Michael Chodoronek

Research Interests: Archaeology, Experimental archaeology

Hometown: Kenosha, WI/ Centreville, VA

BA: University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2009

John Fitzpatrick

Research Interests: ethnic studies, immigrant populations and the health issues they face

Hometown: Londonderry, NH

BA: Plymouth State University, 2011

Nora Greiman

Research Interests: Evolutionary archaeology, osteology, historic archaeology

Hometown: St. Louis, MO

BA: Institution, Tulane University, May 2008 (M.A. Tulane University May 2009)

Gabriel (Gaby) Lapera

Research Interests: Biological anthropology, osteology, intersections between biology and culture

Hometown: Wicomico Church, VA

BA: College of William & Mary, 2011

Tamara Luce

Research Interests:  Historic archaeology and public archaeology with a focus on the 19th century westward emigration

Thesis: Design of an In-Class Archaeological Field Trip for Elementary School Children

Hometown: Boulder, CO

BA: Syracuse University, 2010

Christine Nycz

Research Interests:  Prehistoric archaeology, with an emphasis on the Middle Holocene; GIScience and Remote Sensing

Thesis: Middle Holocene Eastern Plains

Hometown:  Jacksonville, IL

BA: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2000

Eric Skov

Research Interests:  Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in the Great Plains and Rocky mountains, lithic analysis and experimentation, sling technology and use

Thesis: Experiments in Sling Technology

Hometown: Olathe, KS

BA: Kansas State University, 2009

Holly Staggs

Research Interests: Classical archaeology, landscape archaeology, Greco-Roman art and architecture  

Hometown: Houston, TX

BS: Texas State University, 2011

Chenshen Wang

Research Interests:  Bio-cultural anthropology, interaction between biology and culture

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

BS: State University of New York-Oswego

Allison Young

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Research Interests:  historical archaeology

Thesis: Investigation of the Indianola POW Camp

Hometown: Mission Hills, KS

BS: College of Wooster, 2010

Courtney Cope Ziska

Research Interests: Urban Archaeology, Institutional Archaeology

Thesis: The Archaeology of Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi Exposition

Hometown: Lincoln, NE

BA: University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 2010