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Congratulations to Professor Kira Hall for receiving the University's highest award of distinguished professor! Kira Hall is an expert in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and retains a well-deserved reputation as a sophisticated theorist and rigorous analyst of fundamental questions regarding the relationship of language to gender and sexuality, social class,...

The AAAs were exhausting in the best possible way. Held in Seattle this year, it was fertile ground for networking and working on new ideas. The CU happy hour at a brewery at Pike Place Market became the ultimate location to talk to alums (such as Dr. Allison Formanack) about...

Professors Donna Goldstein and Kristen Drybread publish, "A New Wave of Celebrity Politicians Breaks the Rules on Acceptable Behavior, inspired by Trump" in The Conversation. The article discusses the fact that celebrity politicians have always been held to a different standard than traditional politicians and it's even more evident in...

Clara Lee (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress) presented her paper "Refusing Empire through Care – Anti-base Dissent in Soseong-ri, South Korea" as part of the conference session, Democracy and Social Justice at the KoRN Annual Conference. This conference provides an outlet for early career scholars, graduate students, and professors to...

Page McClean (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress) publishes, "Crossing a River without a Horse" in Anthropology and Humanism. Abstract While stories sit with you, their meanings may shift over time. This piece of creative ethnographic nonfiction shares the experience of what it is like to be there, live this life,...

Chu May Paing (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress) received a Jacob Volkman Human Rights Fellowship. This fellowship presented by the Herstory Writers Workshop is dedicated to bringing the voices of activist elders and emerging young activists into the public arena through the creation of intergenerational writing circles across the nation,...

Professor Lauren Hosek and her undergraduate mentees from CU Boulder and Metro State presented three posters at the Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology conference. These students and posters are part of Professor Hosek's Sisters of Loretto relocation project. Read more about the project in CU Boulder Today

Dr. Warren M. Hern, practicing physician in Boulder and adjunct faculty member of the Anthropology Department publishes Homo Ecophagus: A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth . This book takes a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but other species on...

Professors Donna M. Goldstein and Kristen Drybread's new anthology, "Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era" featured in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. The essay collection explores expanded notions of corruption in the Trump era. Read the Entire Article in A&S Magazine

Sanggay Tashi (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress) is one of six scholars chosen for the inaugural mentoring workshop by the AAA journal PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review). This workshop will provide constructive feedback from the editors and volunteer members of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA). It...