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Gréta's MA thesis applied a new age estimation method to re-age human remains from the north coast of Peru. Her research has provided a better understanding of female health and stress, differences in colonial experiences, and the resilience of Indigenous people.
Jae-lynn earned her MA in Anthropology and was awarded the Outstanding Anthropology Master's Thesis Award, the Black Scholar of the Year Award, and a presentation award at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Graduate Research Symposium.
Maria Sellers is the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Anthropology Graduate Student Award. After earning her diploma from Vanderbilt University, Maria joined the Mason anthropology program in 2022. She designed and implemented a ground-breaking MA thesis research project that examines patterns of microscopic indicators of biological stress in tooth enamel among individuals who lived and died during the late pre-Hispanic and postconquest eras in Lambayeque Valley of Peru. It is a first in all of Latin American bioarchaeology.
Their research calls for a braided approach derived from Indigenous Studies that interrogates developmental stress and disease across the lifespan from a social, communal, and household perspective to better understand colonial violence and resilience in these communities.
In fall 2017, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology honored Brian Estes for his exemplary career in research.
