The collections and assistance in research are available for scholars both in and outside of the University of Florida. Consequently, a number of undergraduate and graduate students work on individual projects using the collections. Some of these studies are the basis of honors theses, Masters theses, and Ph.D. dissertations. An introductory class in zooarchaeology is taught every other year by Dr. Susan deFrance through the Anthropology Department at the University of Florida. The class acquaints students with research procedures involved in zooarchaeology and gives them an opportunity to analyze a faunal sample from an archaeological site. Drs. deFrance and Emery also offer advanced and specialized zooarchaeology classes. Dr. Emery offers two classes in environmental archaeology, one a lab methods class (Environmental Archaeology) and the other a discussion class (Lessons from Ancient Environments).
The following students currently work with the Environmental Archaeology Program:
Boileau, ArianneEmail: aboileau7@ufl.edu
Research Interests: human-environment interactions, political economy, colonialism, trade, taphonomy of faunal assemblages, Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology. For my dissertation, I study community organization and political economy at the time of Maya-Spanish contact as revealed by zooarchaeology at Lamanai, Belize.
Cunningham-Smith, Petra
Department: Anthropology
Degree Program: Ph.D
Committee Chair: Kitty F. Emery (Florida Museum)
Committee Members: Susan deFrance and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo (Anthropology)
Email: pcunninghamsmith@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Ancient Maya coastal and island archaeology, trade and animal use. Mesoamerican zooarchaeology, environmental archaeology, dogs, marine resources
Past Degrees: MA Anthropology University of Central Florida 2011
Delsol, Nicolas
Department: Anthropology
Degree Program: Ph.D
Committee Chair: Kitty F. Emery (Florida Museum)
Committee Members: Susan Gillespie (Anthropology), Charlie Cobb (Florida Museum), Ida Altman (History)
Email: ndelsol@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Maya archaeology, colonial and historical archaeology of Mesoamerica, zooarchaeology, animal domestication
Duquette, Marc
Department:
Degree Program: M.A.
Committee Chair: Kitty F. Emery (Florida Museum)
Email: mduquette1@ufl.edu
Duffy, Lisa
Department: Anthropology
Degree Program: Ph.D
Committee Chair: Kitty Emery (Florida Museum)
Committee Members: Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo (Anthropology), Susan deFrance (Anthropology), Mark Brenner (Geology)
Email: lisagd@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Ancient Maya subsistence, residue analysis, maize, zooarchaeology
EAP Research: Employed at FLMNH as research assistant for contract zooarchaeology work and collections management.
Past Degrees: MA, Anthropology (Archaeology Track) 2011 at University of Central Florida.
Fladeboe, Randee
Department: Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Committee Chairs:
Susan D. Gillespie and Kitty F. Emery
Committee Members:
Michael Heckenberger (Anthropology) and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Art History)
Email: ranflad@ufl.edu
Research Interests: human-and-natural systems, animals in ritual activity, bone pathology and human intervention, archaeology of American Southwest and North Mexico. I utilize interdisciplinary research from the fields of zoology, ethology, ethnography, zooarchaeology, and paleopathology to reconstruct the biographies and husbandry practices of captive macaws in the prehistoric American Southwest and northern Mexico, using domestic turkeys as a comparative proxy.
Past degrees: MA Anthropology (Archaeology) at New Mexico State University 2012
Kevin McDaniel
Degree Program: PhD
Research interests: Zooarchaeology, Amazonian archaeology, ethnobotany, cuisine, gastronomy, starches, landscape transformation
Committe chair: Mike Heckenberger
Committee members: Nigel Smith, Augusto Oyeula-Caycedo, Kitty Emery (Florida Museum)
Email: kmcdaniel@ufl.edu
My research area is in the Lower Amazon Basin. Zoomed in it is at a site called Caxuiana in the that is situated between the lower Xingu and Tocantins rivers in the state of Pará.
Mistretta, Brittany
Department: Anthropology
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Committee Chair: William F. Keegan (Florida Museum)
Committee Members: Kitty F. Emery (Florida Museum), Catherine M. Tucker (Anthropology), Karen A. Bjorndal (Biology), Michelle J. LeFebvre (Florida Museum)
Email: scorpionette26@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Caribbean archaeology, zooarchaeology, the role of ritual in human-environmental interactions
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