News & Events

Camden Paillot (Cultural Anthropology, Masters Candidate) and Patrick Mckenzie Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) presented their MA thesis research at the annual conference of the American Association of Geographers on Saturday, 20 April. Patrick McKenzie: "Remembrance, Revival, and Ruin: Infrastructural Enactments of Bulgarian Futures" Camden Paillot: "Chalakuy and neoliberalism: The...

Adi Prakash (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) awarded an Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Summer Fellowship. Adi will use the funding for his pre-dissertation research studying environmentalism, politics, and language revitalisation among the Lepcha in Sikkim and West Bengal, India. His research brings together a combination of cultural...

Professor Will Taylor received the Spring 2024 Kayden Book Award. Each year faculty members publishing in the Humanities are invited to submit books in progress for the Kayden Book Award. This award will support Professor Taylor's research this summer.

Scarlett Engle (Culutral Anthropology, PhD Candidate) accepted a position as the Tribal Relations Specialist at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. This is a new position for the Forest, so Scarlett will be creating the program and ensuring that the Forest upholds its trust responsibility to tribes and that tribal community...

Gerorgia Butcher (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) with sponsorship by the CU Graduate School attended the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop In Washington D.C. The CASE workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the role of science in policymaking and the...

Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship. The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. Fellows must use the award for the final year of writing the dissertation.

Professor Fernando Villanea featured on a Colorado Public Radio episode of ¿Quién Are We?. This episode explores how growing up in beautiful, tropical Costa Rica led Professor Villanea to fall in love with the biology of nature. And it’s led him down a path of passion, success and a yearning...

Rachel Coppock (BA Anthropology in Progress) was named one of College of Arts and Sciences 2024 Jacob Van Ek Scholars as she prepares to graduate next month as an anthropology major. The award recognizes exceptional undergraduates who excel in their academics and meaningfully contribute to the University of Colorado Boulder...

Professor Michelle Sauther's co-authored article, "Environmental Effects on Nocturnal Encounters of Two Sympatric Bushbabies, Galago moholi and Otolemur crassicaudatus, in a High-Altitude South African Northern Mistbelt Montane Habitat by Michelle L Sauther et al. has just been published in the International Journal of Primatology. This article is part of a...

Griëtte van der Heide (Biological Anthropology, Phd Candidate) publishes, "Flexibility in the Diet and Feeding Ecology of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Aotus." in Owl Monkeys. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Abstract Current evidence indicates that owl monkeys ( Aotus spp.) have species-rich, flexible diets. They can switch resources seasonally, consume...