School of Humanities and Sciences
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Yahui He
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2017
BioYahui He is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in Chinese archaeology. Her research interests include human-plant relationship, food production and consumption, and their discourses in the environmental and social dimensions of prehistoric China. Her dissertation focuses on plant food and drink practices in the north borderland region of China (northern Shaanxi and south-central Inner Mongolia) during the Neolithic period by employing microbotanical (starch, phytolith, fungi) and usewear approaches. In addition, she has been engaged in collaborative projects from other regions in China and beyond (Erlitou, Taiwan, Honduras, etc.) and a series of experimental studies.
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Rachael Healy
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2021
Student Employee, AnthropologyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests: urban landscapes, historical trauma, (contentious) commemorative practises, collective memory, time and space/place-making, narrative and storytelling, borderlands, walls, post-conflict space, Northern Ireland/Ireland, political identity, precarity, hope(lessness).
My research explores how intersections of time and space, specifically in areas around local 'peace walls', occur and impact shifting political identity, memory and forms of inherited trauma in Northern Ireland's post-Troubles generation. -
Avery Hill
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2017
BioI am a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Chris Field. My academic interests include vegetation biogeography, community ecology, and environmental ethics–– particularly in the context of the Anthropocene. During my B.S. at Cornell University I studied general biology and botany, and worked in the plant systematics lab of Prof. Kevin Nixon. My broadest goal is to understand the biological and philosophical determinants of where plants belong in the Anthropocene, and my current projects pertain to changes in North American vegetation distributions in response to shifts in wildfire regimes, climate, and land-use.