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Sarah Simeonoff (Archaeology, PhD in progress) successfully defended her PhD qualifying exam. Her reserach is focuses on the culture history of the Kodiak Archipelago, the use of Indigenous ontologies, and archaeological risk management and Indigenous data sovereignty. Her committee consisted of Professors Sam Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, Art Joyce and Scott...

Secrets from the Grave By Lisa Marshall • Published: March 4, 2024 Centuries from now, if an archaeologist were to dig up Professor Sharon DeWitte’s bleached and weathered bones, they’d find a 7-inch stainless steel rod and nine screws buried among them. These remnants of her childhood bout with scoliosis...

Graduate student Patrick McKenzie (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant. This funding will support Patrick's preliminary fieldwork in Bulgaria this summer. His research focuses on how nested forms of marginalization manifest in two Bulgarian state institutions ostensibly dedicated to care: the public hospital and...

Clara Hwayeon Lee (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives the Center for Humanities & the Arts JEDI Completion Fellowship. The fellowship will support the final year of her graduate studies and her dissertation titled, "Refusing Empire through Care: Anti-base Dissent in Soseong-ri, South Korea."

Graduate student Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant. This funding will support his dissertation project which explores how ancient Maya peoples engaged with subterranean caves during a period of frequent droughts. Caves are doorways to the underworld realm of ancestors and deities who...

Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) was awarded the Donna C. Roper Research Fund to support her dissertation research on the coalescing of past diverse groups in northeastern Nebraska at 25BD1. This fund will support her in sending over 350 pottery samples for neutron activation analysis in helping to identify different...

Our Graduate Student Symposium was an absolute triumph! From thought-provoking discussions to groundbreaking research presentations, our symposium showcased the brilliant minds shaping the future of anthropology. A massive thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event a resounding success – from our dedicated organizers to our esteemed presenters...

Professor Chris Hammons has received not one, but two awards for his work: (1) a Kayden Research Award for American Refuge , a documentary feature about trauma and time in the upland forests of the American West. The award covers the costs to finish film, which will premiere this year...

Professor Will Taylor and Lakota elders receive the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their research article, "Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Plains and Northern Rockies." The prize is awarded to the author or authors of an outstanding paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of...

Professor Warren Thompson publishes, “Being Seen is Believing: Evidence and Authority in the Ache Mission Encounter," in the Journal of Anthropological Research. Abstract Like many other lowland South American groups described in the literature, Ache give a higher epistemic value to visually experiencing events, a sensibility that some have argued...