Student Research Conference | Schedule

Coffee and pastries will be served outside of ELA 114 prior to the start of the morning session. The poster session will be held outside of ELA 245 in the 2nd floor hallway from 12:00-1:30 pm, during which lunch will be served in ELA 245. Feel free to dine while enjoying the posters! The afternoon paper session will resume at 1:30 in ELA 114.

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Conference Abstracts

Paper Session 1 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | ELA 114

Opening Remarks | 9:00 am

  • Dr. Mary Brennan | Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Group 1 | 9:15 - 10:30 am

  • Marcus Englehart | Of Stone, Story, and Blood: A Comparison of Classic Maya Conflict Narratives
  • Anna Katharina Maier and Nicholas Herrmann | FTIR Analysis of Human Remains for Age-at-Death Estimations - A pilot Study
  • Robert Stein | Interning with Shumla: A firsthand account
  • Rhiannon Nelson, Ian Whitehead, Kesiena Oniovosa, and Dylan Harris | Connections in the Ground
  • Samuel Steele | A Cultural Heritage Management Plan for Zilker Preserve

Break | 10:30 - 10:45 am

Group 2 | 10:45 am- 12:00 pm

  • Ashley Medlin, Erin Mathison, and Heather Smith | Creating a Geodatabase for a Spatial Analysis of Investigations at the Spring Lake Site, Texas
  • Memphis Mallory | Losing the Divine in Translation: Achilles in Modern English
  • Chesney Kuper | An analysis of lithic technology of two precontact archaeological sites in the Kisatchie National Forest
  • Skyler Seibert | The Evolutionary Implications of Divergent Neurotypes: A Biocultural Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Spencer Gage | Morphological Analysis of Montell Point Variation

Poster Session | 12:00 -pm 1:30 pm | ELA 2nd Floor

  • Hope Jackson | The Function of Rituals in Polyamorous and Swinging Communities
  • Alison Aguero and London Barlow | The Ongoing Research Comparing Ancient Mayan Burial Practices by Country
  • Aliyah Anderson and Jacob Lozano | Lose the Lichen: The Use of Photogrammetry in Epigraphic Documentation
  • Estefana Martinez and Miranda Cordova | Mi Cultura: The Life Cycle Of An Immigrant
  • Jayci Bonnette, Adam D. Sylvester, and Deborah L. Cunningham | A critical analysis of the bent-hip/bent-knee locomotor hypothesis for Australopithecus afarensis
  • Makenzie Uwe | Illuminating the Unseen: The Application of Ultraviolet Photography in Outdoor Death Scenes
  • Memphis Mallory | A Hedgehog Vase from the Early Cycladic period: applying ideas from cognitive archaeology to Aegean art
  • Mandy Sheryl Newport | Integrating Archaeology into K-12 Education: The Fate Bell Curriculum
  • Maria Castro Doumolin | Validating Two Long Bone Stature Estimation Methodologies: Comparing KS: Stature & FORDISC 3.1
  • Paloma Lucero and Lauren Meckel | Application of OHI to assess human rib bioerosion in the Kilkenny Union Workhouse Cemetery (Ireland, 1847-1851)
  • Race Valenti | 3D Printing and Repatriation: Opening New Avenues in a Global Process
  • Stefanie Haliburton | Don't Nock It 'Till You Try It: An Analysis Of Expedient Flake Tools At The Zatopec Site (41HY163), San Marcos, Tx During The Late Prehistoric
  • Tori Rowe, Stephanie Baker, and Emma Giacomello | The limitations of using intrapersonal isotopic variation within the use of commingled bones
  • Valeria Lee Jaime Hernández | A Proposal for Studying Socioeconomic Status and Community Interactions between Soldiers and the Population of Late 18th and Early 19th Century Ballajá

Paper Session 2 | 1:30 - 5:00 pm | ELA 114

Group 1 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm

  • Sage Eaton | Preliminary Thesis Results: Shiloh Museum Collections
  • Afsana Islam | Socio-Technical Imaginaries of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the United States and Japan: A Comparative Analysis
  • Erin Elise Mathison | A Multi-Proxy Geoarchaeological Analysis of Sediment Cores from the Spring Lake Site (41HY160), San Marcos, Texas
  • Caroline Story | "Speak American!": Perceptions of English, Multilingualism, and the American Identity

Break | 2:30 - 2:45 pm 

Group 2 | 2:45 - 3:35 pm

  • Manar Naser | The Future is Here: AI Philosophies Among Central Texas Entrepreneurs
  • Myriah Allen | The Spirit of the Horse: The Apache's Journey of Endurance Alongside the Spanish Mustang
  • Nadia Luis, René Resendiz, James Deveraux, Rebecca Massey, and Estella Blackwell | The Politics of Letting Go: Cemetery Management and Cultural Heritage Site
  • Shelly White | The Truth about the Merriman Cabin: Interrogating the Formation of Narrative in Local History

Break | 3:45 - 4:00 pm

Group 3 | 4:00 - 4:30 pm 

  • Michael L Buley | The Headband is Raised Up at El Chal: A Synthesis of New Iconographic Data
  • Viv Eliot | Necrolinguistics: The Language of the (Nearly) Invisible
  • Antonio Beardall | Educating the Consumers: Removing the 'Gate' through Community and Public Archaeology in Belize

Closing Remarks | 4:45 - 5:00 pm

Thank you to all presenters, supporting mentors, and attendees! This conference would not have been possible without the efforts and time of Gerardo Galeana, Cira Polanco, Dr. Christi Conlee, and the Anthropology Department’s Faculty and Research Staff. We are also grateful to Dr. Mary Brennan for providing welcoming remarks. Great job everyone!

-The Organizers (Mara Stumpf, Heather Smith, Aimee Villarreal, and Rich Warms)