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Congratulations to Kaitlyn Davis who was awarded a SAROI Fellowship for the 2021-22 year. Kaitlyn is one eight fellows who represent the many applications of spatial archaeology that can enhance humanities-oriented inquiries. Her SAROI project is an extension of her dissertation research and involves collecting and using infrared data to...

As soaring heat exposes artifacts that provide insights into ancient climate resilience and other important scientific data, the ice loss itself is reducing humanity’s resilience for the years ahead In the world’s high mountain regions, life needs ice. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, glaciers and other accumulations of snow...

Transparency can make or break 'big data' regulation “CU data cyberattack” was the subject line that appeared in thousands of university-affiliated inboxes on Feb. 9, 2021. On that date, former CU President Mark Kennedy reported that individual records of students and employees may have been compromised. CU was one of...

Alumni, (Ph.D. 2021) Emily Hite, received a two-year postdoc from the National Science Foundation’s SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Fundamental Research for her research project titled: Hydrosocial territories of climate governance: an interdisciplinary examination of the Indigenous-hydropower nexus. She’ll be working with Denielle Perry at Northern Arizona University’s School of...

Graduate Student Paige Edmiston's creative nonfiction article, Dear Sylvie: A Handful of Letters to Nearly Perfect Strangers was published in the Journal of Anthropology and Humanism. In this collection of letters addressed to nearly perfect strangers, Paige considers the ways fleeting connections can move with and shape us despite never...

Congratulations to Ph.D. Student, Georgia Butcher! Her essay, The Power of the Coven in “Genealogies of the Feminist Present: Lineages and Connections in Feminist Anthropology,” has been published on the American Ethnologist website.

Announcing Emeritus Professor Paul Shankman's new book Margaret Mead - available now from Berghahn Books ! Introduction: Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book...

Will Taylor Receives CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. The CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities and enables fellows to spend four to six consecutive months at an Overseas Research Center. For the 2021 competition, three fellowships have been awarded to projects...

Research into how Maasai in Tanzania use their phones shows how dialing errors can also breed friendships and business opportunities. Professor J. Terrence McCabe and colleagues share on The Conversation. Sometimes wrong numbers work. On the East African savanna, Maasai herders can form important new social connections when they misdial...

Kelly Zepelin was awarded the 2021 American Anthropological Association David M. Schneider Award for her paper, "Root Mothers and Reciprocity: Ethical Frameworks of Wild Plant Harvest in Modern North American Foraging Communities." This award is given each year to a graduate student in anthropology in recognition of innovative work in...