News & Events

Scott Ortman was a contributing scholar on a recently published paper for PLOS|one: “Prehistoric mitochondrial DNA of domesticate animals supports a 13th century exodus from the northern US southwest”. Also available in the Daily Camera, CU Boulder

Michelle Sauther has been “Studying an elusive South African primate.” Bushbabies are among the world’s least studied non-human primates. You can read the story in CU Boulder Today.

Allison Formanack and Richard BenderAllison Formanack (MA ’11) and Richard Bender (MA ’09) both PhD candidates, presented a poster titled "Examining Mobile-Homeownership in Urban Land-Lease Mobile Home Communities: an Anthropological Perspective"

Terry McCabe’s latest project has been funded. The effects of mobile phones on gendered social networks, decision making and vulnerability. Jointly funded by NSF and the Research Council of the UK. PI: Tim Baird of Virginia Tech; CO-PI: J. Terrence

Joanna Lambert’s co-authored primate population study in Science Advances was picked up by both the Coloradan alumni magazine and CU’s A&S online magazine

Getting Credit. Bianca Williams and Carole McGranahan served on the AAA President's Committee that just released new guidelines for how to count and value public scholarship in anthropology. The University of Colorado was well represented!

Page McClean just received a 2017-2018 Society for Visual Anthropology/Robert Lemelson Foundation fellowship. These fellowships are designed to provide graduate students working in the field of visual and multimodal anthropology with funding to

Carole McGranahan is one of the founding members of this growing center for research and outreach focusing on contemporary Tibet. Learn about aims of this initiative and recognition it has gained, along with upcoming events here:

Allison Formanack has been selected by the CU Graduate School for a 2016-2017 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award. The honor includes an award of $600. Hooray for Allison!

Jenny WashbaughJenny Washabaugh has won a prize for the best student poster presentation at the Human Biology Association Conference this year.  The title of her presentation was "Milk hygiene and consumption practices in The Gambia".