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Willi Lempert just received a $38K ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2017/2018 for his research Broadcasting Indigenous Futures: The Social Life of Aboriginal Media . Hats off! The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. The 65 fellows were selected from...

In a front page story, NY Times reporter Frances Robles looks into the murder of Sheets family friends in Joya de Cerén, El Salvador, and the two young sisters who witnessed it. Now refugees in their own country from gangs that formed in the US, they are hoping for help...

Robin Bernstein was interviewed by NBC news radio last Friday about her study: “Mother's milk changes with the seasons, influencing baby's well-being”. Seasonally-influenced changes in a mother’s environment and diet can have a profound impact on levels of beneficial sugars in her breast milk, in turn altering the bacterial makeup...

Sarah Kurnick Dr. Sarah Kurnick joined our Archaeology faculty last year as a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow with an option for tenure track, which she won handily. Kurnick specializes in ancient Mesoamerica and her research focuses on the creation, perpetuation, and negation of institutionalized social inequality. Her primary interests include the...

Hale Science Building, CU Boulder campus. by CU Boulder Anthropology - 3D model sketchfab.com 1894, Richardsonian Romanesque style. Home of the Department of Anthropology. Gerardo Gutierrez , Project Map, IRISS/Grand Challenge.

Tom Sever and Payson Sheets pointing out two parallel ancient footpaths. They date to AD 600-1300 and connect the cemetery at the top of the photo with a village far down to the right. After teaching for 43 years in this wonderful department, I finally retired on 2 January. However,...

Forest regeneration through seed dispersal. Photo credit: Alain Houle Joanna Lambert co-authored landmark research covered recently in the New York Times . Our fellow primates are in dire straits: … In a study of unprecedented scope, a team of 31 primatologists has analyzed every known species of primate to judge...

Willi Lempert (PhD candidate) just finished his first podcast. Titled " Haircuts and Billionaires ," it's the first in a three part AnthroPod series on the anthropology of outer space. Dr. David Valentine discusses topics as varied as haircuts in space, the colonization of Mars, and the rise of the...

Erin Hughes gave a successful defense of her Master’s thesis on Tuesday and will be awarded the MA in May. Her research was on Cutting Corners: The Transition from Corner to Side Notched Points During the Central Plains Tradition . Three cheers for Erin and advisor Doug Bamforth .

Meryleen Mena (PhD candidate) has garnered another award. CARTSS awarded her $1000 in Graduate Student Funds in support of her project entitled Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in the San Paulo Criminal Justice System.