Researchers of Emory

Jahnvi Jain is a senior majoring in  Anthropology and Human Biology.   She was awarded a Fall 2019 Independent Grant which she used to conduct research on  post traumatic  stress disorder under Dr. Negar  Fani . 

Ruhika Prasad  is a Senior majoring in Anthropology and Human Biology. She was awarded a Summer 2019 Independent Grant which she used to conduct research on mental health needs in Myosore, Karnataka under Dr.   Joyce Flueckiger .   This summer was a whirlwind of amazing experiences. I couldn’t believe I had the opportunity  to conduct my thesis research in Mysore, Karnataka this summer. It was incredible to spend time in India and work with an amazing organization to do it! I worked with the Public Health  Research Institute of India (PHRI- link:  http://www.phrii.com/ ). 

Klamath Henry is a senior majoring in Anthropology. She was awarded a Spring 2019 Conference Grant which she used to attend the 7th Annual Screening Media Festival at the University of Pennsylvania. As a Native American woman, I always try to embed my research in topics of interest and relevance to my people. The larger institution of higher education has not been historically accessible for my people. Even to this day, there are very few Native peoples’ voices being heard in academia. It is important for non-Native people to hear our stories and learn from our ways of knowing. Alongside that, institutions of higher learning can also work to preserve and protect some of the older ways of Native knowing and teaching that may be lost within the next few generations of people.

Leah Neiman  is a senior majoring in Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Anthropology and Human Biology. She was awarded a Summer 2016 Independent Grant which she used to conduct research at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Greece under Dr. Bonna Wescoat. The stoa is marked by a red arrow in a plan of the sanctuary (left) and a reconstructed view from the northwest (right). This summer I had the incredible privilege of working as part of a research team in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods (SGG) on the island of Samothrace, Greece. I spent the majority of my energy working on the stoa. Stoa’s are common in ancient Greek sanctuaries; they were communal spaces used for gathering, shelter, cooking, and could have a variety of other functions. The stoa in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods sits atop the western hill of the sanctuary on an artificially constructed terrace. After their excavation in the mid 20th century, the architectural blocks were moved in to block fields s...

Isabel Goddard is a Senior majoring in Cultural Anthropology and Quantitative Social Science. She was a recipient of a Spring 2017 Conference Grant and attended the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. I presented in the poster session of the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium April 28 th 2017. [1] Attending this colloquium provided me with the opportunity to present my linguistic research findings  in an academic environment to students and faculty from across the world. The vast majority of the presentations reflected research students had conducted for their honors theses and these studies ranged from phonetic topics such as “Ergativity, Agreement, and the Sumerian Verbal Complex” to socio-linguistic research including “L’identité et la Frncophilie au Maroc: Examining the interplay of language perception and identity construction in the Moroccan student.” In this way, I was exposed to every form of linguistic research. The colloquium also included t...