Ethan Watrall, Anthropology Liaision

Watrall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. He is Director of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, Director of the Digital Heritage Innovation Lab, and Curator of Archaeology at the Michigan State University Museum.

Keven Cabrera is a graduate student from the Anthropology Department. He is currently on the Ph.D. track specifically focusing on bioarchaeology. His research interests encompass the ancient Maya, dental anthropology, human osteology, and mortuary studies.

Jada Gannaway is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in History studying Caribbean History. Her dissertation, Unsung Heroines: A Political Biography of Altheia Jones-Lecointe, situates the political life and legacy of Trinidadian-born activist, Altheia Jones-Lecointe in two locales—Trinidad and London—during the Black Power Movement. Gannaway’s interests include Caribbean History, Black Left politics, Black women’s history, Black Comparative history, and digital pedagogy.

Marissa Knaak is a PhD candidate in History studying modern Europe, focusing on women’s and gender history. Her dissertation is a comparative study of department and fashion stores titled “In the Shadows of Window Displays: The industrialization of Fashion Retailing in Sheffield & Cologne, 1890-1914.”

Devashish Saurav is a PhD student in Anthropology. After completing a Bachelors and Masters in History from University of Delhi, he pursued a graduate degree in Heritage Conservation and Management at the Wildlife Institute of India, UNESCO C2C. He is interested in exploring how communities live on the land and maintains relationship with the landscape. Devashish’s research focuses on the human/non-human interactions by centering it around the resource use and resource management patterns.