Laya Liebeseller

  • Teaching Assistant Dissertator, Anthropology

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ANTHRO 101-402 Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins MW 12:30pm-1:20pm
ANTHRO 101-601 Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins M 1:30pm-2:20pm
ANTHRO 101-602 Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins M 2:30pm-3:20pm
ANTHRO 101-603 Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins W 10:30am-11:20am
ANTHRO 101-604 Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins W 11:30am-12:20pm

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of play and games (analog)
  • Imagined worlds
  • Creation of space (virtual, physical, imagined) and alternate identity (character, persona, avatar)
  • Institutions (formal and informal)
  • Play violence
  • Ritual

Advisor: Dr. Thomas Malaby

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.