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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 Myanmar. The book was launched on May...

Graduate student Kelsey Hoppes received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship. She will use the funds to send in samples for radiocarbon dating in order to create a stronger chronology for her dissertation research on multiethnic community formation processes on the Great Plains.

Graduate Student Scarlett Engle reviewed, "Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement" for Museum Anthropology. Read the abstract in Museum Anthropology

Graudate student Nicholas Puente received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship. The funds will support the archaeological survey and mapping of two caves at the site of Punta Laguna, in Yucatan Mexico. The fieldwork will provide insight into how Postclassic Maya rituals on a site’s surface and underground caves related or differed.

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 project, the...

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 human-animal interactions in western Mongolia, and to...

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.

Graduate student Adi Prakash awarded an 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 allied fields...

Congratulations to Sanggay Tashi who successfully defended his prospectus, "From Herding Yaks to Driving Cars: State Intervention, Mobility, and Settled Nomads in Amdo Tibet.”

Graduate student Dawa Lokyitsang wrote an important essay weighing in on recent accusations against the Dalai Lama, showing how these unfounded accusations miss both cultural practices and geopolitical violence. The article, "The Geopolitical Violence of Translating the Dalai Lama," was published online in The Geopolitics. Read the article in The...