News & Events
Professor Fernando Villanea Awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his research, "Archaic hominin genomic variation in modern human populations."Villanea’s NSF CAREER research begins with the concept that “living people carry archaic genetic material
Grace Thompson (BA Anthropology in Progress) has been selected as a 2025 Savit Scholar. Only three students were selected this year. Grace was selected because her proposal promises to push disciplinary boundaries and create new space for creativity
Carol Conzelman (Anthropology, PhD 2007) received a Fulbright scholarship to Spain. She will be working with the Department of International Relations and Tourism Studies (The Open Faculty) at the Universidad de Murcia. And…. in addition to that,
Olumide Ojediran (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) received an honorable mention at the 2025 RE Taylor Student Poster Award competition at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting yesterday, for his work "Understanding Human-Equid
Professor Donna Goldstein has been chosen as a winner of the Graduate School’s 2024-2025 Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. These faculty were nominated by students, department or program administrators, faculty, or staff for their
Jessica Misiorek (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended her MA paper, "Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity." Her committee members were
Yuxiang Lin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Report as Infrastructure: The Discursive Construction of Nepal's Hydropower." His committee members were Professors Jerry Jacka and Carole McGranahan, (co-
Professor Scott Ortman's co-authored PNAS article, "Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term," featured in A&S Magazine. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· archaeologist Scott Ortman and colleagues around the
David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has successfully defended his prospectus, "Early Life, Sex, and Migration: Mortality Risks from Famin and Plague in Midieval Mining Town of Kutna Hora, Czechi" and advances to candidacy.
David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in progress) has successfully passed his qualifying exam. His committee consisted of Professors Sharon Dewitte, Lauren Hosek and Fernando Villanea.