Current Graduate Students

Katie Williams

Logan Guthrie

TJ Edwards

Forrest Valkai

Jordan Thomas

Jessica Castaño received her B.A. in Anthropology with an evolutionary emphasis at the University of California, Davis. Her interests lie in human evolution, focusing on Bioarchaeology, Paleoanthropology, human osteology, and skeletal morphology in early modern humans and Neanderthals. Her graduate research will focus on non-human primate remains from Yahuai Cave in China, a 100,000 yBP site. She is also currently working as a Graduate Assistant in the Special Collections and Archives Department in the McFarlin Library. 
Her interests outside of academia lie within a good adventure, the great outdoors, and the occasional dad joke.

Patty Williams is a master’s student who focuses on domestication and the changes in humans and animals as a result of the process. Her thesis research focuses on possible means of identifying breed and or use of poultry in the archaeological record through comparative analysis.  She assists in the Zooarchaeological laboratory and is a graduate assistant in the Office of Continuous Improvement. She lives with her partner Dave and their two youngest sons and her hobbies include raising and showing poultry and rabbits.

Anastasia Metveeva

Geordon Taylor

Geordon Taylor