Hale Herald - Summer Solstice 2023
Graduate Student News
Scarlett Engle Accepts Seasonal Position at RMNP
Scarlett Engle accepts a seasonal position as a Cultural Anthropologist at Rocky Mountain National Park. Scarlett will assist with a variety of projects to enhance the park's stewardship of ethnographic resources. She will be supporting ongoing effortsto incorporate Tribal perspectives and histori...
Tina Ryder Receives GPTI Teaching Recognition Award
Tina Ryder received the Spring 2023 GPTI Teaching Recognition Award in honor of her dedication and care in her courses through our department's Continuing Education curriculum. This competitive award recognizes the teaching-related work of graduate students inside the classroom and beyond. The award...
Rob Weiner
Rob Weiner (PhD, Archaeology 2023) accepted a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows, where he will be affiliated with the Department of Religion. The Society of Fellows fosters the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees and demo...
Katie McGuire Featured On KGNU Radio
Katie McGuire featured on KGNU's radio show "How On Earth" as part of their graduation specials. These specials are for students who have or will soon receive their Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in a STEM-related field. On the show, Katie talks about her thesis research, grad school experie...
Graduate Student Awards
Sanggay Tashi Awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Sanggay Tashi awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Sanggay's research explores ho...
Sarah Simeonoff Awarded the Bertha Parker Cody Award for Native American Women
Sarah Simeonoff was awarded the Bertha Parker Cody Award for Native American Women. These scholarships support archaeological training and undergraduate and graduate studies for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
Scarlett Engle Awarded a CHA Dissertation Fellowship
Scarlett Engle awarded Dissertation Fellowships from the Center for the Humanities and the Arts for the entire 2023-24 academic year. This funding will help Scarlett complete her dissertation, The Power of Placemaking: Collaborating with Tribal Community Members to Reimagine the Museum at Mesa Verd...
Jack Dalton Awarded an NSF DDRIG grant
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...
Daniel Naumenko Awarded a J. Tour Scholarship in Arts & Sciences
Daniel Naumenko awarded a J. Tour Scholarship in Arts & Sciences for the 2023-24 academic year.
Sabrina Bradford Awarded a Summer Graduate School Fellowship
Sabrina Bradford awarded a Summer Graduate School Fellowship. Sabrina will use the award to fund the final portions of her field research.
Nicholas Puente Receives A Spicer Foundation Mini-Grant
Nicholas Puente has been awarded a $750 Mini-Grant to establish the Museo Najil Tucha with the contemporary Maya community in Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico. Puente remarked, “I am honored to have received a 2023 Mini-Grant from the Spicer Foundation. The funding will be part of a larger research pr...
Adi Prakash Awarded an AES Summer Research Grant
Adi Prakash awarded an American Ethnological Society (AES) Summer Research Grant. Adi will use the funds for preliminary fieldwork for his multimodal ethnographic project in Sikkim, India this summer. The grant is for students who are in the first or second year of a PhD program in anthropology or...
Kevin Darcy Awarded 2023 NAEd Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Kevin Darcy named a 2023 NAEd Spencer Dissertation Fellow. This fellowship which is offered by the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education supports innovative dissertation research on ways to improve education. Kevin will receive a year-long stipend to support his dissertation rese...
Sanggay Tashi Awarded an NSF DDRIG Grant
Sanggay Tashi awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation, including research that has implications fo...
2023 Alice Hamilton Scholars
Kelsey Hoppes For lab analysis/testing: Funding for two ($450 each) radiocarbon dates of organic samples on the ceramic assemblage from the Phipps Site, a large 13th and 14th agricultural community in northeastern Nebraska, from which pottery styles from the Great Plains and Midwest may be blended...
2023 CU Natural History Museum Student Research Awards
Kelsey Hoppes For dissertation research Nicholas Puente For 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 Punta Lagun...
2023 Summer Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellowship
Georgia Butcher For support with dissertation fieldwork this summer Patrick McKenzie For support with his preliminary fieldwork in Bulgaria this summer. CHA summer stipends are designed for graduate students conducting research in the humanities and the arts who don't already receive universi...
2023 Anthropology Department Endowed Scholarships
Willena D. Cartwright Scholarship for progress towards dissertation research. Skye Barger, Sabrina Bradford, Georgia Butcher, Paige Edmiston, Kelesy Hoppes, Patrick McKenzie, Adi Prakash, Nicholas Puente, Chilton Tippin, Anna Wynfield, and Sanggay Tashi Haskell-Houghtelin Scholarship for engagement...
Graduate Student Publications
Chu May Paing Publishes A Monograph in Burmese
Chu May Paing published a monograph in Burmese titled "စာတံတိုင်းကိုကျော်လွန်၍" (Beyond the wall of words) by Independent Pinyai Yerba Press. The monograph contains almost 40 essays written under Chu's Burmese pen name "Ma Chinthe" on the social, cultural, and political issues impacting contemporary...
Dawa Lokyitsang Publishes a Chapter in "Tibetan and Uyghur Refugees in the New Colonial Era: Reflections on the Rise of Chinese Colonialism.
