Spotlight Fall 2026

Magdalena E. Stawkowski (Anthropology, PhD 2014)Magdalena Stawkowski studies how people make lives in poisoned landscapes. Her book Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan follows communities near the former Semipalatinsk Test Site as they

Art Joyce (Archaeology)I am a Mesoamerican archaeologist who directs a large-scale interdisciplinary project in Oaxaca, Mexico. This research has included survey and excavation at the ancient cities of Río Viejo and Tututepec and excavation of a 13

Cristian Figueroa (Archaeology, PhD in Progress)Cristian Figueroa’s primary research investigates questions related to shifting social identities across time as a result of local and interregional interaction, migration, and exchange. Cristian takes

Eden Lewis (Anthropology, BA in Progress)I am a current senior studying Anthropology, with a minor in Environmental Studies. This past summer, I gained experience in the field of cultural resource management, interning under an archaeologist at the