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Graduate Student Bios

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Christopher Allen: 

An anthropology Masters student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with plans to pursue a Ph.D. in the same field. My area of interest is in Celtic and Nordic archaeology focusing on religion, symbols, gender, and power in the Iron Age to the early Middle Ages of Europe. I try to understand how people saw the world, their cosmology, represented each other, and displayed status and power. I am interested in exploring these concepts through experimental archaeology and public archaeology, in order to better understand the past and present it to the public. I have always had an interest in mythology and symbols and being able to apply them to my study of past cultures has been a dream come true. My current research involves the understanding of gendered displays in Celtic Iron Age iconography.

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Andrew Roberts:

Andrew Nikolai Roberts is an anthropology masters student at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His interest areas center around ancient and medieval warfare and how conflicts have been conducted and resolved throughout human history. His research pulls from historical, archeological, and contemporary military sources and experience to add to our understanding of war. How archeology and history is presented to the public is also very important to Andrew, and he strives to make his findings and information accessible so that all can learn from it. He believes this approach removes barriers that have historically excluded the majority of the population from the field. His thesis is an experimental archeology project focusing on reconstructing bows from Iron Age sites in central Europe and Egypt.

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Emily R. Stanton:

A PhD student in Archaeology and Museum Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Since embarking down an archaeologically-focused career path, I have discovered that I thoroughly enjoy the chance to share real stories about real people from earlier eras with anyone willing to listen. Often, it is the "things" from the past that speak most strongly to people; telling engaging stories both with and through artifacts is a key skill for any archaeologist. My dissertation research explores the elite female graves of Iron Age Europe. I argue that feminine mortuary assemblages indicate a “socio-culturally prescribed way of expiring” for adult elite women. In particular, I focus on the early Hallstatt period through the early La Tène period (c. 800 to 400 BC) in the region of the Heuneburg hillfort in southwest Germany.

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