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Ph.D. Student Lindsay Johansson Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

April 12, 2023

Ph.D. student Lindsay Johansson successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Freemont Architecture: Examining Evidence for Regional Consistency in Structure Function Despite Variability in Structural Forms." Congratulations, Dr. Lindsay Johansson!

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Anna Wynfield Successfully Defends Her Research Prospectus

April 10, 2023

Congratulations to Anna Wynfield who successfully defended her prospectus, "Reproductive Exclusion: Pregnancy, Pharmaceutical Development, and the Politics of Clinical Trials.” Her committee included Professors Donna Goldstein (advisor), Kathryn Goldfarb, Alison Cool, Carole McGranahan, and Joanna Mishtal. She now advances to Phd candidacy.

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Nicholas Puente Receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum

April 7, 2023

Nicholas Puente receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum. This funding will support Nicholas's community museum project at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico. The Museo Najil Tucha project will increase pride in disappearing indigenous languages by creating Yucatec Mayan signage, and tell a local history of the...

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Fernando Villanea Awarded a Rio Seed Grant

April 7, 2023

Professor Fernando Villanea awarded a Rio Seed Grant for his project, “Optimizing Computer Simulation for Use in Archaic Genomics.”

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Kelsey Hoppes Receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum

April 6, 2023

Kelsey Hoppes receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum.

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CU Boulder Anthropology Represents at the 88th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference

April 6, 2023

Over a dozen archaeologists from the CU Boulder Department of Anthropology presented their work in poster and paper presentations at the 88th Annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Portland Oregon this past week. Special congratulations to several graduate students who presented at the conference for the first time! A...

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Tenzin Tsundue Visits Professor McGranahan's Tibet Class

April 6, 2023

On Monday, April 3, Tibetan writer, poet, and activist, Tenzin Tsundue, visited Professor Carole McGranahan's "Anthropology of Tibet" class. He gave an inspiring talk to the students, incorporating his own personal experiences in exile with the broader history of Tibet under Chinese invasion.

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Jack Dalton Awarded an NSF DDRIG grant

April 5, 2023

Jack Dalton awarded an NSF DDRIG grant for his project "Cognitive ecology of a nocturnal primate and its implications for primate cognitive evolution." The DDRIG supports doctoral research including field, laboratory and computational research on human and nonhuman primate adaptation, variation and evolution to advance knowledge about human origins and...

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Will Taylor Awarded a Rio Seed Grant

April 5, 2023

Professor Will Taylor awarded a $50,000 Rio Seed Grant for his project, "“Understanding human-animal dynamics and early prehistory in the Inner Asian Altai."

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Art Joyce's Co-Organized SAA Session Featured in Science

April 5, 2023

Professor Art Joyce's SAA session co-organized with Roberto Rosado Ramirez (Northwestern University) featured in an in depth news article in Science. The session was entitled "The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica." The article also features our very own Professor Sarah Kurnick who was one of the participants...

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