G&A graduate students present at AAA conference in New Orleans

From November 19 through 23, 2025, 13 G&A graduate students shared insights on their ongoing research at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association held in New Orleans. Congratulations to all for contributing to the success of the event!

 

Kelvin Asare “Archaeological Exploration of Nsakye Through Co-creation and Community Engagement”

 

 

Alex Broussard “Excavating Open Spaces and Buildings to Discover Ancient Activities at the Ancient Maya Salt Works of Chok Ayin, Belize”

Judas Cote “Ritualized Hormone Replacement Therapy: Transgender Religious Movements and American Alchemy”

Evannrue Cox “Inequity Pre- and Post-Mortem, An Interdisciplinary Panel on Necroviolence”; “How it lingers: the cultural adoption of disaster aesthetics”

Hannah Derouen “Challenging Gender and Queer Normativity in Collegiate Softball: A Preliminary Study”

 

 

Aliya Godoy “Atrapado en Limbo: Fronteras, Anthropologists, and Translation in Contexts of the Missing and Unidentified at the Mexico-US Border”

 

 

Charlotte Jones “Crafted in Fire: Cattle Brands as Artifacts of Ethnogenesis in Frontier Louisiana”

 

 

Miles Jordan “(Re)Engaging Art-Based Research: The Power of Dual Creative/Anthropologic Orientations for a More Innovative and Applied Anthropology”; “Visual Reclamation and Dispossession: Photography, Disaster, and Gentrification in Post-Katrina New Orleans”

Sarah Miller “Excavating an Ancient Maya Salt Kitchen at Ch’oc Ayin, Belize”

 

 

Benjamin Moss “Skull Taphonomy of Burials in England”

 

 

Joseph Petersen “Assembling Experience: An Archaeological Case Study from the Ancient Andes”

 

 

Kashif Rustamani “Ghosts of Hurricane Ida: Resilience and Renewal in Five Finger Bayou Communities, Southeast Louisiana”

 

 

Skyler Yakes “Aging Out: Transformation of the Gymnastics Bodymind and the Shifting Structures of Support in College Athletics”