News & Events

CU Anthropology Alumni Colleen Scanlan Lyons (PhDAnth’10) and Cydney Justman's (Anth’10) rapid COVID relief work featured in A&S Magazine. Way to go ANTH buffs! Two CU Boulder anthropology alums facilitate rapid COVID relief in Brazil by coordinating an effort to deliver breathing devices In January, The Washington Post reported a...

Kaitlyn E. Davis, Pascale Meehan, Sarah Kurnick, and Catherine Cameron's article " Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects " featured in Advances in Archaeological Practice Journal. This issue focuses on Health and Wellness in Archaeology but contains useful information and how-to guides for all field disciplines.

Congratulations to archaeology graduate student Carlton Gover on his first publication, " Bayesian analysis of the chronology of the Lynch site (25BD1) and comparisons to the Central Plains Tradition and Central Plains Oneota !" It was published in Plains Anthropologist and co-authored by Dr. Douglas Bamforth and Kristen Carlson. This...

Congratulations to our Cultural Anthropology graduate student, Paige Edmiston! Her essay, " What’s Behind Match Day’s Algorithm? " is featured in SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine. This essay was originally developed as part of Dr. Jen Shannon's Spring 2020 Public and Collaborative Anthropology graduate seminar and discusses how an algorithm pairs medical...

Maddie Carlson wrote a great honors thesis last year titled: #FREETOBECUTE: An Introspective Look on Primate Representation and how New Media can Protect Primates from the Illegal Pet Trade. Professor Burt Covert encouraged her to edit it from 80 pages to 4 which she did and it is now posted...

Alumni Melanie Matteliano (MA 2020) accepts position with First Peoples Worldwide. First Peoples Worldwide addresses the unique social and environmental impacts of development in Indigenous communities, while preparing current and future leaders to meet the pressing social responsibility challenges facing today's businesses. First Peoples is developing a business incubator to...

Erik Jurado completed a successful defense of his Master’s Thesis, "Reexamining the Teotihuacan Hinterland from San Ignacio, a Regional Center in the Amatzinac Valley, Morelos!" A big congratulations to Erik and his advisor Gerardo Gutiérrez.

Horse Remains Reveal New Insights into how Native Peoples Raised Horses A new analysis of a horse previously believed to be from the Ice Age shows that the animal actually died just a few hundred years ago—and was raised, ridden and cared for by Native peoples. The study sheds light...

Kelly Zepelin Receives the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the CU Graduate School. This fellowship is intended to provide outstanding Ph.D. candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertations. Congratulations, Kelly!

Professor McCabe's research (as a newly inducted member) is the topic of the AAAS newsletter. AAAS Fellow Terrence McCabe Keeps Pace with Africa’s Wandering Tribes When locals started showing up with machine guns, AAAS Member and newly elected 2020 AAAS Fellow Dr. Terrence McCabe decided that it became too dangerous...