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Ellen Bell, Tikal, Guatemala 1994 Ellen Bell
e-mail 		Archaeology, Mesoamerica
Research interests: The Maya, material culture studies, anthropology of religion and ritual, interregional interaction, archaeology of gender, history of Mesoamerican archaeology. Currently working at Copan, Honduras (University of Pennsylvania Museum's Early Copan Acropolis Program, Dr. Robert J. Sharer, director) with plans to begin fieldwork at El Paraiso, Depto. de Copan, Honduras, in 2002-2003.
 
Crystal Biruk, Zambia Crystal Biruk
e-mail 		Medical/Cultural, East Africa
Research interests: Medical anthropology, explanatory models, social construction of disease, AIDS, health care systems, international NGO culture(s), power and knowledge, gender and health decision making, behavior change.
 
Alexis Boutin, Troodos, Cyprus 2001
 Alexis Boutin
e-mail 		Archaeology, Near East
Research interests: Archaeology of the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Cyprus and southeastern Turkey. Human skeletal remains and mortuary ritual: gender, sex, youth, kinship. Staff member on Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Staff Member, Tell Atchana (Alalakh) Expedition
 
Kristin C. Doughty
 Kristin C. Doughty
e-mail 		Cultural Anthropology, Africa
Research Interests: Political anthropology; ethno-political conflict; politics of reconciliation; trauma and healing; identity; narratives; public memory and history; Africa (particularly Rwanda).
 
Olivia Given, Luang Prabang, Laos, 2004 Olivia Given
e-mail  website 		Archaeology, Southeast Asia
Research Interests: Prehistoric archaeology of mainland SE Asia, landscape, settlement organization, migrations, computer applications in archaeology, GIS, heritage management/public archaeology, using archaeology to promote economic development; Currently working with the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project.
 
Rabia Kamal Rabia Kamal
e-mail 		Cultural Anthropology, Pakistan
Research Interests: Political and Visual Anthropology; Immigrant assimilation patterns in the United States; Transnational citizenship and globalization; Youth subcultures and identity formation; Religious fundamentalism and terrorism; Ethno-political conflict; Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran.
 
Ellyn Micco Ellyn Micco
e-mail 		Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; identity construction; genetic testing: symbolism, semiotics, and ethics; lay discourses of ethnicity and culture; and special interest in how the above relate to the shaping of advocacy groups and domestic and international policy in the US and Israel.
 
Sharon Misdea, Programme for Belize Conservation Area, Belize 1998 Sharon Aponte Misdea
e-mail 		Archaeology, Mesoamerica
Research Interests: Ancient Maya, landscape, memory, the body, ethics. Fieldwork currently in Peten, Guatemala with the Proyecto Triangulo (under the direction of Dr. Vilma Fialko, Instituto de Anthropologia e Historia de Guatemala). Research Associate, American Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Tikal Digital Database Project.
 
Teresa P. Raczek Teresa P. Raczek
e-mail  website 		Archaeology, South Asia
Research Interests: Archaeology of South Asia, early complex societies, early economies, lithic analysis, field methodologies, history of archaeology and anthropology in South Asia.
 
Christy Schuetze Christy Schuetze
e-mail 		Cultural Anthropology, Africa
Research Interests: Southern Africa; Mozambique; religion; Pentecostalism; medical anthropology; social basis of health and healing; spirit possession; trance; linguistic anthropology; anthropology of music; globalization; gender; ethnography of organizations.
 
Teagan Schweitzer Teagan Schweitzer
e-mail 		Archaeology
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Colonial through Victorian periods in America, foodways in the past and how they relate to issues of identity construction, archaeological theory. Fieldwork: Monticello, Mount Vernon, Hilea Plantation Village in Hawaii, Vineland.
 
Radhika Sundararajan, Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan 2001 Radhika Sundararajan
e-mail 		Archaeology, South Asia
Research Interests: South Asia, Early Historic Period, Iron Age, animal husbandry, hunting of non-mammalian taxa, consumption, gender, ethnoarchaeology, post-colonial research.

Dissertation research: animal use and social differentiation in the Iron Age and Early Historic Periods, Northern Karnataka, India.

 
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