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Jacob Jansen Successfully Defends His MA Paper

Nov. 14, 2023

Jacob Jansen (MA Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Queens of Inferno: A Political Apicology of Malta’s Beekeeping Conflicts."

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Nancy Steven's Co-Authored Article Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Nov. 13, 2023

Professor Nancy Steven's co-authored article, "Living at the edge: home range patterns of the Buraiga Chimpanzee Community, Kibale National Park, Uganda," has been published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The article represents the first home range estimates for the Buraiga chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, Uganda, a community of...

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Kelsey Hoppes Receives NSF Subsidy

Nov. 6, 2023

Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) granted a National Science Foundation Subsidy through the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This NSF subsidy allows Kelsey to double the pottery samples she will be sending to MURR for the identification of trace elements found in the...

Dawa and her committee members

PhD Student Dawa Lokyitsang Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

Nov. 1, 2023

Dawa Lokyitsang successfully defended her PhD thesis "Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community." Her committee members are Professor Carole McGranahan (advisor) and Professors Clint Carroll, Kate Goldfarb, Carla Jones, and Tsering Shakya. Congratulations, Dr. Lokyitsang!

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Kelsey Hoppes Wins the Plains Anthropology Society Paper Competition and Receives an NSF Subsidy

Oct. 23, 2023

Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society Student Paper Competition for her paper, “Lost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska through attribute-based pottery analysis.” She was also invited to publish in the Plains Anthropological Society journal. Kelsey has also been...

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Sharon Dewitte's Co-Authored Article Published in the Journal PNAS

Oct. 23, 2023

Professor Sharon Dewitte and her colleague Amanda Wissler's (McMaster University) co-authored article "Frailty and survival in the 1918 influenza pandemic," published in PNAS Journal and featured in the Colorado Sun. The article examines whether the1918 influenza pandemic struck down young people in the prime of their life or if there...

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PhD Student Page McClean Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

Oct. 20, 2023

PhD student Page McClean successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile's Southern Highway." Her committee members were Carole McGranahan, Advisor, Donna Goldstein, Jerry Jacka, Leila Gómez and Laura Ogden. Congratulations, Dr. Page McClean!

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Erik Jurado Awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant

Oct. 3, 2023

Graduate student Student Erik Jurado (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Erik's project: " "Beyond the Urban Center: Identity, Ritual, and Exchange in Teotihuacan's Rural Countryside."

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CU Boulder Archaeologists Present at RMPCA Conference

Oct. 3, 2023

Professors Arthur Joyce, Sarah Kurnick, and Akira Ichikawa, along with graduate student Nicholas Puente presented their current Mesoamerica research at the 8th annual Colloquium of the Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

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Chilton Tippin Awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant

Sept. 29, 2023

Graduate student Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Chilton's project: "Defending Multiple Waters: River-Based Resistances and Toxic Transfusions in the Late-Industrial Watershed of the Rio Grande/Bravo."

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