Here are the staff members assigned to the HST and ANP classes this semester.
Gillian Macdonald
Director
Jarad Cornett
Anthropology PhD Student
Rylee LaLonde
Anthropology PhD Student
Amber Walker
History PhD Student
Bryttany Grimes
History PhD Student
Director
Gillian Macdonald, Director
Gillian is the Director of the Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research. She is also an Assistant Professor (Fixed-Term) in the Department of History at Michigan State University. She is a member of the core faculty for both CERES and DH@MSU and holds a PhD in Transnational and Comparative History. She has also studied at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where she received both a BA in History and Politics (with Honors) and a Master of Research. She has benefitted from experiencing the connective tissue between the British and Atlantic worlds firsthand. The cultures and politics are uniquely knitted together in expected and unexpected ways. Her latest research has focused on prisoners of war, social networks, and warfare by using social network analysis, prosopography, and data visualization to help explain policy-making processes during the Revolution (1688-90).
You can find out more about Gillian here: https://gilliansmacdonald.hcommons.org/
Graduate Students
Jarad Cornett (he/him) is a third year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. Jarad’s work centers on Southeast Asia and explores issues relating to identity, conflict, and migration. His current work looks at Indonesia’s transmigration program and the relationship between space and identity.
Undergraduate Lab Assistants
Morgan Fox, Data Science
Max Levanduski, Anthropology
Alumni and Former Staff
Directors:
A.L. McMichael (Director from 2019-2023)
Brandon Locke (Director from 2014-2019)
Graduate Assistants/Staff:
Gabrielle Moran-O’Dell, Graduate Assistant (2025)
Scott Bullock, Graduate Assistant (2025)
Marissa Knaak, Graduate Assistant (2024-2025)
Kevin Cabrera, Graduate Assistant (2024)
Devashish Saurav, Graduate Assistant (2024)
Jada Gannaway, Graduate Assistant (2024)
Ashley Cerku, Graduate Assistant (2023-2024)
Aubree Marshall, Graduate Assistant (2023-2024)
Dani Willcutt, Graduate Assistant (2023-2024)
Daniel Fandino, Graduate Assistant (2017-2023)
Brian Geyer, Graduate Assistant (2014-2019, Spring 2023)
Chiadikaobi Gregory Okafor, Graduate Assistant (Spring 2023)
Heather Brothers, Lab Staff (Fall 2022)
Jennifer Andrella, Graduate Assistant (2017-2019, 2022)
Zachary Francis-Hapner, Graduate Assistant (2019-2022)
Marcela Omans McKeeby, Graduate Assistant (Fall 2022)
Dani Willcutt, Graduate Assistant (Summer 2020)
Grant Gliniecki, Graduate Assistant (2019-2020)
Jack Biggs, Graduate Assistant (2018-2019)
Alyssa Lopez, Graduate Assistant (2016-2017, 2018-2019)
Dawson McCall, Graduate Assistant (2016-2017, 2019)
Autumn Painter, Graduate Assistant (2016-2018)
Sara Bijani, Graduate Assistant (2015-2017)
Joey Bradshaw, Graduate Assistant (2016)
Jorge Felipe Gonzalez, Graduate Assistant (2015-2016)