M.A. Candidates - Anthropology Department - University of Missouri-Columbia

M.A. Candidates
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Melissa Baier
Advisor: Danny Wescott
Contact: mab88b@mizzou.edu

Degrees: B.A. (Anthropology) and B.S. (Biology) from University of Nebraska-Lincoln . I have a broad array of interests that I am trying to coagulate into a thesis. Included in these interests are the use of Geographic Information Systems in the management of natural and cultural resources, human geography, Great Plains archaeology, bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, and paleopathology. My undergraduate research was on extracting dental impressions from agave quids.
Presentations: "Dental Wear and the Contribution of Phytoliths in Quids". Poster presented at the 2002 Paleopathology Association Meeting, Buffalo , NY . Karl J. Reinhard, co-author.

Candice Conover Candi Conover
Advisor: Reed Wadley
Contact: conoverc@missouri.edu

I graduated from CMSU in 1980 with a BS in English/Linguistics and Minor in Religion. I'm interested in linguistics as a cultural component, cooperation among immigrant populations, and the persistence of racism as a social fact without biological evidence.
Theisis/Topic/Title: Theory of religion, divination, cooperation.

Mary Jo Marquardt
Advisor: Carol Ward
Contact: mjmb79@mizzou.edu

I received my B.A. in Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. My area of interest is Osteology/Paleanthropology and more specifically, the emergence of the advanced hominid brain in osteological studies. I hope to focus my research on selective pressures on hominid evolutionary intelligence and encephalizaition and the influence the brain had on other post-cranial anatomical structures. I want to know why and how the hominid brain advanced and behaviors that immediately resulted from the advancement. My research interests is functional morphology in early hominid evolution, forensic anthrpology. Fieldwork: Archaeological excavations at the site of La Tiza near Nasca, Peru with Dr. Christina Conlee of Texas State University