Graduate Mentorship Hours are a collaboration between FASA and uFASA to provide graduate student guidance to undergraduate anthropology students through weekly to monthly meeting times.
Mentors are grouped by subfield. Please review the bios below for our current mentors and their hours for the Fall 2022 semester:
Cultural Anthropologists:
Interests: Ecological anthropology, cognitive anthropology, food systems, traditional knowledge
Bio: Charles Barstow is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology, with a focus on ecological/environmental and cognitive anthropology.
He majored in anthropology as an undergraduate at Connecticut College and then spent 4 years working as a butcher and vegetable farmer in Vermont.
In 2016 he moved to Italy to obtain his MA in gastronomy and then stayed there for 3 years working for Slow Food International on projects related to food and biocultural diversity. He returned to the US in 2020 to join the graduate program in anthropology at UF.
Office Hours:
Virtually via Zoom by appointment email c.barstow@ufl.edu for a link.
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: Feminism, activism, Amazonia, gender, extractivism, climate change.
Bio: Lorena Romero is a third-year Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology, and is interested in exploring ways to pursue engaged and committed interdisciplinary social sciences.
Her expertise is in Latin America, particularly in Amazonia, and topics of interest are gender, environmental and cultural change, social action, peace-building process, and intercultural dialogues.
Office Hours:
Virtually Thursdays at 2 PM, Email k.romeroleal@ufl.edu for a link
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: I can offer topic-specific guidance in ethnographic methods, cognitive anthropology, text analysis/NLP, literature review theory, and cultural consensus theory. My interests are in health and technology.
Bio: Ed is a cultural anthropology Ph.D. student and graduate of McMaster University with a degree in life sciences and geographic information systems. He has an extensive background in quantitative geography and served as a student associate with Esri.
His graduate work has involved studying the culture around automation in the construction industry and is currently working on a rural health project.
He can offer assistance with research design, data analysis (including R), literature reviews, text analysis, cognitive anthropology, quantitative geography and GIS, and general academic advice.
Office Hours Schedule:
By appointment, contact @ esehtaylor@ufl.edu
Survey Research Center RM 101, Ayers Medical Plaza
Map here to BLDG location – directions provided at the time of scheduling.
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/resume work
- Research at UF
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: Medical Anthropology, Physician Decision making, primary care, & policy.
Office Hours:
Email to schedule an appointment:
cwarpinski@ufl.edu
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- Research at UF
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: Death, personhood, ambiguous grief, policy, diaspora, Judaism.
Office Hours:
Email to schedule an appointment:
madisonehyman@ufl.edu
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume Work
Archaeologists:
Interests: Community archaeology/heritage, GIS, landscape, monumentality, Andes/Peru, first-gen and Latinx.
Bio: Amanda is a first-generation Latina of Puerto Rican descent in the subfield of archaeology.
Her interests include human-environmental relationships, Landscape archaeology, GIS, and collaborative/community archaeological practice.
She has field experience in Italy, UAE, Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru and can offer guidance related to any of these topics, as well as more general topics such as graduate school, field schools, gap years, etc.
Office Hours:
Every Friday (starting January 20th), 3:00-4:00 PM via Zoom Email a.brock@ufl.edu for a link.
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Research at UF.
Interests: North America, ceramics, Mississippian, communities of practice, identity, and subject emergence.
Bio: Tony is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in archaeology interested in topics that explore the production, consumption, and use of ceramics.
More specifically, he is interested in how the production and use of ceramics in ritual practices created new subjects to create Mississippian and hinterland identities.
He has Master’s degrees from both U.S. and U.K. institutions. He also has experience with government archaeology, cultural resource management, academic research and teaching, and museum curation.
Office Hours:
Thursdays 1:45-3:15 PM via Zoom or in person
Schedule an appointment here: https://calendly.com/afarace/farace-office-hours
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Research at UF.
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, South America, & Amazon.
Bio: Juliana is a third-year Ph.D. student specializing in archaeology under Dr. Susan deFrance and Dr. Michael Heckenberger.
Her research focuses on past and present human-animal relationships in riverine and coastal regions of Brazil.
She seeks to understand how fishing was incorporated into the complex subsistence systems that co-produced Brazilian environments through zooarchaeological and ethnoarchaeological research.
Office Hours:
Monday (10 AM-12 PM), Wednesday (2-4 PM) in Turlington RM B355
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Research at UF
- Non-academic jobs
Interests: Pleistocene, “prehistoric”, zooarchaeology, paleontology, paleoenvironment.
Bio: Emilee is currently working on an Interdisciplinary Anthropology M.A. degree (Ph.D. track) and is primarily studying Archaeology and its intersections with Paleontology, Heritage Management, and Science Communication.
She earned her B.S. in International Affairs and Anthropology (history and archaeology concentrations) in 2017 from Florida State University.
She has experience in Cultural Resource Management and the archaeological non-profit world as a field technician/lab assistant for both terrestrial and underwater sites and has worked on sites ranging in age from ~12,000 to 100 years old.
She is currently an Associate Researcher with the Aucilla Research Institute, Inc. 501(c)(3). Her major study interest is the Zooarchaeology of Florida’s Late Pleistocene peoples (the Ancestors of Native Americans).
Biological Anthropologists:
Interests: Biomechanics, osteology, anatomy, primate evolution, & coding.
Bio: My name is Henna Bhramdat, I am a Ph.D. candidate specializing in biological anthropology.
My research is centered on bone biology, biomechanics, primate evolution, and human anatomy.
Currently, my focus is on how bone detects physical stresses caused by surrounding soft tissue.
Office Hours:
Virtually on Tuesdays, 12 – 3 PM. Email bhramdath@ufl.edu for a link.
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Research at UF
Interests: bone remodeling, long bone, primate, comparative anatomy
Bio: Belkis Meha Abufaur joined the University of Florida’s Anthropology Department as a Ph.D. student under the guidance of Dr. David Daegling in 2021.
She received her master’s degree in Anthropology (2019) and her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology along with Prehistoric Archaeology (double major) at Istanbul University.
Her primary research interest is exploring the physical activity pattern of prehistoric human societies and primate limbs’ material and structural properties to elucidate different skeletal responses to loading, which provide a baseline understanding of the regional bone structural adaptations.
She combines biomechanical and morphological techniques to study loading.
Office Hours:
Wednesdays from 1-2 PM, Turlington RM. B327
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
Linguistic Anthropologists:
Chris Fuglestad
Interests: internationalization, intercultural or cross-cultural communication, ethnography.
Bio: Chris Fuglestad is a Ph.D. student in Linguistic Anthropology, though his focus on higher education internationalization policy and language ideologies in Senegal, West Africa largely straddles cultural anthropology and other interdisciplinary fields.
He has several years of experience working in higher education administration and international relations and can speak to non-academic careers in addition to the application process and graduate student life.
Chris enjoys traveling, languages, and food as well as music and theatre.
Office Hours: Virtually on Tuesdays from 9-10 AM, in-person by appointment
Email cc.fuglestad@ufl.edu for the link.
Can advise on:
- Applying to graduate school
- CV/Resume work
- Non-academic jobs
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