Students
VALERIE ANONYUO
My research interest is focused on culture and education, its demographic lay within refugees, immigrants, and international students in the United States.
SAMANTHA BROWN
My research interest is in museum anthropology. Specifically, I want to look at how technology is changing the museum and the effects it has on those who are a part of the museum - employees, visitors and researchers - and the effects that are played on the physical museum itself.
PAMELA CALTABIANO
Cultural Anthropology: My research interests include the anthroplogy of dance, specifically flamenco dance in Atlanta.
FIROOZEH FOROUZAN
I study anthropological archaeology, focusing on prehistoric material culture, with an emphasis on ceramics. Thus far, my studies have concentrated largely on Near Eastern and Iranian archaeology, and I am also interested in studying other geographic areas.
VERONICA PRZBYL
My research interests include Medical Anthropology and Psychological Anthropology. I am particularly interested in understanding personal experiences of psychological disorders and in how an anthropological analysis of these experiences can contribute to medical and psychiatric understandings of various disorders. I am conducting my thesis research on the life experiences of people with anorexia nervosa.
TINA REZVANI
My research asks how and why Iranian immigrants in the U.S. produce and share Iranian culture. Dinner parties as sites of cultural production are one specific area of focus. My other research interests include art and culture, film, education, and political performance.
KANIQUA ROBINSON
My research interests include the anthropology of religion. Currently, my research is centered on various aspects of the African-American Church, including its internal structure as well as its cultural influence.
GILLIAN RULAND
My research is focused on the social aspect of contemporary knitting groups in the United States. Additionally, I am particularly interested in knitting graffiti, knitting as therapy, and gender relations.
WAYMAN SMITH
My research interests include ethnicity, aging, gerontology, race, sociocultural theory, and using Geographic Information Systems to define cultural space. My research will focus on how older African-Americans living in the southern U.S. view their experience of resistance and adaptation during the era of segregation and Jim Crow.
MICHELLE WEBB
I am interested in the impact of Osteoarthritis (OA) on the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee of skeletal populations of known age and sex. I hope to better understand what key facftors play into the development of OA on adult men and women.
AMANDA WOOMER
I am a student of cultural anthropology. My resarch will focus on the Tibetan community, particularly in Atlanta, and how this group and the community at large utilize and evoke images and ideas in order to alter and affect the representation of opinion in Tibet. One specific area of focus will be how these images and ideas play in to the conflict and mediation between Tibet and the People's Republic of China.
