News & Events

Dawa Lokyitsang successfully defended her PhD thesis "Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community." Her committee members are Professor Carole McGranahan (advisor) and Professors Clint Carroll, Kate Goldfarb, Carla Jones, and Tsering Shakya. Congratulations, Dr. Lokyitsang!

Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society Student Paper Competition for her paper, “Lost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska through attribute-based pottery analysis.” She was also invited to publish in the Plains Anthropological Society journal. Kelsey has also been...

Professor Sharon Dewitte and her colleague Amanda Wissler's (McMaster University) co-authored article "Frailty and survival in the 1918 influenza pandemic," published in PNAS Journal and featured in the Colorado Sun. The article examines whether the1918 influenza pandemic struck down young people in the prime of their life or if there...

PhD student Page McClean successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile's Southern Highway." Her committee members were Carole McGranahan, Advisor, Donna Goldstein, Jerry Jacka, Leila Gómez and Laura Ogden. Congratulations, Dr. Page McClean!

Graduate student Student Erik Jurado (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Erik's project: " "Beyond the Urban Center: Identity, Ritual, and Exchange in Teotihuacan's Rural Countryside."

Professors Arthur Joyce, Sarah Kurnick, and Akira Ichikawa, along with graduate student Nicholas Puente presented their current Mesoamerica research at the 8th annual Colloquium of the Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Graduate student Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. This grant will support Chilton's project: "Defending Multiple Waters: River-Based Resistances and Toxic Transfusions in the Late-Industrial Watershed of the Rio Grande/Bravo."

Landscapes of Predation: Exploring Hostile Social Environments in Small-Scale Societies Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 Time: 7 pm Place: Eaton Humanities Room 250 Catherine Cameron (CU Boulder, Anthropology) Ancient social environments are difficult to reconstruct, and archaeologists have a much poorer grasp of how the social environment affects where and...

Professor Carole McGranahan and her colleague Sienna Craig (Dartmouth College) co-edited a collection of flash ethnography essays for the journal Anthropology and Humanism . The full collection was just published and it includes essays from two of our graduate students, Katie Donlan and Georgia Butcher, as well as Professor McGranahan...

Chu May Paing (Cultural Anthropology, Phd Candidate) awarded honorary Associate Fellow at the University of WI - Madison. Chu will be affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and will be giving a talk on her dissertation in the spring and participate in on-campus activities.