News & Events

Matt Sponheimer has been elected as a Fellow by the Anthropology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2019-fellows According to the AAAS, “The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of...

Recent Anthropology graduate Dani R. Merriman (PhD 2018) won an award for best dissertation from the Association of Colombianists (Asociación de Colombianistas). Asociación de Colombianistas, Best Doctoral Dissertation (2017-2019), Awarded at the XXI Bi-Annual Conference Judged by a team of academics and the Association's board of Directors: María Mercedes Andrade,...

Emily Hite (PhD Candidate) is currently teaching on the Semester at Sea program in the South Pacific. In spite of limited internet access, she has posted a recent blog entry about the class and the students. Safe travels Emily!

Dawa Lokyitsang has just been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant for her PhD research on "Kinship and Sovereignty in Exile: Care Interventions and Education in the Tibetan Refugee Community." Dawa is currently in India on a Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation grant, so this is doubly excellent news. She...

As part of the Anthroplogy Bridging Seminar with Kaifa Roland and Robin Bernstein in Spring 2019, all the graduate students in the class developed a final project to deconstruct and challenge particular cultural and biological constructions of race to make the ideas from the class more accessible to a broader...

Biological Anthropology PhD student Daniel Naumenko has his first-authored article published. The article is titled, " Evaluating Ketosis in Primate Field Studies: Validation of Urine Test Strips in Wild Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) ." PDF Version . Congratulations to Daniel.

On August 24, Dr. Andie Ang (PhD 2016)was announced as the 2019 recipient of the American Society of Primatologists Conservationist Award : ”This award provides recognition and financial support for students and early career investigators from habitat countries who demonstrate potential for making significant and continuing contributions to primate conservation.” Congratulations to Andie!

Singapore Tatler Article on Andie Ang's (Phd 2016) work. How It Is All Monkey Business For Primatologist and 2018 Generation T Honouree Andie Ang

Jakob Sedig (MA '10, PhD ’15) Was interviewed recently by a journalist with Quebec Science. He was asked about his perspectives on DNA as an archaeologist working in the field. The article is included below, please note that it's in French, but easily translatable with google translate (if you open...

Allison Fomanack (PhD 2018) will be leaving the University of Colorado this summer to begin new positions. In Fall 2019, she will be begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) and as a Visiting Lecturer position with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Amherst College...