News & Events

Graduate student Student Erik Jurado (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Erik's project: " "Beyond the Urban Center: Identity, Ritual, and Exchange in Teotihuacan's Rural Countryside."

Professors Arthur Joyce, Sarah Kurnick, and Akira Ichikawa, along with graduate student Nicholas Puente presented their current Mesoamerica research at the 8th annual Colloquium of the Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Graduate student Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Chilton's project: "Defending Multiple Waters: River-Based Resistances and Toxic Transfusions in the Late-Industrial Watershed of the Rio Grande/Bravo."

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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