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Message from the Chair: Dr. Todd Fenton
This edition of the Department of Anthropology newsletter recognizes and celebrates our recent graduates who have persevered and achieved their educational goals through a time of extraordinary adversity. As Chair of the Department and on behalf of the Anthropology faculty and staff, we give our sincerest congratulations to the Class of 2020 and the Class […]
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Dr. Gabriel Sanchez publishes in PLoS ONE on new perspectives of the antiquity of the Palmrose Site (Oregon)
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Gabriel Sanchez recently published an article in PLoS ONE. The article is titled “Reevaluating the antiquity of the Palmrose site: Collections-based research of an early plank house on the northern Oregon Coast”. The article discusses new perspectives on radiocarbon dates from the Palmrose site and presents a refined chronology based on 12 new […]
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MSU Department of Anthropology to host joint annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference and Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference
The Michigan State University Department of Anthropology will be hosting a joint annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference and the Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference October 7–9, 2021 at the Kellogg Center. The MSU conference organizers are Drs. Jodie O’Gorman, Stacey Camp, and Jessica Yann with participation of the archaeology faculty. Details of this event […]
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Associate Professor Najib Hourani Receives College of Social Science Dean’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Award
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Najib Hourani has received the inaugural 2021 College of Social Science Dean’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Award. Dr. Hourani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program, and core faculty in the Muslim Studies Program. The Dean’s […]
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Fall/Winter 2020–2021 Newsletter is now available
Our Fall/Winter 2020–2021 Newsletter is now available! Check out the featured stories by clicking on the links below. Understanding the past through bones: Dr. Gabriel Wrobel and the MSU Bioarchaeology Laboratory Investigating and improving water conservation programs in urban Tucson, AZ with Dr. Lucero Radonic The Morton Village Archaeological Project with Dr. Jodie O’Gorman Online […]
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Special Interest Group co-chaired by Dr. Deon Claiborne receives AAA Presidents’ Award
The Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE) Special Interest Group was one of this year’s recipients of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Presidents’ Award for the group’s extraordinary service. Dr. Deon Claiborne, Undergraduate Advisor for the MSU Department of Anthropology, is the Co-Chair of this group with Dr. Kristin Hedges of Grand Valley State University. […]
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Introducing Jocelyn Janicek, Business Manager
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to introduce our new Business Manager, Jocelyn Janicek, who joined the department in February 2020. As Business Manager, Jocelyn carries out numerous responsibilities to ensure the department’s success. These roles include providing support to the Department Chair, overseeing fiscal responsibilities for the department as fiscal officer, providing budget […]
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Campus Archaeology Program holds popular Apparitions and Archaeology: A Haunted Campus Tour online
During the Fall 2020 semester, Michigan State University’s Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) adapted their yearly Apparitions and Archaeology: A Haunted Campus Tour to address the present realties of the COVID-19 pandemic and a mostly closed campus. The tour has grown every year since its inception in 2014 and was attended by over two hundred people […]
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Weaving together anthropology, art, and socio-environmental justice with PhD student Kelsey Merreck Wagner
Anthropology PhD student Kelsey Merreck Wagner describes her work as living at the nexus of aesthetics, anthropological inquiry of environmental ruin at human hands, and hope for socio-environmental justice. Wagner’s research interests include the cultural norms and institutions that define our human-environment relations and seek pathways towards sustainability and coexistence. She is especially interested in […]
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Dr. Carolyn Isaac, Forensic Anthropologist of the MSUFAL
Assistant Professor Carolyn Isaac joined the Department of Anthropology in Fall 2019 and is one of the three acclaimed forensic anthropologists of the Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Laboratory (MSUFAL) with Dr. Todd Fenton and Dr. Joseph Hefner. Dr. Isaac is the Director of the MSUFAL and oversees the lab’s operations and involvement with forensic […]