Hale Herald - Summer Solstice 2024

Gerorgia Butcher (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) with sponsorship by the CU Graduate School attended the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop In Washington D.C.  The CASE workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the ro...

Scarlett Engle (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) accepted a position as the Tribal Relations Specialist at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. This is a new position for the Forest, so Scarlett will be creating the program and ensuring that the Forest upholds its trust responsibility to t...

Jessica Misiorek (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) received  a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship. FLAS fellowships administered by the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) are awarded competitively to students studying modern Asian languages. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) f...

Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives Futures Family Fellowship.  The fellowhsip recognizes the unique challenges faced by student parents and seeks to support their educational pursuits while balancing the responsibilities of parenting.

 Clara Lee (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives 2024 Summer Graduate School Fellowship.  The fellowship will allow Clara to focus on her dissertation, ""Refusing Empire through Care: Anti-base Dissent in Soseong-ri, South Korea." this summer.

Olumide Ojediran (PhD Archaeology in Progress) receives The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer Fellowship (CAAAS).  This fellowship is for graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora...

Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded an Exploration Fund Grant & A Ralph Stone Graduate Fellowship. Exploration Fund Grant by the Explorers Club. The grant will support the investigation of ancient cave use by Maya peoples at the archaeological site of Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexi...

Andrew Aceves (PhD Archaeology in Progress) & Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded Alice Hamilton Scholarships from the Colorado Archaeological Society. Andrew will use his funds to investigate ancient kiln use and ceramic production at the site of Atzompa, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nic...

Urmi Bhattacheryya (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress), Adi Prakash (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress), and Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Summer Fellowship. Urmi will use the fellowship to aid her summer fieldwork acros...

Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.  The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. Fellows must use the award for the final year of writing the d...

Chu Paing (Cultural Anthropology, PhD 2024) was selected as one of the College of Arts and Sciences "Amazing Grads 2024." Chu said that graduating "means more than just a degree; it is a constant reminder of many others who made sacrifices and who supported me throughout the process so that I could...

Sarah Simeonoff (PhD Archaelogy in Progress) awarded a Lewis and Clark Fund Grand from the American Philosophical Society.  These funds will support Sarah's preliminary dissertation field research in Alaska.

Adi Prakash (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) was invited by AES (American Ethnological Society) to present his pre-dissertation research at the 2024 AES/APLA spring conference.  His presentation, "Crossroads: A Multimodal Ethnography of Reciprocity in the Eastern Himalaya,” was part of the Fl...

Camden Paillot (Masters Candidate, Cultural Anthropology) and Patrick Mckenzie (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) presented their MA thesis research at the annual conference of the American Association of Geographers on Saturday, 20 April.   Patrick McKenzie: "Remembrance, Revival, and Ruin: In...

Griëtte van der Heide (Biological Anthropology, Phd Candidate) publishes, "Flexibility in the Diet and Feeding Ecology of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Aotus." in Owl Monkeys. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Abstract Current evidence indicates that owl monkeys (Aotus spp.) have speci...

Drew Zackary's (Cultural Anthropology, Phd Candidate) co-authored peer reviewed paper, "The Changing Ecology of a High Himalayan Valley: Challenges to the Sustainable Development of the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Eastern Nepal," published in Sustainability Journal. Abstract The Kanchenjunga Con...

Graduate students Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) and Sarah Simeonoff (Archaelogy, PhD in Progress) present at the 2024 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Sante Fe, New Mexico.  Nicholas Puente  presented, "Entangling Surface and Subsurface Worlds: The movement of speleothem...

Sasha Buckser (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended her research prospectus entitled, “Liminal Elements: Exploring Converse Human-Coyote Perceptions Among Pre-columbian Indigenous North American Western Peoples and Colonial American Peoples Through Zooarchaeological Analysis of Human-Co...

Patrick Cruz (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended his research prospectus entitled, “Reimagining Communities in the TsinKwayeh Valley.”  His committee members were, Professors Scott Ortman (advisor), Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, Clint Talbott and Catherine Cameron. He now advances to...

