Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select anthropology graduate degree candidates.
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![Sloane-Agruss Sloane Agruss, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sloane-Agruss.jpg)
Sloane Agruss
Email: eagruss@hawaii.edu
Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, Sediment Cores, Pacific Archaeology, Palynology, Micropaleontology
Advisor: Seth Quintus
![Anthony-Alvarez Anthony Alvarezr, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Anthony-Alvarez-1.jpg)
Anthony Alvarez
Email: akalvare@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Anthropological Archaeology, Spanish Colonial Archaeology (Guam, the Philippines, and California), Archaeology of Religion, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
Advisor: James Bayman
![aa Ashley Atkins, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aa.jpg)
Ashley Atkins
Email: amatkins@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, Entheseal Change/ Musculoskeletal Stress Markers, Neolithic Revolution, Wet Paddy Rice Farming, Jomon, Yayoi, Japan
Advisor: Christopher Bae
![Mary-Bannister Mary Bannister](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Mary-Bannister.jpg)
Mary Bannister
Email: marybann@hawaii.edu
Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Environmental Health, Psychology, Mental Health, Ethics, Climate Change, Himalayas, Nepal
Advisor: Jan Brunson
![Deirdre-Clyde Deirdre Clyde, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Deirdre-Clyde-1.jpg)
Deirdre Clyde
Email: daclyde@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Japan, United States, Popular Culture, Media Fandom, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory
Advisor: Christine Yano
![Naomi-Doherty Naomi Doherty, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Naomi-Doherty.jpg)
Naomi Doherty
Email: ndoherty@hawaii.edu
Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Cultural Health, Youth empowerment, Kuleana Anthropology, Community Building, Public Art/Murals, Artistic Self-Representation, TEK, Community Gardens, Food Sovereignty
Advisor: Ty Tengan
![Brendan-Flanagan Brendan Flanagan, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Brendan-Flanagan-1.jpg)
Brendan Flanagan
Email: flanag2@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Environmental Anthropology
Research Interests: Conservation Ethics, Human/Forest Relations, Local Knowledge Dynamics, Ethnic Insurgency, Alternative Economies, Burma/Myanmar
Advisor: Jonathan Padwe
![Carola-Franzen Carola Franzen, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Carola-Franzen.jpg)
Carola (Kaho) Franzen
Email: cfranzen@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Regional Settlement & Demography, Spatial & Quantitative Analysis, (Semi-)Pastoralism, Secondary State Formation, Imperialism, Fortification, NE China, Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Pre- & Protohistory
Advisor: Christian Peterson
![Sione-Manupuna-Funaki Sione Manupuna Funaki](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sione-Manupuna-Funaki.jpg)
Sione Manupuna Funaki
Email: smfunaki@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Tongan and Hawaiian Kava/'Awa Ceremonies, Diaspora, Indigenous Anthropology, Fonua, Tā-Vā Theory of Reality
Advisor: Ty Tengan
![Elena-Hughes Elena Hughes, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Elena-Hughes.jpg)
Elena Hughes
Email: ehughes6@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Skeletal Trauma, Criminal Dismemberment, Taphonomy
Advisor: Christopher Bae
![Emily-Tarbet-Hust Emily Tarbet Hust, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Emily-Tarbet-Hust.jpg)
Emily Tarbet Hust
Email: etarbet@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Age Estimation Methods, Bone Toxicology, Skeletal Markers of Physiological Stress
Advisor: Christopher Bae
![YI-YU-LAI Yi Yu Lai, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/YI-YU-LAI.jpg)
Yi-Yu Lai
Email: yiyulai@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Southeast Asia (the Philippines), Political Anthropology, Anthropology of State, Indigeneity, Indigenous Politics, Resistance, Cultural Activism
Advisor: Alex Golub
![Tiffany-Lee Tiffany Lee, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tiffany-Lee.jpg)
Tiffany Lee
Email: tlee7@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Stable Isotopes, Environmental Archaeology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology, East Polynesia
Advisor: Seth Quintus
![Jiawei-Liu Jiawei Liu, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jiawei-Liu.jpg)
Jiawei Liu
Email: jiaweil3@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Reproduction Health, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism, Women's Health, China
Advisors: Jan Brunson
![Ci-Yan-Sara-Loh Ci Yan Sara Loh, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ci-Yan-Sara-Loh.jpg)
Ci Yan Sara Loh
Email: cysloh@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Environmental Anthropology
Research Interests: Cultural and Political Ecology, Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change, Resilience and Adaptation, Environmental Policy, Development, Southeast Asia
Advisors: Jonathan Padwe
![Erin-McConkey Erin McConkey, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Erin-McConkey.jpg)
Erin McConkey
Email: emcconke@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies, Animal Studies, Snakebite Envenomation, Pharmaceuticals, Thailand
Advisors: Eirik Saethre
![Jacy-Miller Jacyv Miller, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Jacy-Miller.jpg)
Jacy Miller
Email: jacym@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Western Pacific, Guam's Latte Period, Settlement Pattern, Subsistence Economy, Landscape Archaeology, Ceramic Ecology
Advisor: James Bayman
![Fiona-Miranda Fiona Miranda, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Fiona-Miranda.jpg)
Fiona Miranda
Email: fionaami@hawaii.edu
Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: High-altitude Adaptation, Osteology, Bone Mineral Density and Atrophy, Tibet, China
Advisor: Christopher Bae
![Alessandra-Shea Alessandra Shea, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alessandra-Shea.jpg)
Alessandra Shea
Email: agshea@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Environmental Anthropology
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Marine Policy, Seascapes, Tahiti
Advisor: Alex Mawyer
![smith Bailie Smith, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/smith.jpg)
Bailie Smith
Email: bsmith96@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Demilitarization, Hawaiʻi, Kuleana Anthropology, Oral History Interviewing
Advisor: Ty Tengan
![Jaratnapa-Surinlert Jaratnapa Surinlert, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Jaratnapa-Surinlert.jpg)
Jaratnapa Surinlert
Email: jsurinle@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology
Research Interests: Prehistoric Archaeology, Southeast Asia, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Human Behavior, Hunter-Gatherer, Environmental Archaeology, Late-Pleistocene to Early Holocene Period, Lithic Analysis
Advisor: Christian Peterson
![Catharine-Thetford Catharine Thetford, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Catharine-Thetford.jpg)
Catharine Thetford
Email: thetford@hawaii.edu
Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Archaeology
Research Interests: Hawaiian Archaeology, GIS, Remote Sensing, Community Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
Advisor: Seth Quintus
![Rachel-Tjoeng Rachel Tjoeng, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa](https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rachel-Tjoeng.jpg)
Rachel Tjoeng
Email: rtjoeng@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Community Based Vaccination Programs, Nursing in Biomedicine, Social Determinants of Health, Food Sovereignty, Racial Bias in Medicine, Mothering/ Mother-child Dynamics
Advisor: Jan Brunson