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Landscapes of Predation: Exploring Hostile Social Environments in Small-Scale Societies

Landscapes of Predation: Exploring Hostile Social Environments in Small-Scale Societies Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 Time: 7 pm Place: Eaton Humanities Room 250 Catherine Cameron (CU Boulder, Anthropology) Ancient social environments are difficult to reconstruct, and archaeologists have a much poorer grasp of how the social environment affects where and...

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Carole McGranahan's Co-Edited Essay Collection Published in Anthropology and Humanism

Sept. 12, 2023

Professor Carole McGranahan and her colleague Sienna Craig (Dartmouth College) co-edited a collection of flash ethnography essays for the journal Anthropology and Humanism . The full collection was just published and it includes essays from two of our graduate students, Katie Donlan and Georgia Butcher, as well as Professor McGranahan...

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Chu May Paing Awarded Honorary Associate Fellow at UW Madison

Sept. 8, 2023

Chu May Paing (Cultural Anthropology, Phd Candidate) awarded honorary Associate Fellow at the University of WI - Madison. Chu will be affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and will be giving a talk on her dissertation in the spring and participate in on-campus activities.

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Katie McGuire

Sept. 5, 2023

Alumna, Katie McGuire (Biological Anthropology, PhD 2023) has accepted a position as a Science Informationist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners,...

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Kelsey Hoppes Receives A Ron Cruise Memorial Scholarship

Sept. 5, 2023

Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) received a Ron Cruise Memorial Scholarship. The Ron Cruise Memorial scholarship from the Nebraska Archaeological Society will support her research by funding thin sectionsamples to provide insight of "invisible" attributes found in the pottery from the Plains Village period on the Great Plains. Kelsey's project...

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Lauren Hosek Receives History Colorado Grant

Aug. 30, 2023

Professor Lauren Hosek received a History Colorado State Historical Fund grant for a non-invasive archaeological and archival project on Nederaland Cemetery in Nederland, CO. This project will involve current and former CU students.

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Dawa Lokyitsang Interviewed by Yeshe Journal

Aug. 28, 2023

Graduate student Dawa Lokyitsang's (Cultural Anthropology, Phd Candidate) Yeshe Journal interview "Decolonizing Praxis: In Conversation with Tsering Yangzom Lama and Dawa Lokyitsang" by Holly Gayley has been published on the Yeshe Journal Website. Read the interview Yeshe Journal Website

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Dr. Warren M. Hern Interviewed by Salon Online Newspaper

Aug. 11, 2023

Dr. Warren M. Hern, practicing physician in Boulder and adjunct faculty member of the Anthropology Department interviewd by Salon online newspaper. In the interview, Salon speaks with Hern about his new book, " Homo Ecophagus: A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth ," which acts partially as a memoir, textbook,...

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Chu May Paing Gives Keynote Talk at How to re:member: Longing for Inclusive Remembrance Culture in Myanmar

July 17, 2023

Chu May Paing (Cultural, Phd Candidate) gave a talk titled "Images as Memorial Objects" as one of the keynote talks for the two-day event "How to re:member: Longing for Inclusive Remembrance Culture in Myanmar" organized and curated by HelenaCing Deih Sian, a Chin German MA in Architecture graduate. The event...

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Sharon DeWitte's Co-Authored Article Published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropologists

July 17, 2023

Professor Sharon DeWitte's co-authored article, "Survivorship and the Second Epidemiological Transition in Industrial-era London," published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropologists. Abstract Objectives The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non-communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high to...

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