Dawa Lokyitsang published a chapter in "Tibetan and Uyghur Refugees in the New Colonial Era: Reflections on the Rise of Chinese Colonialism." Dawa's chapter is titled "Desiring Leadership: The Tibetan Women's Association and Gender Advocacy."
Graduate Students Advancing
Kelsey Hoppes Successfully Defends Her Research Prospectus
Congratulations to Kelsey Hoppes who successfully defended her prospectus, "Identification of a Multicultural Settlement Though Ceramic Material Culture.” Her committee included Professors Doug Bamforth, Samantha Fladd, Scott Ortman, Sarah Kurnick and Jen Birch. She now advances to Phd candidacy.
Anna Wynfield Successfully Defends Her Research Prospectus
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 M...
Katie Donlan Successfully Defends Her Research Prospectus
Congratulations to Katie Donlan who successfully defended her prospectus, "Between Recognition and Refusal: The Politics of Maine-Wabanaki Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing.” Her committee included Professors Jen Shannon (chair), Carole McGranahan, Annette de Stecher, Carla Jones, and Natalie Avalo...
Sanggay Tashi Successfully Defends His Research Prospectus
Congratulations to Sanggay Tashi who successfully defended his prospectus, "From Herding Yaks to Driving Cars: State Intervention, Mobility, and Settled Nomads in Amdo Tibet.”
Undergraduate News
Sophia Busse Receives Studio Lab Best Poster Award
Sophia Busse voted best poster at the Studio Lab End-of-Year Poster Extravaganza. Sophia worked with Brent Andrews, a PhD student in archaeology, on a project that compiled information on technological change related to food processing in the Ancestral Pueblo World. Her poster, "The Development of...
Undergraduate Degrees Awarded
Bachelor of Arts 2023
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Anthropology Honors 2023
Connor John Ball, summa cum laude Examining Subsistence Strategies and Behavior through Projectile Points in the American Southwest Advisor: Scott Ortman Audrey Bryant, magna cum laude Upright Perception: Parallel Inclinations in Natural Philosophy and Biological Anthropology Advisor: Aliso...
Faculty News
Lauren Hosek Recognized for Her Contributions to the Sisters of Loretto Relocation Project
During Professor Lauren Hosek's CU Museum AIA Lecture, "They are still teaching us": Community Bioarchaeology & the Sisters of Loretto Project, Lauren was recognized for her contribution to the project and the care she took towards the nuns who were reburied when the cemetery was moved. The pr...
Art Joyce's Co-Organized SAA Session Featured in Science
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 Kur...
Will Taylor Awarded a Rio Seed Grant
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."
Fernando Villanea Awarded a Rio Seed Grant
Professor Fernando Villanea awarded a Rio Seed Grant for his project, “Optimizing Computer Simulation for Use in Archaic Genomics.”
Kate Goldfarb Receives Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
Professor Kate Goldfarb receives the Graduate School’s 2022-2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. The award showcases her many contributions in mentoring graduate students and supporting the mission of graduate education.
Will Taylor Receives NSF Grant
Professor Will Taylor receives an NSF Grant. The grant will fund Will's project, "Understanding human-animal dynamics and early prehistory in the Inner Asian Altai - investigations at Khoid Tsenkher Cave". The project's aim is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeological investigations into early hu...
Doug Bamforth Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award from UCSB
Professor Doug Bamforth received the first Distinguished Alumnus in Archaeology award from the UCSB Anthropology Department. Professor Bamforth travelled to Santa Barbara to meet with current graduate students and receive the inaugural award.
Will Taylor Receives a CU Office for Outreach & Engagement Grant
Will Taylor receives a CU Office for Outreach and Engagement grant. This grant is for "early-childhood science education resources for the Front Range deaf community and beyond," and will produce English, Spanish, and American Sign Language digital educational activities about archaeology and other...
Faculty Publications
Will Taylor's Horses of the Great Plains Article Makes the Cover of Science
Professor Will Taylor's, "Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Plains and Northern Rockies," article featured as the cover story in Science. Abstract: The horse is central to many Indigenous cultures across the American Southwest and the Great Plains. However, when and how horses were f...
Fernando Villanea Co-Authored Article Published in Science
Professor Fernando Villanea's co-authored article: “Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico” published in Science. The article is a study of the demographic history of pre-Hispanic central Mexico through ancient genomes. Abstract Aridoamerica and Mesoamerica are tw...
Alumni News
Alumna, Alison Formanack's Article Published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine
Allison Formanack (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2018) has just co-authored a new article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, "Race, Class, and Place Modify Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 1999–2021." Together with colleagues in the schools of public hea...
Jack Hanson Named Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Oxford
Former postdoc (2016-2019) Jack Hanson working under Scott Ortman has been named Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Since leaving CU, Jack has been a Fellow of the British Academy at Reading University and a visiting lecturer at Oxford.
Kaitlyn Davis
Kaitlyn Davis (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2022) accepts a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Anthropology Department at Northern Arizona University starting Fall 2023.
Alumna, Marnie Thomson's Article Published in Sapiens
Marnie Thomson (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2017) co-authored a new essay in Sapiens, “Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class.” The essay discusses how an anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power in everyday language. Plus, a brief explainer on the sla...