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Graduate Student News
Graduate Students, Kelsey Hoppes, Chu May Paing and Paige Edmiston Receive Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Program Awards
Graduate Students, Kelsey Hoppes, Chu May Paing and Paige Edmiston recieve Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant program awards. They will use the funding to continue their ongoing doctoral dissertation research and writing (see below for their topics). Kelsey Hoppes - dissertation research on Great...
Graduate Students, Kelsey Hoppes, Paige Edmiston, Kevin Darcy and Sabrina Bradford Receive CARTSS Awards
Graduate students, Kelsey Hoppes, Paige Edmiston, Kevin Darcy and Sabrina Bradford receive CARTSS Awards. CARTSS supports social science research by faculty and students through seed grant programs. Congratulations, students.
Scarlett Engle Presented Her Research at the NCAIS Graduate Student Conference & The Southwest Symposium
Graduate Student Scarlett Engle presented her research at the NCAIS Graduate Student Conference & The Southwest Symposium. At the 2023 NCAIS Graduate Student Conference, she presented her paper, "Decolonizing and Indigenizing Praxis: Collaborating with Pueblos and Tribes to Reimagine the Mesa...
Paige Edmiston's Co-Edited AES Advice Column Publishes A New Issue
Graduate student Paige Edmiston's co-edited (with Alexandra Dantzer) American Ethnologist advice column publishes a new issue “Yours Sincerely an Uncertain Anthropologist," featuring responses from Carole McGranahan, Jacqueline Solway, and Angela Jenks. Read the issue American Ethnologis...
Rob Weiner's Co-Authored Research Article Featured in CU Boulder Today
Graduate student Rob Weiner's co-authored Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports research article, "Were Timbers Transported to Chaco Using Tumplines? A Feasibility Study," featured in CU Boulder Today. In a new study, several researchers at CU Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that peop...
Chu May Paing Presents 2 Guest Lectures
Gradaute student Chu May Paing presented on the art as a resistance in the context of Burma as part of a virtual program on State Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia put together by CU Boulder Center for Asian Studies for 6th-12th grade teachers. She is also giving a guest lecture/workshop on p...
Katie McGuire Chosen for a CU Boulder Twitter Takeover
Graduate student Katie McGuire was among the first in a series of Graduate Student Twitter Takeovers on the CU Boulder account. The CU Boulder social media team gave her the opportunity to take over the @cuboulder Twitter to talk about #lemurs ! Check it out at: CU Boulder Twitter...
Chilton Tippin Publishes Article in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine
Graduate student Chilton Tippin publishes, "The Mexican River Defenders Fighting for the San Pedro," in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine. The article is about a river-based resistance group in Chihuahua, Mexico that uses trash to build a grassroots movement for clean rivers. Read the article in ...
Georgia Butcher Awarded an NSF DDRIG Grant
Graduate student Georgia Butcher awarded an NSF DDRIG Grant. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation, including research that has implications for confronting anth...
Faculty News
Kate Goldfarb's Marshall Fire Story Project Featured in CU Boulder Today
Professor Kate Goldfarb's Marshall Fire Story Project featured in CU Boulder Today. On Dec. 30, 2021, a quick-moving, grass-fueled wildfire in suburban Boulder County became the costliest wildfire in Colorado history. It burned 6,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,000 homes and damaged thousands of ot...
Lauren Hosek Awarded an Wenner-Gren Global Initiative Grant
Professor Lauren Hosek in collaboration with Professor Alyssa Bader of McGill University receive a Wenner-Gren Global Initiative Grant. Each year, the Wenner-Gren Foundation funds a small number of initiatives that meet a need not already addressed by our other programs. Global Initiatives Grants he...
Sarah Kurnick and Lauren Hosek Receive CARTSS Faculty Awards
Professors Sarah Kurnick and Lauren Hosek receive CARTSS Faculty Awards. The CARTSS grant program is a competitive program to support tenure-track faculty conducting research in the social sciences.
Fernando Villanea's Co-Authored Article Published in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
Professor Fernando Villanea's co-authored article: “Community Partnerships Are Fundamental to Ethical Ancient DNA Research” published in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. Abstract: The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern...
Donna Goldstein and Anna Wynfield's Co-Authored Article Published in Health Research Policy and Systems Journal
Professor Donna Goldstein and PhD candiate Anna Wynfield's co-authored article, "Limitations of COVID-19 Testing and Case Data for Evidence-Informed Health Policy and Practice," published in Health Research Policy and Systems Journal. Abstract: Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became...
Michelle Sauther's South African Bushbaby Reserach Featured in CU Boulder Today
Many of the hallmarks of human civilization—from roads and power lines to pet dogs—are taking a larger-than-expected toll on non-human primates living in Africa, according to two recent studies. The findings result from a collaboration between CU Boulder and three South Africa-based institutions: t...
Akira Ichikawa Receives Tenure-Track Position at Kanazawa University
Former Anthropology CU Postdoc Akira Ichikawa is now a tenure-track associate professor at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources at Kanazawa University in Japan. Congratulations, Akira!
Carole McGranahan Receives an Independent Research Fund Denmark Grant
Professor Carole McGranahan together with an international team of scholars, has been awarded a major Independent Research Fund Denmark grant for “The Next Dalai Lama Research Network” project for 2023-2026; the broader research network for this project includes cultural anthropology PhD student Daw...
Carole McGranahan Publishes Two Essays in Anthropology Now
Professor Carole McGranahan publishes two essays in Anthropology Now: “Flash Ethnography: Writing the World, in Brief” and “Being Monica Lewinsky in Kathmandu.”
Carole McGranahan's “Theory as Ethics” Article Quoted in Fast Company
Professor Carole McGranahan's “Theory as Ethics” article quoted in Fast Company article on UX research: “UX designers are suffering from a failure of imagination.”
Fernando Villanea Has a New Essay Out in American Anthropologist
Biological anthropology professor Fernando Villanea has a new essay out in American Anthropologist – a response to former AAA president Akhil Gupta’s November 2021 lecture on decolonizing anthropology. Fernando’s essay is “Defense Against Dark Anthropology.” A key contribution to an important and...
Carla Jone's Co-Authored Article Published in Anthropology News
Professor Carla Jones' co-authored article: “Revising the AAA’s Guidelines on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault” published in Anthropology News. Five years after the Association produced its first guidelines, a working group is developing a series of transformative improvements for our disciplin...
William Taylor's Co-Produced Human-Horse Story Now on TED-Ed
Professor William Taylor worked with TED animators and sound designers to produce an animated educational resource on the global story of people and horses. In this TED-Ed video, Professor Taylor explores how the domestication of horses influenced the fate of entire civilizations and dramatically a...
Lauren Hosek Recognized for Her Contributions to the Sisters of Loretto Relocation Project
During Professor Lauren Hosek's CU Museum AIA Lecture, "They are still teaching us": Community Bioarchaeology & the Sisters of Loretto Project, Lauren was recognized for her contribution to the project and the care she took towards the nuns who were reburied when the cemetery was moved. The pr...
Alumni
Alumna, Emily Hite Accepts Tenure Track Position at St. Louis University
Alumna, Emily Hite (PhD Cultural Anthropology, 2021) accepts a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Sociology & Anthropology department at Saint Louis University starting Fall 2023.