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Chu May Paing (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Spring 2024. This fellowship is designed to provide students a final, teaching-free semester as they complete and earn their degrees. Chu's dissertation, "Intense Engagements: Social Media Activism in the Aftermath of 2021 Military Coup in...

Georgia Butcher (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Spring 2024. This fellowship is designed to provide students a final, teaching-free semester as they complete and earn their degrees. Georgia's dissertation, "Eye of the Reaper: Drone Pilots, Remote War, and Militarism in the United States,"...

The Department of Anthropology is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023-24 Anthropology Graduate Student Service Award: Kelsey Hoppes, Patrick McKenzie, and Stephania Zneimer. This award recognizes and reward outstanding service among graduate students insupport of the department and the graduate program, including graduate peer mentoring, leadership in graduate...

Dr. Alison Hanson (Cultural Anthropology MA 2016) was awarded the 2023 David Schneider Award for her groundbreaking dissertation research on the limits of Title IX policies in addressing gender-based violence on US college campuses. Additionally, she clinched the Sylvia Forman Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology.

Dawa Lokyitsang's (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) panel "Theoretical Storytelling across North American and Asia in Settler Colonial Times," at the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto was a great success. The panel showcased the theoretical implications of storytelling across diverse geographic and temporal ethnographic encounters. Congratulations to our departmental and disciplinary...

Our Cultural Anthropology graduate students took the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto by storm. See below for a sampling of their the passion, dedication, and innovation. Lauren Barrett presented her innovative work on Colorado’s energy initiatives and housing. Georgia Butcher, presented her research on drone pilots in the US Air...

Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defends his PhD Qualifying Exam.

Jacob Jansen (MA Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Queens of Inferno: A Political Apicology of Malta’s Beekeeping Conflicts."

Professor Nancy Steven's co-authored article, "Living at the edge: home range patterns of the Buraiga Chimpanzee Community, Kibale National Park, Uganda," has been published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The article represents the first home range estimates for the Buraiga chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, Uganda, a community of...

Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) granted a National Science Foundation Subsidy through the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This NSF subsidy allows Kelsey to double the pottery samples she will be sending to MURR for the identification of trace elements found in the...