The Anthropology Program at George Mason University currently includes an undergraduate major (BA) and minor, as well as a 2-year master’s program (MA). I am happy to consider advising students or postdocs with strong interests in or adjacent to one or more the following areas. I am especially interested in students or postdocs who seek to engage in biocultural research by merging critical analyses of power with genomics.

• Human genomics and epigenomics as applied to regional histories and peoples of the Americas during the colonial period.

• Paleogenomics and bioarchaeology related to early urbanism, imperialism, and colonialism in the Americas.

• Queer, Feminist, and Indigenous Science and Technology Studies; Queer Ecologies; Embodiment; DOHaD.

• Anthropology and History of Science, especially regarding the development and practice of North American Biological Anthropology.

• Critical and disruptive models of genome research; data sovereignties.

• Commercial genetic ancestry technologies and their relationship to questions of identity, belonging, and cultural heritage, especially with regard to Indigenous peoples and the problem of settler self-Indigenization.

• Plantation studies and Anthropology of the American South and Southwest.

Students and postdocs who are interested in working in my lab group should contact me by e-mail with a brief description of your research interests