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Professor Alison Cool's Anthropology 1155 Exploring Global Cultural Diversity: Digital Tech & Global Connect students presented their final project posters on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Way to finish the semester, students!

Professor Sarah Kurnick awarded a 2023-2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. This award recognizes her unwavering dedication to advising and mentoring graduate students from across the department.

Lucas Rozell (Cultural Anthropology, Masters Candidate) successfully defended his MA thesis titled, “Accessing Desire: Genderfuck and the Lust of Recognition.” His committee members were Professors Kathryn Goldfarb (advisor), Donna Goldstein and Carla Jones.

Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded an Alice Hamilton scholarship from the Colorado Archaeological Society. The funds from this award will support a feasability project that tests whether cave speleothems can be successfully sourced in the northern Maya lowlands.

Patrick Cruz (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended his research prospectus entitled, “Reimagining Communities in the TsinKwayeh Valley.” His committee members were, Professors Scott Ortman (advisor), Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, Clint Talbott and Catherine Cameron. He now advances to PhD candidacy.

Andrew Aceves (PhD Archaeology in Progress) awarded an Alice Hamilton scholarship from the Colorado Archaeological Society to investigate ancient kiln use and ceramic production at the site of Atzompa, in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Patrick McKenzie (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully completed and defended his MA thesis titled, “Remembrance, Revival, and Ruin: Monumental Histories and Futures in Bulgaria,.” His committee was comprised of Donna M. Goldstein (advisor), Kate Goldfarb, and Alison Cool.

Camden Paillot (Masters Candidate, Cultural Anthropology) and Patrick Mckenzie (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) presented their MA thesis research at the annual conference of the American Association of Geographers on Saturday, 20 April. Patrick McKenzie: "Remembrance, Revival, and Ruin: Infrastructural Enactments of Bulgarian Futures" Camden Paillot: "Chalakuy and neoliberalism: The...

Adi Prakash (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) awarded an Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Summer Fellowship. Adi will use the funding for his pre-dissertation research studying environmentalism, politics, and language revitalisation among the Lepcha in Sikkim and West Bengal, India. His research brings together a combination of cultural...

Professor Will Taylor received the Spring 2024 Kayden Book Award. Each year faculty members publishing in the Humanities are invited to submit books in progress for the Kayden Book Award. This award will support Professor Taylor's research this summer.