Graduate Students

Jarad Cornett (he/him) is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. Jarad’s work centers on Southeast Asia and explores issues relating to conflict and migration. His current work looks at Indonesia’s transmigration program and the relationship between space and identity.

Rylee LaLonde is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. Rylee’s work centers on Indigenizing bioarchaeology, specifically issues linked with Indigenous science, traditional knowledge, methodological practices, and rhetoric. Her current work explores Indigenous voices concerning the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Bryttany Grimes (she/her) is a second-year PhD student in the Department of History. Bryttany’s work centers on Nigeria, gender, Islam, and British colonialism. Her current work explores the various ways Hausa women have used dress to express their internal valuations of womanhood in response to Islam, British colonialism, and Western influence.

Amber Walker is a PhD student in African History with research interests in Early African and East African history using mixed methodologies to engage the longue durée. Walker has produced research on the experiences of Somali Bantu refugees and published their chapter Wanawake Wavumilivu: Tanzanian Women’s Voices of Survivance that shares the experiences of Tanzanian women during the height of the COVID pandemic. Their current project, Mothers of the Soil, centers the voices of Tanzanian women and mothers who farm.