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Anden Drolet, Paige Edmiston, Scarlett Engle, Page McClean, Nicholas Puente, Chilton Tippin, Sangjie Zhaxi, and Anna Wynfield received the Beverly Sears Graduate Students Grants category, a competitive award that supports research, scholarship, and the creative work of graduate students from all departments. Way to go everybody!

Congratulations to Daniel for publishing his first article, A Novel Method for the Identification and Quantification of Weight Faltering , in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Daniel and his colleagues describe a new method for identifying and quantifying the magnitude and rate of short‐term weight faltering episodes and assess...

Carole McGranahan's research on Trump and Twitter featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. Carole McGranahan, professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, may not be a soothsayer, but just months into Donald J. Trump’s presidential term, she warned that his rhetoric, amplified by the social media...

Congratulations to graduate students Anna Wynfield, Sangjie Zhaxi, and Georgia Butcher for being awarded a CARTSS grant.

Tanzania or bust, with the help of Zoom Anthropology instructor converting study abroad course into virtual seminar By Doug McPherson It’s a major lesson in anthropology: humans adapt. So it’s no surprise that when University of Colorado Boulder anthropologist Laura DeLuca needed to adapt in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Congratulations to Chu May Paing, who successfully defended her MA paper! Titled "Worldmaking Media: A Review on Anthropology of Mediation and the Case of Myanmar,” the paper was written in the style of a three-act play that explores different processes of mediation as partaking in the phenomenon of worldmaking. For...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to our very own Professor J. Terrence McCabe for distinguished contributions to anthropology, particularly for understanding how people adapt to arid rangelands of East Africa, and how they cope with changing socio-economic conditions. Congratulations Professor...

Professor Will Taylor's PNAS article, A Record of Horseback Riding, Written in Bone and Teeth featured in The New York Times . Click Here to Read the Full Article

Professor Ortman was recently a guest on the Santa Fe Institute's official podcast (see link below) where he discusses his work on settlement scaling theory and fostering synthesis in archaeology to advance science and benefit society. Listen to Professor Ortman's Podcast Now

Emily Hite, Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology Discussant: Chilton Tippin, Ph.D. Student in Cultural Anthropology We will be reading Chapter 2 from Emily's dissertation, "Place, Autonomy, and the Imaginary: An ethnography of the Brörán peoples." Date: Friday, November 20th Time: 12:30pm–2:00pm Location: Zoom Please RSVP to anna.wynfield@colorado.edu by Monday, November...