Each spring, the Graduate Students in Anthropology organization (GSA) hosts the GSA Annual Symposium. This year, the 6th installment of the GSA symposium was held as a virtual/in-person hybrid event on February 11, 2022. The GSA Annual Symposium is not only an exciting showcase of current research within the department, but also a chance for faculty and students across the sub-fields to connect and share their work, promoting invaluable discussion and collaboration.
This year, the symposium featured 14 faculty members and graduate students from sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, and physical anthropology. The presentations highlighted the variety of academic interests in the department, covering methodologies, case studies, and excavations from research around the globe. Titles and presenters are listed below.
- Emma Zblewski: Biosociality and subjectivity: an opportunity for mixed methods in medical anthropology
- Masako Fujita: Exploring how maternal infection and malnutrition during breastfeeding may influence immune content in mothers’ milk
- Jeffrey Burnett: Archaeological Investigations of the Shoudy Site (20BE614) Berrien County, Michigan (JN130008)
- Kelsey Merreck Wagner: Art as Ethnography; Trash as Portraiture
- Joseph Hefner: Biological Distance, Population Affinity, and Typology with Particular Consideration to the US-Mexico Border
- Nikki Klarmann: Beneath Monroe: Plans for Archaeological Excavations at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
- Alex Goots: When a Reanalysis Changes Everything: A Cold Case Study of a Possible Gender–Variant Individual
- Emily Milton, Sarah Meinekat, and Kurt Rademaker: Fire and Water in Thin Air: Experimental Archaeology in the Andes
- Rhian Dunn and Micayla Spiros: The Effects of Various Maceration Techniques on Human Fetal Bone
- Aubree Marshall and Gabriel Wrobel: Marco Gonzalez: Insights into Ancient Maya Coastal Living
