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Graduate student Georgia Butcher awarded an NSF DDRIG Grant. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation, including research that has implications for confronting anthropogenic problems. Georgia will use her award for her doctoral dissertation research:...

Graduate student Chilton Tippin publishes, "The Mexican River Defenders Fighting for the San Pedro," in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine. The article is about a river-based resistance group in Chihuahua, Mexico that uses trash to build a grassroots movement for clean rivers. Read the article in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine

Professor William Taylor worked with TED animators and sound designers to produce an animated educational resource on the global story of people and horses. In this TED-Ed video, Professor Taylor explores how the domestication of horses influenced the fate of entire civilizations and dramatically altered human history. Watch now on...

Alumna, Emily Hite (PhD Cultural Anthropology, 2021) accepts a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Sociology & Anthropology department at Saint Louis University starting Fall 2023.

Graduate student Katie McGuire was among the first in a series of Graduate Student Twitter Takeovers on the CU Boulder account. The CU Boulder social media team gave her the opportunity to take over the @cuboulder Twitter to talk about #lemurs ! Check it out at: CU Boulder Twitter

Professor Carla Jones' co-authored article: “Revising the AAA’s Guidelines on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault” published in Anthropology News. Five years after the Association produced its first guidelines, a working group is developing a series of transformative improvements for our discipline. Good policies deserve good updates. In 2018, a group...

Biological anthropology professor Fernando Villanea has a new essay out in American Anthropologist – a response to former AAA president Akhil Gupta’s November 2021 lecture on decolonizing anthropology. Fernando’s essay is “ Defense Against Dark Anthropology.” A key contribution to an important and ongoing conversation, Fernando!

Graduate student, Chu May Paing, participated in the virtual film festival the Cinemas of Ideas organized by Independent Film Office in UK under her artist name Ma Chinthe. She recited a series of poems written in Burmese and also participated in a Roundtable discussion on fragmented Burmese Identities in the...

Graduate student Rob Weiner's co-authored Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports research article, "Were Timbers Transported to Chaco Using Tumplines? A Feasibility Study," featured in CU Boulder Today. In a new study, several researchers at CU Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in what is today the...

Graduate student Paige Edmiston's co-edited (with Alexandra Dantzer) American Ethnologist advice column publishes a new issue “Yours Sincerely an Uncertain Anthropologist," featuring responses from Carole McGranahan, Jacqueline Solway, and Angela Jenks. Read the issue American Ethnologist Website