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Professor Joe Hefner Quoted in Washington Post Article on Sri Lanka Easter Bombing
In a recent Washington Post article (subscription required) Dr. Joe Hefner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, discusses the Easter terrorist bombing in Sri Lanka. Hefner, a board-certified forensic anthropologist who assisted in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, provided The Washington Post with his expert perspective on the incredible challenges in identifying victims […]
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PhD Student Jordi Rivera Prince Awarded the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Predoctoral Fellowship
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that PhD student Jordi Rivera Prince has been awarded a prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Predoctoral Fellowship to support her dissertation research. This year the program awarded approximately 70 predoctoral fellowships in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, […]
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Dr. Lynne Goldstein Receives Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award
The Department of Anthropology is extremely happy to announce that Dr. Lynne Goldstein (Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Campus Archaeology Program) has received the Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award. The prestigious award is in recognition of her pivotal theoretical and empirical contributions to the field, in the areas of […]
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Annual Anthropology Fieldwork Photo Contest for 2019
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to open the call for submissions to the 2019 Annual Anthropology Fieldwork Photo Contest. This contest is open to MSU Department of Anthropology graduate students, undergraduates, alumni and faculty. Entries must be the original work of the entrant. We will accept photographs from the last five calendar years (taken […]
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Fall/Winter 2018 Newsletter is now available here
Here you can find links to each article in the Fall/Winter 2018 newsletter as well as interactive content unavailable in our print format. New Graduate Program Director Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman Featured Graduate Student, Autumn Painter Featured Faculty, Dr. Lucero Radonic New Research on the Peopling of the Americas Alumni & Friends […]
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Dr. Moniruzzaman appointed as WHO Task Force Member
As previously reported here, Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University has been appointed as a member of the inaugural Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues at the World Health Organization (WHO). This Task Force was established by the Member States at the 70th World Health Assembly […]
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Adjunct Faculty, Dr. Amanda Tickner
Dr. Amanda Tickner is a librarian specializing in GIS in the Maps Library and an Adjunct lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. Amanda helps people find data, use GIS in research, teach GIS to beginners, and troubleshoot GIS problems, she also sits on several PhD committees in Anthropology. The interdisciplinary quality of her GIS work […]
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Great Lakes Digital Cultural Heritage
Dr. Heather Howard, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program and the Native American Institute here at MSU, was awarded a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as co-Principal Investigator with Principal Investigator Heidi Bohaker (History, University of Toronto) and co-Principal Investigator […]
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Alumna, Dr. Megan McCullen
We are very proud to announce that our alumna, Dr. Megan McCullen, is the new Director of the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology & Planetarium at Wayne State University. Dr. McCullen’s position was created as a full-time position in 2017 by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Wayne State. Prior to this, […]
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Dr. Hefner and NIJ Helping to Identify Children
Dr. Joseph T. Hefner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University, and Dr. Nicholas Herrmann, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University, received a National Institute of Justice award to improve the accuracy of age estimates for unidentified remains of children and adolescents. The University of Texas […]