Spring 2021 Commencement Biographies - Graduate Degrees
Doctoral Degrees
Emma Bunkley
Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Ivy L. Pike
Dissertation title: Diabetic Living: Senegalese Women’s Experiences with Metabolic Illness
Dr. Emma Bunkley is excited to be joining the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine as a postdoctoral research associate. Having worked in Kenya and Senegal, Dr. Bunkley will continue her work in Zambia, contributing to research about the relationship between caregivers and the afflicted.
Daniel Horschler
Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Evan MacLeanDissertation title: The evolutionary origins of representational and motivational hallmarks of human social cognition
Throughout his graduate career, Daniel's research has focused on taking an interdisciplinary comparative approach to the study of cognitive evolution, drawing on cognitive psychology, biological anthropology, and evolutionary biology. He investigates mechanisms of social cognition—including theory of mind, shared intentionality, and cooperative-communication—by integrating non-invasive cognitive, behavioral, and biological research in free-ranging non-human primates, domestic dogs, and wolves. After graduation, Daniel will be joining the Department of Psychology at Yale University as a postdoctoral associate to continue his research on the evolution of social cognition.
Will Robertson
Ph.D.
Advisors: Eric Plemons and Susan Shaw
Dissertation title: Dirt and Care: Queer Care in an Anal Dysplasia Clinic
Will is completing his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology with a concentration in medical anthropology and a minor in gender studies. His dissertation, based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in an anal cancer prevention clinic in Chicago, USA, proposes a queer theory of care to explain the ways patients and providers at the clinic manage encounters centered around a taboo body part. His work aims to challenge and disrupt heteronormative conceptualizations of care in and beyond anthropology. After completing his PhD, Will plans to continue teaching and researching.
Jordan Wilson
Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. James Watson
Dissertation title: Deconstructing the Dangerous Dead: An Archaeothanatological Approach to Atypical Burials
Jordan came to the School of Anthropology after completing her master’s degree at Tulane University, where she studied the social and ritual dimensions of cemeteries and human remains in New Orleans. At the University of Arizona, her studies shifted to funerary taphonomy and the bioarchaeology of identity. In addition to fieldwork abroad in northern Mexico and Italy, Jordan has participated in a number of archaeological recovery and analysis projects in and around Tucson through the Arizona State Museum. After graduation, Jordan will continue her work as the project osteologist for the Villa Romana Poggio Gramignano archaeological project as an affiliated researcher at Georgetown University.
Master’s Degree
Kathleen Barvick
M.A.
I am a PhD student in archaeology, with a focus on the US Southwest. My primary area of research is ceramics, and my research interests address questions of technology, migration, culture contact, and communities of practice. I grew up in Massachusetts, and received my BA in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Most of my field experience has been on 18th- and 19th-century historical archaeology projects in New England, and I have significant experience working for museums such as the Old Manse Historic House and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; I bring from this background a passion for public archaeology, community engagement, and the bridging of the past and the present. My current Masters work is an analysis of Four Corners-area ceramic water jars using Geometric Morphometrics, applying new analytical tools to previously-collected data. My current research projects include the CyberSW Database Project with Dr. Barbara Mills and The Archaeology of Baseball in Southeastern Arizona with Dr. Robert Schon.
Anthro News Digest date: 05/14/2021