, embodiment, health inequities, chronic illness, chronic pain, social determinants of health, intersectionality, biocultural anthropology
Gabby Jones
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: gmjon@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Condon 313 or by appointment
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Geometric Morphometrics, Osteology, Primatology, Comparative Anatomy, Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology.
Kelsi Kuehn
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: kelsik@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 366C Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Summer 2026: Tuesdays 11-12:30 PST on Zoom
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Health and Resilience, Queer Studies, Human Skeletal Biology, Structural Violence, Embodied Stress and Life Experiences, Biocultural Methods
Hyunsoo Lee
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: hlee2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 PM Via Zoom
Research Interests: Archaeobotany, Early Holocene subsistence, Plant resource use, Plant domestication, Agriculture, Historical ecology, East Asia
Samantha Matalone Cook
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: samam@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Myth and fairy tale, mythic and folk art, intersectional/critical heritage studies, material culture, social memory, geography, indigeneity and migration, activism, feminist and ecocritical theory, and modern revivals and reclamations of historic myth, iconography, ideology, and practices.
Elizabeth McGuire
PhD Student
Anthropology
Email: emcguire@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5109
Office: 365/366 Condon Hall, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Research Interests: eastern Africa, stable isotopes, paleoclimate proxies, conservation ecology