News & Events

Emeritus Professor of Archaeology Doug Bamforth has been awarded the 2026 Distinguished Service Award by the Plains Anthropological Society. Presented annually at the society's conference, this honor recognizes lifetime achievement in Plains

Former Phillies closer Brad Lidge, who threw the winning strike of the 2008 World Series, has traded the mound for ancient ruins. As featured in Science, Lidge is now an archaeology Ph.D. student at CU Boulder studying 2,800-year-old Etruscan

Yuxiang Lin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Yuxiang is currently based in Kathmandu conducting fieldwork for his dissertation

Alumni, Chilton Tippin's (Anthropology PhD, 2026) article, "Killing the River to Build the Border: Ecological Violence, the Rio Grande, and the US-Mexico Border published in the Anthropological Quarterly. The article, based on his 2024 dissertation

Professor Kate Goldfarb's co-edited volume with Sandra Bamford, Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care (Rutgers University Press, 2024), received the 2026 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Book Prize. The volume offers a

Alumni, Jeffrey Brzezinski (PhD, 2019) and Guy Hepp (PhD, 2015) have recently co-authored a new study in Latin American Antiquity. Their article, titled "Ritual Transformation, Deity Embodiment, and Nagualism in Formative Period Oaxaca, Mexico,"

Stephania Zneimer (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended her dissertation, "Drivers of Setaria tundra transmission in Finnish semi-domesticated reindeer: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for a Subarctic Pastoral System:

Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended Her PhD dissertation, "Tracing Origins Through Pottery: Attribute Analysis Within a Communities of Practice Framework at a Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Multicultural Settlement

Yuti Gao (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended her dissertation, "Metagenomic Analyses of Cercopithecid Oral Microbiomes: Associations with Host Phylogeny, Habitat and Diet."  Yuti's committee included Professors Steven

Sanggay Tashi (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) recently published an article in The Conversation titled "How the development of solar and wind farms on the Tibetan Plateau is affecting local communities." The piece is based on his PhD