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Professor Lauren Hosek in collaboration with Professor Alyssa Bader of McGill University receive a Wenner-Gren Global Initiative Grant. Each year, the Wenner-Gren Foundation funds a small number of initiatives that meet a need not already addressed by our other programs. Global Initiatives Grants help support innovative projects that benefit the...

Graduate students, Kelsey Hoppes, Paige Edmiston, Kevin Darcy and Sabrina Bradford receive CARTSS Awards. CARTSS supports social science research by faculty and students through seed grant programs. Congratulations, students.

Graduate Students, Kelsey Hoppes, Chu May Paing and Paige Edmiston recieve Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant program awards. They will use the funding to continue their ongoing doctoral dissertation research and writing (see below for their topics). Kelsey Hoppes - dissertation research on Great Plains and Midwest ceramic communities of...

Professor Kate Goldfarb's Marshall Fire Story Project featured in CU Boulder Today. On Dec. 30, 2021, a quick-moving, grass-fueled wildfire in suburban Boulder County became the costliest wildfire in Colorado history. It burned 6,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,000 homes and damaged thousands of others. Hundreds of CU Boulder students,...

Jack Dalton (Ph.D. Biological Anthropology in Progress) has been awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant. The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation. Jack has received...

Nicholas Puente (Ph.D Archaeology in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Relations of Stone and Water: Postclassic Maya Interactions in Miniature Masonry Shrines." His committee included Professors Gerado Gutiérrez, Art Joyce, and Sarah Kurnick.

Erik Jurado (Ph.D Archaeology in Progress) successfully defended his prospectus, " The San Ignacio Archaeological Project: Identity, Ritual, and Exchange in Teotihuacan's Rural Countryside." His committee was comprised of Gerardo Gutierrez (Chair), Arthur Joyce, Scott Ortman, Douglas Bamforth, and David Carballo (Boston University). He now advances to Ph.D. candidacy.

Professors Donna Goldstein and Kira Hall's' HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory article, Darwin’s hug: Ideologies of gesture in the science of human exceptionalism | Goldstein | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (haujournal.org) was voted the best published in the HAU Journal in 2021 by the editorial collective. It will now...

Chu May Paing (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended her prospectus and advanced to candidacy. Her committee was comprised of Professor Carla Jones (advisor), Professor Alison Cool, Professor Emily Hue (University of California, Riverside), Professor Carole McGranahan, and Professor Karen Strassler (City University of New York). They enthusiastically approved...

Katie McGuire (Ph.D. Biological Anthropology in Progress), and Professor Michelle Sauther publish, "Characterizing Group and Individual Engagement in Intergroup Encounters Between Small Groups of Ring‑Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) on St. Catherines Island, USA" in Primates. Abstract: Abstract Primate species exhibit considerable variation in behavior and outcomes during intergroup encounters (IGEs)...