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Sasha Buckser (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) successfully defended her research prospectus entitled, “Liminal Elements: Exploring Converse Human-Coyote Perceptions Among Pre-columbian Indigenous North American Western Peoples and Colonial American Peoples Through Zooarchaeological Analysis of Human-Coyote Interactions.” Her committee members were, Professors Will Taylor, Sarah Kurnick, Doug Bamforth, Fernando Villanea, and Emily Jones...

Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded an Exploration Fund Grant by the Explorers Club. The grant will support the investigation of ancient cave use by Maya peoples at the archaeological site of Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico.

Olumide Ojediran (PhD Archaeology in progress) receives The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer Fellowship (CAAAS). This fellowship is for graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies.

Clara Lee (Culutral Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives 2024 Summer Graduate School Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Clara to focus on her dissertation, ""Refusing Empire through Care: Anti-base Dissent in Soseong-ri, South Korea." this summer.

Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candiatate) receives Futures Family Fellowship. The fellowhsip recognizes the unique challenges faced by student parents and seeks to support their educational pursuits while balancing the responsibilities of parenting.

Professor Fernadno Villanea's scholarship and advocacy around racism and misuse of scientific data featured in Science Insider. Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’ At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research. Calling someone a Neanderthal was once an insult, meaning...

Jessica Misiorek (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) received a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship. FLAS fellowships administered by the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) are awarded competitively to students studying modern Asian languages. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) funds and oversees these awards, under the provisions of...

So proud of our incredible undergraduate poster presenters at the AABA (American Association of Biological Anthropologists) conference! Autumn Lucas, Rachel Coppock, and Magdalena Humphrey (BA Anthropology in Progress) knocked it out of the park with their amazing work! Poster titles: Autumn Lucas - Lemur Life Stories: Varying Effects of Captivity...

Please join us in congratulating the graduate students below for receiving the Anthropology Department pre-dissertation awards. Andrew Aceves, Skye Barger, Urmi Bhattacheryya, Yuti Gao , David Hansen, Megan Hardie, Nicholas Hartman, Kelsey Hoppes, Robin James,, Annabelle Lewis, Yuxiang Lin, Patrick McKenzie, Jessica Misiorek, Michael Orellana, Aditya Prakash, Nicholas Puente, and...

Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives the Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship for fall 2025. The Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship Fund was established to honor Dr. Lynch for her tireless dedication to graduate education and research at the national level and at the University of Colorado at Boulder...