Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology Research Development

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

John Balzotti

College: Humanities
Department: English
4127 JFSB

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Taunja Baxter

Grant Writer
Marketing and Communications
LDS Philanthropies
taunja.baxter@ChurchofJesusChrist.org
203A LDSP
801-356-5263

Daniel Blackwell

Research Assistant
Office of Research Development
blackwed@byu.edu
256 MCDB

Lisa Campbell, RN

Research Development Specialist
College of Nursing
lisa.campbell@byu.edu
262 MCDB
801-422-1939

Kristi Chase

Grant Development Specialist
College of Engineering
kchase@byu.edu
240M EB
801-422-1842

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Rita E. Cortez

Managing Director
BYU Language Flagship Center - Chinese & Arabic
rita_cortez@byu.edu
3122 JKB
801-422-2200

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Jascinda Croft

Research Assistant
College of Life Sciences
LSgrants@byu.edu
5006 LSB

Braden Dredge

Web Developer
Office of Research Development
bkdredge@byu.edu
256 MCDB

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Brittany Freeze

Research Development Specialist
College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences
brittany_freeze@byu.edu
262 MCDB
801-422-5869

Victoria Garrow

Grant Proposal Specialist/Research Development Officer
College of Life Sciences
LSgrants@byu.edu
5006 LSB
801-422-3638

Amy Hardcastle

Research Assistant
College of Nursing
amyrh1@byu.edu
256 MCDB

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Karen D. Hill

Grants and Partnership Manager
hillk@law.byu.edu
445 JRCB
801-422-2684

Kaylie Winterton

RD Administrator
kaylie.winterton@byu.edu
269 MCDB
801-422-0132

Kristen Kellems
Director
kckellems@byu.edu
801-422-8967

Kristen Kellems, J.D.

Research Development Director
kckellems@byu.edu
275 MCDB
801-422-8967

Abi McEuen

Research Assistant
Office of Research Development
amceuen@byu.edu
256 MCDB

Erica Miller

Research Development Coordinator
Marriott School of Business
erica_miller@byu.edu
271 MCDB
801-422-5860

Conrad Monson

STEM RD
conrad_monson@byu.edu
275 MCDB
801-422-7722

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Michelle Prososki

Research Development Administrator
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
michelle_prososki@byu.edu
262 MCDB
801-422-1874

Mandi Rolfe

Research Development Administrator
mandi_rolfe@byu.edu
269 MCDB
801-422-0132

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Lael Thompson

Research Development Officer
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
lael_thompson@byu.edu
268 MCDB
801-422-5818

Kiara Tolman

Social Media Specialist
Office of Research Development
kiaraat@byu.edu
256 MCDB