News & Events
- Libby Brown, M Jordan, and Emily Reardon (BA Anthropology in Progress) won top prize at the Studio Lab End-of-year Poster Session for their project with Dr. Lauren Hosek entitled "Numbers to Narratives: Using Biological Profiles to Reconstruct
- Meg Hardie (Biological Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has successfully passed her qualifying exam. Her committee consisted of Professors Sharon Dewitte, Lauren Hosek, Scott Ortman and Fernando Villanea.
- Jack Dalton (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) has been selected to receive the Graduate School Summer Fellowship. This fellowship will allow Jack to work on his dissertation on galago cognition.
- Professor Fernando Villanea Awarded an NSF grant for his research,"Archaic hominin genomic variation in modern human populations."AbstractLiving people carry archaic genetic material inherited from other hominins such as Neanderthals and
- Grace Thompson (BA Anthropology in Progress) has been selected as a 2025 Savit Scholar. Only three students were selected this year. Grace was selected because her proposal promises to push disciplinary boundaries and create new space for creativity
- Carol Conzelman (Anthropology, PhD 2007) received a Fulbright scholarship to Spain. She will be working with the Department of International Relations and Tourism Studies (The Open Faculty) at the Universidad de Murcia. And…. in addition to that,
- Olumide Ojediran (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) received an honorable mention at the 2025 RE Taylor Student Poster Award competition at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting yesterday, for his work "Understanding Human-Equid
- Professor Donna Goldstein has been chosen as a winner of the Graduate School’s 2024-2025 Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. These faculty were nominated by students, department or program administrators, faculty, or staff for their
- Jessica Misiorek (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended her MA paper "Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity." Her committee members were
- Yuxiang Lin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper "Report as Infrastructure: The Discursive Construction of Nepal's Hydropower." His committee members were Professors Jerry Jacka and Carole McGranahan, (co-