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AGSA Statement on Racially-Biased Violence 8 June 2020 In light of the recent murders of Black citizens—Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and countless others—we cannot stay silent. We are outraged by these acts of violence that have been carried out on those who have been historically and...

Scott Ortman receives tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Congratulations!

Our very own Professor Carole McGranahan is the editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment recently published by Duke University Press. The Anthropology Department is well represented in this book with essays from Robin Bernstein , Kristen Drybread , Donna Goldstein , Carla Jones , Matt Sponheimer ,...

Cultural anthropology Ph.D. student Anna Wynfield was awarded an American Ethnological Society (AES) 2020 small grant competition for her project titled, “Complicating Futures: Conceptualizing Pregnancy and Fertility for Cancer Patients in Ireland”. The support is for preliminary fieldwork and for presenting findings at the AES spring meetings (total $3000). Congratulations...

Alumni Allison Formanack articles published in 2 Anthropology journals. Way to go Allison! May 2020 Property without Prosperity: Subjective Valuation, Financial Citizenship, and Negotiating Moral Personhood among Manufactured Homeowners . PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. May 2020 Response: Ethnographies of Urban Absence. City & Society Forum.

Our very own Ph.D. student, Kelly Zepelin, shares her knowledge about Boulder’s year-round bounty of wild foods that support gut health and creative recipes. Click here to read more about her research and learn about hunting wild edibles in Boulder Magazine's feature article.

Carla Jones' Affect seminar students produced a set of essays about the pandemic that are just stunning, and that were gorgeously edited by Carla. Student contributors are Olivia Cunningham, Gillian Davenport, Anden Drolet, Paige Edmiston, Chu May Paing, Lauren Storz, and Anna Wynfield. One of the editors of this series...

Kaifa is the recipient of the Graduate School’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award! The award showcases her many contributions in mentoring graduate students and supporting the graduate education mission. Way to go Kaifa!

Carlton Gover (Ph.D. Archaeology in progress) was named the recipient of the CCPA Native American Scholarship for expenses associated with his Ph. D. research regarding Pawnee migration and settlement patterns. With this scholarship funding, he will be visiting Pawnee, Oklahoma to collect video recordings of elders and culturally knowledgable members...

Anthropology major Aaron La Maskin was named the Outstanding Undergraduate for Arts & Sciences for the class of 2020. At CU, Aaron works with Professors. Alison Cool and Jen Shannon in the department. His research for the senior honors thesis focused on the “Here, Now and, Always” exhibit at the...