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Investigating and improving water conservation programs in urban Tucson, AZ with Dr. Lucero Radonic
Over the past six years, Assistant Professor Lucero Radonic has conducted ethnographic research on the strategies used by cities and urban residents to adapt to climate change and make a home where drought and extreme heat events have become protracted conditions. Dr. Radonic’s research has specifically focused on people’s intimate relationship to water by examining […]
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Understanding the past through bones: Dr. Gabriel Wrobel and the MSU Bioarchaeology Laboratory
In the MSU Bioarchaeology Laboratory, graduate and undergraduate students learn how to read the lives—and deaths—of individuals and groups from the past. The laboratory was established in 2012 by Associate Professor Gabriel Wrobel, who has conducted numerous excavations and research projects on ancient Maya sites in Belize. As a bioarchaeologist, Dr. Wrobel focuses on the […]
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Dr. Heather Howard publishes in Frontiers in Medical Sociology on COVID-19 in urban Indigenous communities in the U.S. and Canada
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Heather Howard recently published an article in Frontiers in Sociology: Medical Sociology with co-authors Jennie Joe and Susan Lobo of University of Arizona. The article is titled “Concrete Lessons: Policies and Practices Affecting the Impact of COVID-19 for Urban Indigenous Communities in the United States and Canada”. The article discusses […]
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PhD student Marwa Bakabas featured as Diversity Torch by College of Social Science during Arab American Heritage Month
Department of Anthropology doctoral student Marwa Bakabas is featured as the Diversity Torch in this month’s College of Social Science Diversity Matters recognizing Arab American Heritage Month. Arab American Heritage Month commemorates the contributions of Arab Americans to American life and their struggles to receive full protections as American citizens. The College of Social Science […]
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Dr. Lucero Radonic and PhD student Cara Jacob featured by College on research revealing how the women of Flint are coping with the water crisis
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Lucero Radonic and PhD student Cara Jacob were recently featured by the College of Social Science for their community-based research that focuses on how the women of Flint are still coping with the water crisis. In collaboration with E. Yvonne Lewis, co-director of the Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center Community […]
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We Stand Against Anti-Asian Violence
From Dr. Todd Fenton, Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology: “On behalf of the faculty, I am writing to express our collective shock and sorrow at the violent attack in Georgia this past week. We condemn the brutal murder of Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Yong Ae Yue, […]
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Dr. Lucero Radonic discusses water insecurity during American Association for the Advancement of Science panel
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Lucero Radonic was recently an invited panelist for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The title of the panel was “Household Water Insecurity in the Global North” which discussed setting a research agenda for studies of water insecurity. Dr. Radonic’s research focuses on the […]
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Dr. Gabriel Wrobel co-authors article on genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Gabriel Wrobel recently co-authored an article in Quarternary International with several colleagues, including first author Dr. Sally Wasef (Griffith University) and Dr. Michael Westaway (The University of Queensland). The article is titled “A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, […]
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PhD candidate Anna Martínez-Hume wins Rita S. Gallin Award for Best Graduate Paper on Women and Gender in Global Perspective
The Department of Anthropology congratulates PhD candidate Anna Martínez-Hume, who recently received the Rita S. Gallin Award for Best Graduate Paper on Women and Gender in Global Perspective. Martínez-Hume’s paper is titled “I’ve lived it in my own flesh: Empowerment, Feminist Solidarity and NGO worker subjectivity in Maya, Guatemala.” This honor is among the MSU […]
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Associate Professor Stacey Camp co-authors new Introducing Archaeology textbook
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Stacey L. Camp is second author on the recently published textbook Introducing Archaeology (3rd edition, University of Toronto Press, 2020) with co-author Bob Muckle of Capilano University. Dr. Camp’s contributions to the book address contemporary issues in archaeology, such as archaeologists’ involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline, the archaeology of […]