Jacob Jansen: Master of Arts
Project title: Queens of Inferno: A Political Apicology of Malta’s Beekeeping Conflicts
Advisor: Jerry Jacka

Connor Lanning: Master of Arts
Project title: Bodies (and their) Enaction: Bottom Surgery, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Subversion of Medical Authority in the Discourse of the Online Forum
Advisor: Kathryn Goldfarb

Patrick McKenzie: Master of Arts
Project title: Remembrance, Revival, and Ruin: Monumental Histories and Futures in Bulgaria
Advisor: Donna Goldstein

Camden Paillot: Master of Arts
Project title: Chalakuy and Neoliberalism: The New Politics of Indigenous Exchange in Andean Peru
Advisor: Jerry Jacka

Lucas Rozell: Master of Arts
Project title: Accessing Desire
Advisor: Kate Goldfarb

Andrea Steffes-Tuttle: Master of Arts
Project title: Meaning and Morality: How Tools of Business Ethics Shape Worker Subjectivities in B Corp-Certified Organizations
Advisor: Alison Cool

Georgia Butcher: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: In the Eye of the Reaper: Drone Pilots, Remote War, and Resistance in the United States
Advisor: Alison Cool

Thomas E. Hanson: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: A Diachronic Analysis of Anthropogenic Fire Disturbances, Risk, and Cultural Impact in Southeastern Bolivia
Advisor: Jerry Jacka

Griëtte van der Heide: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: Understanding the Owl Monkey (Aotus azarae azarae) From the Bottom up: From Functional Ecology in the Humid Chaco to Diet and Social Monogamy
Advisor: Herbert Covert

Dawa T. Lokyitsang: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community
Advisor: Carole McGranahan

Page McClean: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile’s Southern Highway
Advisor: Carole McGranahan

Chu May Paing: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: Intense Engagements: Social Media Activism in the Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar
Advisor: Carla Jones

Julie M. Thomas: Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation title: Strepsirrhine Growth and Development: New Ontogenetic Patterns Found in Captive Populations
Advisor: Michelle Sauther

Sarah Coronna and Rachel Coppock (BA Anthropology in Progress) receive the 2024 Jacob Van Ek Award.  The award recognizes exceptional undergraduates who excel in their academics and meaningfully contribute to the University of Colorado Boulder and the community.   

Seamus Klingsporn (BA Anthropology in Progress) was selected for an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant to support his research for his honors anthropology seniorthesis, "Weightlifting and Masculinities: An Ethnographic Study of Weightlifting among Young Men in Boulder." His UROP and ho...

Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology Phillipos Araya** Hayden Edward Arens** Andrew Wyatt Beckert Sheri Ann Binkly+ Joseph Bogumill* Samantha Maria Bond Izabella Phoenix Bong+ Sarah Elizabeth Bradford+ Seth McCleary Burrow* Sophia Belle Busse+ Madison Nicole Carpenter Elizabeth...

Sheri Binkly, summa cum laude Honors thesis: A Sense of the Interior: Gender, Agency and the Professional Identities of Interior Designers in Multidisciplinary Firms Advisor: Kathryn Goldfarb Sophia Busse, summa cum laude Honors thesis: Kiva Crumbs: Archaeological Diversity in Ancestral Pueblo...

Professor Fernando Villanea's scholarship and advocacy around racism and misuse of scientific data featured in Science Insider. Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’ At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research. Cal...

Professor Will Taylor received the Spring 2024 Kayden Book Award.  Each year faculty members publishing in the Humanities are invited to submit books in progress for the Kayden Book Award.  This award will support Professor Taylor's research this summer.

Professor Sarah Kurnick awarded a 2023-2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.  This award recognizes her unwavering dedication to advising and mentoring graduate students from across the department.  

Professor Christian Hammons awarded a 2024 Research & Innovation Arts & Humanities Grant from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO).  RIO has dedicated approximately $100,000 this round to fund projects bolstering the arts, humanities and humanistic social sciences. Each proposal was re...

In the “sky islands” of the Soutpansberg Mountains of South Africa, two closely related species of primate jostle for space. One is the thick-tailed greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus), also known as a bushbaby, which is about the size of a large cat and known for its high-pitched, wailing call...

Professor Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event Featured in A&S Magazine, Vail Daily, and Colorado Sun.  Professor McGranahan's work delves into the incredible history of Tibetan soldiers trained by the CIA at Camp Hale in the 1960s. This fascinating story uncovers a unique ch...

Alumna, Page McClean (Anthropology, PhD 2024) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO.   She will join the Sociology and Human Services Department and contribute to their program in Borders and Languages. 

Alumna, Caroline Conzelman (Anthropology, PhD 2007) was promoted to Full Teaching Professor this year at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches anthropology courses and mentors first-year students in the College of Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs. She is also the Pro...