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Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives Futures Family Fellowship. The fellowhsip recognizes the unique challenges faced by student parents and seeks to support their educational pursuits while balancing the
Professor Fernando Villanea's scholarship and advocacy around racism and misuse of scientific data featured in Science Insider. Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’ At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a
Jessica Misiorek (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) received a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship. FLAS fellowships administered by the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) are awarded competitively to students studying
So proud of our incredible undergraduate poster presenters at the AABA (American Association of Biological Anthropologists) conference! Autumn Lucas, Rachel Coppock, and Magdalena Humphrey (BA Anthropology in Progress) knocked it out of
Please join us in congratulating the graduate students below for receiving the Anthropology Department pre-dissertation awards. Andrew Aceves, Skye Barger, Urmi Bhattacheryya, Yuti Gao , David Hansen, Megan Hardie, Nicholas Hartman, Kelsey
Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives the Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship for fall 2025. The Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship Fund was established to honor Dr. Lynch for her tireless dedication to graduate
Sarah Simeonoff (Archaeology, PhD in progress) successfully defended her PhD qualifying exam. Her reserach is focuses on the culture history of the Kodiak Archipelago, the use of Indigenous ontologies, and archaeological risk
Secrets from the Grave By Lisa Marshall • Published: March 4, 2024 Centuries from now, if an archaeologist were to dig up Professor Sharon DeWitte’s bleached and weathered bones, they’d find a 7-inch stainless steel rod and nine
Graduate student Patrick McKenzie (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant. This funding will support Patrick's preliminary fieldwork in Bulgaria this summer. His research
Clara Hwayeon Lee (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives the Center for Humanities & the Arts JEDI Completion Fellowship. The fellowship will support the final year of her graduate studies and her dissertation titled, "