Research Associates

  • Position: Research Associate
  • Name: Risana Nizam Chowdhury
  • Title and Date of Highest Degree: PhD in Anthropology (2022)
  • Email: rchowdh1@binghamton.edu
  • Areas of Interest: CEvolution and human health, inflammation and neurodegenerative disease, health disparities, the embodied effects of discrimination
  • Duration of Affiliation: 2022-2025
  • Position: Research Associate
  • Name: Hunter M. Claypatch
  • Title and Date of Highest Degree: PhD in Anthropology (2022)
  • Email: hclaypa1@binghamton.edu
  • Areas of Interest: Ceramic Analysis, Archaeology of Northern Mexico, Collaborative & Community-Based Archaeology
  • Duration of Affiliation: 2023-2025
  • Position: Anthropology Affiliate
  • Name: Mercedes Conde Valverde
  • Title and Date of Highest Degree: PhD in Anthropology (2020)
  • Email: mercedes.conde@uah.es
  • Areas of Interest: Human Evolution. Evolution of Audition, Primate Evolution
  • Duration of Affiliation: 2022-2024
  • Position: Research Associate
  • Name: Ariel Gruenthal-Rankin
  • Title and Date of Highest Degree: PhD in Anthropology (2021)
  • Email: agruent1@binghamton.edu
  • Areas of Interest: Nonadult osteology and paleopathology. Early-life stress and developmental phenotypic plasticity. Ethics and social justice in osteology. Quantitative methodologies- stable isotope analysis
  • Duration of Affiliation: 2022-2024
  • Position: Research Associate
  • Name: Kate DeRosa
  • Title and Date of Highest Degree: PhD in Anthropology (2021)
  • Email: kderosa3@binghamton.edu
  • Areas of Interest: Emerging infectious diseases, Bloodborne viruses, and SARS-CoV-2 immunology
  • Duration of Affiliation: 2022-2024